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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "do you happen to know the status of the IG Smart Defaults launch?" Vaishnavi Jayakumar: "I do – we were initially supposed to launch private by default on september 2 after approval from IG leads, but that has now been scrapped due to growth conc…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
████: "basically having 2 options with different levels of impact on metrics, wb, policy etc and let ████ decide based on the results" ████: "from our side we can only say we obviously want the one with less impact on metrics as a growth tea…
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Messages & email · 9 pp
████: "At the review last week, we discussed that there is a very high bar to make a ship case for Daisy... the recommendation is to develop a comms plan to roll back Daisy." ████: "There are downsides to Daisy, but I think it is one of the clear…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
Kristin Shay Hendrix: "Totally. The teens findings were very, very concerning, though. So I want to do this right and not screw it up." Kristin Shay Hendrix: "It was a pretty controversial/contentious Zuck review with Adam and Fidji not being in alignment." …
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Research & report · 12 pp
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Presentation · 45 pp
"Are we comfortable launching private-by-default for teens with the identified retention and engagement drops?" "We want to make Instagram a safer space for teens. Instagram is behind the industry on keeping our platform safe for minors. Other platforms, incl…
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Messages & email · 8 pp
"It's a social comparison app, fucking get used to it"
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Messages & email · 6 pp
"Instagram Reels launching globally on August 5: Ahead of the launch, we have been reviewing curation guidelines, ensuring integrity measures are in place, and tracking cases of under / over-enforcement on Reels. Reels have also been integrated into the curren…
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Research & report · 24 pp
"[W]ork is not planned to prevent FB and IG adults from initiating messages to IG minors. Limited country tests and data analyses have shown that ████ can demonstrably reduce CEI sharing but product leadership has been unwilling to prioritize these mitig…
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Messages & email · 31 pp
████: "Our policies only cover the explicit sexualization of minors. Recently we saw an uptick in hi-pri escalations showing trends of implicit sexualization of minors, particularly on IG. These escalations have received extensive media coverage in the U…
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Messages & email · 11 pp
████: "[W]hat specifically are we doing for child grooming (something I just heard about that is happening a lot on TikTok)?" ████: "Somewhere between zero and negligible. child safety is an explicit non-goal this half. I'd argue we're making it w…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
████: "[D]id Core Dims confirm that their age models are optimized to catch age-lying minors and not age-lying adults? I thought it would be operational for both sets of age-liars." ████: "yep, definitely confirmed that their focus has been on mis…
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Messages & email · 7 pp
Sayed Otaru: "The CI team has concluded a study (the numbers have not yet been formalized) and currently show that 500,000 IG underage accounts receive IIC on a weekly basis." Chris ████: "I want to call your attention to the follow *non*-goal: "we will…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
Shayli Jimenez: "Hello everyone, Thanks so much for your attention to the Teen Fundamentals research I shared yesterday. This first phase of research was a foundational step towards getting our footing on what we know about this user group both in and out of t…
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Messages & email · 6 pp
"As part of the Discoverability work in the Child Safety space, we created an Instagram test user to simulate the seeking behavior of a bad actor." "In less than 24 hours, we followed 70 accounts, which resulted in: • Our Feed, Explore and Recommended Account…
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Presentation · 12 pp
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Presentation · 25 pp
"Starting new teens in a default restricted reachability setting significantly reduce the volume of overall unwanted interactions in DMs" "Recommendations: Don't change the current default interactions model: doing this would cause people to miss out on too m…
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Messages & email · 7 pp
Kristin Hendrix: "Research Objectives... Discover 'Age Up' and IG onboarding opportunities across the adolescent development process." "We will start our work in the US and expand to other high priority markets, e.g. India, Brazil and Japan and capture insigh…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "I added some more wording to directly link it to 'problematic use,' but I think most product teams dont understand that this is a euphemism for screen addiction or similar issues." Margaret Stewart: "We should avoid the term 'addiction'. Problema…
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Presentation · 130 pp
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Research & report · 15 pp
"A. Meeting Goal Decide on whether to continue, modify, or lift the ban on Cosmetic Surgery AR Effects that we instituted in October 2019 in response to expert and press concerns about potential negative wellbeing impacts (especially on minors). Cosmetic Surg…
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Presentation · 97 pp
"Teens' decisions and behavior are mainly driven by emotion, the intrigue of novelty and reward...While these all seem positive, they make teens very vulnerable at the elevated levels they operate on. Especially in the absence of a mature frontal cortex to hel…
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Messages & email · 7 pp
████: "In terms of SSI risk if we were to do this, we do have a non-rec SSI filter in place on Explore today targeting depiction. It's an old classifier with low precision and low filter volume so unlikely to materially change ecosystem but may result in…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
████: "He clearly has great intuition about the type of research that would be helpful for the team, such as partnering with organizations in Nashville to observe teens at school. Unfortunately that wasn't possible due to COVID, but I'm excited about wha…
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Sources: published internal records, unsealed discovery exhibits and court filings in MDL 3047 and related litigation. An allegation in a filing is not an independently verified fact.
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