Meta's internal documents produced during litigation.
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Messages & email · 8 pp
████: "They should audit every surface team's goal across the company, think about whether we would be comfortable telling the world that we are optimizing for x for their kid, and when the answer is no, come up with a defensible alternative." [Redacted…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
████: "In 2024, the organic IG Reels watch time budget will increase from -6.4% to -7.8% to account for the impact of Reels ad load increases on Reels consumption. The impact of Reels ads on engagement is typically immediate on Reels organic watch time, …
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Messages & email · 1 pp
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Court filing · 263 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
Specifically, with accounts clearly belonging to children, Meta has: • Proactively served and directed them to a stream of egregious, sexually explicit images through recommended users and posts – even where the child has expressed no interest in this content;…
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Court filing · 26 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
[Opposition]: In 2021, a renewed request to address "concerns about the impact of [Meta's] products on young people's mental health," was met with a Meta executive's acknowledgment that there was a "very low-likelihood that Mark chooses to fund more here."
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Messages & email · 49 pp
Gabriel ████: "(l) Yes on PYMK, but with the specifics of a/ MaCSA>0.3 to Minor: Filtered b/ Minor to MaCSA >0.3: Filtered except where 2 year age gap c/ Minor to MaCSA >0.6: Filtered with no age gap (2) There were some filters in place prior to taskforc…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
"Prior to the Task Force, we had some limitations the recommendations between minors and potentially suspicious adults, but they didn't cover everything and we're always bi-directional. As part of the task force, we rolled out bi-directional protections to, mo…
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Presentation · 15 pp
"Over the course of 2024, our work will ladder to the following four outcomes… Drive acquisition of teens" "For both existing and new products, we will evaluate their potential for teen resonance as well as the ways that they unlock user value." "Acquiring n…
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Presentation · 34 pp
"A key goal in H1 2024 is to improve Safety for Teens. The top opportunity to do this is to improve enforcements on non-recommendable queries such as 'porn', 'meth', 'self harm', and 'skinny body', a gap that many competitors have already addressed." "Current…
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Court filing · 325 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
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Court filing · 278 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
[Complaint]: Even though "this is the kind of thing that pisses Apple off to the extent of threatening to remove us from the App Store," as of mid-2020, Meta had no timeline for "when we'll stop adults from messaging minors in IG Direct." That remained true e…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
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Research & report · 5 pp
"Entire Feed Ranking has a great half. Connected Ranking side, we exceeded our global cap-15 session goal and VPV goal. Blending/IFR joint-holdout also exceeds both global and teen cap-15 session goals. This is nearly mission impossible, when we set up goals i…
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Messages & email · 1 pp
Praveen ████: "shared: Instagram_Instagram_s_Algorithm_Delivers_Toxic_Video_Mix_to_Adults_Who_Follow_Children_-_WSJ.pdf" Tomas Kabbabe: "It is true that the article seems like an intentional hit piece… But at the same time, some of the content shouldn't…
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Court filing · 233 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
[Complaint]: Instagram heavily emphasized content that promoted negative appearance comparison. Fashion and beauty, relationships, "[w]estern pop stars who emphasize their bodies," and images that "emphasize women's bodies generally (e.g., cleavage, swimwear)"…
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Presentation · 31 pp
"Objective - Unlock the ability for high school and college students to discover and connect with people from school (Phase 01) and provide a safe space to be authentic and build community with schoolmates (Phase 02), to give teens a new reason to join/find m…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
Andy ████: "Flagging this new video Horwitz just sent of the AYSF recommendations for one of the Instagram accounts he's used to do this child safety research. Can we please look into this? I'd have assumed at this point the steps we've taken would have…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Andy Stone: "Hi folks - following up here with a smaller group just to make you aware of something related to Jeff's ongoing reporting of child safety issues on the platform. I don't want to come across as alarmist - and myself have pushed back vociferously on…
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Presentation · 56 pp
"We know that SSI and ED have a significantly disproportionate large teen audience. SSI and ED SWOP among teens is ████ higher than among adults on IG (query). When examining consumption patterns among high consumers (>= 8 pieces of violating content) of…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
"[S]o, relevant to the lawsuits, and some foreshadowing from Mark in Q&A just now –– basically the company position is that time spent and engagement metrics proxy user value and we are 'not' just tuning the algorithm to keep people scrolling as much and as lo…
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Messages & email · 11 pp
████: "Are the compliance people reading the same litigation and legislation that I am?" ████: "I am asking the same question" ████: does ████ realize how the core algo is set up? Like it's literally just mathematically optimizing for…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "I feel like i'm reading totally different litigation and legislation than our org leaders… We literally are optimizing teen feeds for engagement. We can change that, but none of the YIPs actually address this core issue." ████: "[D]o we do …
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Court filing · 63 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
[Complaint]: Only one out of every fifty pieces of content is actually "age-appropriate nutritious, or the sort of content we would like to promote to teens."
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Court filing · 75 pp
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
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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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