Meta & Children's Online SafetyDeposition of George Volichenko
Testimony · 43 pp
Documents
Meta's internal documents produced during litigation.
488 records · How documents are sourced
23 records · All
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[AC/Priv] Underage Reporting and Enforcement - XI/CSI
Research & report · 3 pp
"People Misrep team, owning the Underage E2E reporting and enforcement flow, focuses on impersonation problems, where age plays a relatively minor factor, resulting in an overall lower priority and understaffed on the Underage domain." "The Underage reporting…
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Email: FYI I don't think we can stop recommending teens to adults through AYSF on Instagram
Messages & email · 2 pp
Adam Mosseri: "FYI I don't think we can stop recommending teens to adults through AYSF on Instagram. If I'm reading the data correctly that'll stop roughly one third of teen follows that come from AYSF, which suggests that we'd be breaking something meaningful…
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IG US: Q3 Creative Assets
Presentation · 11 pp
"Goal Drive consideration (& ultimately preference) for IG among teens in service of long term teen MAU growth" "Target Audience Teens(13-17), US)"
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People Disagree Content Seen by Teens Reporting Different Levels of Body Dissatisfaction After Viewing Content on IG: Directional estimated group differences from content analysis with wave 1 MYST data
Research & report
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State of Tennessee v. Meta Platforms, Inc. — Amended Complaint (redacted)
Court filing
Allegations, not findings. Open the quoted internal records to read the source.
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H Reviews | June 2024 -- Youth [Small Group] []
Research & report · 12 pp
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Teen Time Spent and Time Spent Product SOTU
Research & report · 5 pp
"Overall Takeaways/Recommendations: We are currently planning to sunset Take A Break as part of time management consolidation. This aligns with the fact that teens mostly have short sessions. Take A Break is likely not the appropriate market fit time managemen…
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Email: Trends in Financial Sextortion: NCMEC CyberTipline data
Messages & email · 67 pp
"Financial sextortion cases predominantly impact boys age 14-17" "1 in 8 Of those who reported impact described thoughts of suicide or self harm." "IG is the leading platform reported for initial meeting [45%]" "IG was the leading platform for both threats …
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Wave 1 Descriptives & Planned Analyses: Brief Initial Findings from the Meta & Youth Social Emotional Trends study
Presentation · 30 pp
"Teens' average scores across scales assessing sense of control (attentiveness and capability) indicate they report lower control, on average, over various aspects of their use of IG and TikTok compared to other apps." "Teen average scores on subscales assess…
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Chat: We found groups of new teen users who see Reels just filled with sexualized media after sexualized
Messages & email · 3 pp
"This is so crazy to me…We found groups of new teen users who see Reels just Filled with sexualized media after sexualized…like their whole tab" "The way we found this was so crazy. We looked at Reels VM scores for some users of interest and found that there …
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Project Gryffindor Phase II Vision
Presentation · 38 pp
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Chat: Unsealed internal messages ("Did this point land with them?" — AV/PC readiness messaging to Privacy Committee)
Messages & email · 5 pp
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Chat: given MZ is in testimony there is a sev in progress on search results for CS
Messages & email · 2 pp
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Chat: imagine going out in public and telling people we rank their kid's facebook by what makes them consume the most content IDs lol
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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Email: Q4 Pre-Earnings Ads Sentiment and Supply Update
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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Chat: We just need to keep a very tight hold on these and not share that NCMEC shared with us
Messages & email · 1 pp
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Plaintiff's Complaint for Abatement and Civil Penalties, New Mexico v. Meta
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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Plaintiffs' Opposition to Mark Zuckerberg's Motion to Dismiss
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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Email: My understanding… is that we had no filtering of recommending potentially suspicious adults to each other prior to the TF.
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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Chat: prior to the CSTF, we were recommending minors to potentially suspicious adults and vice versa in PYMK.
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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IG Brand in App Insights
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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[] IG Search Integrity: Keyword Enforcement Proposal for SCC Less
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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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.