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Exhibit 59 Message From: Pratiti Raychoudhury Sent: 9/21/2021 1:11:35 PM To: Nick Clegg Subject: We haven't -- received headcount numbers yet -- and and youth research let follow story up with you on the next steps Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2021, at 3:11 PM, Nick Clegg wrote: Ok and what's the timing of the H/C cycle -- I think the "napkin" is more or less locked, isn't it? Do you have a specific ask for Javi/Naomi that I could resurface? From: Pratiti Raychoudhury To: Nick Clegg Date: Monday, September 20, 2021 at 6:03 PM Subject: RE: A/C PRIV: WSJ Series - Text of Instagram and youth research story It will be under Javi/Naomi. But your advocacy will go a long way here! Yes, we netted out with 3a for internal research. We had only about 5 mins for external research and he wanted to spend more time on this. Alex made a case for doing at least the well-being (external) work with OII. From: Nick Clegg To: Pratiti Raychoudhury Sent: Monday, September 20, 2021 1:16 PM Subject: Re: A/C PRIV: WSJ Series - Text of Instagram and youth research story Thx Pratiti -- under whose HC ask would this have been included? It's not in mine, right? I had to leave the SG discussion mid way to catch a flight -- I think we're aligned on 3a for internal research? How about external? From: Pratiti Raychoudhury Date: Monday, September 20, 2021 at 12:37 PM CONFIDENTIAL - PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT MT-lG-AG-00208523 To: Nick Clegg Subject: RE: A/C PRIV: WSJ Series - Text of Instagram and youth research story Nick -- first of all I wanted to thank you for the newsroom post. It really lifted the morale of the (internal) research community. I know I am preaching to the choir, but given last week's events, I feel even more convinced that we need to make more progress on well-being on the product side. From everything I am hearing (second hand) that there will be no headcount. The plan that the team had put together is bare minimum to get us to parity with TikTok. And now TikTok has gone even more aggressive -- [link: techcrunch.com/2021/09/14/tiktok-expands-mental-health-resources-as-negative-reports-of-instagrams-effect-on-teens-leak/] I know you have been advocating for this. So wanted to put this on your radar. From: Nick Clegg Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 10:03 AM To: Alex Schultz, Pratiti Raychoudhury Subject: Re: A/C PRIV: WSJ Series - Text of Instagram and youth research story Nope -- just since we've talked about Haidt, Przybylski etc a fair bit I wanted to be sure you were aware that's all. The teams have been doing their best to respond -- and we're reaching out to a bunch of policymakers in response to answer questions etc -- but this is going to feed directly into ongoing regulatory/legislative actions in UK (Online Harms Bill), US, EU and elsewhere. My guess is of the barrage of stories that the WSJ is running about us this week, this one will be most impactful. From: Alex Schultz Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 10:00 AM To: Nick Clegg, Pratiti Raychoudhury Subject: RE: A/C PRIV: WSJ Series - Text of Instagram and youth research story Yep we've seen (I'm on that email) any specifics you wanted to chat about??? Alex From: Nick Clegg Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 5:59 PM To: Alex Schultz, Pratiti Raychoudhury Subject: FW: A/C PRIV: WSJ Series - Text of Instagram and youth research story In case you hadn't seen. From: Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 8:46 AM To: Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg Cc: [Small Group -- includes Riana Dadlani, Chris Sonderby, Chris Norton, Molly Cutler, Monika Bickert, Justin Osofsky, Andrea Besmehn, Tucker Bounds, John Pinette, John Devane and others] Subject: A/C PRIV: WSJ Series - Text of Instagram and youth research story All -- I wanted to share the full text of the Wall Street Journal's story about Instagram youth research. We posted an Instagram blog post in response: [link] Today's Wall Street Journal podcast is not yet up, though the producer did tweet it would be coming soon. Follow-on press coverage remains low at this moment, though it appears to be picking up. Social is growing pretty fast and is up to 2.6k tweets, largely driven by our beat reporters and tweets from Sens. Hawley and Markey as well as MP Damian Collins. We will be tracking this story very closely in case there is a need to engage on Twitter and/or address any new or noteworthy angles. Thanks, Andy CONFIDENTIAL - PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT MT-lG-AG-00208524 [COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Pages 3-10 of this exhibit (bates MT-IG-AG-00208525-32) consist of the full verbatim text of a Wall Street Journal article -- Georgia Wells, Jeff Horwitz, and Deepa Seetharaman, "Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show," Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2021 -- pasted into the forwarded email above. This copyrighted news article has NOT been reproduced in this database per copyright policy. The article is publicly available from the Wall Street Journal and has been extensively cited in press coverage and litigation filings; it reports on and quotes several internal Meta research documents, some of which (or related documents) may independently exist elsewhere in this archive under their own bates numbers as separate exhibits.] CONFIDENTIAL - PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT MT-lG-AG-00208532 (final page of article)