Meta's internal documents produced during litigation.
488 records · How documents are sourced
19 records · Meta's internal records
Messages & email · 4 pp
Elizabeth Crenshaw: "some flags for this crew: • *MIT Tech Review piece on beauty filters* -- it's not a great piece and does a lot of speculating about the long-term impacts of filters on identity + distortion of reality, esp for young girls. it's focused on …
1excerpt
Research & report · 17 pp
"Should we allow augmented reality (AR) effects that promote beauty standards only attainable through plastic surgery? We're seeing a rise in popularity of beauty effects – both in creation and use – which has reinvigorated the conversation on the stance that …
2excerpts
Presentation · 41 pp
"Goal: We will goal on delivering disproportionate distribution outcomes relative to author follow count. In other words, creating moments where people get 10-100x plays relative to their following when they create great Reels. This is in service of our Produc…
3excerpts
Research & report · 18 pp
"Immediate Product Vulnerabilities - We lack a U13 classifier, insufficient means to detect and remove ul3s at scale - We also have deprioritized U13 enforcement because COPPA compliance is at risk when we sit on knowledge of u13, incentivizes not knowing - A…
6excerpts
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…
1excerpt
Messages & email · 4 pp
Monika Bickert: "I wanted to flag next Thursday's meeting (4/2) with Mark on 'Cosmetic Surgery AR Effects'. The issue is whether to continue our October 2019 ban on certain facial filters that mimic plastic surgery (reshaping the chin or nose, etc.). Product w…
1excerpt
Messages & email · 4 pp
Nick Clegg: "Sheryl – this has now gone back to Mark, I added you to the email thread. As discussed before, I think there are multiple reasons – of principle and of practice – why reversing our ban on surgical cosmetic features would be a very unwise thing to…
1excerpt
Messages & email · 5 pp
Margaret Stewart: "Hey there, thanks for getting back to us on this. I respect your call on this and I'll support it, but want to just say for the record that I don't think it's the right call given the risks. As a parent of two teenage girls - one of whom ha…
2excerpts
Messages & email · 9 pp
Margaret Stewart: "Some of the things that Schrep wanted to understand:... Any analysis of effects on the business (growth/revenue) that the current restrictions are having" Pratiti Raychoudhury: "Age-gate: While we have already called out the risks, there ar…
1excerpt
Presentation · 27 pp
"Sharing or viewing filtered selfies in Stories made people feel worse" "In Stories, sharing or viewing more filtered selfies (i.e., that had a color filter or a camera AR effect) was associated with increased negative comparison. The effects of filters are w…
1excerpt
Messages & email · 26 pp
Margaret Stewart: "We are asking for your support to update our policies to: 1. Disallow effects that mimic plastic surgery for first party (FB/IG/MSGR) and third party effects. 2. Disallow default-on settings, including sticky settings, for camera effects and…
1excerpt
Messages & email · 10 pp
"You may recall that last year we temporarily removed some face altering AR effects from Instagram, following questions raised about the potential impact of these effects on mental health. Removing these effects was an interim measure that provided us time to …
1excerpt
Messages & email · 3 pp
Elisabeth Diana: "Karina - what can we do to address this more bluntly than just playing whack a mole? I'm worried about this https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/instagram-fuelling-mental-health-crisis-20551865" [Unattributed]: "My understanding is product…
1excerpt
Research & report · 40 pp
"After opening the SparkAR product globally to third party creators, we've seen a rise in beauty related filters, both in creation and use… This has reinvigorated a conversation about our policies (both internal and external) on beauty effects and the stance t…
1excerpt
Messages & email · 4 pp
Jennifer Guadagno: "I wanted to follow up on the request we chatted about yesterday to understand more about possible effects of using 'body enhancing' filters on people from the well-being angle. I found an external researcher/clinical psychologist who specia…
1excerpt
Presentation · 29 pp
"STRATEGIC GOALS • Integrate platform into IG to see if AR effects can get strong product market fit with FCI Teens by tapping into IG teens community and cultural moments (this is something we haven't been able to achieve with our internal effects) • Target …
1excerpt
Messages & email · 2 pp
████: "Our goal for the summit was to give product team members access to a diverse range of teen partners in order for them to hear direct product feedback." "We had 6 panels (27 top accounts) of tweens, teens, empowering youth, beauty, meme'ers/comedi…
1excerpt
Messages & email · 7 pp
Kevin Systrom: • "Skin smoothing: We've nearly completed our skin smoothing technology. We're now combining skin smoothing with our face filter designs to make sure we have the optimum level of smoothing." • "Face effects: We continue to work with the FB AML t…
2excerpts
Research & report · 14 pp
"Should we continue to prohibit the creation of Cosmetic Surgery Effects by Developers on Spark AR?" "Cosmetic Surgery Effects change the shape of a person's face or facial features in a way that would require cosmetic surgery in real life. Our ban on Cosmeti…
1excerpt
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.
Meta & Children's Online Safety