Meta's internal documents produced during litigation.
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72 records · Meta's internal records
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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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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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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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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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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Messages & email · 5 pp
Monika Bickert: "I wanted to get your thoughts on the options in this doc about how to restrict recommendations of minors and adults to one another. My sense right now is that Product is wedded to Option 1 (status quo: cut out "risky adults" from recommendatio…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Amit ████: "We've recently learned that there are gaps implementing some previously agreed / documented limitations to adult<>minor connection recommendations in PYMK on FB and AYSF on IG. As teams have been working to implement, they've bumped into conc…
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Research & report · 13 pp
"Following the first Wall Street Journal article, the Child Safety Task Force has been working to tighten our existing child safety protections. This included work to ensure that Risky Adults (i.e those with specific Malicious Child Safety Actor - MaCSA scores…
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Research & report · 11 pp
"Almost all participants thought that younger users and new users should be defaulted to private" "• Almost all participants across ages believed that a young person's account (e.g., anyone below 11-13, and in some cases up to 15) should automatically be priv…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Melissa ████: "I'm not surprised we have bad hashtags. our search safety team is a few employees who look at a list of popular hashtags every week to decide which to filter out :( it's super low tech… We also do very little to make sure handles are appro…
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Messages & email · 44 pp
"For Child Safety, all reports should generate an SRT job. We found that around 30% of FB profile reports did not result in job creation."
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Messages & email · 1 pp
"Holy shit the WSJ article on Instagram and pedo recommendations is brutal"
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Messages & email · 3 pp
Leah ████: "Product pivoted to recommending allowing 18-20 year olds to message unconnected minors if the age gap is <2 years after learning that blocking threads from 18-20 year olds to teens would impact 7.7% of threads to teens." "Data shows blocking…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
"IG DIOps proactively reviewed IG surfaces by assessing the search results of 16 Queries, Tags and Emojis (e.g. tweenxstars, #cutegirls and Little # &) 50+ suspicious accounts were found, and we observed patterns indicating the existence of a much larger netwo…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
"Context: following a recent child safety incident (detail) an XFN team across Policy, Product, Legal and Public Affairs came together to re-evaluate an exception that allows 18-20yo to message minors (13-17yo) on Instagram. This exception stands in contradict…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Gail ████: "Hi both, I see you are both on the call for 18-20 talking to unconnected minors." Gail ████: "For 2) the safety risk appears to be from messaging per se, possibly exacerbated by age liars. Anand's data indicated that 32% of IIC reports…
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Presentation · 124 pp
"One method we're using is to remove minors in inbox search for unconnected adults… You can typically search for people you are not connected w/ in Inbox search (i.e. start a new message w/ someone you're not connected to in this way); this blocks that feature…
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Presentation · 24 pp
"[Bad actor number 2] had a total of 900 message threads within a few months With 338 reactive reports against both the account and message threads. Many of these reports contained signals of sextortion. However, you'll see none of them were actioned for sexto…
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Research & report · 19 pp
"The Internal Audit (IA) team has completed the IG Youth Well-being Assurance Audit - Phase 1. This report is rated as 'Significant Improvements Needed' with 3 High, and 14 Medium risk observations." "Key observation themes are summarized below: - Inconsiste…
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Research & report · 4 pp
"User impact: Teens receiving DM requests from unconnected adults, breaking public commitment that we made. 2 specific potential issues being investigated: "Account without predicted age (but with stated age) potentially are not included in the logic to block…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
Paniz ████: "I'm writing to enlist some urgent support from IG to mitigate legal and legitimacy risks we're facing in the Adult Sexual Exploitation, Child Safety and Terrorism space. Context: Adult Sexual Exploitation (StopNCII.org), Child Safety (NCMEC)…
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Research & report · 4 pp
We currently preserve underage data for up to 180d after being disabled - Youth pXFN have warned us that this is not defensible to regulators (particularly COPPA)
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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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