Meta's internal documents produced during litigation.
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20 records · Meta's internal records
Presentation · 28 pp
"Key observation themes are summarized below: - Inconsistent suppression on data collection of contact information for teens during the business account conversion; Lack of suppression on data collection for users with unknown age - Inaccurate and insufficien…
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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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Presentation · 29 pp
"1. Teens are receiving many unwanted DM requests (DMs from unconnected people), leading to integrity risk and slowing down new teen acquisition 2. Unwanted DM requests to teens are 'nearly all from people with no mutual followers. 3. We should default teens i…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
Elizabeth Crenshaw: "[W]e're going to create a little infographic/timeline of youth safety efforts… and perhaps just give small heads up to a few reporters but nothing major" ████: "id be slightly nervous about alerting reporters to the fact that these …
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Messages & email · 19 pp
████: "you can build something smarter, than default by private, for example not letting ppl who are 2+ degrees from you or some measure of "familiarity" get intouch with you" Darius Kilstein: "This was never really about increasing safety… It was all f…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "#wut PBD" ████: "Private by default :)"| ████: "Ok got it… Sorry for being a dumb n00b, but boosting is what, having new teens content ranked higher so they get more engagement or am I way off?" ████ it was about boosting teen…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Darius Kilstein: "Guess what, they're reviving private by default LOL" Darius Kilstein: "mygod" Darius Kilstein: "Was Private By Default (we give them the option to choose private and public and private is defaulted)" ████: "Yeah, I heard that this mo…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
Darius Kilstein: "I wonder what % of grooming happens from people with at least 1 NFX action? Like maybe there's a solution for non mutual friending that does not require a prior action against them" ████: "The issue here is that people lie, and we know…
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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…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "do you happen to know the status of the IG Smart Defaults launch?" Vaishnavi Jayakumar: "I do – we were initially supposed to launch private by default on september 2 after approval from IG leads, but that has now been scrapped due to growth conc…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
████: "basically having 2 options with different levels of impact on metrics, wb, policy etc and let ████ decide based on the results" ████: "from our side we can only say we obviously want the one with less impact on metrics as a growth tea…
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Presentation · 45 pp
"Are we comfortable launching private-by-default for teens with the identified retention and engagement drops?" "We want to make Instagram a safer space for teens. Instagram is behind the industry on keeping our platform safe for minors. Other platforms, incl…
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Presentation · 25 pp
"Starting new teens in a default restricted reachability setting significantly reduce the volume of overall unwanted interactions in DMs" "Recommendations: Don't change the current default interactions model: doing this would cause people to miss out on too m…
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Messages & email · 7 pp
• "DMs are where most unwanted interactions happen, but they can also happen in mentions and tags since there are no controls. Research strongly suggests that DM's are the most problematic interaction vector for teenagers on Instagram. Moreover, teens delete a…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
Diego Castaneda: "though there is this 'users were more likely to control content at the content level. In fact, most never actually went into the settings menu... very few could accurately or confidently' so pretty much worse case scenario. so we need a bette…
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Messages & email · 13 pp
"1) Your data pretty succinctly shows that taking away unwanted interactions via private default settings is likeley to lead to a potentially untenable problem with engagement and growth. 2)This is supported by qualitative data that teens dont want to miss out…
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Messages & email · 13 pp
"We will not create any new default interaction settings for private accounts since we decided visibility, discoverability and interactions are three different constructs and private = visibility."
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Messages & email · 13 pp
"Thanks for the quick Community Review sync on Friday. Decisions we aligned on: 1. Default teens to private in June. 2. Interactions and private/public settings (visibility) are separate constructs. 3. Build a new audience control that allows your followers to…
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Presentation · 26 pp
"1. Protect teens from unwanted DMs asap to keep them safe where bullying happens most 2. Protect teens' safety across additional interaction types while maintaining a simple privacy model" "Why not just do one? - We know from research that DMs is necessary f…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "I just caught up with Brett W and he forgot to give us some relevant feedback in the morning review around private accounts. It seems that in the Tuesday review for Well-being, Adam and Vishal both pushed on us starting to move towards creating ac…
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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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