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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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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 · 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 · 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 · 5 pp
Mark Zuckerberg: "I care deeply about this and we'll continue focusing on being industry-leading with young people, but I'm not going to say [child safety] is my personal main focus when I have a number of other areas I'm more focused on like building the meta…
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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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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "Reflecting on ████ comment about the difference between a team that finds and fixes societally important user problems and what the Integrity teams do, I think it's important to recognize what our partner teams do and don't do. Relevance: Cr…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "BTW - through the protocol to identify over-age and under-age we probably have experience in identifying if a user is a teen." ████: "We do - however, we do not trigger an Age Verification in such a case today given the potential revenue im…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
Michel Protti: "You around? Any chance I can call you for 5 mins re: Arkansas?" Michel Protti: "Will try quick message thread - my take on this escalation is that, if we get a stay, we should clearly hold on our compliance plan while we assess the landscape g…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
"Non-personalized ads is not a tenable user experience and undermines AFS, given adoption for AFS is predicated on the fact that we are not able to offer non-personalized ads but if we do this for Youth, there may also be a push for us to do this for adults. A…
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Presentation · 3 pp
"Over the last two years, MWB has been focused on understanding and reducing problematic use for Instagram Users." "Why does problematic use matter? Research and analysis has revealed three primary reasons for reducing problematic use: 1. Teen WB: Research h…
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Presentation · 59 pp
"Problematic Use Definition 1. A perceived lack of control over usage of a technology or social media platform and 2. This lack of control is perceived to lead to negative life impacts (e.g., in domains such as relationships, work/school, sleep, etc)" "Person…
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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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Presentation · 41 pp
"In H1'22, we proposed defaulting new teens into Take a Break based on positive feedback from teens, parents, regulators, and press." "Why we did not pursue it 1. Leadership shared that the bar for defaults is high and should consider policy/legal requirement…
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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 · 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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Messages & email · 3 pp
George Volichenko: "This is a celebration post to call out that the Mental Well-Being team has accomplished the primary P0 goal for the half: 'Reduce experiences of problematic use and negative appearance comparison. Goal metric: % of weekly active teens meani…
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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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