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Messages & email · 2 pp
Santhosh Vinod: "We're looking for surface integrity representation for AYMF to reduce preference amplification." Dennis ████: "what is preference amplification?" Santhosh Vinod: "Recommender systems can 'rabbit-hole' users into a certain type of conte…
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Messages & email · 9 pp
"Thanks for the feedback! Team will keep meaningful adoption and leave as a % but does not believe we have a path to hitting that goal so would like to request we reduce from 0.6% to 0.25% given the tactics we have aligned and prioritized for this half." "Rev…
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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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Research & report · 73 pp
"[T]he majority of clinicians believe that social media can be addictive (US:85%, UK: 79%, BR:84%)"
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Research & report · 9 pp
"Monitoring SLA and job inventories (enforcement, appeals) / Taking actions to prevent SLA dropping, backlogs building, or jobs expiring: Maintaining our commitments to enforce underage policies and unblock falsely checkpointed accounts within a reasonable tim…
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Messages & email · 2 pp
████: " If we know that a user is underage and they've also explicitly admitted to owning several accounts by hardlinking them via the account centre, we must enforce on all of them, not just the account that's been reviewed. ## Problem As a result of ma…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
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Presentation · 49 pp
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Messages & email · 3 pp
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Presentation · 17 pp
"What makes research sensitive? Sensitive means research that may have comms, policy, or legal risks" "Sensitive Populations • U13 (under 13) children • U18 (under 18) teens • specific race/ethnicity • political/economic group • health or disability traits • …
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Messages & email · 4 pp
"Past research on problematic use on Facebook, as well as prior academic research suggests the existence of a U-shaped curve, where people with a moderate number of sessions report the lowest rate of problematic use. As session count increases, more and more p…
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Research & report · 7 pp
"My daughter ████, now 16, is what we call an experimenting creator. She posts about cars, and in a recent post, someone commented, 'Get back to the kitchen.' It was an awful experience for her -- she tried to report it, to no avail, as this is something…
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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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Research & report · 24 pp
"Overall, while IG Reels has generally implemented the SOX controls required for ad products, several areas in content integrity and product features need significant improvements. IA identified 4 High risk, 20 Medium risk, and 3 Low risk observations during t…
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Presentation · 4 pp
"Well-being work is similar to privacy or major social issues like Health and COVID19; it needs to be addressed consistently across our platforms and in an end-to-end manner (encompassing both policy/enforcement and product changes). We're not doing this, whic…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "so, there appears to be a team of lawyers scheduling meetings with individual researchers to question them about well-being research. ████ has already done a one-hour meeting and it sounds like they want more. i just became aware of this, an…
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Messages & email · 8 pp
"I think what we're saying is that we want to guard against any ecosystem/engagement metrics that imply we're hurting the user experience and that we'll rely on research to indicate the upside, but not hold ourselves to measurable upside (improvements in user …
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Messages & email · 6 pp
"Have you ever received unwanted sexual advances on Instagram? 13-15 year olds: 13%/27%"
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Messages & email · 5 pp
████: "Sheryl, Please find the updated Cheat Sheet based on your feedback today: • Added the toplines you wanted from Monika and Antigone's prep docs • Updated with latest figures on hate prevalence and % of hate we remove before seen vs what it was in …
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Messages & email · 4 pp
████: "in the past, the only requirement for age-gating on IG was by advertisers, around brand safety… That's why the relevant infra and code are owned by the IG Ads team ('IG4B') as opposed to Well-being. We never used that infra for Integrity. I don't …
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Alison Lee: "to be honest, i was dismayed that it felt like Adam's response was that we were 'doing enough', going as far as to question 'how much is enough to invest into integrity?'" Alison Lee: "we've repeatedly had to put p1 improvements like precision tu…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
"51% of Instagram users say 'yes' to having had a bad or harmful experience in the last 7 days. Out of those 1% of report and of those 2% have the content taken down (i.e. 0.02%). The numbers are probably similar on Facebook." "21.8% of 13-15 year olds said t…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
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Presentation · 50 pp
"Teens experience harm at higher levels than non-teens" "1. Teens experience a small percent (0.42%) of impressions that are violating current policies but this is ~1.8x higher than for adults and 2-4x higher when weighted by severity across certain violation…
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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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