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Messages & email · 1 pp
████: "Most relevant Google/Youtube Well-being changes to our team... 'On YouTube, we'll turn on take a break and bedtime reminders and turn off autoplay for users under 18.'" ████: "Turning off autoplay for teens seems like a huge move!" [Redact…
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Research & report · 12 pp
"During the initial testing of Daisy controls there were two approaches to the default setting. While some teens had the choice to hide their like counts (opt-in condition), others had their like counts hidden for a period of time and then were given the optio…
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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 · 1 pp
Bryce Jon Bartlett: "I think there is a tradeoff in B&H with other values (like voice, creation, and community). I think that a successful vision is more about transparency, fairness, and balancing competing values than about eliminating B&H or offensive conte…
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Research & report · 3 pp
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Presentation · 9 pp
"Touchpoints Leveraging IG: Help Kids Build Up to Social with Adjusted IG Features" "Content Relevant to Youth: Onboard brands such as Barbie, Paw's Control, BabyBus, and Toca Boca onto IG Tweens (most tween appropriate brands are not currently on IG). Invest…
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Presentation · 37 pp
"A little over half of respondents (51.6%) experienced at least one issue in the past 7 days" "Issues are largely caused by strangers, with negative social comparison (15.5%) and bullying target (14.6%) having the highest rates of known instigators." "93.8%…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
Shilpa Mody: "[I]t turns out that at the high end, we really do recommend a LOT of high-NAC content to teens! Like for the top 10% of teens, our recs in Explore are 57% high-NAC :/"
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Research & report · 9 pp
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Messages & email · 5 pp
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Messages & email · 17 pp
Thorn Report: - 45% of children age 9-12 use Facebook daily. - 40% of children age 9-12 use Instagram daily. Pavni Diwanji: "This is a big WHOA, if these numbers are to be believed. I am curious how Thorn is generating these numbers and what is our assessmen…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
Pavni Diwanji: "[T]here was decision made to encrypt all private messages for u13. This has severe impact on safety as we know. I am trying to argue, perhaps foolishly, that its not the best decision for our users." Sarah ████: "Internal child safety da…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "For context on age selection: I have not included younger kids (10-12 yos) in this research for a number of reasons: 1) Already high risk to kids, 2) Although there are definitely kids this age on IG, I'm concerned about risks of disclosure since …
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Messages & email · 2 pp
Alex Dow: "what ever happened with the Nielsen deprivation study? I think I lost track when covid hit. I know there was one or more pilot studies completed, but did they ever do the full thing?" Moira Burke: "There were two one-wave pilot studies and the find…
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Messages & email · 3 pp
████: "Hey folks do we have data or research you can point to around early teens (or tweens) trends on messaging and competition? Specifically * how early teens use ig direct (or other messaging systems) - any analysis on content/JTBD there? * how twee…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
████:"[W]e're not very good at proactively detecting and taking down MS[Minor Sexualization] Groups and it's a big problem we need to tackle sooner rather than later b/c they areVERY publicly visible and leads to PR fires and stakeholder complaints and t…
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Research & report · 6 pp
"An SSI viral challenge is an event that promotes or encourages others to complete a challenge related to SSI, including self harming or suicide." "We have noticed an increasing rate of SSI viral challenges on the platform." "We've historically taken a react…
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Messages & email · 5 pp
"I'm very concerned about the lack of capacity, especially given our efforts on Youth across the company. I don't believe this is well understood by leadership and would like us to raise awareness of this, so we can advocate to staff the teams better." "Perha…
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Research & report · 3 pp
"Identity Integrity spun up an Age Verification Task Force in January '21 to quickly understand our existing state of under/over age 13 verification and identify quick wins to put the company in a stronger position. This was prompted by increasing regulatory c…
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Messages & email · 4 pp
████: "Would we consider not surfacing certain content in our rec surfaces that we know to be triggering?" ████: "The way that we've identified borderline harmful in other categories" Vaishnavi Jayakumar: "Totally - we're working on a borderline …
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Messages & email · 7 pp
████: "Honestly the only insight I see in these charts is that teens are really into using IG at 11pm when they probably should be sleeping :("
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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 …
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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 · 4 pp
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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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