Nonrecommendable content in US Teens' Top Recommended Reels included "people chugging alcohol and vomiting, blatantly racist jokes, pedophilia jokes, videos of people dying in car crashes"

"We wanted to share some (rather concerning) early data insights and next steps, as we looked into recommendability and media quality of US Teens' Top recommended Reels." "Anecdotal evidence indicates that Teens see higher levels of non-rec content. An ex-Meta employee recently shared feedback that his teenage step-daughter's Reels feed is highly offensive with content including: 'people chugging alcohol and vomiting, blatantly racist jokes, pedophilia jokes, videos of people dying in car crashes, etc.'." "11% of US Teen's Weekly Top 200 Reels on Reels Tab/Chaining was non-recommendable. - These 200 Reels made up 3% of US Teens' Reels consumption on Reels Tab/Chaining. - Here's a media fiddler of some non-rec examples within the top 200 Reels for US Teen on Reels tab. To provide some examples: the top 1 Reel by VPV used the N word and depicted gun (regulated goods), the 9th Reel by VPV depicted violence and physical bullying, the 13th involved sexually suggestive positioning, and the 36th was disturbing." "Why did we not find out how dangerous US Teen Top Recs were earlier? - We did not pay enough attention to country variance. We have global *teen* impression level prevalence measurement (row 6), which is in fact lower than global *adult* impression level prevalence (row 7). However, from the rows 4-7 in the table above, we see that US prevalence is higher than the rest of the world, and US teen prevalence even higher than US adults."