Meta estimated placing teens into default-private setting would have eliminated 5.4 million unwanted interactions a day

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"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 many valuable interactions."
— Unnamed employee