"I don't see us funding [the Well-Being 10x initiative] from Instagram any time soon"

David Ginsberg: "Mark, As part of the contingency headcount process we are requesting additional headcount to fund the 'Well-being 10x' initiative." "Current research (internal and external) tells us that despite all the positive effects that FB provides (e.g. meaningful interactions, belonging, social support), there is increasing scientific evidence (particularly in the US) that the average net effect of FB on people's well-being is slightly negative." "We also have deep understanding around three negative drivers that occur frequently on FB and impact people's well-being: 1. Problematic use (prevalence: 55% mild, 3.1% severe) 2. Social comparison (prevalence: 40% mild, 5% severe) 3. Loneliness (prevalence: 36% mild, 7% severe)" "Our ask is for 17 HC (6 ENG) on Blue, and 7 HC (1 ENG) for IG" "On IG, we have .2 researcher and no DE/DS/CDS/Design/PMs focused on well-being." "Without additional investment, we are on a trajectory to deliver exploratory findings and continue our research at a slower pace (and NO product changes)." Susan Li: "Following up on the review yesterday – this was not funded, in part given the number of open heads (esp. on Blue) at the moment. Having said that, both Mark and Sheryl wanted to emphasize they think this is work worth doing (and consequently reprioritizing other things). I know this isn't a terribly satisfying answer, but we are constrained to 178 ENG heads for the remainder of the year and it's only April, so funding decisions are now far and few between." Tom Alison: "Dropping the thread a bit. This is a bummer but not unexpected. Before we rush to fund this, can we make sure we talk about all of the open headcount issues in my world: 1. Privacy is an effort Will had asked me to start and I created a seed team on Identity. PM, Research, and Eng is now getting quite restless and frustrated since they have no heads to go and do the work properly. The plan has been to review this with Fidji for sometime but it's gotten pushed back quite a bit. We definitely need to weigh this against Wellbeing. 2. The News tab, which Mark has made public commitments to at this point. It's possible we may need to ask all these teams to hold tight for the next 2 weeks while we complete the org-wide prioritization. But we should also make sure we refer back to our priority list and reconcile these efforts against that so we can stack rank them." David Ginsberg: "How do we want to communicate to the team? or do we hold until we have a plan/process for moving forward?" Adam Mosseri: "Susan, thanks for the update. Unfortunately I don't see us funding this from Instagram any time soon, we recently ran a divestment exercise and are still too tight in a number of places." Tom Alison: "I think we should be straightforward with them. Tell them Mark did not fund this. That means we need to look to see if we can fund it by re-prioritizing other projects in FB App. Since we don't have a process for this (but are working on) it's going to take the team a bit longer before we can give them a definitive answer, but we'll try to have something more substantial to say in the next 2-3 weeks."