"The daily number of minor victims having sex talk conversations in IGDM with adults is 38x compared to FB (~200k victims/day)."

Pavni Diwanji: "[T]here was decision made to encrypt all private messages for u13U13Under-13Users below the minimum age of 13 set by Meta's terms of service and by COPPA. "U13" denotes both the age cohort and the underage accounts Meta's own documents discuss detecting, removing, or building products for.Full entry ↗. 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 data analysis found that the daily number of minor victims having sex talk conversations in IGDM with adults is 38x compared to FB (~200k victims/day). When normalized for the number of teens, the relative prevalence on Instagram compared to Facebook is about 5x." Vaishnavi Jayakumar: "Big fan of @Hitomi Hayashi-Branson's research on IG teen safety that just wrapped up, where she interviewed several of our expert child safety organisations around the world. One of the key findings around both comments and DMs: Children are regularly exposed to sexualising content and comments - girls in particular have come to just expect that they're see this type of content and have these experiences" "As a supporting anecdote, another IG researcher who was recruiting teens for a messaging study met a potential recruit who described a predatory grooming message she received from an older man. The potential recruit was disturbed by this but also mentioned that she regularly gets these kinds of messages, usually at least once a day."