Internal policies prohibiting certain recommendations between minors and adults were never implemented due to "technical feasibility."

"Following the first Wall Street Journal article, the Child Safety Task Force has been working to tighten our existing child safety protections. This included work to ensure that Risky Adults (i.e those with specific Malicious Child Safety Actor - MaCSA scores) and minors are not recommended to each other. Implementation of the final segment of this work (recommending teens to Risky Adults on FB's PYMKPYMKPeople You May KnowFacebook's friend-recommendation surface. Appears in the archive chiefly in child-safety contexts, as a vector by which adult accounts are recommended to minors.Full entry ↗) has been blocked by product based on Voice concerns. We have made extensive external statements that this filtering is in place, and based on these and user safety concerns." "Other segments of our existing adult-minor Recommendations Policy, which preclude recommendations of adult-minor pairs without mutual connections and with large age gaps, have also never been implemented due to technical feasibility concerns." "**Internal Policy** Our external Recommendations Policy does not address adult-minor recommendations; however, our internal version states that we do not recommend: - *Accounts or entities that are suspected of engaging in inappropriate interactions with children, the sexualization of children, engaging in exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion, or solicitation of CSAM, nude imagery or sexualized imagery of real or fictional children, or offline sexual encounters with children.* - *We will not recommend the accounts of minors under the age of **16 to adults over the age of 35,** and vice-versa.* - *Implementation: not possible today, should be in consultation with PYMK surface team and Child Safety.* - *We will not recommend minors to non-minors, and vice-versa, in cases where the accounts share **no mutual friends**.* - *Implementation: not possible today, should be in consultation with PYMK surface team and Child Safety."* "A 2022 internal review noted that these components of the policy were not implemented due to technical feasibility."