"27% of all follow recommendations to groomers were minors"

"We may be facilitating possible groomers finding young people through following, hashtags, explore, and search." • "Created two test users" • "One followed teen hashtags" • "One followed sexy teen accounts" [1. Discoverability]: • Problem: "IG recommended a minor through top suggested to an account engaged in groomer-esque behavior." • Intermediate: "The account followed and searched for sexualized minor accounts." • Root: "The recommendation algorithms worked as intended. 1. Product" • Root: "There is not currently a whitelist to determine which accounts can and cannot be recommended in top suggested. 3.a.Protocol" "Overall IG: 7% of all follow recommendations to adults were minors" "Groomers: 27% of all follow recommendations to groomers were minors" • "We are recommending nearly 4X as many minors to groomers (nearly 2 million minors in the last 3 months)" • "22% of those recommendations resulted in a follow request"