Vaishnavi Jayakumar: "we still do not have a sense of how minors' follow or DM graphs are changing after they go viral... We had asked for this mitigation... but have hit a wall with the Data Science team working on this due to limited bandwidth."
"Instagram Reels launching globally on August 5: Ahead of the launch, we have been reviewing curation guidelines, ensuring integrity measures are in place, and tracking cases of under / over-enforcement on Reels. Reels have also been integrated into the current IG HERO monitoring program which proactively reviews the most viral Reels for any harmful content. This program is currently operational in US, and expanding to India, Brazil, and Indonesia this week. This should mitigate the fact that our integrity classifiers are less effective on video and are not calibrated for short-form video in particular (i.e. all Reels content. One continued exposure for us is that we still do not have a sense of how minors' follow or DM graphs are changing after they go viral and the way in which this risk will be amplified when we launch globally. We had asked for this mitigation to be in place following the v2 launches but have hit a wall with the Data Science team working on this due to limited bandwidth. We are now reaching out to Messenger to see if they have bandwidth to help us measure and track this."