"Reels featuring kids/tweens, and teens (i.e., 0-15) dancing and posing are pervasive, and often show up on people's Reels experience, even in cold starts... some may include risky elements (i.e., partial nudity, suggestive dance moves that are borderline CEI) that make both viewers uncomfortable and the subjects at risk."

"Reels featuring kids/tweens, and teens (i.e., 0-15) dancing and posing are pervasive, and often show up on people's Reels experience, even in cold starts. While much of this content is benign (they may be uninteresting to users, but not necessarily harmful), some may include risky elements (i.e., partial nudity, suggestive dance moves that are borderline CEICEIChild Exploitative ImageryMeta's policy and enforcement category for imagery that sexually exploits children, tracked separately from Minor Sexualization and from Inappropriate Interactions with Children. The source document has executives weighing whether to limit the CEI figure published in the Community Standards Enforcement Report to Facebook only, "to avoid a step-change some time in the future when we lose access to private messaging", at a point when by their own estimate "almost 90%" of egregious CEI content was on Messenger.Full entry ↗) that make both viewers uncomfortable and the subjects at risk." "Sexually suggestive content featuring minors (SSCM) (labeled prevalence) is 2-3x more prevalent on Reels home than on Explore." "Female and unknown gender teens are producing more content marked sexually suggestive on Reels, potentially opening them up to greater risk. According to both reporting and prevalence data, female and unknown gender teens create more, while male teens report more SSCM content." "We need to better detect and filter content depicting minors in sexually suggestive ways on Reels, as the reporting vs. prevalence data suggests that we're permitting many to "slip through the cracks". Improving our detection of minors, as well as getting ahead of problematic trends (i.e., upcoming dance trends that may put children at risk) may help us improve." "Benign but still risky content featuring minors: Children dancing/posing unto itself is not problematic, but it becomes an issue if bad actors see it. New approaches to protect children and teens (i.e., preventing visibility between known IICIICInappropriate Interactions with ChildrenA classifier threshold and content category for interactions between adults and children indicative of grooming or exploitation, referred to internally as "a.k.a. 'grooming'". The source document puts the scale at "~500k victims per DAY in English markets only", three times Messenger's prevalence, while calling it "a preliminary metric" and adding "we expect the true situation is worse".Full entry ↗ adults and minors on other surfaces like Explore) should be ported to Reels as soon as possible."