Nick Clegg (9/14/2021, forwarding the story to Alex Schultz and Pratiti Raychoudhury): "...this is going to feed directly into ongoing regulatory/legislative actions in UK (On Line Harms Bill), US, EU and elsewhere. My guess is of the barrage of stories that the WSJ is running about us this week, this one will be most impactful."
Pratiti Raychoudhury (9/20/2021): "Nick -- first of all I wanted to thank you for the newsroom post. It really lifted the morale of the (internal) research community. I know I am preaching to the choir, but given last week's events, I feel even more convinced that we need to make more progress on well-being on the product side. From everything I am hearing (second hand) that there will be no headcount. The plan that the team had put together is bare minimum to get us to parity with TikTok. And now TikTok has gone even more aggressive [link to TechCrunch article on TikTok expanding mental-health resources]. I know you have been advocating for this. So wanted to put this on your radar."
Nick Clegg (9/20/2021): "Thx Pratiti -- under whose HC ask would this have been included? It's not in mine, right? I had to leave the SG discussion mid way to catch a flight -- I think we're aligned on 3a for internal research? How about external?"
Pratiti Raychoudhury (9/20/2021): "It will be under Javi/Naomi. But your advocacy will go a long way here! Yes, we netted out with 3a for internal research. We had only about 5 mins for external research and he wanted to spend more time on this. Alex made a case for doing at least the well-being (external) work with OII."
Nick Clegg (9/21/2021): "Ok, and what's the timing of the H/C cycle -- I think the 'napkin' is more or less locked, isn't it? Do you have a specific ask for Javi/Naomi that I could resurface?"
Pratiti Raychoudhury (9/21/2021): "We haven't received headcount numbers yet -- ████ and ████ will follow up with you on the next steps"
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