Disinformation Nation: Social Media’s Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation (QFR Responses)

QuestionCiting leaked 2017 internal documents describing Facebook's ability to monitor young people's posts and photos in real time to detect emotional states like feeling "stressed," "worthless," "useless," and a "failure," Trahan asks how many projects have gone through Facebook's subsequently-announced "enhanced review" process for sensitive/age-specific research, and whether that process has been independently audited.

ResponseFacebook says the 2017 "insecure/worthless teens" research violated its own internal review processes at the time and was never used for ad targeting, describes its post-2017 enhanced-review framework in general terms, but does not answer either specific question asked — how many projects have gone through enhanced review since 2017, or whether that process has been independently audited.