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Adam Mosseri

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"Personally, I think problematic use is a valuable area to invest understand time in. But I'm not a big believer in having a well-being/integrity product team approach. I think it'll require more fundamental changes to our goals, what type of work they incentive, and therefore how core mechanics work (feed design, ranking, sharing, notifs)."

Kristin Hendrix: "Quick heads up on the WB stuff - Lori was looped into this by virtue of her collabs w/ central. …

Kristin Hendrix · Adam Mosseri · Max Eulenstein

KnowledgeProfits over Safety

Addiction & problematic use
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"It struck me that the bottom line is that IG is violating our policies — not users! IG is choosing to display images in a violating way for any policy area where the caption matters. We have to build a system of labeling images as 'caption-dependent' for topics like hate, violence, bullying, SSI so that we can avoid search results."

Monika Bickert: "Yes, the policies are that we allow cries for help (often called admission or ideation) but don't allow celebration or encouragement of self-harm. …

Monika Bickert and names withheld in filing

KnowledgeConcealment

Suicide & self-injury
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"our present policies and public stance on teenage self harm and suicide are so difficult to explain publicly that our current response looks convoluted and evasive... The fact that we have age limits which are unenforced (unenforceable?) and that there are, as I understand it, important differences in the stringency of our policies on IG vs Blue App makes it difficult to claim we are doing all we can."

Chris Norton: "As you might know, the Sunday Times will tomorrow run a (likely) front-page story with 30 families of suicide victims accusing Instagram of killing their children. …

Chris Norton · Nick Clegg · Monika Bickert

Profits over SafetyKnowledge

Suicide & self-injury