Meta & Children's Online Safety"Goal: Grow MAP, DAP, and time spent among U13 kids"
[2017 Top-Line Goal]: "Strategic goal: Time Spent Share" — "What percent of all <= 18 smartphone + tablet time is an FB experience?" …
Unnamed employee
Youth TargetingProfits over Safety
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Alex Schultz
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"The IG Wellbeing team does not sufficiently enforce bi-directional filtering between minors and potential violators on recommendation surfaces. As a result, the potential violators may bring harm to minors through the Reels surface."
Overall, while IG Reels has generally implemented the SOX controls required for ad products, several areas in content integrity and product features need significant improvements. …
Unnamed employee
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Adam Mosseri: "FYI I don't think we can stop recommending teens to adults through AYSF on Instagram."
FYI I don't think we can stop recommending teens to adults through AYSF on Instagram. …
Adam Mosseri
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"we have abused the notifications channel as a company"
Guillermo Spiller: "We're asking for your help to decide on a short-term trade-off between US DAP and notifications experience. …
Guillermo Spiller · Alex Schultz · Andrew Bocking
Profits over Safety
"[T]he big Q is whether we proactively kick people off we 'think' are below minimum age (ie 13) which would obviously reduce MAP."
Joel Kaplan: "In the meantime, wanted to provide a bit more color re the policy POV on the points Will raises. Our views are that:" 1. …
Joel Kaplan · Fidji Simo · Andrew Bocking
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"We got 0 new Well-being funding for 2022, so we'll need to tee up the tradeoffs against other priorities."
Nick Clegg: "Hey – just wondering how we can follow up on the conversation in SG this morning re the case for further wellbeing research? …
Nick Clegg · Pratiti Raychoudhury · Adam Mosseri · Emily Dalton Smith · Kang-Xing Jin
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"this is the worst of the worst stuff that gives you nightmares, over which children have taken their own lives :("
Adam Mosseri: "Kevin and Mikey are uncomfortable scanning Direct message data, which I didn't realize until last week, though they're supportive of using meta data. …
Adam Mosseri · Guy Rosen
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Margaret Stewart (on lifting cosmetic surgery ban): "I don't think it's the right call given the risks... I just hope that years from now we will look back and feel good about the decision we made here."
Hey there, thanks for getting back to us on this. …
Margaret Stewart
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Margaret Stewart: "it seems patently obvious that phone usage, selfie-culture, and photo editing are contributing to anxiety, depression, and body dysmorphia... I think we have to assume we are contributors/amplifiers"
Important to note that just because they haven't found evidence of causation doesn't mean that it doesn't exist; they may just not have find the way to detect/measure it. …
Margaret Stewart
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Meta employees were "exploring" whether to make the Nielsen deprivation study public
████: "We finally have the results from the pilot stage of the Nielsen deactivation study… we are: 1. Exploring whether to make the results of the study public." …
Nick Clegg · Alex Schultz and names withheld in filing
Concealment
Nick Clegg (on lifting cosmetic surgery filter ban): "We would – rightly – be accused of putting growth over responsibility"
Sheryl – this has now gone back to Mark, I added you to the email thread. …
Nick Clegg
Profits over Safety
Nick Clegg asked Mark Zuckerberg for more investment for well-being
Circling back re: investment needed to strengthen Meta's position on well-being (see original email from Aug below). …
Unnamed employee
Profits over Safety
Nick Clegg expressed skepticism about Nielsen study findings
████: "The main findings of the [Nielsen deactivation study] are: 1. …
Nick Clegg and names withheld in filing
Knowledge
Nick Clegg: "We are not on track to succeed for our core well-being topics (problematic use, bullying & harassment, connections, and SSI),* and are at increased regulatory risk and external criticism."
Mark KX, Pratiti and ████ have put together the proposal below for additional investment to strengthen our position on wellbeing across the company. …
Nick Clegg
Profits over Safety
"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."
Pratiti Raychoudhury: "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 …
Pratiti Raychoudhury · Nick Clegg
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"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"
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 …
Nick Clegg · Pratiti Raychoudhury
KnowledgeProfits over Safety
Zuckerberg (on cosmetic surgery filter ban): "It has always felt paternalistic to me that we've limited people's ability to present themselves in these ways... I'm supportive of... lifting restrictions"
Andy O'Connell: "Mark- Next Thursday we are meeting to decide whether we should continue, modify, or lift the temporary ban on Cosmetic Surgery AR Effects that we instituted in …
Andy O'Connell · Mark Zuckerberg and names withheld in filing
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