Antigone Davis

"[T]aking this position will invite criticism that we are putting profits over people."

1. "PROACTIVE ENFORCEMENT -- How important is it that we proactively enforce based on age (i.e., try to detect and challenge people lying about their age)?" [a. …

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"[T]he level of scrutiny has increased exponentially and we've been too slow to respond"

Youth is one of the more acute social issue challenges we face right now with a level of external scrutiny that has increased substantially over the last 6 or so months." …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

"Do we agree we are not properly resourced to address child safety issues?"

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"For Child Safety, all reports should generate an SRT job. We found that around 30% of FB profile reports did not result in job creation."

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"IG: DMs, groups being used to promote SSI and we don't scan there, and have no e2e resilient tech yet."

Classifiers: technical, legal and operational challenges to global use." "Borderline and aggregated content lack classifiers to address at scale." …

Unnamed employee

Profits over SafetyKnowledge

"In March it was decided that we would not build a classifier to detect minors under 13 years old… We need leadership support to push product to act on knowledge we already have, i.e. clear our backlogs, disable verified u13s"

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

"Meta's reporting to the CyberTipline has taken the appearance of a compliance exercise, rather than a crucial child protection mission to ensure children are safe from exploitation on its platforms."

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"Of all the known violating content reviewed by reps as part of this golden set [of known-violating CSAM profiles and content], they would have taken down only ~1 in 5 profiles and ~2 in 5 pieces of content."

Some user reports have not been accurately handled by Meta… The key concern had to do with reports of potential child safety issues not being addressed by Meta… we anticipate that …

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"Policymakers and stakeholders see the lack of a consistent, comprehensive approach to problematic use and certain 'harmful content' (e.g., SSI + ED content) across FOA as evidence we prioritize engagement/profits"

Well-being work is similar to privacy or major social issues like Health and COVID19; it needs to be addressed consistently across our platforms and in an end-to-end manner …

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"The [Content Operations] human review capacity for CEI is at ~30%; [Content Operations] Safety suspects this will continue to be true for many more months to come for large pools of queues with <20% projected supply for the near future."

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"The leadership decision was limited to NOT building an u13 classifier"

Antigone Davis: "[O]n the request for us to improve our age models, what was the decision leadership took on this when they decided to move age verification efforts to device …

Antigone Davis and names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety

"We are still missing violating content when it is reported to us more often than we would like. Of the violating child safety content that is reported to us we successfully take down 31% on Facebook and 17% on Instagram."

[W]e are still missing violating content when it is reported to us more often than we would like. …

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"We believe that we'll likely have to confirm that 20yo have been able to message 13yo for a number of years following the launch of this protection."

Context: following a recent child safety incident (detail) an XFN team across Policy, Product, Legal and Public Affairs came together to re-evaluate an exception that allows …

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"We do nothing on complex objects (notably clearly violating groups & pages)"

Antigone Davis: "Hey did you ask for more child safety specific HC? If you have 5 minutes for a call, I can provide some context for the question." …

Antigone Davis and names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety

"We have chosen not to perfect our age modeling to avoid the legal risks that come with actual age knowledge"

We use two forms of age modeling, Life Stage and Age Affinity. …

Unnamed employee

Profits over SafetyKnowledge

████ on Lifestage app: "there is no age cap (they are relying on people reporting non-students, impersonators), there are no nudity or porn filters in the app, they have not thought about burner phones, and this has not gone through security review but the team doesn't think it has to."

████: [Lifestage Questions]: "1. How is CO going to monitor and review reports? Will it be exactly the same process and standards that are used for FB content?" "2. …

Antigone Davis and names withheld in filing

Profits over SafetyConcealment

"So long as we have a cool-down period, we're signaling that we are OK with letting u13s on our platform... I just learned that our age change and underage_account disable work (both of which I'm now plugged into) are very under-developed/broken... When a user tries to update their age to be <13, we do not checkpoint them as underage and they are able to continue using FB even after they confirm that they are a specific age"

Shane Witnov: "2 issues that have recently come up discussions with Growth about age management that I'd really appreciate your quick help/take on. …

Shane Witnov and names withheld in filing

Knowledge

████: "There is some good material here on the scale of the internal problem [of child safety] illustrating why we're just not set up adequately to answer the challenge."

Here are the slides Antigone has put together. …

Name withheld in filing

Profits over SafetyKnowledge

45% of children age 9-12 use Facebook daily and 40% use Instagram daily

Thorn Report: - 45% of children age 9-12 use Facebook daily. - 40% of children age 9-12 use Instagram daily. …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge