Meta & Children's Online Safety"[W]e will not focus on problematic use for the foreseeable future"
[Appendix: Detail on considerations]: …
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Charles Sismondo
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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. …
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"I think the radical move is that the team's vision should be to move IG out of the position of being uniquely worst for teens' social comparison and body image"
████: "I think the radical move is that the team's vision should be to move IG out of the position of being uniquely worst for teens' social comparison and body image" …
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"This is a celebration post to call out that the Mental Well-Being team has accomplished the primary P0 goal for the half:... Goal metric: % of weekly active teens meaningfully adopting Take a Break or Alt Topic Nudge (sum of individual feature adoption figures).' As a reminder, our target was 0.25% and, as of the last full week of June, we are at 0.30%."
George Volichenko: "This is a celebration post to call out that the Mental Well-Being team has accomplished the primary P0 goal for the half: 'Reduce experiences of problematic …
George Volichenko and names withheld in filing
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Hidden like counts did not ship because it "was pretty negative to FB metrics"
Pure Daisy did not ship because it was not impactful from the lens that IG was evaluating previously and was pretty negative to FB metrics.
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Meta debated unshipping Time Spent tools despite knowing they were "the biggest proof point we have on tech addiction"
████: "We're emailing to start the process of unshipping Time Spent. …
Yoav Shapira · Karina Newton and names withheld in filing
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Yoav Shapira: "We're sharing bad metrics externally"
Our data as currently shown is incorrect. It's not just that Apple / Google have better data. Ours is wrong. Far worse. We're sharing bad metrics externally. …
Yoav Shapira
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Yoav Shapira: "We've consistently deprioritized addiction as a work area, which I think is the right call"
We've consistently deprioritized addiction as a work area, which I think is the right call anyhow. Investing further here isn't likely. …
Yoav Shapira
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