Meta & Children's Online 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
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"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
"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
Knowledge
"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
████: "Mark has decided that the top priority for the company in H1 2017 is teens"
Our overall company goal is total teen time spent, which is MAP * MAP/DAP * TS/DAP." "Mark has decided that the top priority for the company in H1 2017 is teens." …
Name withheld in filing
Youth Targeting
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
A livestream depicting a murder-suicide on IG Live was left online for three hours
Rori ████: "[E]arlier today a man in Bosnia live-streamed the murder of a woman on IG and claimed to have murdered at least two other people, after which he reportedly took …
Sayed Otaru and names withheld in filing
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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
Profits over Safety
"given the size of the CEI removal number, I think [reporting] it separately may better contextualize it so people aren't scared of what's happening on FB... we need approval from Mark to release CEI [data] at all"
Andrea Saul: "My feeling is that we should release everything together post-election, with one possible exception of the CEI data. …
Andrea Saul · Guy Rosen and names withheld in filing
Concealment
"[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
Profits over Safety
MACSA scores didn't catch the accounts recommended to Jeff Horwitz's child-safety investigation account
Andy Stone: "Hi folks - following up here with a smaller group just to make you aware of something related to Jeff's ongoing reporting of child safety issues on the platform. …
Andy Stone · Sayed Otaru
Knowledge
Antigone Davis: "we do very little to keep U13s off our platform"
The biggest challenge here is that for the most part no one thinks FB makes people suicidal but people (especially policymakers and law enforcement) do think we create the …
Unnamed employee
KnowledgeProfits over Safety
Ethan ████: Under-13s are a "big 'build' opportunit[y]"
We have two big 'build' opportunities: a. Under-13s, including regulated Under-13s b. Social entertainment and video.
Name withheld in filing
Youth Targeting
Guy Rosen: "because content outside of promotion did not violate our policies, we had no detection or enforcement in place at all for any other content, and most worryingly the content was easy to discover through search, hashtags, IG Explore, etc."
Instagram suicide and self-injury (SSI) issues reveal we are behind where we need to be" …
Guy Rosen
KnowledgeProfits over Safety
"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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"I would have thought that [Mark Zuckerberg] would be more an advocate of harm prevention"
Guy Rosen: "btw I prewired Mark a little about encryption / scanning his initial reaction was 'in the end it'll all be encrypted' But I explained the net harm concept etc …
Guy Rosen and names withheld in filing
Profits over Safety
Meta executives debate excluding Messenger from child safety report despite knowing almost 90% of egregious child exploitation content was there
Guy Rosen: "Should we consider limiting the CEI number we put in CSER to FB only, to avoid a step-change some time in the future when we lose access to private messaging? …
Guy Rosen and names withheld in filing
Concealment
"the way IG displays stuff in search definitely violates our policies"
Guy Rosen: "How are you holding up?" Guy Rosen: "Sorry everything is blowing up :(" …
Guy Rosen · Monika Bickert
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"my central concern is that we don't have a simple, human answer to why IG carried harrowing self harm images that no reasonable person think should have appeared, and which seem to serve no self-help purpose whatsoever."
Monika Bickert: "Nick, I just want to set expectations since I see that someone said Content Policy agreed to these changes. …
Monika Bickert · Nick Clegg
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