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Justin Osofsky

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Internal documentMessages

"I would be strongly supportive of the pause on approving beautification effects into the Spark AR platform while that review is underway. We are in a very bad place attempting to defend this, especially for young teenage girls who are the primary audience of these filters"

Elisabeth Diana: "Karina - what can we do to address this more bluntly than just playing whack a mole? I'm worried about this …

Elisabeth Diana · Karina Newton and an unnamed employee

KnowledgeConcealment

Body image & eating disorders
Internal documentTable

"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

Child sexual exploitation
Internal documentMessages

"we're talking about actively encouraging young girls into body dysmorphia"

Margaret Stewart: "We are asking for your support to update our policies to: 1. Disallow effects that mimic plastic surgery for first party (FB/IG/MSGR) and third party effects. …

Margaret Stewart · Andrew Bosworth · John Hegeman · Karina Newton · Adam Mosseri and names withheld in filing

Profits over SafetyKnowledge

Body image & eating disorders
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Internal documentMessages

Mark Zuckerberg: "There is also an element of just following attractive people... for the long tail of gawking I could definitely see people spending lots of time browsing public Lives of people of their preferred gender/age around the world. And it wouldn't be creepy because the people broadcasting explicitly want to have people watching them."

I'm excited about pushing ahead as fast as we can on Live because it is the most unique and promising new development in two spaces we care about deeply but are behind in: video …

Mark Zuckerberg

Youth TargetingProfits over Safety

Child sexual exploitation
Internal documentMessages

"I would urge us to think again about why we are allowing [SSI] imagery to stay up – it is truly horrific and our clients, especially those that are parents are finding it very difficult to square."

Steve Hatch: "TLDR: We have seen a slowdown in spend immediately following the BBC report though to date no major advertiser has pulled all spend or taken a negative public …

Steve Hatch · Nicola Mendelsohn · Sheryl Sandberg

KnowledgeProfits over Safety

Suicide & self-injury