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Karina Newton

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"our present policies and public stance on teenage self harm and suicide are so difficult to explain publicly that our current response looks convoluted and evasive... The fact that we have age limits which are unenforced (unenforceable?) and that there are, as I understand it, important differences in the stringency of our policies on IG vs Blue App makes it difficult to claim we are doing all we can."

Chris Norton: "As you might know, the Sunday Times will tomorrow run a (likely) front-page story with 30 families of suicide victims accusing Instagram of killing their children. …

Chris Norton · Nick Clegg · Monika Bickert

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Suicide & self-injury
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"Because we are seeing some of our well-being related efforts are effecting teens more disproportionately, we keep recommending this as a potential path. The problem is that soon we'll have several things that we will recommend (as a company) to age-gate and it if we do all of them we'll have a very stripped down version for Teens"

Margaret Stewart: "Some of the things that Schrep wanted to understand:... Any analysis of effects on the business (growth/revenue) that the current restrictions are having" …

Margaret Stewart · Pratiti Raychoudhury · Karina Newton

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Body image & eating disorders
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Vaishnavi Jayakumar: "we still do not have a sense of how minors' follow or DM graphs are changing after they go viral... We had asked for this mitigation... but have hit a wall with the Data Science team working on this due to limited bandwidth."

Instagram Reels launching globally on August 5: Ahead of the launch, we have been reviewing curation guidelines, ensuring integrity measures are in place, and tracking cases of …

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