Meta & Children's Online Safety"The focus on beautification is a key insight"
Kevin Systrom: "Skin smoothing: We've nearly completed our skin smoothing technology. …
Kevin Systrom · Mark Zuckerberg
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Mark Zuckerberg: "The most concerning of these to me is time spent... Of course the other goals are all important as well, but this is the one that threatens our core narrative the most."
The most concerning of these to me is time spent. …
Mark Zuckerberg
Profits over Safety
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
PLAINTIFFS’ CHARACTERIZATION
Karina Newton noted "we have continued to get the advice [from experts] that we should have Daisy on by default for teens." …
Unnamed employee, as quoted by plaintiffs
Profits over Safety
Meta is "launching more new products at a faster rate than ever, each of which require additional work to prevent abuse" but "We aren't staffed to both integrate with FB and do IG specific work to stay ahead of all potential PAC [Protect and Care] related issues."
However, there are five areas you should be aware of and I could use your help addressing:" …
Unnamed employee
Profits over SafetyKnowledge
"Hiding Like counts may seem like an unimportant change for well-being. But as Jennifer outlines below, like counts are a key driver of social comparison, and social comparison is a key driver of well-being... there are many factors to consider in this decision, including sessions, revenue, finding popular content, and the comms environment. I hope that the well-being implications can be factored into the decision, as well."
Jennifer Guadagno: "Social comparison is important to loneliness: Social comparison is the most important driver of loneliness. …
Jennifer Guadagno · Moira Burke
Profits over Safety
"It struck me that the bottom line is that IG is violating our policies — not users! IG is choosing to display images in a violating way for any policy area where the caption matters. We have to build a system of labeling images as 'caption-dependent' for topics like hate, violence, bullying, SSI so that we can avoid search results."
Monika Bickert: "Yes, the policies are that we allow cries for help (often called admission or ideation) but don't allow celebration or encouragement of self-harm. …
Monika Bickert and names withheld in filing
KnowledgeConcealment
Nick Clegg (on lifting cosmetic surgery filter ban): "We would – rightly – be accused of putting growth over responsibility"
Sheryl – this has now gone back to Mark, I added you to the email thread. …
Nick Clegg
Profits over Safety
Nick Clegg asked Mark Zuckerberg for more investment for well-being
Circling back re: investment needed to strengthen Meta's position on well-being (see original email from Aug below). …
Unnamed employee
Profits over Safety
"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
Profits over SafetyKnowledge
"the WSJ story about IG and teenage depression and suicide will have a huge impact on regulatory/political pressure on us going forward... I'm worried that none of this is - yet - being reflected in Mark's decision making on head count etc."
Nick Clegg: "Hey - to state the flamingly obvious, the WSJ story about IG and teenage depression and suicide will have a huge impact on regulatory/political pressure on us going …
Nick Clegg · Susan Li
KnowledgeProfits over Safety
"This lack of connection between what we commit to publicly and what we do internally really worried, and slightly shocked, me."
Molly Cutler: "On January 22, the BBC reported that exposure to graphic images of cutting and self-injury on Instagram contributed to the suicide of 14-year-old Molly Russell. …
Molly Cutler · Nick Clegg
ConcealmentProfits over Safety
Nick Clegg: "We are not on track to succeed for our core well-being topics (problematic use, bullying & harassment, connections, and SSI),* and are at increased regulatory risk and external criticism."
Mark KX, Pratiti and ████ have put together the proposal below for additional investment to strengthen our position on wellbeing across the company. …
Nick Clegg
Profits over Safety
Project Daisy is stuck due to growth concerns and Mark Zuckerberg review
████: "[W]hat's your sense of the headwinds for bold social comparison interventions like Daisy, which may be associated with (not yet crystal clear) impacts on traditional …
Charles Sismondo and names withheld in filing
Profits over Safety
"Let's not break something that is not broken."
Monika Bickert: "I wanted to flag next Thursday's meeting (4/2) with Mark on 'Cosmetic Surgery AR Effects'. …
Monika Bickert · Sheryl Sandberg
KnowledgeProfits over Safety
"PLEASE just focus on what they are REALLY criticizing you about and acknowledge it and stop throwing your researchers under the bus and double crossing journos so this can all end PLEASE"
Shruti Bhutada: "So apparently FB published the deck before WSJ and thats really bad practice in comms" Wendy Tegge Gross: "yup" …
Shruti Bhutada · Wendy Gross · Shilpa Mody
Concealment
Zuckerberg (on cosmetic surgery filter ban): "It has always felt paternalistic to me that we've limited people's ability to present themselves in these ways... I'm supportive of... lifting restrictions"
Andy O'Connell: "Mark- Next Thursday we are meeting to decide whether we should continue, modify, or lift the temporary ban on Cosmetic Surgery AR Effects that we instituted in …
Andy O'Connell · Mark Zuckerberg and names withheld in filing
Profits over SafetyKnowledge
Zuckerberg: child safety is not my "main focus"
I care deeply about this and we'll continue focusing on being industry-leading with young people, but I'm not going to say [child safety] is my personal main focus when I have a …
Mark Zuckerberg
Profits over Safety