Meta & Children's Online Safety"Adam [Mosseri] has been extremely clear about our focus on teens."
Prioritization. I think this has improved meaningfully in the past 12-24 months. Adam has been extremely clear about our focus on teens. …
Unnamed employee
Youth Targeting
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Max Eulenstein
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"IG is the leading platform reported for initial meeting [45%]" in financial sextortion cases
Financial sextortion cases predominantly impact boys age 14-17" "1 in 8 Of those who reported impact described thoughts of suicide or self harm." …
Unnamed employee
Knowledge
"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
"The moment Backpage was taken down, all of their data showed that IG had become the leading two-sided marketplace for human trafficking."
Eduardo ████: "I believe everyone knows that I'm an advisor at an anti-human trafficking non-profit. …
Unnamed employee
Knowledge
"There's going to be SSI content on IG and FB for the near future. The existing classifiers are not hard to game."
Karina Newton: "ps: i find it to be a very weird world we're living in where fb leadership is making threshold decisions of ig hashtags?" …
Karina Newton · Max Eulenstein and names withheld in filing
Knowledge
"We will not create any new default interactions settings for private accounts since we decided visibility, discoverability and interactions are three different constructs and private = visibility."
We will not create any new default interaction settings for private accounts since we decided visibility, discoverability and interactions are three different constructs and …
Unnamed employee
Profits over Safety
"When reward was reached less often or slower than expected, people described opening the app habitually and using it passively instead of intently. This was the case for many of our participants regarding Instagram."
████: "Reward is the satisfaction one feels when they achieve the desired outcome from actions they have taken to fulfill a need. …
Names withheld in filing
Knowledge
████: "In Q4 we launched LTV-based ad load which reduced ad load for teens to maximize long-term revenue growth."
In 2024, the organic IG Reels watch time budget will increase from -6.4% to -7.8% to account for the impact of Reels ad load increases on Reels consumption. …
Name withheld in filing
Youth Targeting
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
Knowledge
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
Max Eulenstein: "Adam [Mosseri] has been extremely clear about our focus on teens"
Prioritization. I said this in my last round of feedback, but I think it's worth repeating: Adam has helped the lnstagram organization focus and it's leading to better results. …
Unnamed employee
Youth Targeting
Max Eulenstein: "No one wakes up thinking they want to maximize the number of times they open Instagram that day. But that's exactly what our product teams are trying to do."
No one wakes up thinking they want to maximize the number of times they open Instagram that day. But that's exactly what our product teams are trying to do.
Unnamed employee
Profits over Safety
"Personally, I think problematic use is a valuable area to invest understand time in. But I'm not a big believer in having a well-being/integrity product team approach. I think it'll require more fundamental changes to our goals, what type of work they incentive, and therefore how core mechanics work (feed design, ranking, sharing, notifs)."
Kristin Hendrix: "Quick heads up on the WB stuff - Lori was looped into this by virtue of her collabs w/ central. …
Kristin Hendrix · Adam Mosseri · Max Eulenstein
KnowledgeProfits over Safety
Nonrecommendable content in US Teens' Top Recommended Reels included "people chugging alcohol and vomiting, blatantly racist jokes, pedophilia jokes, videos of people dying in car crashes"
We wanted to share some (rather concerning) early data insights and next steps, as we looked into recommendability and media quality of US Teens' Top recommended Reels." …
Unnamed employee
Knowledge