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Pratiti Raychoudhury

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"Policymakers and stakeholders see the lack of a consistent, comprehensive approach to problematic use and certain 'harmful content' (e.g., SSI + ED content) across FOA as evidence we prioritize engagement/profits"

Well-being work is similar to privacy or major social issues like Health and COVID19; it needs to be addressed consistently across our platforms and in an end-to-end manner …

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

Addiction & problematic use
Internal documentMessages

"how can we share research findings that are inconvenient for facebook, e.g., research that shows fb is harmful. we've accepted the complexities of sharing such research externally, but if it can't be done or it needs to be sanitized to share with people that need to know (i.e., the people in focused, closed groups) then we've got a big problem."

████: "so, there appears to be a team of lawyers scheduling meetings with individual researchers to question them about well-being research. …

Names withheld in filing

Concealment

Internal documentMessages

"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

Internal documentMessages

"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

KnowledgeProfits over Safety

Body image & eating disorders
Internal documentMessages

"I feel even more convinced that we need to make more progress on well-being on the product side. From everything I am hearing (second hand) that there will be no headcount. The plan that the team had put together is bare minimum to get us to parity with TikTok."

Pratiti Raychoudhury: "I know I am preaching to the choir, but given last week's events, I feel even more convinced that we need to make more progress on well-being on the product …

Pratiti Raychoudhury · Nick Clegg

Profits over Safety

Internal documentMessages

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

Body image & eating disorders