Meta & Children's Online Safety"Sharing or viewing filtered selfies in Stories made people feel worse"
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Shilpa Mody
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"SSI, terrorism, and seeing someone being bullied or harassed are particularly problematic, with high reach for how intense they are."
Overall, teens have significantly more negative experiences than adults. …
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"Teens are the target audience for Reels, but we have limited knowledge, tech, and tools to keep them safe."
TLDR: The Reels ecosystem makes it more vulnerable to integrity challenges" …
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"Teens have significantly more negative experiences than adults"
Overall, teens have significantly more negative experiences than adults. …
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"We make body image issues worse for 1 in 3 teen girls"
But, we make body image issues worse for 1 in 3 teen girls" "More teen girls thought that IG made body image issues worse rather than better" …
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"we've repeatedly had to put p1 improvements like precision tuning on a number of integrity areas to correct for over/under-enforcement (including body positivity??... comments integrity, age-related recommendation tuning, and rabbitholing engineering on the back burner because we're so deeply understaffed"
Alison Lee: "to be honest, i was dismayed that it felt like Adam's response was that we were 'doing enough', going as far as to question 'how much is enough to invest into …
Alison Lee and names withheld in filing
Profits over Safety
"We can't ask if they're under 13 because it means we'd have to delete their account"
Kyle Andrews: "We can't give people the ability to say they're under 13, right? So maybe there's also an 'other' category?" …
Kyle Andrews · Wendy Gross and names withheld in filing
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Meta executives are responsible for making Take a Break opt-in and such decisions lower company morale
They keep saying leaks lower morale… no, Adam the choices you guys make lowers morale" …
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Profits over Safety
Shilpa Mody: "We really do recommend a LOT of high-NAC content to teens"
[I]t turns out that at the high end, we really do recommend a LOT of high-NAC content to teens! Like for the top 10% of teens, our recs in Explore are 57% high-NAC :/
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"I... dont know how they get it this wrong... Like just answer their actual question. They know you think the research is shit but in this area theres also external research. And 1 in 3 or 1 in 5 makes no difference when they are asking you what you did about that 1."
Shilpa Mody: "Btw did either of you watch any of the hearing?" Shruti Bhutada: "One senator asked about our findings (looked like they had Moira and Justin's data from Dec 2020? …
Shilpa Mody · Shruti Bhutada · Wendy Gross
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"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
Social comparison, body image, loneliness, SSI, and problematic use were the top categories of harm reported by teens on Instagram
We ranked issues by each category (reach, intensity, IG impact and expectation), to generate a composite average rank such that lower average indicates that the issue should be …
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The launch criteria for Take a Break included balancing the known upside against changes to ecosystem usage metrics
The launch criteria are… 3. Balance ecosystem effects: The balance between the known upside of the solution and changes to ecosystem usage metrics. …
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Profits over Safety
When implementing Take a Break "we want to guard against any ecosystem/engagement metrics that imply we're hurting the user experience"
I think what we're saying is that we want to guard against any ecosystem/engagement metrics that imply we're hurting the user experience and that we'll rely on research to …
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Profits over Safety