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Tomas Kabbabe

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Internal documentMessages28 Nov 2023

"It is concerning that our systems almost classify [CSAM] as an interest category, and will serve a ton of it if we think a user likes it. can lead to pretty bad rabbit holes"

Praveen ████: "shared: Instagram_Instagram_s_Algorithm_Delivers_Toxic_Video_Mix_to_Adults_Who_Follow_Children_-_WSJ.pdf" …

Tomas Kabbabe and names withheld in filing

Knowledge

Child sexual exploitation

Internal documentMessages7 Jun 2023

"One of the few differences in borderline hate speech policy is that IG does not allow 'Questioning innocence of victims, such as claiming the victims are responsible or provoked the incident'"

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

Hate speech

Internal documentMessages9 Sep 2020

"Some really yucky content. We're sexualizing underage girls, promoting some very iffy accounts, and serving this content to people who didn't ask for it"

Melissa ████: "hey yall, was chatting with Tomas about how many people are complaining about sexualized content getting recommended to them in Reels" …

Thomas Kabbabe and names withheld in filing

Profits over SafetyKnowledge

Child sexual exploitation

Internal documentReport22 Jan 2021

Mimicry is a problem for teens and "we are not equipped integrity wise to address this challenge "

TL;DR - Roughly ~10% of reels associated to trends could come from underage users (<13) …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

Internal documentMessages13 Apr 2023

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

Hate speech

Internal documentMessages7 Jun 2023

Tomas Kabbabe: "Holy shit the WSJ article on Instagram and pedo recommendations is brutal"

Holy shit the WSJ article on Instagram and pedo recommendations is brutal

Unnamed employee

Child sexual exploitation

Internal documentMessages1 Oct 2020

"people felt reeeeeaaaaaally passionately about Daisy one way or another. It had to be killed"

Calvin ████: "Melissa was after me" Tomas Kabbabe: "superstar. but decided to go the manager route too" Calvin ████: "Yeah I hear her during the quarterly" …

Tomas Kabbabe and names withheld in filing

Profits over SafetyConcealment

Internal documentMessages9 Jun 2023

"You'd think we JUST started working on integrity with issues like this one"

Melissa ████: "I'm not surprised we have bad hashtags. our search safety team is a few employees who look at a list of popular hashtags every week to decide which to filter …

Tomas Kabbabe and names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety

Hate speech