Vaishnavi Jayakumar

"[I]t's hard to defend why we'd block certain terms in hashtag search and not in account search, and it's easy to find violating ED accounts in a couple of taps. When I search for 'thinspo' or 'proana' the accounts shown are overwhelmingly violating."

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Knowledge

"[W]e'll once again allow people to create and share face-altering effects on Instagram"

You may recall that last year we temporarily removed some face altering AR effects from Instagram, following …

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Profits over Safety

"For reporting, currently, there is no way for users to report U–13 users on Facebook in app and takes over 7 screens for users to report U-13 users on IG."

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Profits over Safety

"Girls as young as 8 start to lose self-confidence b/c of negative self image and social comparison."

████: "Would we consider not surfacing certain content in our rec surfaces that we know to be triggering?" …

Vaishnavi Jayakumar and names withheld in filing

Knowledge

"In March it was decided that we would not build a classifier to detect minors under 13 years old… We need leadership support to push product to act on knowledge we already have, i.e. clear our backlogs, disable verified u13s"

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Knowledge

"Is anyone else receiving child abuse reports on platform?... we're not detecting it :(((("

Is anyone else receiving child abuse reports on platform? In the last 24 hours I've received a ton :( I've seen terrible things, we're not detecting it :((((

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Knowledge

"On enforcement, we currently have a backlog of over 2.5 million cases age-related reports to review."

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Knowledge

"So you've known about this all this time and you still haven't fixed it" — SSI focus group takeaways

My biggest take away from last night was the change over time piece. It absolutely confounded them that we could be working on an issue so long, yet we are where we are. …

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"The [Content Operations] human review capacity for CEI is at ~30%; [Content Operations] Safety suspects this will continue to be true for many more months to come for large pools of queues with <20% projected supply for the near future."

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"The daily number of minor victims having sex talk conversations in IGDM with adults is 38x compared to FB (~200k victims/day)."

Pavni Diwanji: "[T]here was decision made to encrypt all private messages for u13. This has severe impact on safety as we know. …

Pavni Diwanji · Vaishnavi Jayakumar and names withheld in filing

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45% of children age 9-12 use Facebook daily and 40% use Instagram daily

Thorn Report: - 45% of children age 9-12 use Facebook daily. - 40% of children age 9-12 use Instagram daily. …

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"i know, it's pretty dispiriting to think about. and the fact that we have no idea what the long-term effects will be for this generation that has grown up comparing themself to something that's...totally fake"

Elizabeth Crenshaw: "some flags for this crew: *MIT Tech Review piece on beauty filters* -- it's not a great piece and does a lot of speculating about the long-term impacts of …

Elizabeth Crenshaw and names withheld in filing

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Vaishnavi Jayakumar: "17X, by any measure across the industry, is a very, very high strike threshold. That means you could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended."

17X, by any measure across the industry, is a very, very high strike threshold. …

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Vaishnavi Jayakumar: "we still do not have a sense of how minors' follow or DM graphs are changing after they go viral... We had asked for this mitigation... but have hit a wall with the Data Science team working on this due to limited bandwidth."

Instagram Reels launching globally on August 5: Ahead of the launch, we have been reviewing curation guidelines, ensuring integrity measures are in place, and tracking cases of …

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"we were initially supposed to launch private by default on september 2 after approval from IG leads, but that has now been scrapped due to growth concerns"

████: "do you happen to know the status of the IG Smart Defaults launch?" …

Vaishnavi Jayakumar and names withheld in filing

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