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Internal documentPresentation

"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

"I would be strongly supportive of the pause on approving beautification effects into the Spark AR platform while that review is underway. We are in a very bad place attempting to defend this, especially for young teenage girls who are the primary audience of these filters"

Elisabeth Diana: "Karina - what can we do to address this more bluntly than just playing whack a mole? I'm worried about this …

Elisabeth Diana · Karina Newton and an unnamed employee

KnowledgeConcealment

Body image & eating disorders
Internal documentMessages

"This is a celebration post to call out that the Mental Well-Being team has accomplished the primary P0 goal for the half:... Goal metric: % of weekly active teens meaningfully adopting Take a Break or Alt Topic Nudge (sum of individual feature adoption figures).' As a reminder, our target was 0.25% and, as of the last full week of June, we are at 0.30%."

George Volichenko: "This is a celebration post to call out that the Mental Well-Being team has accomplished the primary P0 goal for the half: 'Reduce experiences of problematic …

George Volichenko and names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety

Addiction & problematic use
Internal documentPresentation

"SM has a negative impact when it magnifies their insecurities, e.g., comparing themselves to others physically and socially; teens also express feeling addicted to it and being bullied"

However, SM has a negative impact when it magnifies their insecurities, e.g., comparing themselves to others physically and socially; teens also express feeling addicted to it and …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

Addiction & problematic use
Ex. 111, 11, 4001, 29 · Dkt 2756-50, 3028Read →
Internal documentMessages

"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

Body image & eating disorders
Internal documentPresentation

"As humans we have underlying traits which social media exacerbates. Instagram doesn't cause these, but it enhances them. Growing up immersed in the social media world, young people are increasingly developing personality traits which are harmful to their wellbeing"

Feelings in the moment dictate how well you cope... In-the-moment feelings determines resilience to cope with content they see online." …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

Bullying & harassment
Ex. 75, 17, 4004, 30 · Dkt 2648-40, 2756, 3028Read →
Internal documentPresentation

"Young people called out Instagram for targeting them with adverts on weight loss and body image... This is highly damaging, and likely to tip vulnerable young people into disordered eating habits."

Ads target insecurity & feeds unhealthy habits" "Multiple teenagers called out ad targeting on Instagram for showing them weight loss products." …

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

Body image & eating disorders
Ex. 75, 17, 4004, 30 · Dkt 2648-40, 2756, 3028Read →
Internal documentMessages

"there is a lot of competitive pressure and a lot of market demand for filters that go much more directly into the beautification space. And if we test any of these things, they will undoubtedly perform well. But just because people like and want something in the short term doesn't mean it's healthy for them."

Jennifer Guadagno: "I wanted to follow up on the request we chatted about yesterday to understand more about possible effects of using 'body enhancing' filters on people from the …

Jennifer Guadagno · Margaret Stewart

KnowledgeProfits over Safety

Body image & eating disorders
Internal documentMessages

"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

KnowledgeProfits over Safety

Body image & eating disorders