Child sexual exploitation

"The metric is ~500k victims [of IIC] per DAY in English markets only… So we expect the true situation is worse." Yoav Shapira: "Child Safety is explicitly called out as a non-goal in our H2 plans. So if we can do something here, cool. But if we can do nothing at all, that's fine too."

Sayed Otaru: "The CI team has concluded a study (the numbers have not yet been formalized) and currently show that 500,000 IG underage accounts receive IIC on a weekly basis." …

Sayed Otaru · Yoav Shapira and names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety

"Sex trafficking classifier: We have one engineer dedicated to this work and we have no data science support to do some basic understand work to lower the strikes threshold for prostitution and sexual solicitation strikes (currently set at 17x, which is too high)."

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

Meta abandoned privacy by default for teens because the growth impact was too high

Darius Kilstein: "I wonder what % of grooming happens from people with at least 1 NFX action? …

Darius Kilstein and names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety

Arturo Bejar warned Mark Zuckerberg about the prevalence of negative experiences on Instagram

51% of Instagram users say 'yes' to having had a bad or harmful experience in the last 7 days. Out of those 1% of report and of those 2% have the content taken down (i.e. 0.02%). …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

"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

"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."

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"[W]e do not have proactive detection and enforcement running for NCII or sextortion in IGDM"

[Bad actor number 2] had a total of 900 message threads within a few months With 338 reactive reports against both the account and message threads. …

Unnamed employee

KnowledgeProfits over Safety

There were only 9 employees for all child safety problems

████: "before my time (when covid hit), the decision was made to prioritise our (tiny) amount of review capacity for English only, FB only… which means 1% of total report. …

Names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety

Adjustments to privacy by default by teens are about looking good to regulators

████: "#wut PBD" ████: "Private by default :)"| …

Names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety

We are doing somewhere between zero and negligible on child grooming Child safety is an explicit non-goal

████: "[W]hat specifically are we doing for child grooming (something I just heard about that is happening a lot on TikTok)?" …

Names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety

"Overall we are quite vulnerable when it comes to age management on our apps. To some degree that is because leadership has decided to live with certain risks at least in the near term."

Immediate Product Vulnerabilities - We lack a U13 classifier, insufficient means to detect and remove ul3s at scale …

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

Antigone Davis: "we do very little to keep U13s off our platform"

The biggest challenge here is that for the most part no one thinks FB makes people suicidal but people (especially policymakers and law enforcement) do think we create the …

Unnamed employee

KnowledgeProfits over Safety

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. …

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"IG is the leading platform reported for initial meeting [45%]" in financial sextortion cases

Financial sextortion cases predominantly impact boys age 14-17" "1 in 8 Of those who reported impact described thoughts of suicide or self harm." …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

Meta had "inconsistent filtering" on potential IIC accounts and content

The Internal Audit (IA) team has completed the IG Youth Well-being Assurance Audit - Phase 1. …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

Meta executives debate excluding Messenger from child safety report despite knowing almost 90% of egregious child exploitation content was there

Guy Rosen: "Should we consider limiting the CEI number we put in CSER to FB only, to avoid a step-change some time in the future when we lose access to private messaging? …

Guy Rosen and names withheld in filing

Concealment

"For Child Safety, all reports should generate an SRT job. We found that around 30% of FB profile reports did not result in job creation."

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"We are still missing violating content when it is reported to us more often than we would like. Of the violating child safety content that is reported to us we successfully take down 31% on Facebook and 17% on Instagram."

[W]e are still missing violating content when it is reported to us more often than we would like. …

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"The moment Backpage was taken down, all of their data showed that IG had become the leading two-sided marketplace for human trafficking."

Eduardo ████: "I believe everyone knows that I'm an advisor at an anti-human trafficking non-profit. …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

Meta discovered a video-matching technology used across child safety collaborations had not actually worked on Instagram for years

Paniz ████: "I'm writing to enlist some urgent support from IG to mitigate legal and legitimacy risks we're facing in the Adult Sexual Exploitation, Child Safety and …

Karina Newton and names withheld in filing

Knowledge

"Up until last half, even Child Safety CI had no workstream set up to do bulk enforcement against FB Groups with clearly violating content in either CEI or MS[Minor Sexualization]"

████:"[W]e're not very good at proactively detecting and taking down MS[Minor Sexualization] Groups and it's a big problem we need to tackle sooner rather than later b/c …

Names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety