Child sexual exploitation

Mark Zuckerberg: "There is also an element of just following attractive people... for the long tail of gawking I could definitely see people spending lots of time browsing public Lives of people of their preferred gender/age around the world. And it wouldn't be creepy because the people broadcasting explicitly want to have people watching them."

I'm excited about pushing ahead as fast as we can on Live because it is the most unique and promising new development in two spaces we care about deeply but are behind in: video …

Mark Zuckerberg

Youth TargetingProfits over Safety

"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. …

Unnamed employee

KnowledgeYouth Targeting

"Objective: Guide product experiences for how COPPA compliant FB could serve tweens well"

Tweens are already on social media. They decide on which app is for them based on the app's user base. The real driver for tween engagement on social media is entertainment. …

Unnamed employee

Youth TargetingKnowledge

We have no clear strategy on our [Adult/Minor Age Misrepresentation] violation - what actions should we take when we detect them? What sort of proactive detection are we seeking to implement? Do we have a quantified level of danger these users pose?

We have no clear strategy on our AAM violation - what actions should we take when we detect them? What sort of proactive detection are we seeking to implement? …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

"Teens are still developing self control. They are motivated by the prospect of immediate rewards... We must find ways to make teens feel more productive and rewarded on our platform."

The teen brain is easily stimulated by novelty, making discovery surfaces very engaging if the content is fresh." "Redundancy is a buzzkill. …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

"Backlog of 780k Underage (u13) review jobs (i.e. where people have reported to us that they think an account is u13). Inbound demand continues to be higher than our supply of reviewers. We are also investigating two adjacent age-related flows for Date of Birth edit on FB and IG... Additionally, we are expecting significantly more incoming jobs following a fixed SEV that was preventing FB users reporting other FB users as being potentially underage. This backlog (and the SEV) is concerning given the Youth XFN work - which making plans to communicate a strong public statement about our stance on u18 safety in June/July."

[S223016] Mistakenly autoclosing VHS/EHS jobs (e.g. terrorism, suicide, child nudity), due to a logic mapping issue that was put in place in March as part of WFH response …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

"Meta's reporting to the CyberTipline has taken the appearance of a compliance exercise, rather than a crucial child protection mission to ensure children are safe from exploitation on its platforms."

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"Despite NCMEC's numerous discussions with Meta regarding persistent quality issues and failure to include substantive information in online enticement and child sex trafficking reports submitted to the CyberTipline, Meta has not resolved these issues."

On 11 separate occasions between February and December 2025, NCMEC emailed Meta regarding reports in which a child victim expressed suicidal ideation in a chat log, and Meta …

Unnamed employee

Profits over Safety

"████ often gets unwanted sexual advances in messages, like 'friends with benefits?' from other teens and friends of friends. This is a negative experience for her, but it's not always clear how to express this on the reporting flow."

My daughter ████, now 16, is what we call an experimenting creator. She posts about cars, and in a recent post, someone commented, 'Get back to the kitchen.' …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

"For sensitive research, we can mitigate the risk in two ways: • Be mindful about how we structure the research and communicate the findings • Conduct highly-sensitive research under attorney-client privilege"

What makes research sensitive? Sensitive means research that may have comms, policy, or legal risks" …

Unnamed employee

Concealment

"Reels featuring kids/tweens, and teens (i.e., 0-15) dancing and posing are pervasive, and often show up on people's Reels experience, even in cold starts... some may include risky elements (i.e., partial nudity, suggestive dance moves that are borderline CEI) that make both viewers uncomfortable and the subjects at risk."

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

"this is the worst of the worst stuff that gives you nightmares, over which children have taken their own lives :("

Adam Mosseri: "Kevin and Mikey are uncomfortable scanning Direct message data, which I didn't realize until last week, though they're supportive of using meta data. …

Adam Mosseri · Guy Rosen

Knowledge

"FB allows pedophiles to find eachother and kids via social graph with easy transition to Messenger. WA does not make it easy to make social connections, meaning making Messenger e2ee will be far, far worse than anything we have seen/gotten a glimpse of on WA."

Andrea Saul: "Hi Antigone! I'm going to start putting some thoughts together re: planning for encryption. …

Andrea Saul · Antigone Davis

Knowledge

"I would have thought that [Mark Zuckerberg] would be more an advocate of harm prevention"

Guy Rosen: "btw I prewired Mark a little about encryption / scanning his initial reaction was 'in the end it'll all be encrypted' But I explained the net harm concept etc …

Guy Rosen and names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety

MACSA scores didn't catch the accounts recommended to Jeff Horwitz's child-safety investigation account

Andy Stone: "Hi folks - following up here with a smaller group just to make you aware of something related to Jeff's ongoing reporting of child safety issues on the platform. …

Andy Stone · Sayed Otaru

Knowledge

"The IG Wellbeing team does not sufficiently enforce bi-directional filtering between minors and potential violators on recommendation surfaces. As a result, the potential violators may bring harm to minors through the Reels surface."

Overall, while IG Reels has generally implemented the SOX controls required for ad products, several areas in content integrity and product features need significant improvements. …

Unnamed employee

Knowledge

"Product pivoted to recommending allowing 18-20 year olds to message unconnected minors if the age gap is <2 years after learning that blocking threads from 18-20 year olds to teens would impact 7.7% of threads to teens."

Leah ████: "Product pivoted to recommending allowing 18-20 year olds to message unconnected minors if the age gap is <2 years after learning that blocking threads from 18-20 …

Names withheld in filing

Profits over Safety

████: "Our policies only cover the explicit sexualization of minors. Recently we saw an uptick in hi-pri escalations showing trends of implicit sexualization of minors, particularly on IG."

Our policies only cover the explicit sexualization of minors. …

Name withheld in filing

Knowledge

"My takeaway was that if we want product leadership to prioritize wellbeing product changes we have to come up with a killer statistic. (That seems both simple and hard.)" ████: "and for some problems, probably impossible"

████: "My takeaway was that if we want product leadership to prioritize wellbeing product changes we have to come up with a killer statistic. …

Names withheld in filing

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