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"I would urge us to think again about why we are allowing [SSI] imagery to stay up – it is truly horrific and our clients, especially those that are parents are finding it very difficult to square."

Steve Hatch: "TLDR: We have seen a slowdown in spend immediately following the BBC report though to date no major advertiser has pulled all spend or taken a negative public …

Steve Hatch · Nicola Mendelsohn · Sheryl Sandberg

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Systrom replied to Zuckerberg on April 21, 2017 to note that issues were equally bad at Instagram, where "[l]ast weekend a boy shot himself on IG live" and there were an average of three live videos a week involving "imminent danger from issues ranging from self harm to child exploitation."

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Source: Plaintiff's Complaint for Abatement and Civil Penalties, New Mexico v. Meta

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"our present policies and public stance on teenage self harm and suicide are so difficult to explain publicly that our current response looks convoluted and evasive... The fact that we have age limits which are unenforced (unenforceable?) and that there are, as I understand it, important differences in the stringency of our policies on IG vs Blue App makes it difficult to claim we are doing all we can."

Chris Norton: "As you might know, the Sunday Times will tomorrow run a (likely) front-page story with 30 families of suicide victims accusing Instagram of killing their children. …

Chris Norton · Nick Clegg · Monika Bickert

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