Meta Knew Teens Ignored Its Safety Tool. It Kept the Switch Off Anyway
A former Meta data scientist said fewer than 0.165% of teens used the tool, while leaders rejected making it default.
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Meta Knew Teens Ignored Its Safety Tool. It Kept the Switch Off Anyway
George Volichenko once held a well-paid role at Meta Platforms Inc. He worked on the Instagram team charged with teenage mental wellbeing. In April 2022 he joined. By February 2023 he had left. What he saw inside the company formed the core of his testimony this week in a federal courtroom in Oakland, California. Volichenko told jurors that Instagram’s “Take a Break” feature reached almost no one when it first launched. The tool prompts users to…
Two teens in a thousand used it. Meta kept it opt-in
Someone inside Instagram proposed switching its break reminder on by default. The proposal was rejected because the cost to the app’s core metrics was not desirable. George Volichenko, a former Meta data scientist, told that to a jury in Oakland this week. Mike Swift reported the testimony from the courtroom for MLex. Volichenko worked on […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta knew its measures to protect teens on Instagram were largely ineffective, witnesses said in a California lawsuit in which 29 US states are accusing the social media giant of lying about the dangers posed by the platform.
Ex-Meta Staffer Says 99% of Teens Shunned Early Safety Tool | #childpredator | #onlinepredator | #sextrafficing - National Cyber Security Consulting
A former data scientist at Meta Platforms Inc. testified that less than 1% of teenagers were early adopters of a feature designed to get them to take a break from scrolling on Instagram. George Volichenko — who worked on the platform’s mental wellbeing team from April 2022 to February 2023 — told a jury that […] Thank you for subscribing to our RSS feed! The post Ex-Meta Staffer Says 99% of Teens Shunned Early Safety Tool | #childpredator | #onl…
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