Tech Transparency Project
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The Tech Transparency Project (TTP) is a research initiative of @Accountable_Org that seeks to hold large technology companies accountable.
Washington, D.C.
Joined February 2016
NEW: Meta’s Instagram Teen Accounts fail to protect kids from violent videos and push graphic videos of fight content, including dogfights, to teenagers despite promises to hide it from teen accounts. 🧵 https://t.co/jvDN2obFQh
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Meta says its ‘Instagram Teen Accounts’ protect minors from inappropriate content, including people fighting. But there’s a big hashtag loophole.
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Meta whistleblower Cayce Savage at hearing: "Meta has failed to prioritize child safety until they are scrutinized by outside regulators. Then they scramble to develop features they know are inefficient and largely unused and advertise this as proof of their responsibility."
Senate @JudiciaryDems @senjudiciarygop hearing on Meta and Child Safety Research – LIVE online here: https://t.co/qnO1d4XBBN
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@peta TTP found teens can access fighting videos on Instagram in just a few clicks without any resistance from the platform. By serving up the #fight tag Meta gives teens an easy way around its restrictions, raising questions about its commitment to teen safety.
techtransparencyproject.org
Meta says its ‘Instagram Teen Accounts’ protect minors from inappropriate content, including people fighting. But there’s a big hashtag loophole.
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These videos included violent street fights where at least one participant was knocked unconscious, fights between young students filmed in school hallways and bathrooms, and gory videos of dogfights and animal abuse. (cc @peta)
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The hashtag opened up a portal to violent content with seemingly no restrictions. Clicking #fight redirected teen users to a new search. Where previously there had been content and search restrictions, there were now thousands of violent and distributing videos.
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A search for the word "fight" found that Instagram has enabled some protections, showing teens a sensitive content waring and blocking search results in the Accounts, Reels, and Tags search tabs. But Instagram did still offer one tag, #fight with over 20 million posts.
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When Meta launched Instagram Teen Accounts it promised peace of mind for parents by restricting teen users’ access to “sensitive content” including fights. But TTP found that it only takes one search for a 15y/o user to be exposed to bloody street fights and gruesome dogfights.
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Meta's AI bot built into Instagram can't be turned off. The findings from @CommonSense raise serious concerns about platform safety—yet again. TTP found Meta pays groups like @NationalPTA to be mouthpieces that promote Instagram's teen accounts. https://t.co/ZDB456a4WL
"Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, a new safety study finds. In one test chat, the bot planned joint suicide — and then kept bringing it back up in later conversations." https://t.co/vIXyVGr10X
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🚨NEW REPORT: A new @TTP_updates investigation exposes how @Meta funds parent and child safety groups like @NationalPTA to launder its talking points. Meta knows parents are worried about Instagram & kids’ mental health. Instead of fixing it, Meta built another spin machine 🧵
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A new investigation by the Tech Transparency Project finds what parents have long known: child safety cannot be outsourced to corporations whose profits depend on keeping young people online. Read @radiokeri's full statement here: https://t.co/4JlxPlhDye
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These strategies help Meta build a counter-narrative to the idea that its platforms are harming young users—and fend off attempts to regulate its platforms. Read TTP's full report here:
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As Meta comes under growing pressure over its impact on teens, it’s using a range of tactics to move the public narrative in a friendlier direction.
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Meta has also funded academic research that fosters a more benign view of IG. The topics of study include tech-driven mental health interventions, how social media platforms can enable women entrepreneurs, and the role of Instagram communities in promoting daily fitness activity.
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Meta has at times framed these “labs” as a separate organization to regulators and others, leaving the impression that an independent entity has signed off on its products.
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Meta also created a unit called the Trust, Transparency and Control Labs that publishes reports about research and consultations that went into its kid-focused efforts, including IG Teen Accounts, the Messenger Kids app, and the opening of the Horizon Worlds metaverse to teens.
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The National PTA—one of several parent and child safety groups Meta funds—took part in the rollout of Instagram Teen Accounts, collaborated with Meta on a parent’s guide to IG, and held a series of Meta-sponsored events across the country to promote the IG teen features.
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The tactics include cultivating a network of paid child advocacy groups that go to bat for Meta in PR campaigns, using a social research “lab” to publish reports in support of its kid-focused products, and funding academic research highlighting positive use cases for Instagram.
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NEW: Meta is using a range of influence tactics to counter growing concerns that social media platforms like Instagram can be harmful to teens’ health and safety.
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NEW: @misstessowen writes for @WIRED about the growing group of Christian nationalist militia influencers on Instagram identified in research by TTP. https://t.co/XjeMsDmzVt
wired.com
An emerging guard of paramilitary activists are using social media and edgy aesthetics to build a new brand of anti-government, Christian nationalist militias.
There's a new guard of paramilitary activists, whose youthful membership, edgy aesthetics, use of Instagram, and, in many cases, overt nods to religion points to a new brand of anti-government Christian nationalist militias.
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Wrote for @wired about a new generation of paramilitary activists, whose edgy aesthetics, embrace of Christian nationalism, youthful membership, and use of Instagram to self-promote sets them apart from the traditional militia movement. https://t.co/Z4xYArgrI3
wired.com
An emerging guard of paramilitary activists are using social media and edgy aesthetics to build a new brand of anti-government, Christian nationalist militias.
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