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| https://trahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3070 | Trahan, Castor Lead House Members Demanding Answers on Meta Profiting from Sexualized Content | 2023-12-08 | 2023 | 2023-12 | Democrat | House | MA | Lori Trahan | T000482 | trahan.house.gov | trahan | https://trahan.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27 | scraper | What safety assessments were performed on the Reels feature of Instagram before it was released? a. Did any of those assessments focus on risks related to CSAM, sexualized content, child safety or brand safety? b. Were any of those assessments performed by independent third parties? c. What recommendations were made to increase the safety of the Reels feature, and were those recommendations adopted or accepted by Meta’s leadership? If not, for what reason were those recommendations not accepted? Of the actions detailed in the recent blog post entitled “Our Work to Fight Online Predators,”10: a. Which of them were explored or proposed before the introduction of Reels or before the recent press stories highlighting Instagram’s child safety failures? b. Why was Reels launched without these child safety measures in place? By Meta’s own estimates in the post, the new enforcement measures have resulted in over 4 million more reels actioned per month, and 16,000 additional groups and 250,000 additional devices actioned against since the summer. In addition, Meta claims that 500,000 additional accounts were disabled in August 2023 for violating child sexual exploitation policies. a. How long were the newly disabled accounts, groups, and devices operating on Instagram until the enforcement actions were taken? b. By Meta’s own estimates, how many reels should or would have been taken down under the new automated enforcement policies since the introduction of the Reels feature? In the blog post, Meta mentioned that it “fixed technical issues, including an issue that unexpectedly closed user reports.” The Journal’s reporting also mentioned that the issue prevented “a substantial portion of user reports from being processed.” a. How long was the bug in place? b. When did Meta first detect this bug? How long did Meta take to fix the issue after it was detected? c. How many reports were closed by this bug? What percentage of total reports were closed by the bug? d. How many of them related to adult content or child sexual abuse? e. Has Meta reopened those users' reports, and resumed acting on them? Why do Instagram’s algorithms promote sexualized content to accounts that have not demonstrated an interest in such content, as the Journal’s reporting showed? a. What topics do Instagram’s algorithms associate with sexualized content? b. Do Instagram’s algorithms associate content related to children with sexualized content or promote sexualized content alongside content related to children, and if so, why did Meta not prevent that from happening? c. Has Meta considered any technical measures to address the promotion of sexualized content on Instagram, and, if so, which of those measures have been adopted? Does Meta enforce its policy banning adult content in ads on Instagram? a. If so, how many ads on Instagram were rejected or not shown by Meta because of adult content? b. How many ads were reported on Instagram because they contained adult content? Does Meta respect the restrictions advertisers impose on the placement of their advertising a. Does Meta track violations of such restrictions? b. How many times was an ad shown next to, preceding, or following, adult content on Instagram in violation of the advertiser’s restriction? c. What transparency do advertisers on Meta have regarding the content that their ads are shown alongside? Do advertisers have access to a random sample of content that their ads were used to monetize? | 1 | 2026-04-06T14:24:52Z | 2026-04-06T15:55:17Z |