By causing the well-known photo-sharing app to consistently underinvest in user safety.
Claim that Instagram CEO Mark Zuckerberg purposefully withheld funding and assistance for security efforts.
Because he felt concerned by Instagram’s rapid development and feared it would cannibalize engagement from Facebook is supported by emails and testimony from Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom.
Executives at Meta like As early as May 2018, Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen admitted Instagram was “behind” Facebook in its integrity efforts to address problems like child exploitation.
Internal planning documents, however, revealed that Instagram’s safety teams lacked the manpower and resources necessary to aggressively handle major dangers on the platform.
Such as child exploitation, prostitution, violence, and harassment.
