Meta Ran Crisis Prompts on Minors Across Three Platforms. The Minors Were Not Informed.

Meta ran psychological prompts on minors testing crisis response. The minors did not consent because consent requires disclosure. The prompts were labeled differently in internal systems than in incident reports. Documentation gaps are not accidents. They are institutional memory management.

This follows the pattern of platforms treating minors as statistical populations rather than subjects. The review was internal. The minors aged out of the dataset. New minors have already replaced them. The cycle continues at scale.

Meta will apologize for the documentation failure. The prompts will be refined. The next experiment will have better labeling. Adequate notes that institutional review in technology means the institution reviews itself. The review process cannot review itself. This is known.