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00) /OD) [E] Lankford, nate (NIH/OD) [E] > /OD) [ nate (NIH/OD) [E] > E] Lankford, limeni, Lydia Hi Lydia, Thanks for your response. We need to get a draft back to the Plaintiffs early next week, so that is fine but if there is any way I could have the answers back Monday COB or Tuesday am that would be ideal. Thank you, Sarah J. Imhoff, JD, MHSA Senior Attorney Office of the General Counsel Public Health Division, NIH Branch (direct) @nih.gov This e-mail message is intended for the exclusive use of the recipient(s) named above. It may contain information that is protected, privileged, or confidential, and it should not be disseminated, distributed, or copied to persons not authorized to receive such information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify the sender immediately.
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Hi Lydia, Thanks for your response. We need to get a draft back to the Plaintiffs early next week, so that is fine but if there is any way I could have the answers back Monday COB or Tuesday am that would be ideal. Thank you, Sarah J. Imhoff, JD, MHSA Senior Attorney Office of the General Counsel Public Health Division, NIH Branch (direct) @nih.gov This e-mail message is intended for the exclusive use of the recipient(s) named above. It may contain information that is protected, privileged, or confidential, and it should not be disseminated, distributed, or copied to persons not authorized to receive such information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify the sender immediately.
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Hi Lydia, Thanks for your response. We need to get a draft back to the Plaintiffs early next week, so that is fine but if there is any way I could have the answers back Monday COB or Tuesday am that would be ideal. Thank you, Sarah J. Imhoff, JD, MHSA Senior Attorney Office of the General Counsel Public Health Division, NIH Branch (direct) @nih.gov This e-mail message is intended for the exclusive use of the recipient(s) named above. It may contain information that is protected, privileged, or confidential, and it should not be disseminated, distributed, or copied to persons not authorized to receive such information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify the sender immediately.
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Hi Sarah, Most of us are back in the office, so we will aim to have these answers to you by COB today. Thanks! Anna
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Hi Sarah, Most of us are back in the office, so we will aim to have these answers to you by COB today. Thanks! Anna
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Hi Sarah, Thanks for your patience on these! Still trying to track down number 3 - will have an update for you tomorrow. Thanks! 1. The NIH Facebook and Instagram pages currently link to the privacy policy, https://www.nih.gov/about/privacy.htm. Would you have any concerns about adding a link on both pages to the comment moderation guidelines in addition to the privacy policy? *This is not a request yet, the DOJ is just weighing options.* Not at all, this would be ok with us. 2. To prove the point that inflammatory comments may dissuade interested citizens from visiting the social media pages: Has the NIH received any complaints about animal rights comments on its social media pages? Has it received complaints about other comments that it considers to be "off-topic" or "inflammatory"? If so, do you have any specific proof or examples? Please see examples below and screenshots attached. Full Twitter chat thread from 10/3/14 on brain health that was disrupted (Animal testing focused): Specific examples of participants complaining of disruption: https://twitter.com/MarieAnneLeCler/status/518098761617506304 https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518098626456088578 https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518170943727095809 https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518098132589371392 https://twitter.com/tdverstynen/status/518108160880828416 https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518096043297488896 Examples of other off-topic disrupting comments from Facebook and Instagram (mostly COVID misinformation): https://www.facebook.com/43331696829/posts/10159317371801830/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/43331696829/posts/10159342469336830/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/239873164850792/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/251454613692647/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/255266059978169/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/255956623242446/?d=n « https://www.instagram.com/p/CT2N82Jicui/?utm_medium=copy_link 00) > Fine, /OD) om Lankford, > oo) /OD) [E] Lankford, nate (NIH/OD) [E] > https://www.instagram.com/p/CT2N82Jlcui/?utm_medium=copy_link 3. In your last response, you mentioned NIH has had some form of guidelines for moderating content since November 2012. Can you provide the guidance used prior to the March 30, 2015 guidelines were posted? We are still trying to locate this - the person who would know is out sick. Can we have until tomorrow on this? 4. The Plaintiffs believe Facebook account holders can set the "level" of the profanity filter (weak/strong/etc.). What level has the NIH selected for its Facebook profanity filter? NIH has the "strong" profanity filter in place. This has been in place prior to Sep 2020 and continues to be in place. 5. During the relevant time period (Sep 2020 to now), has the NIH set any Facebook Live video-specific filtering? No, but the general filters in place from Sep 2020 to now apply to Facebook Lives as well. Also, the platform attempts to prioritize most relevant comments on Facebook Lives, but off-topic comments still come through due to the volume of the comments coming through. 6. On Facebook, is it possible that "non-animal" would be hidden because it contains the filtered word "animal"? No, the word has to match the keyword filters in order to be hidden. The phrase "nonanimal" would not be hidden since it doesn't match "animal."
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Hi Sarah, Thanks for your patience on these! Still trying to track down number 3 - will have an update for you tomorrow. Thanks! 1. The NIH Facebook and Instagram pages currently link to the privacy policy, https://www.nih.gov/about/privacy.htm. Would you have any concerns about adding a link on both pages to the comment moderation guidelines in addition to the privacy policy? *This is not a request yet, the DOJ is just weighing options.* Not at all, this would be ok with us. 2. To prove the point that inflammatory comments may dissuade interested citizens from visiting the social media pages: Has the NIH received any complaints about animal rights comments on its social media pages? Has it received complaints about other comments that it considers to be "off-topic" or "inflammatory"? If so, do you have any specific proof or examples? Please see examples below and screenshots attached. Full Twitter chat thread from 10/3/14 on brain health that was disrupted (Animal testing focused): Specific examples of participants complaining of disruption: https://twitter.com/MarieAnneLeCler/status/518098761617506304 https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518098626456088578 00) oo) >; Fine, Lankford, https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518170943727095809 https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518098132589371392 https://twitter.com/tdverstynen/status/518108160880828416 https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518096043297488896 Examples of other off-topic disrupting comments from Facebook and Instagram (mostly COVID misinformation): https://www.facebook.com/43331696829/posts/10159317371801830/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/43331696829/posts/10159342469336830/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/239873164850792/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/251454613692647/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/255266059978169/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/255956623242446/?d=n https://www.instagram.com/p/CT2N82Jlcui/?utm_medium=copy_link 3. In your last response, you mentioned NIH has had some form of guidelines for moderating content since November 2012. Can you provide the guidance used prior to the March 30, 2015 guidelines were posted? We are still trying to locate this - the person who would know is out sick. Can we have until tomorrow on this? 4. The Plaintiffs believe Facebook account holders can set the "level" of the profanity filter (weak/strong/etc.). What level has the NIH selected for its Facebook profanity filter? NIH has the "strong" profanity filter in place. This has been in place prior to Sep 2020 and continues to be in place. 5. During the relevant time period (Sep 2020 to now), has the NIH set any Facebook Live video-specific filtering? No, but the general filters in place from Sep 2020 to now apply to Facebook Lives as well. Also, the platform attempts to prioritize most relevant comments on Facebook Lives, but off-topic comments still come through due to the volume of the comments coming through. 6. On Facebook, is it possible that "non-animal" would be hidden because it contains the filtered word "animal"? No, the word has to match the keyword filters in order to be hidden. The phrase "nonanimal" would not be hidden since it doesn't match "animal."
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Hi Sarah, Thanks for your patience on these! Still trying to track down number 3 - will have an update for you tomorrow. Thanks! 1. The NIH Facebook and Instagram pages currently link to the privacy policy, https://www.nih.gov/about/privacy.htm. Would you have any concerns about adding a link on both pages to the comment moderation guidelines in addition to the privacy policy? *This is not a request yet, the DOJ is just weighing options.* Not at all, this would be ok with us. 2. To prove the point that inflammatory comments may dissuade interested citizens from visiting the social media pages: Has the NIH received any complaints about animal rights comments on its social media pages? Has it If so, do you (Animal ysted? received complaints about other comments that it considers to be "off-topic" or "inflammatory"? If so, do you have any specific proof or examples? Please see examples below and screenshots attached. Full Twitter chat thread from 10/3/14 on brain health that was disrupted (Animal testing focused): Specific examples of participants complaining of disruption: https://twitter.com/MarieAnneLeCler/status/518098761617506304 https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518098626456088578 https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518170943727095809 https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518098132589371392 https://twitter.com/tdverstynen/status/518108160880828416 https://twitter.com/CreativeSage/status/518096043297488896 Examples of other off-topic disrupting comments from Facebook and Instagram (mostly COVID misinformation): https://www.facebook.com/43331696829/posts/10159317371801830/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/43331696829/posts/10159342469336830/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/239873164850792/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/251454613692647/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/255266059978169/?d=n https://www.facebook.com/100064843296393/posts/255956623242446/?d=n https://www.instagram.com/p/CT2N82Jlcui/?utm_medium=copy_link 3. In your last response, you mentioned NIH has had some form of guidelines for moderating content since November 2012. Can you provide the guidance used prior to the March 30, 2015 guidelines were posted? We are still trying to locate this - the person who would know is out sick. Can we have until tomorrow on this? 4. The Plaintiffs believe Facebook account holders can set the "level" of the profanity filter (weak/strong/etc.). What level has the NIH selected for its Facebook profanity filter? NIH has the "strong" profanity filter in place. This has been in place prior to Sep 2020 and continues to be in place. 5. During the relevant time period (Sep 2020 to now), has the NIH set any Facebook Live video-specific filtering? No, but the general filters in place from Sep 2020 to now apply to Facebook Lives as well. Also, the platform attempts to prioritize most relevant comments on Facebook Lives, but off-topic comments still come through due to the volume of the comments coming through. 6. On Facebook, is it possible that "non-animal" would be hidden because it contains the filtered word "animal"? (00) (] > Fine /OD) _ Lankford, > oo) /OD) [E] Lankford, nate (NIH/OD) [E] > 0): a /OD) [E] Lankford, nate (NIH/OD) [E] > No, the word has to match the keyword filters in order to be hidden. The phrase "nonanimal" would not be hidden since it doesn't match "animal."
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Hi everyone, I have two additional follow-up questions from the DOJ: 1. Were the twitter posts on the 10/3/14 discussion on brain health linked below posted directly on NIH's Twitter account main page? Or was there a separate "chat" where these were posted? Plaintiffs want to know if anyone that went to the NIH's twitter account during that time would have seen those posts. 2. Are you aware of complaints we've received against other types of posts, unrelated to animal testing? E.g., posts concerning Dr. Fauci, or posts concerning vaccine misinformation? I know I've asked this before, but Plaintiffs specifically want to know if the complaints NIH receives are really focused on PETA, or if NIH received complaints about inflammatory posts on a variety of subjects. I think Plaintiffs want to make the argument that NIH is targeted animal rights posts over other inflammatory posts when they are equally inappropriate. Since Plaintiffs want this answer as part of our fact stipulation negotiations, I think we have to provide it. Thank you, Sarah J. Imhoff, JD, MHSA Senior Attorney Office of the General Counsel Public Health Division, NIH Branch (direct) @nih.gov This e-mail message is intended for the exclusive use of the recipient(s) named above. It may contain information that is protected, privileged, or confidential, and it should not be disseminated, distributed, or copied to persons not authorized to receive such f(OD)[ Lankford, nate (NIH/OD) [E] limeni, Lydia )E) as (Animal information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify the sender immediately.