Facebook: hate speech content removal as of Q4 2024

Actioned hate speech content items on Facebook worldwide from 4th quarter 2017 to 4th quarter 2024

CharacteristicNumber of content items taken action on in millions
2024Q4 5.8
2024Q3 6.4
2024Q2 7.2
2024Q1 7.4
2023Q4 7.4
2023Q3 9.6
2023Q2 18
2023Q1 10.7
2022Q4 11
2022Q3 10.6
2022Q2 13.5
2022Q1 15.1
2021Q4 17.4
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Release date

February 2025

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Q4 2017 to Q3 2024

Supplementary notes

According to Facebook, "We define hate speech as violent or dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority, calls for exclusion or segregation based on protected characteristics, or slurs. These characteristics include race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, caste, sex, gender, gender identity, and serious disability or disease. When the intent is clear, we may allow people to share someone else's hate speech content to raise awareness or discuss whether the speech is appropriate to use, to use slurs self-referentially in an effort to reclaim the term, or for other similar reasons."

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