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November 10, 2021
Our Progress in Q3 on Keeping Our Platforms Safe
Today we are publishing our Community Standards Enforcement Report for the third quarter of 2021. This report provides metrics on how we enforced our policies from July 2021 through September 2021. Below, we’re sharing a few highlights:
- Prevalence of hate speech on Facebook continued to decrease for the fourth quarter in a row. We’ve cut prevalence by more than half within the last year through improvements in our technology and changes we made to reduce problematic content in News Feed.
- For the first time, we’re sharing prevalence metrics for bullying and harassment on both Facebook and Instagram, prevalence metrics for hate speech on Instagram and all metrics for violence and incitement.
- To validate that our metrics are measured and reported correctly, we will undergo an audit by EY covering the fourth quarter of this year, and results will be released in the Spring of 2022.
Click the button below to download a summary of the report, and read on for more information about how we reduce harmful content that people see on our apps.
How We Reduce Harmful Content People See on our Apps
Abuse of our products isn’t static — and neither is the way we approach our integrity work. We know we’re never going to be perfect in catching every kind of violating content, but we’re always working to improve. Our goal is to reduce the prevalence of harmful content, or harmful content people see on our apps, while minimizing the mistakes that we make. Learn more about how we reduce the prevalence of harmful content, below:
We’re also using warning screens to educate and discourage people from posting something that may include hostile speech such as bullying and harassment, violating our Community Standards or Guidelines. The screens appear after someone has typed a post or comment explaining that the content may violate our rules and may be hidden or distribution reduced.
We know we’re never going to be perfect in catching every piece of harmful content. But we’re always working to improve, share more meaningful data and ground our decisions in research.
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