In the third quarter of 2023, Facebook had around 1.5 million appeals from users after posts were removed by the platform for containing bullying and harassment content. Additionally, there were 6.2 million user appeals regarding content removed due to grounds of being spam.
User appeals submitted to Facebook regarding content removals as of 3rd quarter 2023
(in 1,000s)
According to Facebook, "We give people the option to appeal our decisions, except in cases with extreme safety concerns. We restore content that we incorrectly removed or when circumstances change, both when it's appealed and when we identify issues ourselves."
According to the source in Q2 of 2020, "due to a temporary reduction in our review capacity as a result of COVID-19, we could not always offer our users the option to appeal. We still gave people the option to tell us they disagreed with our decision, which helped us review many of these instances and restore content when appropriate."
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