Social media content moderation and removal

Statistics report about social media content moderation and removal

Social media content moderation and removal

This report presents statistics on content removal and moderation of selected social media companies, paying attention to the types of online removed. The report also covers users' opinions on the responsibility of harmful online content.

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Overview

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  • Premium Statistic Online users on allowing harmful content on social media 2023
  • Basic Statistic U.S. adults: responsibility for preventing online harm 2023, by issue
  • Basic Statistic U.S. user opinions on the management of sensitive social media content 2022
  • Basic Statistic U.S. user opinions on the social media content moderation policies 2022, by age
  • Basic Statistic U.S. user opinions on the social media content moderation policies 2022, by gender
  • Basic Statistic Share of U.S. adults supporting hateful content removal 2022, by gender
  • Premium Statistic U.S. adults supporting sexual content removal from social media 2022, by gender
  • Basic Statistic U.S. adults on removal of content posted on social media 2022

Meta Platforms

10
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: bullying and harassment content actions as of Q2 2024
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: CSAM content removal as of Q2 2024
  • Premium Statistic Facebook: drug trade content removal as of Q2 2024
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: suicide and self-injury content removal as of Q2 2024
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: terrorism content removal as of Q2 2024
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: violence and graphic content actions as of Q2 2024
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: organized hate content removal as of Q2 2024
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: hate speech content removal as of Q2 2024
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: actioned hate speech content restoration as of Q2 2024
  • Basic Statistic Facebook: content violation appeals as of Q3 2023

TikTok

9
  • Basic Statistic TikTok: videos removed 2020-2024
  • Basic Statistic TikTok: number of videos removed by country Q1 2024
  • Basic Statistic TikTok: distribution of videos removed worldwide Q1 2023, by reason
  • Basic Statistic TikTok: videos removed by automation 2020-2024
  • Basic Statistic TikTok: account removed 2020-2024, by reason
  • Basic Statistic TikTok: fake engagement removed 2021-2024
  • Basic Statistic TikTok: ads removed 2021-2024
  • Basic Statistic TikTok: languages covered by content moderators Q1 2024
  • Basic Statistic TikTok: content removal requests from government bodies H1 2023, by country

Reddit

5
  • Basic Statistic Reddit: subreddit removal reasons H2 2023
  • Basic Statistic Reddit: content removed H2 2023, by violation
  • Premium Statistic Reddit: type of content violation removed H2 2023, by detection method
  • Basic Statistic Reddit: official requests for content removal and compliance rate H1 2023, by country
  • Premium Statistic Reddit: content removed H2 2023, by agent

LinkedIn

4
  • Basic Statistic LinkedIn: fake accounts detected and removed H2 2023
  • Premium Statistic LinkedIn: content removed in H2 2023, by violation
  • Premium Statistic LinkedIn: global and U.S. government data requests 2011-2023
  • Premium Statistic LinkedIn: government requests for content removal 2023

Other major platforms

9
  • Basic Statistic Snapchat: content and accounts reported H1 2023, by violation
  • Premium Statistic Snapchat: reported content and accounts enforced H2 2023, by violation
  • Basic Statistic Snapchat: accounts removed H1 2023, by region
  • Premium Statistic X/Twitter: copyright notices submitted as of H1 2024
  • Premium Statistic X/Twitter: data removal requests from countries and institutions H2 2021
  • Basic Statistic X/Twitter: total number removal requests as of H1 2024
  • Basic Statistic Discord: deleted servers Q4 2023, by violation
  • Basic Statistic Discord: reported actioned content Q4 2023, by category
  • Basic Statistic Discord: share of reported content actioned Q2 2023, by category
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