• Facebook hate speech removal per quarter 2022

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During the most recently reported period, Facebook removed 15.1 million pieces of content with hate speech, down from 17.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2021. The social network defines hate speech as a direct attack on people based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, disease, social status, or disability.

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Release date

June 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Q4 2017 to Q1 2022

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."