• Facebook hate speech removal per quarter 2021

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This statistic shows the number of content containing hate speech taken action on by Facebook from the fourth quarter of 2017 to the first quarter of 2021. During the most recently reported period, Facebook removed 25.2 million pieces of content with hate speech, up from 9.6 million in the first quarter of 2020. 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.

Global number of hate speech-containing content removed by Facebook from 4th quarter 2017 to 1st quarter 2021 (in millions)

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Release date

June 2021

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Q4 2017 to Q1 2021

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."