Facebook hate speech removal per quarter 2022

During the most recently reported period, Facebook removed 11 million pieces of content with hate speech, up from 10.6 million in the third quarter of 2022. 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.

Actioned hate speech content items on Facebook worldwide from 4th quarter 2017 to 4th quarter 2022 (in millions)

Characteristic	Number of content items taken action on in millions
2022Q4	11
2022Q3	10.6
2022Q2	13.5
2022Q1	15.1
2021Q4	17.4
2021Q3	22.3
2021Q2	31.5
2021Q1	25.2
2020Q4	23.7
2020Q3	13.5
2020Q2	13.8
2020Q1	9.5
2019Q4	5.5
2019Q3	6.9
2019Q2	4.3
2019Q1	4
2018Q4	3.4
2018Q3	2.9
2018Q2	2.5
2018Q1	2.5
2017Q4	1.6

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Release date

February 2023

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Q4 2017 to Q4 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."

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