Facebook content violation appeals 2023

In the second 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 6.5 million user appeals regarding content removed due to grounds of being spam. Appealed posts that Facebook removed for including suicide and self-injury content also increased, from 102 thousand appeals in the first quarter of 2023, to 105 thousand in the most recently measured period.

User appeals submitted to Facebook regarding content removals as of 2nd quarter 2023 (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Child nudity and sexual exploitation	Child Endangerment: Sexual Exploitation	Child Endangerment: Nudity and Physical Abuse	Bullying and harassment	Hate speech	Adult nudity and sexual activity	Regulated goods: drugs	Regulated goods: firearms	Dangerous orgs: Terrorism	Dangerous orgs: Organized Hate	Spam	Violence and incitement	Violence and graphic content	Suicide and self-injury
2019Q1	27	-	-	476	1,100	3,100	79	74	84	-	19,900	-	158	-
2019Q2	145	-	-	411	1,100	3,800	113	151	84	-	19,600	-	217	49
2019Q3	129	-	-	714	1,400	3,400	135	196	135	-	8,500	-	604	44
2019Q4	73	-	-	698	1,000	2,800	165	151	236	192	3,600	-	608	58
2020Q1	55	-	-	553	1,200	2,300	122	109	182	233	2,200	-	480	22
2020Q2	0	-	-	0	28	10	26	38	0	0	23	-	1	0
2020Q3	0	-	-	15	26	8	23	14	2	22	14	-	0	0
2020Q4	4	-	-	431	960	294	77	40	47	124	25	-	4	1
2021Q1	4	-	-	936	1,100	390	36	125	39	149	7	-	4	1
2021Q2	-	1	3	919	1,400	536	36	83	36	88	15	-	4	0
2021Q3	-	1	2	1,000	1,100	273	44	44	65	53	19	435	3	0
2021Q4	-	1	4	799	769	311	80	63	39	36	22	362	4	0
2022Q1	-	1	4	736	587	274	104	74	34	34	40	756	5	6
2022Q2	-	404	62	1,900	2,700	2,500	242	150	531	205	612	4,500	54	461
2022Q3	-	414	85	1,500	2,400	2,300	297	153	332	157	1,400	3,500	55	259
2022Q4	-	23	94.7	1,300	2,400	2,100	428	132.4	373.7	178.8	1,400	2,900	29.3	146.8
2023Q1	-	104.5	91.8	1,400	2,000	2,400	317.1	110.6	543.5	132	2,600	2,400	35.1	102.3
2023Q2	-	146.8	94.4	1,500	2,500	2,800	285.3	75.6	662	163.6	6,500	1,800	38.7	105.9

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Release date

September 2023

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Worldwide

Survey time period

Q1 2019 to Q2 2023

Supplementary notes

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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