Facebook bullying and harassment content deletion per quarter 2023

In the fourth quarter of 2023, Facebook took action on 7.7 million pieces of bullying and harassment related content, down from 8.3 million in the previous quarter. Overall, the first quarter of 2022 saw the highest ever number of bullying and harassment related pieces of content removed by the platform. Between the first quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021, the removal of bullying and harassment content increased significantly.

Actioned bullying and harassment content items on Facebook worldwide from 3rd quarter 2018 to 4th quarter 2023 (in millions)

Characteristic	Number of removed violating content items in millions
2023Q4	7.7
2023Q3	8.3
2023Q2	7.9
2023Q1	6.9
2022Q4	6.4
2022Q3	6.6
2022Q2	8.2
2022Q1	9.5
2021Q4	8.2
2021Q3	9.2
2021Q2	7.9
2021Q1	8.8
2020Q4	5.7
2020Q3	2.4
2020Q2	1.4
2020Q1	2.3
2019Q4	2.8
2019Q3	3.2
2019Q2	2.5
2019Q1	2.4
2018Q4	2.7
2018Q3	2

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Release date

February 2024

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Q3 2018 to Q4 2023

Supplementary notes

According to Facebook, "We don't tolerate bullying and harassment on Facebook because we want the members of our community to feel safe and respected. In many instances, we need a person to report this behavior to us before we can identify or remove it. Other times, we're able to detect this behavior without a user reporting it."

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