Transparency Center

At Meta, we’re committed to giving people a voice and keeping them safe.

Since 2016, we've used a strategy called "remove, reduce, inform" to manage content across Meta technologies.

This means we remove harmful content that goes against our policies, reduce the distribution of problematic content that doesn’t violate our policies, and inform people with additional context so they can decide what to click, read or share.

To help with this strategy, we have policies that describe what is and isn’t allowed on our technologies. Our teams work together to develop our policies and enforce them. Here’s how it works.

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We collaborate with global experts in technology, public safety and human rights to create and update our policies.

How Meta improves

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We build features for safety, so people can report content and block, hide or unfollow accounts.

Taking action

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We enforce our policies using technology and human review.

Detecting violations

We keep people safe and let people hold us accountable by sharing our policies, enforcement and transparency reports.

Our policies

Our policies define what is and isn’t allowed on Meta technologies. If content goes against our policies, we take action on it.

Policies

Our enforcement

We use technology and review teams to detect, review and take action on millions of pieces of content every day on Facebook and Instagram.

How Meta enforces its policies

Our transparency reports

We publish regular transparency reports to show people how we’re doing at enforcing our policies.

Transparency reports

Our approach to explaining ranking

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems inform the ranking of content for many experiences on Meta’s products, such as viewing Facebook Feed, watching reels on Instagram or browsing Facebook Marketplace.

Our approach to explaining ranking

Recent updates

Making Research Easier: Introducing Collections and Snapshots in Meta Content Library API

As part of our ongoing effort to improve Meta’s research tools in response to researcher feedback, we’re excited to announce two major updates to Meta Content Library (MCL) API, Collections and Snapshot Mode, that help make research, collaboration and project management more seamless on MCL.

Integrity Reports, Second Quarter 2025

We’re publishing our second quarter reports for 2025, including the Community Standards Enforcement Report, our Widely Viewed Content Report and our Oversight Board Report for H1 2025.

Updates to Meta Content Library and API in Support of Independent Research

Since the launch of Meta Content Library (MCL) and API, our teams have continually gathered feedback from hundreds of independent researchers in order to make it more user-friendly and help them find the data they need for their work.

Click here for previous updates