Facebook Community Standards
Policies that outline what is and isn't allowed on the Facebook app.
Instagram Community Guidelines
Policies that outline what is and isn't allowed on the Instagram app.
Meta Advertising Standards
Policies for ad content and business assets.
Other policies
Other policies that apply to Meta technologies.
How Meta improves
How we update our policies, measure results, work with others, and more.
Our approach to the opioid epidemic
How we support communities in the face of the opioid epidemic.
Our approach to elections
How we help prevent interference, empower people to vote and more.
Our approach to misinformation
How we work with independent fact-checkers, and more, to identify and take action on misinformation.
Our approach to newsworthy content
How we assess content for newsworthiness.
Our approach to Facebook Feed ranking
How we reduce problematic content in News Feed.
Our approach to explaining ranking
How we build AI systems.
Content Library and Content Library API
Comprehensive access to public data from Facebook and Instagram
Ad Library tools
Comprehensive and searchable database of all ads currently running across Meta technologies
Other research tools and datasets
Additional tools for in-depth research on Meta technologies and programs
Community Standards Enforcement Report
Quarterly report on how well we're doing at enforcing our policies on the Facebook app and Instagram.
Intellectual Property
Report on how well we're helping people protect their intellectual property.
Government Requests for User Data
Report on government request for people's data.
Content Restrictions Based on Local Law
Report on when we restrict content that's reported to us as violating local law.
Internet Disruptions
Report on intentional internet restrictions that limit people's ability to access the internet.
Widely Viewed Content Report
Quarterly report on what people see on Facebook, including the content that receives the widest distribution during the quarter.
Regulatory and Other Transparency Reports
Download current and past regulatory reports for Facebook and Instagram.
The Community Standards Enforcement Report measures how we are doing at enforcing our Community Standards on Facebook and our Community Guidelines on Instagram. Published quarterly, the report details—using text, numbers and charts—the amount of content violations we took action on from one quarter to another. It also showcases rising trends across various content and policy areas, depending on external, real-world events.
Why we publish the Community Standards Enforcement Report—and how it keeps us accountable
A variety of teams at Meta contribute to the publication of the report each quarter, including Content Policy, Integrity and Global Operations. This is a partnership—fighting abuse on Facebook requires us to work in lockstep with policy, product and operations. Here are some reasons why the report is an important piece of our collective efforts toward transparency:
It tracks our progress.
It keeps us accountable.
It pushes us to improve more quickly.
It offers people visibility into how we enforce our policies.
It invites questions about our enforcement decisions.
It gives people access to the same data we use to measure our progress internally.
The Community Standards Enforcement Report is a type of data transparency reporting that allows people, both inside and outside of Meta, to review our enforcement decisions and judge our performance. This includes how well our enforcement technology can detect and take action on violating content, and the fairness and accuracy of review team decisions. The report also demonstrates how we continually invest in technology and people to reduce harm in our community and promote safety — all while balancing freedom of expression.
Together, these components help keep us accountable for each policy area we report on in the report, which leads to increased accountability and responsibility over time. As we learn more about what is important to people and what works with each report, we can better understand how to continuously build and adapt our efforts and where we can improve.
What the Community Standards Enforcement Report measures
Besides prevalence, which we consider our most important metric, the report measures other areas that paint a picture of our enforcement decisions. They include:
PrevalenceEstimates the percentage of times people see violating content on Facebook and Instagram.
Learn more about this metricContent actionedThe number of pieces of content (like posts, photos, videos or comments) we take action on for violating our policies.
Learn more about this metricProactive rateA percentage of all content or accounts acted on that we found and flagged before people reported them to us.
Learn more about this metricAppealed contentThe number of pieces of content that people appealed after we took action on them for violating our policies.
Learn more about this metricRestored contentThe number of pieces of content we restored after originally taking action on them.
Learn more about this metricGetting better at measurement
We are continually assessing our metrics to learn how we can improve the ways we measure in our Community Standards Enforcement Report.
