Bullying and Harassment

We do not tolerate bullying and harassment on Facebook and Instagram. Because we recognize bullying can be especially harmful for minors, our policies provide heightened protections for them. We want to allow for open and vital discussion of people who are in the news or who have a large public audience, so we do permit more open or critical discourse towards public figures than private individuals.
Because bullying and harassment is highly personal by nature, using technology to proactively detect these behaviors can be more challenging than other types of violations. That's why we also rely on people to report this behavior to us so we can identify and remove it. When measuring prevalence in this area, the metric captures only bullying and harassment where a deeper understanding of context or meaning is not necessary to determine if it violates our policy. We continue to invest in our proactive detection technology to ensure we are tackling the problem and protecting our community.
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Prevalence
How prevalent were bullying and harassment violations?
Content Actioned
How much bullying and harassment content did we take action on?
Proactive Rate
Of the violating content we actioned for bullying and harassment, how much did we find and action before people reported it?
Correcting mistakes
People can appeal our decisions, unless there are extreme safety concerns. We restore content we incorrectly removed or when circumstances change. Restores can happen from appeals or when we identify issues ourselves.
Appealed Content
How much of the content we actioned for bullying and harassment did people appeal?
Restored Content
How much actioned content for bullying and harassment were later restored?