We remove content that encourages suicide, self-injury, and eating disorders on Facebook and Instagram. Self-injury is defined as the intentional and direct injuring of the body, including self-mutilation. We also remove content that identifies and negatively targets victims or survivors of self-injury, suicide, or eating disorders.
We do allow people to discuss suicide, self-injury, and eating disorders because we want Facebook and Instagram to be spaces where people can raise awareness about these issues and seek support.
How prevalent were suicide, self-injury, and eating disorder violations?
Content Actioned
How much suicide, self-injury, and eating disorder content did we take action on?
Proactive Rate
Of the violating content we actioned for suicide, self-injury, and eating disorders, 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 suicide, self-injury, and eating disorders did people appeal?
Restored Content
How much actioned content for suicide, self-injury, and eating disorders were later restored?