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In the second quarter of 2024, Facebook took action on 14.9 million pieces of violent and graphic content, up from 10.6 million in the previous quarter. Facebook allows the sharing of graphic content that raises certain issues and hides this content with a warning. The second quarter of 2022 saw the most amount of violent and graphic pieces of content removed from the platform, totaling over 45.9 million pieces. The statistic represents the amount of content acted on, including violent content covered with a warning.

Actioned violence and graphic content items on Facebook worldwide from 4th quarter 2017 to 2nd quarter 2024 (in millions)

Characteristic	Number of content items taken action on in millions
2024Q2	14.9
2024Q1	10.6
2023Q4	14.6
2023Q3	9
2023Q2	13.8
2023Q1	13.6
2022Q4	15.5
2022Q3	23.2
2022Q2	45.9
2022Q1	26.1
2021Q4	25.2
2021Q3	26.6
2021Q2	30.1
2021Q1	34.9
2020Q4	16
2020Q3	19.2
2020Q2	15
2020Q1	25.3
2019Q4	34.8
2019Q3	25.2
2019Q2	29.3
2019Q1	33.7
2018Q4	18.9
2018Q3	15.3
2018Q2	7.9
2018Q1	3.4
2017Q4	1.2

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Release date

August 2024

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Q4 2017 to Q2 2024

Special properties

removal, covering with warning, or disabling accounts

Supplementary notes

According to Facebook, "We remove content that glorifies violence or celebrates the suffering or humiliation of others on Facebook and Instagram. We do allow people to share some graphic content to raise awareness about current events and issues. In these cases, we may hide the content from people under 18 and cover it with a warning for those over 18, so people are aware it is graphic or violent before they choose to view it."

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