Nov 13, 2019

Facebook removes 11.6 million child abuse posts

The figures, in Facebook's fourth Community Standards Enforcement Report, reveal that between July and September 2019:.11.6 million pieces of content related to child nudity and child sexual exploitation were removed from Facebook - and 754,000 from Instagram. 2.5 million pieces of content related to suicide and self-harm were removed from Facebook - and 845,000 from Instagram. 4.4 million pieces of drug-sales content were removed from Facebook - and 1.5 million from Instagram. 2.3 million pieces of firearm-sales content were removed from Facebook - and 58,600 from Instagram. In the third quarter of 2018, Facebook removed 8.7 million pieces of content related to child nudity and child sexual exploitation.

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