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Social Media’s Impact on Homeland Security

Testimony

Questioner: Gary Peters

Harm: Hate speech
Q. · Question

Gary Peters

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionPeters asks for Meta's hate-speech and overall violative-content takedown rates over the past year, month, and day.

ResponseMeta says it doesn't track an aggregate "takedown rate" as defined, but reports Q2 2022 removals (13.5M pieces from Facebook, 3.8M from Instagram) and a rolling four-quarter hate-speech prevalence range of 0.01–0.03%.