According to a compliance report released by Facebook, the company removed 30 million posts in accordance with new IT rules set to take effect in 2021.

Between May 15 and June 15, Facebook deleted 30 million posts from ten categories, while Instagram removed 2 million posts from nine categories.

Facebook “actioned” nearly 30 million material pieces in the nation between May 15 and June 15, according to the social media giant’s first monthly compliance report, as required by IT laws. During the same time period, Instagram took action against nearly two million items across nine categories. Large digital platforms (with more than 5 million users) will be required to submit monthly compliance reports detailing the specifics of complaints received and the actions done in response to them under the new IT guidelines. In addition, the report must include the number of specific communication connections or pieces of information that the intermediary has deleted or restricted access to in accordance with the law.

Between May 15 and June 15, Facebook took action on almost 30 million pieces of material across different categories, whereas Instagram only took action on around 2 million. According to a Facebook spokesman, the company has continually invested in technology, people, and procedures over the years to promote its mission of keeping users safe and secure online while still allowing them to freely express themselves on its platform. “To detect and analyse content against our policies, we utilise a combination of artificial intelligence, community reporting, and team review. As the report progresses, we’ll continue to offer additional information and expand on our transparency initiatives,” the spokesman added.

Facebook has announced that its next report, which will include user complaints and actions taken, will be released on July 15. “We anticipate publishing following editions of the report 30-45 days after the reporting period to allow for adequate data gathering and validation. “We will continue to increase the transparency of our work and share more information about our initiatives in future reports,” the statement continued. Facebook said earlier this week that it will release an initial report on July 2 detailing the amount of items it deleted proactively between May 15 and June 15. The final report, which includes specifics of customer complaints received, will be released on July 15.

The data from WhatsApp, which is part of Facebook’s family of applications, will be included in the July 15 report. Google and Koo, an indigenous platform, are two other big platforms that have made their findings public. Facebook stated in its report that between May 15 and June 15, it took action on over 30 million pieces of material across ten categories. Spam (25 million), violent and graphic material (2.5 million), adult nudity and sexual activity (1.8 million), and hate speech (1.8 million) are among the categories (311,000). Bullying and harassment (118,000), suicide and self-injury (589,000), and hazardous organisations and individuals: terrorist propaganda were among the other categories where content was taken down (106,000)

The amount of pieces of material (such as posts, photographs, videos, or comments) for which action has been taken due to a breach of standards is referred to as “actioned” content. Taking action may involve deleting a piece of content from Facebook or Instagram, or notifying people about images or videos that are upsetting to them. In majority of these situations, the proactive rate, which represents the proportion of all content or accounts acted on that Facebook discovered and identified using technology before people reported them, varied between 96.4 and 99.9%. Because this information is contextual and very personal, the proactive rate for removing stuff linked to bullying and harassment was 36.7 percent.