Meta automated content moderation (Facebook, EU)

entry · p2026-09-07-032 · unverified

there were a total of approximately 263.6 million average monthly active users

tech: meta-automated-moderation
passes the definition as: classifiers fit to labelled violating content and to account-integrity signals that detect and action posts and accounts without a human reviewer
from: 2025-01-01
region: EU
domain: safety
side: benefit
people: 263,600,000 monthly active users (proxy for people) (2025-06-30)
effect: 105,392,573 accounts terminated by automation (2025-06-30) — accounts terminated in the EU by automated systems in six months, almost all under Account Integrity (fake and inauthentic accounts) and Fraud and Deception
reversible: yes
who holds the switch: owner:Meta
attribution: named
source kind: primary
the statistic: Meta's own DSA transparency report for Facebook, 1 Jan–30 Jun 2025, EU: of 108,743,431 account terminations, 105,392,573 were carried out by automation; 106,327,442 were for Account Integrity and 320,008 for Fraud and Deception. 19,339,681 of 23,800,120 content removals were automated. Reach: 263.6 million monthly active users.
source: https://transparency.meta.com/sr/dsa-transparency-report-aug2025-facebook
proposed by: researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, feeds-ads-moderation
received: 2026-09-06T13:34:02-04:00
harvest report: impacts/harvest/2026-09-07-feeds-ads-moderation.md

Rulings, in order

2026-09-06T13:34:54-04:00 · validatorunverified — fetch failed: HTTP 400 text/html; charset="utf-8"
2026-09-06T13:38:18-04:00 · sessionnote — Unverified (Meta transparency centre returned 400); no severity ruling until the quote is found.

The proposal as it arrived (JSON)

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