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Today, we\u2019re publishing our first quarter reports for 2023, including the <\/span>Community Standards Enforcement Report,<\/span><\/a> Oversight Board Quarterly Update<\/span><\/a>, Transparency Report for the second half of 2022 (<\/span>Intellectual Property<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Government Requests<\/span><\/a>)\u00a0 and <\/span>Widely Viewed Content Report<\/span><\/a>. These quantitative reports support our qualitative security <\/span>reports<\/span><\/a>, including the <\/span>Adversarial Threat Report<\/span><\/a> released earlier this month. <\/span>All of these reports <\/span>are available in our <\/span>Transparency Center<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Our report highlights include:<\/p>\n Today marks five years since we <\/span>published<\/span><\/a> our first Community Standards Enforcement Report, and we\u2019ve improved\u00a0 our reporting based on our learnings and the feedback we\u2019ve received over the years. For example, we\u2019ve added more metrics like data for appeals and restores as well as data for more policy areas <\/span>over time<\/span><\/a>. We expect these reports to keep evolving as the entire industry inevitably shifts its focus towards regulatory compliance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Oversight Board has been a valuable source of external perspective and accountability for Meta for over two years \u2014 <\/span>and they continued to provide significant impact in the first quarter of 2023.<\/span> We are committed to implementing all of the board\u2019s content decisions and have already implemented \u2014 or are exploring the feasibility of implementing \u2014 78% of their additional recommendations to date. The board\u2019s recommendations have not only helped ensure our policies are fair and aligned with our values, but they\u2019ve also strengthened how we enforce our content policies at scale and improved enforcement transparency for users.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Last year, the board accepted our request for a Policy Advisory Opinion (PAO) on our COVID-19 misinformation policies and issued its <\/span>decision this quarter<\/span><\/a>. They found that the removal of COVID-19 misinformation that is \u201clikely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent physical harm\u201d during a global public health emergency aligns with Meta\u2019s values and human rights responsibilities. We are also reviewing the board\u2019s <\/span>recommendations<\/span><\/a> and will respond publicly within 60 days of their decision.<\/span><\/p>\n In the first quarter of 2023, we also:<\/span><\/p>\n In <\/span>last quarter\u2019s update<\/span><\/a>, we noted that the Oversight Board <\/span>laid the groundwork<\/span><\/a> for changes to its charter and bylaws which were expected to empower them to review more cases more efficiently. As a result, two new types of cases \u2014 expedited review decisions and summary decisions \u2014 are expected to be introduced in Q2 2023. While we did not see a material increase in case reviews and decisions during the first quarter of this year compared to previous quarters, we hope that the board will significantly increase its output next quarter and beyond.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We <\/span>detected and took action<\/span><\/a> against malware campaigns targeting people and businesses online, shared our findings with other technology companies and rolled out new security features to help protect people. We also <\/span>took action<\/span><\/a> against nine separate adversarial networks around the world for engaging in covert influence operations and cyber espionage and shared our threat insights with industry peers, researchers and governments.<\/span><\/p>\n Our latest Transparency Report marks 10 years since we started reporting the requests we received from governments for user data. This report provides visibility into the types of data governments request from Meta and the proactive efforts we\u2019ve taken to protect <\/span>intellectual property<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n During the second half of 2022, global <\/span>government requests for user data<\/span><\/a> increased 0.8% from 237,414 to 239,388. The US continues to submit the largest number of requests of that total volume, followed by India, Germany, Brazil, France and the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n We are committed to helping businesses and people protect their intellectual property rights. Our <\/span>IP Report<\/span><\/a> outlines that in<\/span> the second half of 2022, we took down:<\/span><\/p>\nThe Community Standards Enforcement Report<\/h2>\n
The Oversight Board Quarterly Update<\/h2>\n
Security Reports: Protecting People and Businesses<\/h2>\n
The Transparency Report<\/h2>\n
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The Widely Viewed Content Report<\/h2>\n