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The next few months will see several major international sporting events, including the Men\u2019s UEFA EURO 2024 in Germany, and the Olympic & Paralympic Games Paris 2024. Across the world, athletes and their fans will be using our apps to connect around these moments. Most of these interactions will be positive \u2013 but unfortunately, it is likely there will be some individuals who will want to be abusive towards others. Today, we are setting out the multiple protections we have put in place across our apps to protect fans and athletes alike from abusive behavior on our apps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Since 2016, we\u2019ve invested more than $20 billion into safety and security and quadrupled the size of our global team working in this area to around 40,000 people. This includes 15,000 content reviewers who review content across Facebook, Instagram and Threads.<\/span><\/p>\n We have clear rules against bullying, violent threats and hate speech \u2014 and we don\u2019t tolerate it on our apps. As well as responding to reports from our community, outside of private messages we use technology to prevent, detect and remove content that might break these rules. Where a piece of content is deemed to violate our policies, our tech will either flag it to our teams for review, or delete it automatically where there is a clear violation. In the last quarter, we found and took action against 95% of content that violated our hate speech policy before it was reported to us.<\/span><\/p>\n People can turn direct message (DM) requests off completely on Instagram, meaning they won\u2019t receive messages from anyone they don\u2019t follow. For those who don\u2019t want to turn off DM requests completely, we\u2019ve developed <\/span>Hidden Words.<\/span><\/a> When turned on, this feature automatically sends DM requests \u2014 including Story replies \u2014 containing offensive words, phrases and emojis to a hidden folder so you don\u2019t have to see them. It also hides comments with these terms under your posts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We also have a number of additional features on both Facebook and Instagram to moderate comments and limit unwanted interactions across your accounts:<\/span><\/p>\n On Instagram, we\u2019re continuing to explore ways to prevent people from posting abusive content in the first place. We use artificial intelligence to detect when someone is trying to post a comment that might be offensive, and warn them it may break our rules. When we tested this intervention, people edited or deleted their comment 50% of the time after seeing these warnings. We have also introduced new nudges that encourage people to pause and rethink before replying to a potentially offensive comment. These nudges are live now for people whose apps are set to English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Chinese or Arabic. When people send a DM request to a creator or public figure for the first time, we remind them to be respectful, so they remember there\u2019s a real person on the other side of their message.<\/span><\/p>\nOur Rules Against Abuse<\/b><\/h2>\n
Features to Help Keep Athletes Safe<\/b><\/h2>\n
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Encouraging More Supportive Behavior on Instagram<\/b><\/h2>\n
Helping Protect Women From Abuse<\/b><\/h2>\n