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The chart shows the reporting organisations or copyright owners who have submitted or been cited in the most requests. The date of the extraction of the current values from the live chart of Google is 13 June 2022.

The chart shows the percentage of web addresses that have been delisted after review out of total requests received. The data cover the period 28 May 2014 to 13 June 2022. Web addresses delisting requests that are still pending review, or that require additional information in order to process, are not included in the graph. The last access date of the live chart is 13 June 2022.

The chart shows the distribution of the content actioned under other types of violations on Facebook, from the fourh quarter of 2017 until the first quarter of 2022. A metric for a new policy area called violence and incitement was added to the Community Standards in the third quarter of 2021. Additionally, starting with the second quarter of 2021, the child nudity and sexual abuse category was renamed child endagerment and collects data on two separate topics: sexual exploitation and nudity and physical abuse. The data shows that the adult nudity and sexual activity remains the main reason of removal on Facebook, followed by violent and graphic content, violence and incitement and child endagerment. The chart excludes the content removed under fake accounts and spam content violations.

The chart shows the share of fake accounts and spam content actioned on Facebook, from the fourh quarter of 2017 until the first quarter of 2022. While these two violations remain the main reasons of removal of content on Facebook, the data shows that the other types of violations (such as adult nudity and sexual activity, child nudity and sexual exploitation, bullying and harassment, dangerous organisations, hate speech, and violent and graphic content) have also increased during this period.

The chart shows the distribution of the content actioned on Instagram, by reasons of removal, from the fourth quarter of 2019 until the first quarter of 2022. A metric for a new policy area called violence and incitement was added to the Community Standards in the third quarter of 2021. Additionally, starting with the second quarter of 2021, the child nudity and sexual abuse category was renamed child endagerment and collects data on two separate topics: sexual exploitation and nudity and physical abuse. The data shows that adult nudity and sexual activity remain the main reason of removal of content, followed by bullying and harassment content and violent and graphic one.

The chart shows the number pieces of content actioned under hate speech violations on Instagram over the period October 2019 - March 2022. The data shows a significant increase of hate speech violations that were found and actioned on by Instagram during the monitoring period, with a pick in the second quarter of 2021, when 9.8 million of pieces of content were actioned on. In the first quarter of 2022, the volume of content actioned on is significantly lower (3.4 million of pieces of content).

This chart shows the percentage of content found by Instagram as containing hate speech compared to the content reported by the users, over the period October 2019 - March 2022. Since April 2020, the hate speech detection of Instagram improved significantly compared to the beginning period. However, in the first quarter of 2022, the volume of content found by Instagram declined by 3.8% compared to the same period of the previous year.

This chart shows the content actioned under their terrorism and organised hate violations on Facebook, from October 2017 until March 2022. The data shows that the volume of content actioned on under terrorism violations in the first quarter of 2022 almost doubled compared to the same period in the previous year. Content actioned under organised hate violations is more recent (from October 2019). The data shows a slight increase in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the fourth quarter of 2021, but the volume remain significantly lower than the first quarter of 2021.

This chart shows the percentage of content found by Instagram as containing child nudity and exploitation compared to the content reported by the users, from April 2019 until March 2021. Since the April 2021, the child nudity and sexual exploitation content was renamed child endangerment and includes two separate categories - nudity and physical abuse and sexual exploitations, which are monitored separately. The data shows that the percentage of the content found by Instagram improved constantly over the years, reaching 98% in the third quarter of 2021.

The chart presents the distribution of the content removed by Twitter, due to violations of its COVID-19 Misleading Information Policy, for the period July 2020 - April 2022. The report shows the efforts of Twitter to limit the spread of COVID-19 disinformation online and it is part of the European Commission's Code of Practice on Disinformation monitoring process.