Meta has published its first quarterly integrity report since the company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg rejected hate speech rules earlier this year and changed his approach to content moderation.
According to reports, Facebook has seen a rise in violent content and harassment. This is the first time Meta has shared data on how Zuckerberg’s decision to remove rules has impacted the platform used by billions of people.
It is important to note that the company presents the rule changes as a success and announced it has “halved” its mistakes, while the overall prevalence of content violating its rules “remained mostly unchanged for most problematic areas.”
However, there are two notable exceptions.
Violent and graphic content increased from 0.06-0.07% at the end of 2024 to 0.09% in the first quarter of 2025. Meta attributed the rise to “increased distribution of rule-violating content” and its own efforts to “reduce enforcement errors.”
The company also recorded a significant increase in bullying and harassment on Facebook, rising from 0.06-0.07% at the end of 2024 to 0.07-0.08% at the end of 2025.
Meta says this happened due to an unspecified “increase” in rule violations in March.
This is a distinct category from the company’s hate speech rules, which have been rewritten to allow posts targeting migrants and members of the LGBTQ community. Although these percentages seem small, even slight increases are noticeable on a platform like Facebook, which records billions of posts every day.
