Meta on Thursday said it took down over 19.52 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 3.39 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in the month of November in India
Between November 1-30, Facebook received 889 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism, and the company said it provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 511 cases
These include pre-established channels to report content for specific violations, self-remediation flows where they can download their data, avenues to address account hacked issues etc, said Meta in its monthly report in compliance with the IT Rules, 2021
“Of the other 378 reports where specialised review was needed, we reviewed content as per our policies, and we took action on 218 reports in total. The remaining 160 reports were reviewed but may not have been auctioned,” Meta added
On Instagram, the company received 2,368 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism
“Of these, we provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 1,124 cases,” the company informed
Of the other 1,244 reports where specialised review was needed, Meta reviewed content and took action on 850 reports in total
The remaining 394 reports on Instagram were reviewed but may not have been auctioned