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title: "During July 2.7 Crore Posts were Removed from Facebook and Instagram in India"  
description: "Meta-owned social media platforms Facebook and Instagram had taken am action against a total 2.7 crore posts on the social media platforms in July."  
author: "Siddhi Shaw"  
published: 2022-09-01  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1948/during-july-2-7-crore-posts-were-removed-from-facebook-and-instagram-in-india  
category: "facebook"  
tags: ["facebook", "instagram", "social media platform"]  
reading_time: 3 minutes  

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# During July 2.7 Crore Posts were Removed from Facebook and Instagram in India

**Meta**-owned social media platforms **Facebook** and **Instagram** had taken am [action against](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/115908/is-trump-planning-military-action-against-india) a total **2.7 crore** posts on the social media platforms in **July**. The firm, that is an intermediary under the **IT Rules**, had taken down **1.73 crore** spam posts and **23 lakh** posts for violent and graphic content, as a part of its efforts in order to comply with the [government](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/276/performance-of-government-in-the-center)'s laws for [social media platforms](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1517/is-elon-musk-launching-his-own-social-media-platform). Meta had also published details of actions that were taken on complaints under the grievance redressal mechanism, stating it had responded to **100 percent** of user reports.

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HIGHLIGHTS Meta published details of actions that were taken on the complaintsIt removed 2.5 crore posts on Facebook, and 20 lakh posts on Instagram in JulySubsequent editions of the report to be published with a delay of 30 to 45 days
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In the monthly report under the IT Rules, 2021, for **July** revealed on **Wednesday** where Meta had disclosed that the company had removed **2.5 crore** posts on [Facebook](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1940/ways-of-editing-deleting-and-restoring-the-facebook-posts), and **20 lakh** posts on Instagram in July. The company had published regular reports on actions that were taken on content at the time of the [previous month](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159363/how-to-write-sql-query-to-get-the-value-of-the-previous-month-and-year).

According to Meta's [latest report](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/39301/which-indian-city-has-been-named-in-the-list-of-15-wealthiest-cities-globally-as-per-latest-report-by-new-world-wealth), the company had removed **1.73 crore** instances of spam on Facebook, along with a '**proactive rate**' of **99.6 percent**. In addition to the action taken on spam, **1.1 lakh** posts associated with hate speech, **23 lakh** posts associated with violent and graphic content, and **27 lakh** posts with nudity and sexual content were removed from the platform. The proactive detection rates of **99.9** and **99.4 percent,** separately.

The company has also mentioned that over **9 lakh** posts on Instagram were associated with suicide and self-injury, whereas over **22,000 instances** of hate speech and **3.7 lakh** posts associated with nudity and sexual content were removed from the platform. The proactive detection rates for these [forms of content](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93976/what-are-some-various-forms-of-content-writing) were **99.5 percent**, **77.4 percent**, and **96 percent**, respectively.

Under the IT Rules, [Facebook and Instagram](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/85815/running-effective-ads-on-platforms-like-facebook-and-instagram) were expected to reply to users' complaints through a grievance redressal mechanism. The company had mentioned that it received **626** and **1033** reports from users on Facebook and Instagram separately and it had claimed that it has replied to all user reports.

On Facebook, the company had resolved the problems for **603 reports** by providing applicable tools, by [taking action](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97815/what-are-the-benefits-of-taking-action-now) on **9 out of 23** remaining complaints which was based on the company's policies.

During the same time, on Instagram, the company has mentioned that it had resolved problems for users in in **945 cases** with the assistance of the desired tools, whereas action was taken on **35** of the remaining **88 reports**. The company stated that it had expected to publish subsequent editions of the report with a delay of **30 to 45 days** after the reporting period.

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