Facebook And Instagram Deleted 27 Million Posts In A Month
Meta-owned social media apps Facebook and Instagram have deleted a total of 27 million posts in India in July 2022. Facebook and Instagram have taken this action under the IT Act 2021. Meta has deleted a total of 1.73 million spam posts, and 2.3 million violent and graphic content.
BaluSingh Rajpurohit 
Meta-owned social media apps Facebook and Instagram have deleted a total of 27 million posts in India in July 2022. Facebook and Instagram have taken this action under the IT Act 2021. Meta has deleted a total of 1.73 million spam posts, and 2.3 million violent and graphic content.
META has taken this action in the month of July under the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Code of Conduct) Rules 2021. According to the statement of Meta, 25 million Facebook posts and 2 million Instagram posts have been removed in the month of July. On Facebook, 1.1 lakh such posts have been removed that were spreading hatred. Apart from this, 27 lakh posts were nude and sexual content.
Meta has said that 9 lakh posts related to self-harm and suicide have been deleted. 22,000 hate speeches and 3.7 lakh nude and sexual content have been removed on Instagram. For your information, let us tell you that under IT Rules 2021, all social media companies submit such reports to the government every month.
In July, Meta received 626 complaints from Facebook and 1,033 from Instagram. Facebook has processed 603 reports out of 626. Instagram has said that it has resolved 945 complaints.
