View our 2023 Human Rights Report

Meta's Annual Human Rights Report

We believe it’s important to communicate with rights holders about our human rights work in an open and transparent way.

In line with our Corporate Human Rights Policy, we are committed to reporting annually on how we’re addressing human rights impacts, including by sharing relevant insights arising from human rights due diligence and the actions we are taking in response.

Case Studies

Ramping up reporting in Ethiopia

We met with our Trusted Partners monthly to discuss content trends and reinforce practices for reporting high-severity content through the Trusted Partner Channel. We also ran a bi-monthly Ethiopia Dialogue Series with civil society from Ethiopia and the diaspora. Our partners in Ethiopia continued to report content and provided harm assessments for misinformation and veiled threat reports.

Mitigating intra-religious conflict in Bangladesh

Our Trusted Partners in Bangladesh reported content including harmful misinformation, hate speech, and violence and incitement targeted at the Ahmadi community. By leveraging previously designated, pre-reviewed harmful claims, we were able to swiftly enforce on misinformation reports.

Evidence retention

We support justice for all international crimes. We’ve worked for several years to explore rights-respecting initiatives for evidence retention and disclosure, consulting extensively with civil society, academia and international prosecutorial experts and bodies.

Response to critical events & global crises

Pakistan

Although the Pakistan elections took place in 2024, our electoral preparations began in 2022. They included company-wide efforts across product, policy and operations to avoid and mitigate risks to human rights related to the use of our platforms. Among other actions, we developed signals to identify content with rights-related concerns and high-priority escalations. In line with the Global Network Initiative (GNI) principles, we published a real-time case study in our Transparency Center about takedown requests received in December 2023 from the Pakistan government that did not violate our Community Standards or local law.

Brazil

We started preparing for Brazil’s 2022 presidential election a year before the vote. We continued our efforts during the post-election period, which enabled us to quickly respond to the January 8, 2023, attacks on the Brazilian Congress, Supreme Court and other public buildings. Meta also designated the post-election unrest as a crisis under the Crisis Policy Protocol to help the company assess how to mitigate content risks. Our preparations for the 2022 election included mapping risk scenarios for during and after the election. We considered international standards on freedom of expression and other human rights.

Sudan

In April 2023, fighting erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), causing mass displacement, food insecurity, lack of access to healthcare and other challenges requiring humanitarian aid. Using the Meta Crisis Policy Protocol, Sudan was assessed to be at the highest level of risk. Guided by our Crisis Policy Protocol, we took actions to respect human rights and minimize risks of harm, as well as to support the provision of humanitarian aid.

Nagorno-Karabakh

On September 19–20, 2023, Azerbaijan initiated a military offensive in the self-declared Republic of Artsakh, part of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The offensive prompted a flight of ethnic Armenians from the area, triggering a refugee crisis. A cross-functional team, including human rights experts, had been monitoring the situation and swiftly mobilized resources and applied our Crisis Policy Protocol. Internal experts with language skills and contextual knowledge handled the increased prevalence of hate speech, bullying, graphic content and references to dangerous organizations and individuals.

Migration in Central and South America

In 2023, we identified potential human rights risks regarding smuggling of migrants across North, Central and South America, including along the Darién Gap, a stretch of dangerous and densely forested jungle across northern Colombia and southern Panama. These are areas of increased risk of illegal commercial activity, online presence of dangerous organizations, and misinformation for migrants and refugees, especially as some attempt to make their way up to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Annual human rights reports

2023 Annual Report

We worked to integrate human rights principles to prepare for and respond to critical events and issues in 2023. The report covers our readiness for heightened challenges in high-risk countries, how we prepare for planned critical events, such as elections, and our coordinated response to crisis events.

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View the Update on Israel and Palestine HRDD (English, PDF)

2022 Annual Report

In the 2022 report, we disclose key findings from our Comprehensive Human Rights Salient Risk Assessment (CSRA) and describe how we have followed up on the recommendations from previous human rights due diligence regarding the Philippines, Israel and Palestine, and India. We also share insights and actions or case studies from elections and crisis management; AI and language strategies; and more.

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View the Report (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, PDF)
View the Report (Español, PDF)
View the Report (Français, PDF)
View the Report (中文, PDF)
View the Update on Israel and Palestine HRDD (English, PDF)
View the Update on our Philippines HRIA (English, PDF)
View the Update on our Philippines HRIA (Filipino, PDF)

2021 Annual Report

In March of 2021, Meta adopted its Human Rights Policy in which we commit to reporting annually on how we are addressing our human rights impacts, including relevant insights arising from human rights due diligence, and the actions we are taking in response.

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