Exhibit 1149 ยท Platform transparency data
Content Restrictions Based on Local Law (Meta Transparency Center): United States page, FAQ, and CSV download
No. This report only includes content that was restricted in specific jurisdictions based on local law. When we receive reports of content that violates our policies, we remove it entirely from our platform, regardless of the source of the report.
Meta's report of content it restricts in a country because of a government or court claim that it violates local law. Its FAQ says it excludes government reports of Community Standards violations. The all-country CSV download (SHA-256 3e45983af7574cf7061fbf5e77a89af505923a816393b7f54e8ea50683cf0261) lists the United States from the first half of 2019, with totals for Facebook and Instagram of: 2019 H1 0, H2 0; 2020 H1 27, H2 12; 2021 H1 3, H2 21; 2022 H1 14, H2 3; 2023 H1 0, H2 79; 2024 H1 0, H2 0; 2025 H1 0, H2 0; 2026 H1 0. The U.S. page's changelog says that in January to June 2020, 'in response to consumer protection concerns in the wake of Covid', Meta restricted access to 12 items reported by state Attorneys General and 15 items reported by the U.S. Attorney General as allegedly price gouging, and that on review Meta reinstated those 27 items as items that 'should have been reviewed only against our Community Standards'; and that in a July to December 2023 update Meta determined it restricted 41 items in error. For comparison, Brazil's totals in the same files run from 1,014 (2019 H1) to 29,457 (2026 H1) and Germany's from 937 to 18,036.
- Source
- Meta Platforms, Inc.
- Date
- Data through the first half of 2026; accessed 10 November 2026
- Quoted from
- FAQ answer to 'Do you include information about government reports of content that violates the Community Standards?'
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://transparency.meta.com/reports/content-restrictions/content-violating-local-law
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Counts read from the CSV by the researcher. Government requests handled under Community Standards (including the White House and FBI contacts described in the court record) are outside this report by its own definition; no Meta report counts them. The U.S. rows begin in 2019 H1 in the files (earlier files list no U.S. row).