Debunk.org Trusted Flagger 2025 report
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Between April and December 2025, Debunk submitted 1,468 reports to Meta under its Trusted Flagger status. These reports led to the removal of 26,255 Facebook pages and approximately 5.9 million advertisements. The removed content was primarily associated with fraudulent e-commerce and investment schemes, illegal online gambling operations, and the sale of prohibited medical products.
Based on publicly available data from Meta’s Ad Library, 5.9 million advertisements generated an estimated aggregate EU reach of 2.34 billion across EU Member States. In this report, ‘reach’ is taken directly from Meta’s transparency tools.
Reach refers to the estimated number of Accounts Center accounts that saw an ad at least once, while impressions refer to the total number of ad displays. Because EU reach is reported at the ad level and then summed across millions of ads, the same individuals may be exposed to multiple ads and thus counted more than once in the aggregate figures. All reach and impression values in the following chapters should therefore be interpreted as indicative estimates rather than precise counts of unique individuals or ad views.
Debunk’s reports achieved a takedown rate of 99.8%, demonstrating the effectiveness of structured, evidence-based reporting mechanisms. However, despite this high enforcement rate, Meta response times exhibited significant week-to-week variation. These findings provide robust empirical evidence of both the scale of digital harm and the operational limitations of current platform enforcement systems, offering a valuable basis for defining practical standards of responsiveness, accountability, and regulatory compliance in content moderation and platform governance frameworks.
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