Etienne, Hubert http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7884-1614
Charton, François
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Article History
Received: 18 July 2023
Accepted: 24 March 2024
First Online: 22 May 2024
Declarations
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: The research was approved by Meta’s internal review board and complies with existing regulations. It should also be noted that all the identified data (page, posts, age, gender, activity) presented is publicly accessible online, with one exception: the volumes of user reports. The authors decided to release them because they are not considered as “sensitive personal data”, have very little chances to be detrimental to the mentioned celebrities, and because hiding the names of the celebrities would have made it significantly harder for the reader to follow the authors’ reasoning, since these reports levels are analyzed in the light of celebrities’ real life events (e.g., the Astroworld scandal). Yet, the number of celebrities’ names has been limited to a minimum and the number of repots in question are only released two years later.
: All relevant parties, HE and FC, provided consent for publication.
: N/A.
: Both authors are Meta’s employees and acknowledge that this affiliation presents a conflict of interests considering the topic of this research. However, the research was conducted with the highest integrity standards and the authors engage their probity to attest that their work did not suffer from any influence.