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70% -- share of users likely to leave platform over harmful content for social media users (2025)
Over 70% of social media users state they are more likely to leave a platform that tolerates abusive or harmful content.
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70%
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2025
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B
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30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Statista
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social media users: 70% share of users likely to leave platform over harmful content. Source: Statista (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/social-users-leave-platforms-abusive-content
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/social-users-leave-platforms-abusive-content" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>70%</strong> -- share of users likely to leave platform over harmful content for social media users<br><small>Source: Statista (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/social-users-leave-platforms-abusive-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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