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by 0x426577617265 1814 days ago
There is a fairly large caveat to this and it happens to also deal with children.

18 U.S. Code ยง 2258A - Reporting requirements of providers

In short, it requires ESPs to report incidents of child exploitation that they become aware of to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

According to NCMEC's published data there were over 20 million reports in 2020. The latest breakdown by ESP I could find was from 2019, which shows facebook making 15 million reports.

https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/gethelp/...

EDIT: Here's the 2020 report:

https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/gethelp/...