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Report

To report is to notify a social media platform or its moderators that a post, message, or other content, or an account, may violate rules or be harmful.

In plain English

This means telling the platform or the people who moderate it that something may need attention. It is used for raising a concern about a post, message, other content, or an account because it may break rules or be harmful.

In context

Here, Report means to notify the platform or its moderators that the selected content, account, or message may violate rules or be harmful.

Situation
Reporting content, appealing decisions, reading restrictions, and using safety controls
What it communicates
menu action for filing a platform report about selected content, an account, or a message.

Meaning limits

By itself, report does not mean that a rule was definitely broken or that any action will follow.

Examples

“She reported the threatening message to the moderators.”

Core meaning

“If an account keeps impersonating people, report it to the platform.”

In context

  • notify Broader Term

    In this sense, reporting is a kind of notifying about possible harmful or rule-breaking content or an account.