Platform Risk Benchmark — What We Can and Can't Say

YouTube, Meta and TikTok each publish transparency reports covering removed content and accounts, but none publish median recovery time for hijacked or wrongly-actioned creator accounts in a way that can be benchmarked across platforms.

Instagram's own Help Centre states that account review and recovery can take time, and independent reporting (e.g. The Telegraph, BBC) has documented cases running several weeks to months — consistent with the 1–4 week range we cite elsewhere on this site.

There is no publicly auditable dataset that supports a single industry-wide average. Any number that claims to be one is either drawn from a self-selected survey, a single broker's book, or modelled assumptions — and should be read as such.

GMG will publish a benchmark when our own claims data is statistically meaningful and can be reported anonymously. Until then we point readers to platform transparency reports and named press coverage.