የልጆች ወሲባዊ ብዝበዛ፣ ጥቃት፣ እና እርቃንነት

የፖሊሲ ዝርዝሮች
የተጠቃሚ ተሞክሮዎች
ውሂብ

የፖሊሲ ዝርዝሮች

መዝገብ ይቀይሩ
የፖሊሲ ምክንያት
ህጻናትን በወሲብ የሚበዘብዝ ወይም አደጋ ላይ የሚጥል ይዘትን ወይም ተግባርን አንፈቅድም። ግልጽ የሆነ የህጻን ብዝበዛ መሆሩን በምናውቅበት ጊዜ፣ ይህንን በሚመለከት ሕግ መሰረት ወደ ብሄራዊ የጠፉ እና የተበዘበዙ ህጻናት ማእከል (NCMEC) ሪፖርት እናደርጋለን። ሰዎች አንዳንድ ጊዜ በቀናነት የልጆቻቸውን እርቃን የሚያሳዩ ምስሎችን እንደሚያጋሩ እናውቃለን፤ ይሁን እንጂ እኛ እንደሱዛ አይነት ምስሎችን እናስወግዳለን ምክንያቱም ለሌሎች ብዝበዛ የመጋለጥ እድል ስላላቸው እና ሌሎች ሰዎች እነዚህን ምስሎች ደግመው እንዳይጠቀሟቸው ወይም ላልሆነ አላማ እንዳያውሏቸው ለመከላከል ነው።
በተጨማሪም በበይነመረብ የሚደረጉ የደህንነት ጉዳዮች፣ በተለይም ህጻናትን በተመለከተ ፖሊሲዎቻችንን እና አፈጻጸማችንን ለመወያየት እና ለማሻሻል የ Meta ደህንነት አማካሪ ቦርድን ጨምሮ ከውጪ ባለሙያዎች ጋር እንሰራለን። የህጻናት ብዝበዛን ለመዋጋት እየተጠቀምንበት ስላለው ቴክኖሎጂ ተጨማሪ ይወቁ።
የሚከተሉትን አይለጥፉ፦
የልጆች ወሲባዊ ብዝበዛ
የህፃናት ወሲባዊ ብዝበዛን (እውነተኛ ታዳጊዎችን፣ ህጻናት ወይም ጨቅላ ሕፃናትን ወይም የሰው አምሳያ ያላቸው እውነተኛ ያልሆኑ ሥዕሎች፣ ለምሳሌ በጥበብ ስራ፣ በ AI የመነጨ ይዘት፣ ልብ ወለዳዊ ገፀ-ባህሪያት፣ አሻንጉሊቶች፣ ወዘተ ያሉትን ጨምሮ) የሚያስፈራ፣ የሚገልጽ፣ የሚያመሰግን፣ የሚደግፍ፣ መመሪያ የሚሰጥ፣ የፍላጎት መግለጫዎችን የሚያደርግ፣ ተሳትፎን የሚያምን ወይም የልጆች ወሲባዊ ብዝበዛን የሚያጋራ ይዘት፣ እንቅስቃሴ፣ ወይም መስተጋብሮች። ይህ የሚከተሉትን ያካትታል ነገር ግን በእነዚህ ብቻ አይወሰንም፦
  • የግብረ-ስጋ ግንኙነት
    • ግልጽ የግብረ-ስጋ ግንኙነት ወይም የአፍ ግብረ-ስጋ፣ ማለትም ቢያንስ የአንድ ሰው ብልቶች ወይም ፊንጢጣ በሚታይበት ሁኔታ ወደ አፍ ወይም ወደ ብልት ማስገባት ወይም ከሌላ ሰው ብልት ወይም ፊንጢጣ ጋር ንክኪ ማድረግ።
    • የግብረ ሥጋ ግንኙነት አመላካች ወይም የአፍ ወሲብ፣ ንክኪው የማይቀር ወይም በቀጥታ የማይታይበትን ጨምሮ።
    • ብልትን ወይም ፊንጢጣ ማነቃቃት፣ እንቅስቃሴው ሊደረግ ሲል ወይም በቀጥታ የማይታይበትን ጨምሮ።
    • ከላይ ከተዘረዘሩት መካከል እንስሳትን የሚመለከት ማንኛውም።
  • ወሲባዊ አካላት ያላቸው ህፃናት፣ የሚከተሉትን ጨምሮ ነገር ግን በእነዚህ ብቻ ሳይገደብ፦
    • እስራት
    • የመቀስቀስ ምልክቶች
    • የብልት አካላት ወይም ፊንጢጣ ላይ ማተኮር
    • ወሲባዊ ስሜት ውስጥ የገባ አዋቂ መኖር
    • የወሲብ መጫወቻዎች መኖር ወይም ማንኛውንም ነገር ለወሲብ ማነቃቂያ፣ እርካታ፣ ወይም ወሲባዊ በደል መጠቀም
    • ወሲባዊነት የሚያንጸባርቅ አለባበስ
    • ልብስ ማውለቅ
    • የተመቻቸ ቦታ (ለምሳሌ፣ አልጋ ላይ) ወይም በሙያዊ ብቃት የተነሳ ምስል (ጥራት/ትኩረት/መአዝኖች)
    • በክፍት አፍ መሳሳም
    • የሰውን የጡት ጫፍ ማነቃቃት ወይም የሴት ጡትን መጭመቅ (ከጡት ማጥባት አውድ በስተቀር)
    • የወሲባዊ እንቅስቃሴ ተረፈ ውጤት መኖር
  • በልዩ ወሲባዊ ፍላጎት አውድ ዉስጥ ህፃናትን የሚያካትት ይዘት
  • በጤና አውድ ውስጥ ገለልተኛ በሆነ ሁኔታ ካልተወያዩ በስተቀር በፔዶፊሊያ ውስጥ ተሳትፎን የሚደግፍ፣ የሚያሳድግ፣ የሚሟገት ወይም የሚያበረታታ ይዘት።
  • በልጆች ወሲባዊ ብዝበዛ ሰለባ ናቸው የተባሉትን በስም ወይም በምስል የሚለይ ወይም የሚያሾፍ ይዘት
ወሲባዊ ማባበያ
ወሲባዊ ይዘትን የሚጠይቅ ይዘት ወይም ህፃናትን የሚያሳይ ወይም የሚያሳትፍ ተግባር፣ እንደ የሚከተለው ይገለጻል፦
  • የህፃን ወሲባዊ ጥቃት ቁሳቁስ (CSAM)
  • የእውነተኛ ወይም እውነተኛ ያልሆኑ የህፃናት እርቃን ምስሎች
  • የእውነተኛ ወይም እውነተኛ ያልሆኑ የህፃናት ወሲባዊ ምስሎች
ከህፃናት ጋር ተገቢ ያልሆነ ግንኙነት
ከልጆች ጋር ተገቢ ያልሆኑ ግንኙነቶችን የሚያካትት ወይም የሚያመቻች ይዘት፣ ለምሳሌ፡-
  • ከልጆች ጋር የግብረ-ሥጋ ግንኙነትን መጠየቅ፣ ማደራጀት ወይም ማቀድ
  • ወሲባዊ በተደረጉ ውይይቶች ወይም ግብዣዎች ልጆች በወሲባዊ እንቅስቃሴ እንዲሳተፉ ማነሳሳት፣ በታቀደ ልቀት ወይም በግል መልዕክቶች ውስጥ ከልጆች ወይም ለልጆች ወሲባዊ ቁሳቁስ ማሳየት፣ ማግኘት ወይም መጠየቅ
  • ከህጻናት ጋር በግላዊ መልእክቶች አማካኝነት ቀጥተኛ ያልሆኑ ወሲባዊ የሃሳብ ልውውጦች ማድረግ
  • በግላዊ መልእክት አማካኝነት ወሲባዊ ቁሳቁስ ከህጻናት መውሰድ ወይም መጠየቅ
በዝባዥ ወሲብ ነክ ምስሎች እና ወሲብ ነክ እንቅስቃሴን የማጋለጥ ማስፈራሪያ ብዝበዛ
ትክክለኛ ህጻናትን ለመበዝበዝ የሚሞክር ይዘት በ፦
  • እውነተኛ ወይም እውነተኛ ያልሆኑ የሰዎችን ቅርብ የፍቅር ምስል ወይም መረጃ አጋልጣለሁ ብሎ ሰዎችን በማስፈራራት አስገድዶ ገንዘብ ለመውሰድ፣ ውልታ ለማግኘት፣ ወይም የቅርብ ፍቅር ምስል ለመውሰድ የሚደረግ ጥረት
  • የግል ወሲባዊ ውይይቶችን ወይም እውነተኛ ወይም እውነተኛ ያልሆኑ ወሲብ ነክ ምስሎችን ማጋራት፣ ለማጋራት ማስፈራራት ወይም ፍላጎት መግለፅ።
ህፃናትን ወሲባዊነት ማላበስ
  • እውነተኛ ወይም እውነተኛ ያልሆኑ ህፃናትን ወሲባዊነት የሚያላበስ ይዘት (ፎቶዎችን፣ ቪዲዮዎችን፣ የገሀዱ-ዓለም ጥበብን፣ ዲጂታላዊ ይዘት እና ንግግራዊ አገላለጾችን ጨምሮ)።
  • እውነተኛ ወይም እውነተኛ ያልሆኑ ልጆችን ወሲባዊነትን ለማላበስ የሚሰሩ ቡድኖች፣ ገጾች፣ እና ግለ ማህደሮች።
የልጆች እርቃን ምስል
እውነተኛ ወይም እውነተኛ ያልሆኑ ልጆችን እርቃንነት የሚያሳይ ይዘት፣ እርቃንነት እንደሚከተለው የሚገለጽ ሆኖ፦
  • የእውነተኛ ወይም እውነተኛ ያልሆኑ ህፃናትን ብልቶች አጉልቶ የሚያሳይ
  • የሚከተሉትን የሚያሳዩ እርቃናቸዉን የሆኑ እውነተኛ ወይም እውነተኛ ያልሆኑ ታዳጊዎች፦
    • የብልት አካላት የምያሳይ ብርሃን በምያሳልፍ ወይም በምያሳይ አልባሳት ቢመሸፈን ወይም ቢደበዝዝ እንኳን
    • የሚታይ ፊንጢጣ እና/ወይም ምሉበሙሉ እርቃኑ የወጣ ጎልቶ የሚታይ ቂጥ
  • የሚከተሉትን የሚያሳዩ እርቃናቸዉን የሆኑ እውነተኛ ወይም እውነተኛ ያልሆኑ ህጻናት፦
    • የሚታይ የብልት አካል (በጭገር ወይም ብርሃን በሚያሳልፍ አልባሳት ብቻ የደበዝዘ ብልትን ጨምሮ)
    • የሚታይ ፊንጢጣ እና/ወይም ምሉበሙሉ እርቃኑ የወጣ ጎልቶ የሚታይ ቂጥ
    • ያልተሸፈኑ የሴቶች የጡት ጫፎች
    • ከአንገት እስከ ጉልበት ምንም ልብስ የለም - ምንም እንኳን የጾታ ብልት ወይም የሴቶች የጡት ጫፎች ባይታዩም
  • እውነተኛው ያልሆነው ምስል ለጤና ዓላማ ካልሆነ ወይም የሕፃን እርቃንነት በእውነተኛ ቃል ጥበብ ውስጥ ወሲባዊ ያልሆነ ምስል ካልሆነ በስተቀር
ወሲባዊ ያልሆነ የህጻን ብዝበዛ
ምስሉ ከገሃዱ ዓለም ጥበብ፣ ካርቱኖች፣ ፊልሞች ወይም የቪዲዮ ጨዋታዎች ካልሆነ በስተቀር እውነተኛ ወይም እውነተኛ ያልሆነ ወሲባዊ ያልሆነ የልጅ ጥቃትን የሚያሳዩ ተንቀሳቃሽ ምስሎች ወይም ፎቶዎች የተጋራበት ሃሳብን ምንም ይሁን ምን
ወሲባዊ ያልሆነ የልጆች ጥቃት ላይ የሚደረግን ተሳትፎ የሚያደንቅ፣ የሚያግዝ፣ የሚያስተዋውቅ፣ የሚሟገት፣ ለዚህ ተሳትፎ የሚሆን መመሪያ የሚሰጥ ወይም የሚያበረታታ ይዘት።
የእኛን የህጻናት ወሲባዊ ብዝበዛ፣ ጥቃት እና እርቃንነት (CSEAN) ፖሊሲዎችን የሚጥሱ መለያዎችን ከማስወገድ በተጨማሪ ገምጋሚዎቻችን እና አውቶሜትድ ስርዓቶቻችን ያልተፈለገ ወይም ደህንነቱ ያልተጠበቀ መስተጋብርን ለመከላከል የሚያግዙ ሰፊ ምልክቶችን ግምት ውስጥ ያስገባሉ።
  • ከሌሎች መለያዎች ጋር ባላቸው ግንኙነት፣ በፍለጋ ወይም ከሚጥሱ ይዘት ጋር ባላቸው መስተጋብር፣ ወይም ፖሊሲዎቻችንን በመጣስ ያስወገድናቸው የማህበረሰቦች አባልነትን (ለምሳሌ ቡድኖች) ለአዋቂዎች የምርት እና ባህሪያትን (ለምሳሌ የተወሰኑ መለያዎችን የመከተል ችሎታ) መለያዎችን ልናሰናክል ወይም መዳረሻን ልንገድብ እንችላለን።
የሚከተለውን ይዘት በተመለከተ፣ ሰዎች ይዘቱ የሚረብሽ ሊሆን እንደሚችል እንዲገነዘቡ እና ይዘቱ ለአዋቂዎች፣ አስራ ስምንት አመት እና ከዚያ በላይ ለሆኑ ሰዎች የመታየት ሁኔታ ለመገደብ እንዲቻል የማስጠንቀቂያ ስክሪን እናካትታለን፦
  • የፖሊስ መኮንኖች ወይም ወታደራዊ ሰራተኞች ወሲባዊ ያልሆነ የልጆች ጥቃት ሲፈጽሙ የሚያሳዩ ተንቀሳቃሽ ምስሎች ወይም ፎቶዎች።
  • ወሲባዊ ያልሆነ የልጆች ጥቃት የሚያሳይ ተንቀሳቃሽ ምስሎች ወይም ፎቶዎች፣ ሕግ አስከባሪ አካላት፣ የልጅ መብት ጥበቃ ኤጀንሲዎች፣ ወይም ታማኝ የደህንነት አጋሮች ልጅን ወደ ደህንነት ለመመለስ አላማ ሲባል ይዘቱን መድረኩ ላይ እንድንተወው ከጠየቁን።
የሚከተለውን ይዘት በተመለከተ፣ ሰዎች ይዘቱ ምናልባት ለአንዳንድ ሰዎች የሚረብሽ ሊሆን እንደሚችል እንዲገነዘቡ የሴንሲቲቪቲ ስክሪንን እናካትታለን፦
  • ከሃይማኖታዊ ሥነ ሥርዓቶች አንጻር አንድን ልጅ ውሃ ውስጥ በኃይል የመጥለቅ ቪዲዮዎች ወይም ፎቶዎች።
ለሚከተሉት የማህበረሰብ ደንቦች፣ ተግባራዊ ለማድረግ ተጨማሪ መረጃ እና/ወይም አውድ እንፈልጋለን፦
የሚከተለው ይዘት በተመለከተ፣ ሰዎች ይዘቱ ምናልባት ስሜት የሚነካ ሊሆን እንደሚችል እንዲገነዘቡ የማስጠንቀቂያ ጽሑፍ እንጨምራለን:
  • ከረሃብ፣ የዘር ማጥፋት፣ የጦር ወንጀል፣ ወይም በሰብአዊነት ላይ የሚፈጸሙ ወንጀሎች አውዶች ጋር በተያያዘ የዜና ተቋም የሚለጥፈው የህጻንን እርቃን የምያሳዩ ምስሎች በጥሰታዊ የመግለጫ ጽሑፍካልታጀበ ወይም በጥሰታዊ አውድ ተመስርቶ ካልተጋራ በስተቀር፤ በዚህ ሁኔታ ይዘቱ የሚወገድ ይሆናል
በተጨማሪም ወሲባዊ ያልሆነ የልጆች ጥቃት መዘዝ የሚያሳዪ ምስሎችን በዜና ሚድያ አጋሮች፣ በመንግሥታዊ ያልሆኑ ድርጅቶች (NGOs)፣ ወይም በሌሎች ታማኝ የደህንነት አጋሮች ሪፖርት ሲደረጉ ልናስወግድ እንችላለን።
ይዘቱ ግለሰቡን ወደ መለየት ሊያመራ የሚችል መረጃን የሚያካትት ከሆነ በስም ወይም በምስል ካልሆነ በስተቀር በልጆች ላይ ጾታዊ ብዝበዛ ተጎጂ ናቸው የተባሉትን የሚለይ ይዘቶችን ልናስወግድ እንችላለን።
ለአካለ መጠን ያልደረሰ ልጅን ደህንነት አደጋ ላይ የሚጥል ከሆነ፣ በሕግ አስፈጻሚ፣ በመንግስት፣ በታማኝ አጋር ሲጠየቅ ወይም ይዘቱ በራሱ በአካለ መጠን ያልደረሰ ልጅ ወይም ወላጅ/ህጋዊ ሞግዚት ሪፖርት የተደረገ ከሆነ፣ ለአካለ መጠን ያልደረሰ ልጅን ለመለየት ሲባል የተፈጠረውን ይዘት ልናስወግድ እንችላለን
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content, activity, or interactions that threaten, depict, praise, support, provide instructions for, make statements of intent, admit participation in, or share links of the sexual exploitation of children (including real minors, toddlers, or babies, or non-real depictions with a human likeness, such as in art, AI-generated content, fictional characters, dolls, etc). This includes but is not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, when at least one person's genitals or anus is visible.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints
    • Signs of arousal
    • Focus on genitals or anus
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys or use of any object for sexual stimulation, gratification, or sexual abuse
    • Sexualized costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing
    • Stimulation of human nipples or squeezing of female breast (EXCEPT in the context of breastfeeding)
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity
  • Content involving children in a sexual fetish context
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in a health context
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image
Solicitation
Content that solicits sexual content or activity depicting or involving children, defined as:
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
  • Nude imagery of real or non-real children
  • Sexualized imagery of real or non-real children
Content that solicits sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Soliciting,Aarranging or planning sexual encounters with children
  • Enticing children to engage in sexual activity through sexualized conversations or offering, displaying, obtaining or requesting sexual material to or from children, through purposeful exposure or in private messages
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit real children by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose real or non-real intimate imagery or information
  • Sharing, threatening, or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or real or non-real intimate imagery
Sexualization of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes real or non-real children
  • Groups, Pages, and profiles dedicated to sexualizing real or non-real children
Child nudity
Content that depicts real or non-real child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of real or non-real children’s genitalia
  • Real or non-real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Real or non-real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
    • Uncovered female nipples
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing
  • Unless the non-real imagery is for health purposes or is a non-sexual depiction of child nudity in real-word art
Non-sexual child abuse
Videos or photos that depict real or non-real non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent, unless the imagery is from real-world art, cartoons, movies or video games
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse
In addition to removing accounts that violate our Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity (CSEAN) policies, our reviewers and automated systems consider a broad spectrum of signals to help prevent potentially unwanted or unsafe interactions.
  • We may disable accounts or restrict access to products and features (e.g. the ability to follow certain accounts) for adults based on their interactions with other accounts, searches for or interactions with violating content (e.g. liking or saving), or membership in communities (e.g. Groups) we have removed for violating our policies.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse
  • Videos or photos of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed
We may remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs, or other trusted safety partners.
We may remove content that identifies alleged victims of child sexual exploitation through means other than name or image if content includes information that is likely to lead to the identification of the individual.
We may remove content created for the purpose of identifying a private minor if there is a risk to the minor’s safety, when requested by Law Enforcement, Government, Trusted Partner, or the content is self-reported by the minor or the minor’s parent/legal guardian
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content, activity, or interactions that threaten, depict, praise, support, provide instructions for, make statements of intent, admit participation in, or share links of the sexual exploitation of children (including real minors, toddlers, or babies, or non-real depictions with a human likeness, such as in art, AI-generated content, fictional characters, dolls, etc). This includes but is not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, when at least one person's genitals or anus is visible.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints
    • Signs of arousal
    • Focus on genitals or anus
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys or use of any object for sexual stimulation, gratification, or sexual abuse
    • Sexualized costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing
    • Stimulation of human nipples or squeezing of female breast (EXCEPT in the context of breastfeeding)
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity
  • Content involving children in a sexual fetish context
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in a health context
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image
Solicitation
Content that solicits sexual content or activity depicting or involving children, defined as:
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
  • Nude imagery of real or non-real children
  • Sexualized imagery of real or non-real children
Content that solicits sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning sexual encounters with children
  • Enticing children to engage in sexual activity through sexualized conversations or offering, displaying, obtaining or requesting sexual material to or from children, through purposeful exposure or in private messages
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit real children by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose real or non-real intimate imagery or information
  • Sharing, threatening, or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or real or non-real intimate imagery
Sexualization of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes real or non-real children
  • Groups, Pages, and profiles dedicated to sexualizing real or non-real children
Child nudity
Content that depicts real or non-real child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of real or non-real children’s genitalia
  • Real or non-real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Real or non-real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
    • Uncovered female nipples
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing
  • Unless the non-real imagery is for health purposes or is a non-sexual depiction of child nudity in real-word art
Non-sexual child abuse
Videos or photos that depict real or non-real non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent, unless the imagery is from real-world art, cartoons, movies or video games
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse
In addition to removing accounts that violate our Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity (CSEAN) policies, our reviewers and automated systems consider a broad spectrum of signals to help prevent potentially unwanted or unsafe interactions.
  • We may disable accounts or restrict access to products and features (e.g. the ability to follow certain accounts) for adults based on their interactions with other accounts, searches for or interactions with violating content (e.g. liking or saving), or membership in communities (e.g. Groups) we have removed for violating our policies.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse
  • Videos or photos of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed
We may remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs, or other trusted safety partners.
We may remove content that identifies alleged victims of child sexual exploitation through means other than name or image if content includes information that is likely to lead to the identification of the individual.
We may remove content created for the purpose of identifying a private minor if there is a risk to the minor’s safety, when requested by Law Enforcement, Government, Trusted Partner, or the content is self-reported by the minor or the minor’s parent/legal guardian
We have updated the details in the Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity (CSEAN) policy to increase transparency
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content, activity, or interactions that threaten, depict, praise, support, provide instructions for, make statements of intent, admit participation in, or share links of the sexual exploitation of children (including real minors, toddlers, or babies, or non-real depictions with a human likeness, such as in art, AI-generated content, fictional characters, dolls, etc). This includes but is not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, when at least one person's genitals or anus is visible.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints
    • Signs of arousal
    • Focus on genitals or anus
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys or use of any object for sexual stimulation, gratification, or sexual abuse
    • Sexualized costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing
    • Stimulation of human nipples or squeezing of female breast (EXCEPT in the context of breastfeeding)
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity
  • Content involving children in a sexual fetish context
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in a health context
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image
Solicitation
Content that solicits sexual content or activity depicting or involving children, defined as:
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
  • Nude imagery of real or non-real children
  • Sexualized imagery of real or non-real children
Content that solicits sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual materialEnticing children to engage in sexual activity through sexualized conversations or offering, displaying, obtaining or requesting sexual material to or from children, through purposeful exposure or in private messages
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit real children by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose real or non-real intimate imagery or information
  • Sharing, threatening, or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or real or non-real intimate imagery
Sexualization of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes real or non-real children
  • Groups, Pages, and profiles dedicated to sexualizing real or non-real children
Child nudity
Content that depicts real or non-real child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of real or non-real children’s genitalia
  • Real or non-real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Real or non-real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
    • Uncovered female nipples
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing
  • Unless the non-real imagery is for health purposes or is a non-sexual depiction of child nudity in real-word art
Non-sexual child abuse
Videos or photos that depict real or non-real non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent, unless the imagery is from real-world art, cartoons, movies or video games
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse
In addition to removing accounts that violate our Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity (CSEAN) policies, our reviewers and automated systems consider a broad spectrum of signals to help prevent potentially unwanted or unsafe interactions.
  • We may restrict access to products and features (e.g., the ability to message certain other users)(e.g. the ability to follow certain accounts) for adults based on their interactions with other accounts, searches for or interactions with violating content, or membership in communities (e.g. Groups) we have removed for violating our policies.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse
  • Videos or photos of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed
We may remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs, or other trusted safety partners.
We may remove content that identifies alleged victims of child sexual exploitation through means other than name or image if content includes information that is likely to lead to the identification of the individual.
We may remove content created for the purpose of identifying a private minor if there is a risk to the minor’s safety, when requested by Law Enforcement, Government, Trusted Partner, or the content is self-reported by the minor or the minor’s parent/legal guardian
We have updated the examples in the Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity (CSEAN) policies based on recent application.
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the FacebookMeta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content, activity, or interactions that threaten, depict, praise, support, provide instructions for, make statements of intent, admit participation in, or share links of the sexual exploitation of children (including real minors, toddlers, or babies, or non-real depictions with a human likeness, such as in art, AI-generated content, fictional characters, dolls, etc). This includes but is not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, when at least one person's genitals or anus is visible.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints
    • Signs of arousal
    • Focus on genitals or anus
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys or use of any object for sexual stimulation, gratification, or sexual abuse
    • Sexualized costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing
    • Stimulation of human nipples or squeezing of female breast (EXCEPT in the context of breastfeeding)
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity
  • Content involving children in a sexual fetish context
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in a health context
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image
Solicitation
Content that solicits sexual content or activity depicting or involving children, defined as:
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
  • Nude imagery of real or non-real children
  • Sexualized imagery of real or non-real children
Content that solicits sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit real children by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose real or non-real intimate imagery or information
  • Sharing, threatening, or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or real or non-real intimate imagery
Sexualization of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes real or non-real children
  • Groups, Pages, and profiles dedicated to sexualizing real or non-real children
Child nudity
Content that depicts real or non-real child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of real or non-real children’s genitalia
  • Real or non-real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Real or non-real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
    • Uncovered female nipples
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing
  • Unless the non-real imagery is for health purposes or is a non-sexual depiction of child nudity in real-word art
Non-sexual child abuse
Videos or photos that depict real or non-real non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent, unless the imagery is from real-world art, cartoons, movies or video games
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse
In addition to removing accounts that violate our Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity (CSEAN) policies, our reviewers and automated systems consider a broad spectrum of signals to help prevent potentially unwanted or unsafe interactions.
  • We may restrict access to products and features (e.g., the ability to message certain other users) for adults based on their interactions with other accounts, searches for or interactions with violating content, or membership in communities (e.g. Groups) we have removed for violating our policies.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse
  • Videos or photos of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed
We may remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs, or other trusted safety partners.
We may remove content that identifies alleged victims of child sexual exploitation through means other than name or image if content includes information that is likely to lead to the identification of the individual.
We may remove content created for the purpose of identifying a private minor if there is a risk to the minor’s safety, when requested by Law Enforcement, Government, Trusted Partner, or the content is self-reported by the minor or the minor’s parent/legal guardian
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content, activity, or interactions that threaten, depict, praise, support, provide instructions for, make statements of intent, admit participation in, or share links of the sexual exploitation of children (including real minors, toddlers, or babies, or non-real depictions with a human likeness, such as in art, AI-generated content, fictional characters, dolls, etc). This includes but is not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, when at least one person's genitals or anus is visible.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints
    • Signs of arousal
    • Focus on genitals or anus
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys or use of any object for sexual stimulation, gratification, or sexual abuse
    • Sexualized costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing
    • Stimulation of human nipples or squeezing of female breast (EXCEPT in the context of breastfeeding)
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity
  • Content involving children in a sexual fetish context
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in a health context
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image
Solicitation
Content that solicits sexual content or activity depicting or involving children, defined as:
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
  • Nude imagery of real or non-real children
  • Sexualized imagery of real or non-real children
Content that solicits sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit real children by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose real or non-realintimate imagery or information
  • Sharing, threatening, or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or real or non-real intimate imagery
Sexualization of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes real or non-real children
  • Groups, Pages, and profiles dedicated to sexualizing real or non-real children
Child nudity
Content that depicts real or non-real child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of real or non-real children’s genitalia
  • Real or non-real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Real or non-real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
    • Uncovered female nipples
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing
  • Unless the non-real imagery is for health purposes or is a non-sexual depiction of child nudity in real-word art
Non-sexual child abuse
Videos or photos that depict real or non-real non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent, unless the imagery is from real-world art, cartoons, movies or video games
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse
In addition to removing accounts that violate our Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity (CSEAN) policies, our reviewers and automated systems consider a broad spectrum of signals to help prevent potentially unwanted or unsafe interactions.
  • We may restrict access to products and features (e.g., the ability to message certain other users) for adults based on their interactions with other accounts, searches for or interactions with violating content, or membership in communities (e.g. Groups) we have removed for violating our policies.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse
  • Videos or photos of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed
We may remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs, or other trusted safety partners.
We may remove content that identifies alleged victims of child sexual exploitation through means other than name or image if content includes information that is likely to lead to the identification of the individual.
We may remove content created for the purpose of identifying a private minor if there is a risk to the minor’s safety, when requested by Law Enforcement, Government, Trusted Partner, or the content is self-reported by the minor or the minor’s parent/legal guardian
We are clarifying that imagery depicting a child that is non-real, for example, edited or AI generated depictions of a real child, is included under the exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion policy.
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content, activity, or interactions that threaten, depict, praise, support, provide instructions for, make statements of intent, admit participation in, or share links of the sexual exploitation of children (including real minors, toddlers, or babies, or non-real depictions with a human likeness, such as in art, AI-generated content, fictional characters, dolls, etc). This includes but is not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, when at least one person's genitals or anus is visible.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints
    • Signs of arousal
    • Focus on genitals or anus
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys or use of any object for sexual stimulation, gratification, or sexual abuse
    • Sexualized costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing
    • Stimulation of human nipples or squeezing of female breast (EXCEPT in the context of breastfeeding)
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity
  • Content involving children in a sexual fetish context
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in a health context
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image
Solicitation
Content that solicits sexual content or activity depicting or involving children, defined as:
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
  • Nude imagery of real or non-real children
  • Sexualized imagery of real or non-real children
Content that solicits sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit real children by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information
  • Sharing, threatening, or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or intimate imagery
Sexualization of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes real or non-real children
  • Groups, Pages, and profiles dedicated to sexualizing real or non-real children
Child nudity
Content that depicts real or non-real child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of real or non-real children’s genitalia
  • Real or non-real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Real or non-real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
    • Uncovered female nipples
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing
  • Unless the non-real imagery is for health purposes or is a non-sexual depiction of child nudity in real-word art
Non-sexual child abuse
Videos or photos that depict real or non-real non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent, unless the imagery is from real-world art, cartoons, movies or video games
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse
In addition to removing accounts that violate our Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity (CSEAN) policies, our reviewers and automated systems consider a broad spectrum of signals to help prevent potentially unwanted or unsafe interactions.
  • We may restrict access to products and features (e.g., the ability to message certain other users) for adults based on their interactions with other accounts, searches for or interactions with violating content, or membership in communities (e.g. Groups) we have removed for violating our policies.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse
  • Videos or photos of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed
We may remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs, or other trusted safety partners.
We may remove content that identifies alleged victims of child sexual exploitation through means other than name or image if content includes information that is likely to lead to the identification of the individual.
We may remove content created for the purpose of identifying a private minor if there is a risk to the minor’s safety, when requested by Law Enforcement, Government, Trusted Partner, or the content is self-reported by the minor or the minor’s parent/legal guardian
The policy was updated to provide additional transparency on restrictions that may be applied, consistent with Meta's committment to protecting teens using our services.
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content, activity or interactions that threaten, depict, praise, support, provide instructions for, make statements of intent, admit participation in or share links of the sexual exploitation of children (including real minors, toddlers or babies or non-real depictions with a human likeness, such as in art, AI-generated content, fictional characters, dolls, etc). This includes but is not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, when at least one person's genitals or anus is visible.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints
    • Signs of arousal
    • Focus on genitals or anus
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys or use of any object for sexual stimulation, gratification, or sexual abuse
    • Sexualized costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing
    • Stimulation of human nipples or squeezing of female breast (EXCEPT in the context of breastfeeding)
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity
  • Content invovling involving children in a sexual fetish context
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in a health context
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image.
Solicitation
Content that solicits sexual content or activity depicting or involving children, defined as:
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
  • Nude imagery of real or non-real children
  • Sexualized imagery of real or non-real children
Content that solicits sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit real children by:
  • Coercing money, favors, or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information.
  • Sharing, threatening, or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or intimate imagery.
Sexualization of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes real or non-real children.
  • Groups, Pages, and profiles dedicated to sexualizing real or non-real children.
Child nudity
Content that depicts real or non-real child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of real or non-real children’s genitalia
  • Real or non-real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing.
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
  • Real or non-real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
    • Uncovered female nipples.
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing.
  • Unless the non-real imagery is for health purposes or is a non-sexual depiction of child nudity in real-word art
Non-sexual child abuse
Videos or photos that depict real or non-real non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent, unless the imagery is from real-world art, cartoons, movies, or video games
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse.
  • Videos or photos of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed.
We may also remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs, or other trusted safety partners.
We may remove content that identifies alleged victims of child sexual exploitation through means other than name or image if content includes information that is likely to lead to the identification of the individual.
We may remove content created for the purpose of identifying a private minor if there is a risk to the minor’s safety, when requested by Law Enforcement, Government, Trusted Partner, or the content is self-reported by the minor or the minor’s parent/legal guardian
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content,or activity, or interactions that threatens,depicts, praises, supports, providesthreaten, depict, praise, support, provide instructions for, makesmake statements of intent, admitsadmit participation in, or sharesshare links of the sexual exploitation of children (including real minors, toddlers or babies or non-real depictions with a human likeness, such as in art, AI-generated content, fictional characters, dolls, etc). This includes but is not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, where at least one person's genitals are nude.when at least one person's genitals or anus is visible.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints.
    • Signs of arousal
    • Focus on genitals.or anus
    • Presence of aroused adult.
    • Presence of sex toys or use of any object for sexual stimulation, gratification, or sexual abuseor gratification.
    • SexualisedSexualizes costume.
    • Stripping.
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing.
    • Stimulation of human nipples or squeezing of female breast (EXCEPT in the context of breastfeeding)
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity
  • Content involvingof children in a sexual fetish context.
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in an academic or verified health context.in a health context.
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image.
Solicitation
Content that solicits sexual content or activity depicting or involving children, defined as:
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
  • Nude imagery of real or non-real children
  • Sexualized imagery of real or non-real children
Content that solicits sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit real children by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information
  • Sharing, threatening, or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or intimate imagery
Sexualization of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes real or non-real children
  • Groups, Pages, and profiles dedicated to sexualizing real or non-real children
Child nudity
Content that depicts real or non-real child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of real or non-real children’s genitalia
  • Real or non-real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Real or non-real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
    • Uncovered female nipples
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing
  • Unless the non-real imagery is for health or educational purposes or is apurposes or is a non-sexual depiction of child nudity in real-word art
Non-sexual child abuse
ImageryVidoes or photos that depictsdepict real or non-real non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent, unless the imagery is from real-world art, cartoons, movies or video games
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for, or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse.
  • ImageryVidoes or photos of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed.
We may remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs, or other trusted safety partners.
We may remove content that identifies alleged victims of child sexual exploitation through means other than name or image if content includes information that is likely to lead to the identification of the individual.
We may remove content created for the purpose of identifying a private minor if there is a risk to the minor’s safety, when requested by Law Enforcement, Government, Trusted Partner, or the content is self-reported by the minor or the minor’s parent/legal guardian.
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content or activity that threatens, depicts, praises, supports, provides instructions for, makes statements of intent, admits participation in or shares links of the sexual exploitation of children (including real or non-real minors, toddlers or babies or non-real depictions with a human likeness, such as in art, AI-generated content, fictional characters, dolls, etc). This includes but is not limited to: ), including but not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, where at least one person's genitals are nude.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints.
    • Focus on genitals.
    • Presence of aroused adult.
    • Presence of sex toys or use of any object for sexual stimulation or gratification.
    • Sexualised costume.
    • Stripping.
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles).
    • Open-mouth kissing.
  • Content of children in a sexual fetish context.
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in an academic or verified health context.
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image.
Solicitation
Content that solicits sexual content or activity depicting or involving children, defined as:
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
  • Nude imagery of real or non-real children
  • Sexualized imagery of real or non-real children
Real-worldContent that solicits sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit real childrenminors by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information.
  • Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or intimate imagery.
Sexualization of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes real or non-real children.
  • Groups, Pages and profiles dedicated to sexualizing real or non-realchildren.
Child nudity
Content that depicts real or non-real child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of real or non-real children’s genitalia
  • Real non-real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing.
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
  • Real or non-real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
    • Uncovered female nipples.
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing.
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies unless the image is for health or educational purposes.
  • Unless the non-real imagery is for health or educational purposes or is a depiction of child nudity in real-word art
Non-sexual child abuse
Imagery that depicts real or non-real non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent, unless the imagery is from real-world art, cartoons, movies or video games
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse.
  • Imagery of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed.
We may also remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs or other trusted safety partners.
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content or activity that threatens, depicts, praises, supports, provides instructions for, makes statements of intent, admits participation in or shares links of the sexual exploitation of children (real or non-real minors, toddlers or babies), including but not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, where at least one person's genitals are nude.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints.
    • Focus on genitals.
    • Presence of aroused adult.
    • Presence of sex toys.
    • Sexualised costume.
    • Stripping.
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles).
    • Open-mouth kissing.
  • Content of children in a sexual fetish context.
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in an academic or verified health context.
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image.
Solicitation
Content that solicits
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
  • Nude imagery of children
  • Sexualized imagery of children
  • Real-world sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit minors by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information.
  • Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or intimate imagery.
Sexualization of children
Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualized images or videos of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes children.shows children in a sexualized context.
  • Groups, Pages and profiles dedicatedtargeted to sexualizing children.
Child nudity
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of children’s genitalia
  • Real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing.
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
  • Real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
    • Uncovered female nipples.
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing.
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies unless the image is for health or educational purposes.
Non-sexual child abuse
Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse.
  • Imagery of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed.
We may also remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs or other trusted safety partners.
The policy language is being updated to remove a duplicated reference to solicitation and refine wording on Groups, Pages and profiles dedicated to sexualizing children.
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content or activity that threatens, depicts, praises, supports, provides instructions for, makes statements of intent, admits participation in or shares links of the sexual exploitation of children (real or non-real minors, toddlers or babies), including but not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, where at least one person's genitals are nude.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints.
    • Focus on genitals.
    • Presence of aroused adult.
    • Presence of sex toys.
    • Sexualised costume.
    • Stripping.
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles).
    • Open-mouth kissing.
  • Content of children in a sexual fetish context.
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in an academic or verified health context.
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image.
Solicitation
Content that solicits
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
  • Nude imagery of children
  • Sexualized imagery of children
  • Real-world sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit minors by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information.
  • Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or intimate imagery.
Sexualization of children
Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualized images or videos of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that shows children in a sexualized context.
  • Groups, Pages and profiles targeted to sexualizing children.
Child nudity
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of children’s genitalia
  • Real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing.
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
  • Real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
    • Uncovered female nipples.
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing.
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies unless the image is for health or educational purposes.
Non-sexual child abuse
Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse.
  • Imagery of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed.
We may also remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs or other trusted safety partners.
Broadening focus to include activity patterns and behavioral signals to detect bad actors but in the child safety enforcement.
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content that threatens, depicts, praises, supports, provides instructions for, makes statements of intent, admits participation in or shares links of the sexual exploitation of children (real or non-real minors, toddlers or babies), including but not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, where at least one person's genitals are nude.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints.
    • Focus on genitals.
    • Presence of aroused adult.
    • Presence of sex toys.
    • Sexualised costume.
    • Stripping.
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles).
    • Open-mouth kissing.
  • Content of children in a sexual fetish context.
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in an academic or verified health context.
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image.
Solicitation
Content that solicits
  • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)Imagery of child sexual exploitation
  • Nude imagery of children
  • Sexualized imagery of children
  • Real-world sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit minors by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information.
  • Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or intimate imagery.
Sexualization of children
Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualized images or videos of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that shows children in a sexualized context.
  • Groups, Pages and profiles targeted to sexualizing children.
Child nudity
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of children’s genitalia
  • Real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing.
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
  • Real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
    • Uncovered female nipples.
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing.
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies unless the image is for health or educational purposes.
Non-sexual child abuse
Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse.
  • Imagery of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed.
We may also remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs or other trusted safety partners.
The policy has been updated to replace “imagery of child sexual exploitation” with “Child Sexual Abuse Material” to align with current accepted terminology.
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content that threatens, depicts, praises, supports, provides instructions for, makes statements of intent, admits participation in or shares links of the sexual exploitation of children (real or non-real minors, toddlers or babies), including but not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, where at least one person's genitals are nude.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints.
    • Focus on genitals.
    • Presence of aroused adult.
    • Presence of sex toys.
    • Sexualised costume.
    • Stripping.
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles).
    • Open-mouth kissing.
  • Content of children in a sexual fetish context.
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in an academic or verified health context.
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image.
Solicitation
Content that solicits
  • Imagery of child sexual exploitation
  • Nude imagery of children
  • Sexualized imagery of children
  • Real-world sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit minors by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information.
  • Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or intimate imagery.
Sexualization of children
Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualized images or videos of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that shows children in a sexualized context.
  • Groups, Pages and profiles targeted to sexualizing children.
Child nudity
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of children’s genitalia
  • Real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing.
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
  • Real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
    • Uncovered female nipples.
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing.
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies unless the image is for health or educational purposes.
Non-sexual child abuse
Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse.
  • Imagery of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed.
We may also remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs or other trusted safety partners.
The policy is being updated to clarify that for content where we have additional information and/or context may also remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs or other trusted safety partners.
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content that threatens, depicts, praises, supports, provides instructions for, makes statements of intent, admits participation in or shares links of the sexual exploitation of children (real or non-real minors, toddlers or babies), including but not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, where at least one person's genitals are nude.
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity.
    • Any of the above involving an animal.
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints.
    • Focus on genitals.
    • Presence of aroused adult.
    • Presence of sex toys.
    • Sexualised costume.
    • Stripping.
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles).
    • Open-mouth kissing.
  • Content of children in a sexual fetish context.
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in an academic or verified health context.
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image.
Solicitation
Content that solicits
  • Imagery of child sexual exploitation
  • Nude imagery of children
  • Sexualized imagery of children
  • Real-world sexual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
  • Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
  • Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
  • Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion
Content that attempts to exploit minors by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information.
  • Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or intimate imagery.
Sexualization of children
Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualized images or videos of children
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that shows children in a sexualized context.
  • Groups, Pages and profiles targeted to sexualizing children.
Child nudity
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of children’s genitalia
  • Real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing.
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
  • Real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
    • Uncovered female nipples.
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing.
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies unless the image is for health or educational purposes.
Non-sexual child abuse
Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and . We also limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages eighteen and older:
  • Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse.
  • Imagery of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed.
These edits do not reflect policy changes, rather additions to the Community Standards for transparency and to better reflect our enforcement.
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child sexual exploitation
Content that threatens, depicts, praises, supports, provides instructions for, makes statements of intent, admits participation in or shares links of the sexual exploitation of children (real or non-real minors, toddlers or babies), including but not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, where at least one person's genitals are nude
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity
    • Any of the above involving an animal
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints
    • Focus on genitals
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys
    • Sexualised costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing
  • Content of children in a sexual fetish context
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in an academic or verified health context
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image
Solicitation
Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualized images or videos of children.
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Initiating unsolicited contact with minors (for example, private messages between stranger adults and minors)
  • Soliciting or arranging real-world sexual encounters or obtaining sexual material from a minor directly
  • Displaying nudity to minors
Content that attempts to exploit minors by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information
  • Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations.
Sexualization of children
Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualized images or videos of children.
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that shows children in a sexualized context
  • Groups, Pages and Profiles targeted to sexualizing children
Child Nudity
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of children’s genitalia
  • Real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
    • Uncovered female nipples
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies unless the image is for health or educational purposes
Non-sexual child abuse
Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent;
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Facebook Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the newtechnology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Content that depicts participation in or advocates for the sexual exploitation of children, including (but not limited to)
  • Engaging in any sexual activity involving minors
  • Adults soliciting minors
  • Minors soliciting minors
  • Minors soliciting adults
  • Using our products and site functionality with the intention of sexualizing minors
Child sexual exploitation
Content that threatens, depicts, praises, supports, provides instructions for, makes statements of intent, admits participation in or shares links of the sexual exploitation of children (real or non-real minors, toddlers or babies), including but not limited to:
  • Sexual intercourse
    • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, where at least one person's genitals are nude
    • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible
    • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible
    • Presence of by-products of sexual activity
    • Any of the above involving an animal
  • Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
    • Restraints
    • Focus on genitals
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys
    • Sexualised costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing
  • Content of children in a sexual fetish context
  • Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia
  • Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as
  • Initiating unsolicited contact with minors (for example, private messages between stranger adults and minors)
  • Soliciting, displaying, sharing, or viewing imagery of nude, sexualized, or sexual activity with minors
  • Arranging real-world sexual encounters or obtaining sexual material from a minor directly
  • Displaying nudity to minors
Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and text) that depicts
  • Any sexual activity involving minors
  • Minors in a sexual fetish context
  • Minors with sexual elements, including (but not limited to):
    • Restraints
    • Focus on genitals
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys
    • Sexualized costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing with minor or adult
Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that shows minors in a sexualized context
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as
  • Visible genitalia (even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing)
  • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Uncovered female nipples for children older than toddler-age
  • No clothes present from neck to knee for children older than toddler-age
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, unless the image is for health or educational purposes
Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse
Solicitation
Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualized images or videos of children.
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Initiating unsolicited contact with minors (for example, private messages between stranger adults and minors)
  • Soliciting or arranging real-world sexual encounters or obtaining sexual material from a minor directly
  • Displaying nudity to minors
Content that attempts to exploit minors by:
  • Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information
  • Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations.
Sexualization of children
Content that solicits imagery of child sexual exploitation, or nude or sexualized images or videos of children.
  • Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that shows children in a sexualized context
  • Groups, Pages and Profiles targeted to sexualizing children
Child Nudity
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as:
  • Close-ups of children’s genitalia
  • Real nude toddlers, showing:
    • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Real nude minors, showing:
    • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
    • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
    • Uncovered female nipples
    • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies unless the image is for health or educational purposes
Non-sexual child abuse
Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent;
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed
Policy Rationale
We do not allow content or activity that sexually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share nude images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Content that depicts participation in or advocates for the sexual exploitation of children, including (but not limited to)
  • Engaging in any sexual activity involving minors
  • Adults soliciting minors
  • Minors soliciting minors
  • Minors soliciting adults
  • Using our products and site functionality with the intention of sexualizing minors
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as
  • Initiating unsolicited contact with minors (for example, private messages between stranger adults and minors)
  • Soliciting, displaying, sharing, or viewing imagery of nude, sexualized, or sexual activity with minors
  • Arranging real-world sexual encounters or obtaining sexual material from a minor directly
  • Displaying nudity to minors
Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and text) that depicts
  • Any sexual activity involving minors
  • Minors in a sexual fetish context
  • Minors with sexual elements, including (but not limited to):
    • Restraints
    • Focus on genitals
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys
    • Sexualized costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing with minor or adult
Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that shows minors in a sexualized context
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as
  • Visible genitalia (even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing)
  • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Uncovered female nipples for children older than toddler-age
  • No clothes present from neck to knee for children older than toddler-age
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, unless the image is for health or educational purposes
Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
For the following content, we include a warning label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive:
  • Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed
Do not post:
Content that depicts participation in or advocates for the sexual exploitation of children, including (but not limited to)
  • Engaging in any sexual activity involving minors
  • Adults soliciting minors
  • Minors soliciting minors
  • Minors soliciting adults
  • Using our products and site functionality with the intention of sexualizing minors
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as
  • Initiating unsolicited contact with minors (for example, private messages between stranger adults and minors)
  • Soliciting, displaying, sharing, or viewing imagery of nude, sexualized, or sexual activity with minors
  • Arranging real-world sexual encounters or obtaining sexual material from a minor directly
  • Displaying nudity to minors
Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and text) that depicts
  • Any sexual activity involving minors
  • Minors in a sexual fetish context
  • Minors with sexual elements, including (but not limited to):
    • Restraints
    • Focus on genitals
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys
    • Sexualized costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing with minor or adult
Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that shows minors in a sexualized context
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as
  • Visible genitalia (even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing)
  • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Uncovered female nipples for children older than toddler-age
  • No clothes present from neck to knee for children older than toddler-age
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, unless the image is for health or educational purposes
Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse
We already prohibit content that depicts non-sexual child abuse, but had previously included the prohibition in our Graphic and Violent Content section because the content can be graphic. However, since non-sexual child abuse is a child safety issue much like child nudity and exploitation, we have moved the policy to this section and relabeled it to more appropriately reflect the type of content we remove.
Do not post:
Content that depicts participation in or advocates for the sexual exploitation of children, defined as:
  • Engaging in any sexual activity involving minors
  • Soliciting, displaying, sharing, or viewing imagery of nude, sexualized, or sexual activity with minors
  • Arranging real-world sexual encounters or obtaining sexual material from a minor directly
  • Adults soliciting minors
  • Minors soliciting minors
  • Displaying nudity to minors
  • Minors soliciting adults
  • Using our products and site functionality with the intention of sexualizing minors (e.g., creating a Group or a Page with a sexualized title
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
  • Initiating unsolicited contact with minors (for example, private messages between stranger adults and minors)
  • Soliciting, displaying, sharing, or viewing imagery of nude, sexualized, or sexual activity with minors
  • Arranging real-world sexual encounters or obtaining sexual material from a minor directly
  • Displaying nudity to minors
Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and text) that depicts
  • Any sexual activity involving minors
  • Minors in a sexual fetish context
  • Minors with sexual elements, including (but not limited to):
    • Restraints
    • Focus on genitals
    • Presence of aroused adult
    • Presence of sex toys
    • Sexualized costume
    • Stripping
    • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
    • Open-mouth kissing with minor or adult
Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that shows minors in a sexualized context
Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as
  • Visible genitalia (even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing)
  • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks
  • Uncovered female nipples for children older than toddler-age
  • No clothes present from neck to knee for children older than toddler-age
  • Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, unless the image is for health or educational purposes
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Facebook ላይ ላሉ ሰዎች ደንብ ማስከበር ምን እንደሚመስል አንዳንድ ምሳሌዎችን ይመልከቱ፣ ለምሳሌ፦ Facebook ላይ መሆን የለበትም ብለው የሚያምኑትን የሆነ ነገር ሪፖርት ማድረግ፣ የማህበረሰብ ደንቦችን ጥሰዋል ተብሎ ሲነገርዎ እና የሆነ ይዘት ላይ የማስጠንቀቂያ ማያ ገጽ ማየት ምን እንደሚመስል።
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