Facebook Community Standards
Policies that outline what is and isn't allowed on the Facebook app.
Instagram Community Guidelines
Policies that outline what is and isn't allowed on the Instagram app.
Meta Advertising Standards
Policies for ad content and business assets.
Other policies
Other policies that apply to Meta technologies.
How Meta improves
How we update our policies, measure results, work with others, and more.
Our approach to the opioid epidemic
How we support communities in the face of the opioid epidemic.
Our approach to elections
How we help prevent interference, empower people to vote and more.
Our approach to misinformation
How we work with independent fact-checkers, and more, to identify and take action on misinformation.
Our approach to newsworthy content
How we assess content for newsworthiness.
Our approach to Facebook Feed ranking
How we reduce problematic content in News Feed.
Our approach to explaining ranking
How we build AI systems.
Content Library and Content Library API
Comprehensive access to public data from Facebook and Instagram
Ad Library tools
Comprehensive and searchable database of all ads currently running across Meta technologies
Other research tools and datasets
Additional tools for in-depth research on Meta technologies and programs
Community Standards Enforcement Report
Quarterly report on how well we're doing at enforcing our policies on the Facebook app and Instagram.
Intellectual Property
Report on how well we're helping people protect their intellectual property.
Government Requests for User Data
Report on government request for people's data.
Content Restrictions Based on Local Law
Report on when we restrict content that's reported to us as violating local law.
Internet Disruptions
Report on intentional internet restrictions that limit people's ability to access the internet.
Widely Viewed Content Report
Quarterly report on what people see on Facebook, including the content that receives the widest distribution during the quarter.
Regulatory and Other Transparency Reports
Download current and past regulatory reports for Facebook and Instagram.
Meta reviews content enforcement issues on a weekly basis to consider whether a different outcome would have been better. These reviews use the following process:
Content enforcement issue
Is there a problem with the functionality of the product?
YES
EXAMPLE
We don’t have a reporting option on Messenger.
ACTION
Work with the Product team to ensure we have a reporting option across all messaging surfaces.
NO
YES
EXAMPLE
We don’t have a reporting option on Messenger.
ACTION
Work with the Product team to ensure we have a reporting option across all messaging surfaces.
Is there a problem with the way the policy is written?
YES
EXAMPLE
A type of problematic content is not reflected in the Facebook Community Standards.
ACTION
Work with external experts to rewrite or update the policy.
NO
YES
EXAMPLE
A type of problematic content is not reflected in the Facebook Community Standards.
ACTION
Work with external experts to rewrite or update the policy.
Is there a problem with the way we enforced the policy?
YES
EXAMPLE
We have a general policy against slurs, but the exact list of slurs is missing something.
ACTION
Update our internal documentation and train reviewers to ensure we can effectively enforce.
NO
YES
EXAMPLE
We have a general policy against slurs, but the exact list of slurs is missing something.
ACTION
Update our internal documentation and train reviewers to ensure we can effectively enforce.
Is there a problem with the way we reviewed the content?
YES
EXAMPLE
Our technology isn’t doing enough to understand the sentiment of image and text together.
ACTION
Invest in more machine learning to improve our classifiers.
NO
YES
EXAMPLE
Our technology isn’t doing enough to understand the sentiment of image and text together.
ACTION
Invest in more machine learning to improve our classifiers.
