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.
Starting November 12, we’ll have one unified set of Community Standards for Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads.
Our Community Standards and Community Guidelines tell you what is and isn’t allowed on our apps. We make them public, and report regularly on how much content we take action on for violating these policies. But so far, while the rules have been the same, they have lived in two different places: our Community Guidelines for Instagram and Threads, and our Community Standards for Facebook and Messenger.
On November 12, we’ll be streamlining this for our users, and formally transitioning to only one set of rules, the Community Standards, for Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads. The rules themselves aren’t changing, but they will be in one place, easily accessible to all of our users.
While there are nuances for each app—for example, Instagram doesn’t have groups or you don’t have to use your authentic identity on Instagram but you do on Facebook—these nuances are now captured in this one set of policies.
Starting today users may start seeing in-app notifications alerting them to this update. We’re rolling this out slowly, to be sure users have enough time to get used to the change in where to find our policies about what is and isn’t allowed in our apps. But though this is a small change, we’re confident it will make it easier for all of our users to find and understand the policies for using our apps.
