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Taking down violating content

UPDATED 12 NOV 2024
If your content goes against the Community Standards, Meta will remove it. We'll also notify you so that you can understand why we removed the content and how to avoid posting violating content in the future.
We use a strike system to count violations and hold you accountable for the content that you post. Depending on which policy your content goes against, your previous history of violations and the number of strikes you have, your account may also be restricted or disabled.
What happens when your content is removed
We'll let you know when something you posted goes against our Community Standards. Usually, this notice appears in your Feed when you log in to Facebook or in your feed on Instagram. You can also find it in your Support Inbox on Facebook or Support requests on Instagram.
We'll do our best to reference which part of our policies you didn't follow and give a brief description of why we don't allow the content, so you can avoid having other content removed in the future.
We occasionally make mistakes. If you believe that we made a mistake by removing your content, you usually can let us know and we'll take another look.
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