Transparency Center

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.

Enforcement

Detecting violations

How technology and review teams help us detect and review violating content and accounts.

Taking action

Our three-part approach to content enforcement: remove, reduce and inform.

Security

Threat disruptions

How we take down coordinated adversarial networks to protect people using our services

Security threats

Challenges we investigate and counter around the globe

Threat reporting

Security research into the adversarial networks we’ve taken down since 2017

Features

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.

Governance

How to appeal to the Oversight Board

Oversight Board recommendations

Oversight Board: Further asked questions

Meta’s Bi-Annual Updates on the Oversight Board

Research tools

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

Reports

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.

At Meta, we’re committed to giving people a voice and keeping them safe.

Since 2016, we've used a strategy called "remove, reduce, inform" to manage content across Meta technologies.

This means we remove harmful content that goes against our policies, reduce the distribution of problematic content that doesn’t violate our policies, and inform people with additional context so they can decide what to click, read or share.

To help with this strategy, we have policies that describe what is and isn’t allowed on our technologies. Our teams work together to develop our policies and enforce them. Here’s how it works.

1

We collaborate with global experts in technology, public safety and human rights to create and update our policies.

How Meta improves

2

We build features for safety, so people can report content and block, hide or unfollow accounts.

Taking action

3

We enforce our policies using technology and human review.

Detecting violations

We keep people safe and let people hold us accountable by sharing our policies, enforcement and transparency reports.

Our policies

Our policies define what is and isn’t allowed on Meta technologies. If content goes against our policies, we take action on it.

Policies

Our enforcement

We use technology and review teams to detect, review and take action on millions of pieces of content every day on Facebook and Instagram.

How Meta enforces its policies

Our transparency reports

We publish regular transparency reports to show people how we’re doing at enforcing our policies.

Transparency reports

Our approach to explaining ranking

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems inform the ranking of content for many experiences on Meta’s products, such as viewing Facebook Feed, watching reels on Instagram or browsing Facebook Marketplace.

Our approach to explaining ranking

Recent updates

One Set of Community Standards

Starting November 12, we’ll have one unified set of Community Standards for Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads.

Integrity Reports, Second Quarter 2024

We’re publishing our second quarter reports for 2024, including the Community Standards Enforcement Report, Adversarial Threat Report, Widely Viewed Content Report and our Oversight Board Report for H1 2024.

Update from the Policy Forum on our approach to ‘Zionist’ as a proxy for hate speech

We have revisited the issue of speech using the term "Zionists" at various times in recent years, and in March 2024 we examined it through our Policy Forum.

Integrity Reports, First Quarter 2024

We’re publishing our first quarter reports for 2024, including the Community Standards Enforcement Report, Adversarial Threat Report, Widely Viewed Content Report, the Government Requests for User Data and Content Restrictions Based on Local Law for the second half of 2023 and the Intellectual Property Transparency Report for 2023.

Integrity Reports, Fourth Quarter 2023

We’re publishing our fourth quarter reports for 2023, including the Community Standards Enforcement Report, Oversight Board Quarterly Update, Widely Viewed Content Report, Transparency Report for the first half of 2023 (Government Requests for User Data and Content Restrictions Based on Local Law) and the Adversarial Threat Report.

Dangerous Organizations and Individuals (DOI) Policy Update

Our Dangerous Organizations and Individuals (DOI) policy addresses some of the most serious threats to the safety of our users and our platform. We do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent or hateful mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on Meta. To that end, we continually assess and refine the policy to make sure that we are getting it right.

Integrity Reports, Third Quarter 2023

We’re publishing our third quarter reports for 2023, including the Community Standards Enforcement Report, Oversight Board Quarterly Update, Widely Viewed Content Report, Transparency Report for the first half of 2023 (Government Requests for User Data and Content Restrictions Based on Local Law) and the Adversarial Threat Report.

Integrity Reports, Second Quarter 2023

We’re publishing our second quarter reports for 2023, including the Community Standards Enforcement Report, Oversight Board Quarterly Update, Widely Viewed Content Report, Transparency Report for the first half of 2023 (Government Requests for User Data and Content Restrictions Based on Local Law) and the Adversarial Threat Report.

NCMEC Transparency Report

As part of our ongoing work to provide young people with safe, positive online experiences, we’re providing more transparency into our efforts to find and report child exploitation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).