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Justification de la politique
Nous visons à prévenir toute violence potentielle hors ligne pouvant être liée au contenu publié sur nos plateformes. Bien que nous comprenons que les gens expriment souvent leur mépris ou leur désaccord en proférant des menaces ou en appelant à la violence de manière non sérieuse et informelle, nous supprimons tout propos incitant à la violence ou facilitant celle-ci, ainsi que toute menace crédible à la sécurité publique ou personnelle. Cela inclut les propos violents visant une personne ou un groupe de personnes en raison de leurs caractéristiques protégées ou de leur statut d’immigrant. Lorsque nous pensons qu’un contenu représente un réel risque de préjudice physique ou une atteinte directe à la sécurité publique, nous supprimons le contenu, désactivons les comptes et collaborons avec les autorités. Nous nous efforçons également de tenir compte du langage et du contexte afin de distinguer les déclarations informelles ou visant à sensibiliser le public des contenus qui constituent une menace crédible pour la sécurité publique ou individuelle. Pour déterminer si une menace est crédible, nous pouvons également tenir compte d’informations supplémentaires telles que la visibilité publique d’une personne et les risques pour sa sécurité physique.
Dans certains cas, nous observons des menaces de violence souhaitées ou conditionnelles, y compris des expressions d’espoir que des actes de violence soient commis, dirigées contre des terroristes et d’autres acteurs violents (par exemple, « Les terroristes méritent d’être tués », « J’espère qu’ils tueront les terroristes »). Nous considérons ces affirmations comme non crédibles, en l’absence de preuves particulières contraires.
Nous supprimons :
Nous supprimons les menaces de violence à l’encontre de diverses cibles. Les menaces de violence sont des déclarations ou des images représentant une intention, un désir ou un appel à la violence contre une cible. Elles peuvent être exprimées sous différentes formes, telles que des déclarations d’intention, des appels à l’action, des prises de position, des expressions de souhait, des déclarations ambitieuses et des déclarations conditionnelles.
Nous n’interdisons pas les menaces lorsqu’elles sont partagées dans un contexte de sensibilisation ou de condamnation, lorsqu’elles sont moins graves dans le cadre de sports de contact, ou certaines menaces à l’encontre d’acteurs violents, tels que des groupes terroristes.
Protections universelles pour tous
Tout le monde est protégé des menaces suivantes :
  • Menaces de violence pouvant entraîner la mort (ou d’autres formes de violence de forte gravité)
  • Menaces de violence pouvant entraîner des blessures graves (violence de moyenne gravité). Nous supprimons les menaces à l’encontre de personnalités publiques et de groupes qui ne sont pas fondées sur des caractéristiques protégées lorsqu’elles sont crédibles, et nous les supprimons à l’encontre de toute autre cible (y compris les groupes sur la base de caractéristiques protégées) indépendamment de leur crédibilité.
  • Les aveux de violence de forte ou de moyenne gravité (sous forme écrite ou verbale, ou représentée visuellement par l’auteur ou un complice), sauf lorsqu’ils sont partagés dans un contexte de rédemption, de légitime défense, de sports de contact (moyenne gravité ou moindre), ou lorsque ces actes ont été commis par des forces de l’ordre, des militaires ou des agents de sécurité de l’État
  • Les menaces ou représentations d’enlèvements ou de séquestrations, sauf s’il est clair que le contenu est partagé par une victime ou sa famille dans le but d’appeler à l’aide, ou à des fins d’information, de condamnation ou de sensibilisation
Protections supplémentaires pour les adultes à titre privé, tous les enfants, les personnes à haut risque et les personnes ou groupes en raison de leurs caractéristiques protégées :
Outre les protections universelles dont bénéficie tout le monde, tous les adultes à titre privé (lorsqu’ils se déclarent eux-mêmes concernés), les enfants et les personnes ou groupes de personnes ciblés en raison de leurs caractéristiques protégées sont protégés contre les menaces de violence de faible gravité.
Autres violences
En plus de toutes les protections énumérées ci-dessus, nous supprimons les contenus suivants :
  • Le contenu qui sollicite, propose ou admet proposer des services impliquant des actes de violence de forte gravité (par exemple, tueurs à gages, mercenaires, assassins, mutilations des parties génitales féminines) ou qui préconise le recours à ces services
  • Les instructions sur la fabrication ou l’utilisation d’armes, lorsqu’elles contiennent des termes explicitement visant à blesser gravement ou à tuer des personnes, ou des images montrant ou simulant le résultat final, sauf si le contexte indique clairement que le contenu est destiné à des fins non violentes, telles que l’autodéfense à des fins éducatives (par exemple, l’entraînement au combat, les arts martiaux) et l’entraînement militaire
  • Les instructions relatives à la fabrication ou à l’utilisation d’explosifs, sauf si le contexte indique clairement que le contenu est destiné à des fins non violentes, telles que des utilisations récréatives (par exemple, feux d’artifice, jeux vidéo commerciaux, pêche)
  • Les menaces de recourir aux armes ou d’apporter des armes dans un lieu ou d’y pénétrer de force (y compris, mais sans s’y limiter, les lieux de culte, les établissements d’enseignement, les bureaux de vote ou les lieux utilisés pour compter les votes ou administrer une élection), ou dans des lieux où il existe des signes temporaires d’un risque accru de violence
  • Les menaces de violence en rapport avec le vote, l’inscription des électeurs, l’administration ou les résultats d’une élection, même si elles ne visent personne en particulier
  • La glorification de la violence fondée sur le genre, qu’il s’agisse de violence conjugale ou de violence basée sur l’honneur
Afin de faire respecter les Normes de la communauté suivantes, nous avons besoin d’informations ou de contexte supplémentaires pour les appliquer :
Nous supprimons :
  • Les menaces à l’encontre des agents des forces de l’ordre ou des responsables électoraux, indépendamment de leur statut de personnalité publique ou de la crédibilité de la menace
  • Les déclarations codées dans lesquelles la méthode de violence n’est pas clairement exprimée, mais où la menace est voilée ou implicite, comme indiqué par la combinaison d’un signal de menace et d’un signal contextuel figurant dans la liste ci-dessous
    • Menace : déclaration codée correspondant à l’une des situations suivantes :
      • Exprimée dans un contexte de représailles (par exemple, expressions du souhait de commettre des actes de violence à l’encontre d’autrui en réponse à une menace ou un grief réel, perçu ou anticipé)
      • Références à des incidents violents historiques ou fictifs (par exemple, contenu qui menace autrui en faisant référence à des incidents violents connus qui ont été commis au cours de l’histoire ou dans des contextes fictifs)
      • Constitue un appel à l’action menaçant (par exemple, contenu invitant ou encourageant d’autres personnes à commettre des actes violents ou à se joindre à la perpétration de ces actes)
      • Démontre une connaissance ou partage des informations sensibles susceptibles d’exposer d’autres personnes à des actes de violence (par exemple, contenu qui mentionne ou laisse entendre la connaissance de renseignements personnels susceptibles de rendre crédible une menace de violence) Cela inclut le fait de laisser entendre que l’on connaît l’adresse résidentielle d’une personne, son lieu de travail ou d’études, ses itinéraires quotidiens ou son emplacement actuel.
    • Contexte
      • L’expertise ou le contexte local confirme que la déclaration en question pourrait entraîner des violences imminentes.
      • La cible du contenu ou un représentant autorisé nous signale le contenu.
      • La cible est un enfant.
  • Les menaces implicites d’apporter des armes dans des lieux, y compris, mais sans s’y limiter, les lieux de culte, les établissements d’enseignement, les bureaux de vote ou les lieux utilisés pour compter les votes ou administrer une élection (ou encourager d’autres personnes à le faire) ou les lieux où il existe des signes temporaires d’un risque accru de violence.
  • Les allégations ou spéculations concernant la corruption, les irrégularités ou les partialités liées aux élections, lorsqu’elles sont associées à des signes indiquant que le contenu incite à la violence (par exemple, menaces de prendre ou d’utiliser une arme, représentations visuelles d’une arme, références à des incendies criminels, vols, actes de vandalisme), notamment :
    • Cibler une ou plusieurs personnes
    • Cibler un emplacement particulier (État ou un lieu plus petit)
    • Lorsque la cible n’est pas explicite
  • Les références à des rassemblements ou événements liés aux élections lorsqu’elles sont associées à un signal indiquant que le contenu incite à la violence (par exemple, menaces de prendre ou d’apporter une arme, représentations visuelles d’une arme, références à des incendies criminels, vols, actes de vandalisme).
  • Les menaces de violence de forte ou moyenne gravité dans le cadre de l’autodéfense ou de la défense d’autrui lorsque les critères ci-dessous sont remplis.
    • À l’encontre d’une personne (à l’exclusion des personnes identifiables par leur nom ou leur visage, des personnes ciblées en raison de leurs caractéristiques protégées et des enfants)
    • Dans le contexte de la violence domestique ou interpersonnelle qui est proportionnelle à la violence à laquelle elle répond et qui constitue une menace immédiate.
    • L’impact potentiel sur la liberté d’expression l’emporte sur le risque de violence imminente.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
We Remove:
We remove threats of violence against various targets. Threats of violence are statements or visuals representing an intention, aspiration, or call for violence against a target, and threats can be expressed in various types of statements such as statements of intent, calls for action, advocacy, expressions of hope, aspirational statements and conditional statements.
We do not prohibit threats when shared in awareness-raising or condemning context, when less severe threats are made in the context of contact sports, or certain threats against violent actors, like terrorist groups.
Universal protections for everyone
Everyone is protected from the following threats:
  • Threats of violence that could lead to death (or other forms of high-severity violence)
  • Threats of violence that could lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence). We remove such threats against public figures and groups not based on protected characteristics when credible, and we remove them against any other targets (including groups based on protected characteristics) regardless of credibility
  • Admissions to high-severity or mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by the perpetrator or an associate), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, contact sports (mid-severity or less), or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel
  • Threats or depictions of kidnappings or abductions, unless it is clear that the content is being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness-raising purposes
Additional protections for Private Adults, All Children, high-risk persons and persons or groups based on their protected characteristics:
In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all private adults (when self-reported), children and persons or groups of people targeted on the basis of their protected characteristic(s), are protected from threats of low-severity violence.
Other Violence
In addition to all of the protections listed above, we remove the following:
  • Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
  • Instructions on how to make or use weapons where there is language explicitly stating the goal to seriously injure or kill people, or imagery that shows or simulates the end result, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as educational self-defense (for example, combat training, martial arts) and military training
  • Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as recreational uses (for example, fireworks and commercial video games, fishing)
  • Threats to take up weapons or to bring weapons to a location or forcibly enter a location (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election), or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Threats of violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election, even if there is no target.
  • Glorification of gender-based violence that is either intimate partner violence or honor-based violence
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We Remove:
  • Threats against law enforcement officers or election officials, regardless of their public figure status or credibility of the threat.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit, as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.
    • Threat: a coded statement that is one of the following:
      • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence against others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
      • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been committed throughout history or in fictional settings)
      • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out violent acts or to join in carrying out the violent acts)
      • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violence (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Context
      • Local context or expertise confirms that the statement in question could lead to imminent violence.
      • The target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
      • The target is a child.
  • Implicit threats to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Claims or speculation about election-related corruption, irregularities, or bias when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism), including:
    • Targeting individual(s)
    • Targeting a specific location (state or smaller)
    • Where the target is not explicit
  • References to election-related gatherings or events when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism).
  • Threats of high- or mid-severity violence in the defense of self or another human when the criteria below are met.
    • Against a person (excluding persons identifiable by name of face, people targeted based on their protected characteristics, and children)
    • In the context of home entry or interpersonal violence that is proportional to the violence responded to and is an immediate threat
    • The potential impact on voice outweighs the risk of imminent violence
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
We Remove:
We remove threats of violence against various targets. Threats of violence are statements or visuals representing an intention, aspiration, or call for violence against a target, and threats can be expressed in various types of statements such as statements of intent, calls for action, advocacy, expressions of hope, aspirational statements and conditional statements.
We do not prohibit threats when shared in awareness-raising or condemning context, when less severe threats are made in the context of contact sports, or certain threats against violent actors, like terrorist groups.
Universal protections for everyone
Everyone is protected from the following threats:
  • Threats of violence that could lead to death (or other forms of high-severity violence)
  • Threats of violence that could lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence). We remove such threats against public figures and groups not based on protected characteristics when credible, and we remove them against any other targets (including groups based on protected characteristics) regardless of credibility
  • Admissions to high-severity or mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by the perpetrator or an associate), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, contact sports (mid-severity or less), or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel
  • Threats or depictions of kidnappings or abductions, unless it is clear that the content is being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness-raising purposes
Additional protections for Private Adults, All Children, high-risk persons and persons or groups based on their protected characteristics:
In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all private adults (when self-reported), children and persons or groups of people targeted on the basis of their protected characteristic(s), are protected from threats of low-severity violence.
Other Violence
In addition to all of the protections listed above, we remove the following:
  • Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
  • Instructions on how to make or use weapons where there is language explicitly stating the goal to seriously injure or kill people, or imagery that shows or simulates the end result, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as educational self-defense (for example, combat training, martial arts) and military training
  • Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as recreational uses (for example, fireworks and commercial video games, fishing)
  • Threats to take up weapons or to bring weapons to a location or forcibly enter a location (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election), or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Threats of violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election, even if there is no target.
  • Glorification of gender-based violence that is either intimate partner violence or honor-based violence
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We Remove:
  • Threats against law enforcement officers or election officials, regardless of their public figure status or credibility of the threat.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit, as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.
    • Threat: a coded statement that is one of the following:
      • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence against others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
      • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been committed throughout history or in fictional settings)
      • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out violent acts or to join in carrying out the violent acts)
      • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violence (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Context
      • Local context or expertise confirms that the statement in question could lead to imminent violence.
      • The target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
  • Implicit threats to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Claims or speculation about election-related corruption, irregularities, or bias when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism), including:
    • Targeting individual(s)
    • Targeting a specific location (state or smaller)
    • Where the target is not explicit
  • References to election-related gatherings or events when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism).
  • Threats of high- or mid-severity violence in the defense of self or another human when the criteria below are met.
    • Against a person (excluding persons identifiable by name of face, people targeted based on their protected characteristics, and children)
    • In the context of home entry or interpersonal violence that is proportional to the violence responded to and is an immediate threat
    • The potential impact on voice outweighs the risk of imminent violence
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
We Remove:
We remove threats of violence against various targets. Threats of violence are statements or visuals representing an intention, aspiration, or call for violence against a target, and threats can be expressed in various types of statements such as statements of intent, calls for action, advocacy, expressions of hope, aspirational statements and conditional statements.
We do not prohibit threats when shared in awareness-raising or condemning context, when less severe threats are made in the context of contact sports, or whencertain threats are directed against certain violent actors, like terrorist groups.
Universal protections for everyone
Everyone is protected from the following threats:
  • Threats of violence that could lead to death (or other forms of high-severity violence)
  • Threats of violence that could lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence). We remove such threats against public figures and groups not based on protected characteristics when credible, and we remove them against any other targets (including groups based on protected characteristics) regardless of credibility
  • Admissions to high-severity or mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by the perpetrator or an associate), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, contact sports (mid-severity or less), or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel
  • Threats or depictions of kidnappings or abductions, unless it is clear that the content is being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness-raising purposes
Additional protections for Private Adults, All Children, high-risk persons and persons or groups based on their protected characteristics:
In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all private adults (when self-reported), children and persons or groups of people targeted on the basis of their protected characteristic(s), are protected from threats of low-severity violence.
Other Violence
In addition to all of the protections listed above, we remove the following:
  • Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
  • Instructions on how to make or use weapons where there is language explicitly stating the goal to seriously injure or kill people, or imagery that shows or simulates the end result, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as educational self-defense (for example, combat training, martial arts) and military training
  • Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as recreational uses (for example, fireworks and commercial video games, fishing)
  • Threats to take up weapons or to bring weapons to a location or forcibly enter a location (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election), or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Threats of violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election, even if there is no target.
  • Glorification of gender-based violence that is either intimate partner violence or honor-based violence
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We Remove:
  • Threats against law enforcement officers or election officials, regardless of their public figure status or credibility of the threat.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit, as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.
    • Threat: a coded statement that is one of the following:
      • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence against others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
      • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been committed throughout history or in fictional settings)
      • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out violent acts or to join in carrying out the violent acts)
      • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violence (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Context
      • Local context or expertise confirms that the statement in question could lead to imminent violence.
      • The target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
  • Implicit threats to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Claims or speculation about election-related corruption, irregularities, or bias when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism), including:
    • Targeting individual(s)
    • Targeting a specific location (state or smaller)
    • Where the target is not explicit
  • References to election-related gatherings or events when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism).
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
We Remove:
We remove threats of violence against various targets. Threats of violence are statements or visuals representing an intention, aspiration, or call for violence against a target, and threats can be expressed in various types of statements such as statements of intent, calls for action, advocacy, aspirational statements and conditional statements.
We do not prohibit threats when shared in awareness-raising or condemning context, when less severe threats are made in the context of contact sports, or when threats are directed against certain violent actors, like terrorist groups.
Universal protections for everyone
Everyone is protected from the following threats:
  • Threats of violence that could lead to death (or other forms of high-severity violence)
  • Threats of violence that could lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence). We remove such threats against public figures and groups not based on protected characteristics when credible, and we remove them against any other targets (including groups based on protected characteristics) regardless of credibility
  • Admissions to high-severity or mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by the perpetrator or an associate), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, contact sports (mid-severity or less), or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel
  • Threats or depictions of kidnappings or abductions, unless it is clear that the content is being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness-raising purposes
Additional protections for Private Adults, All Children, high-risk persons and persons or groups based on their protected characteristics:
In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all private adults (when self-reported), children and persons or groups of people targeted on the basis of their protected characteristic(s), are protected from threats of low-severity violence.
Other Violence
In addition to all of the protections listed above, we remove the following:
  • Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
  • Instructions on how to make or use weapons where there is language explicitly stating the goal to seriously injure or kill people, or imagery that shows or simulates the end result, unless in the context of recreational self-defense, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as educational self-defense (for example, combat training, martial arts) and military training
  • Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as recreational uses (for example, fireworks and commercial video games, fishing) (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
  • Threats to take up weapons or to bring weapons to a location or forcibly enter a location (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election), or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Threats of violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election, even if there is no target.
  • Glorification of gender-based violence that is either intimate partner violence or honor-based violence
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We Remove:
  • Threats against law enforcement officers or election officials, regardless of their public figure status or credibility of the threat.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit, as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.
    • Threat: a coded statement that is one of the following:
      • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence against others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
      • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been committed throughout history or in fictional settings)
      • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out violent acts or to join in carrying out the violent acts)
      • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violence (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Context
      • Local context or expertise confirms that the statement in question could lead to imminent violence.
      • The target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
  • Implicit threats to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Claims or speculation about election-related corruption, irregularities, or bias when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism), including:
    • Targeting individual(s)
    • Targeting a specific location (state or smaller)
    • Where the target is not explicit
  • References to election-related gatherings or events when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism).
Defining terms and streamlining provisions in the policy on instructions on how to make weapons and explosives
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
We Remove:
We remove threats of violence against various targets. Threats of violence are statements or visuals representing an intention, aspiration, or call for violence against a target, and threats can be expressed in various types of statements such as statements of intent, calls for action, advocacy, aspirational statements and conditional statements.
We do not prohibit threats when shared in awareness-raising or condemning context, when less severe threats are made in the context of contact sports, or when threats are directed against certain violent actors, like terrorist groups.
Universal protections for everyone
Everyone is protected from the following threats:
  • Threats of violence that could lead to death (or other forms of high-severity violence)
  • Threats of violence that could lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence). We remove such threats against public figures and groups not based on protected characteristics when credible, and we remove them against any other targets (including groups based on protected characteristics) regardless of credibility
  • Admissions to high-severity or mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by the perpetrator or an associate), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, contact sports (mid-severity or less), or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel
  • Threats or depictions of kidnappings or abductions, unless it is clear that the content is being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness-raising purposes
Additional protections for Private Adults, All Children, high-risk persons and persons or groups based on their protected characteristics:
In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all private adults (when self-reported), children and persons or groups of people targeted on the basis of their protected characteristic(s), are protected from threats of low-severity violence.
Other Violence
In addition to all of the protections listed above, we remove the following:
  • Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
  • Instructions on how to make or use weapons where there is language explicitly stating the goal to seriously injure or kill people, or imagery that shows or simulates the end result, unless in the context of recreational self-defense, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo).
  • Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
  • Threats to take up weapons or to bring weapons to a location or forcibly enter a location (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election), or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Threats of violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election, even if there is no target.
  • Glorification of gender-based violence that is either intimate partner violence or honor-based violence
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We Remove:
  • Threats against law enforcement officers or election officials, regardless of their public figure status or credibility of the threat.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit, as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.
    • Threat: a coded statement that is one of the following:
      • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence against others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
      • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been committed throughout history or in fictional settings)
      • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out violent acts or to join in carrying out the violent acts)
      • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violence (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Context
      • Local context or expertise confirms that the statement in question could lead to imminent violence.
      • The target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
  • Implicit threats to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Claims or speculation about election-related corruption, irregularities, or bias when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism), including:
    • Targeting individual(s)
    • Targeting a specific location (state or smaller)
    • Where the target is not explicit
  • References to election-related gatherings or events when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism).
Following our Policy Forum on “Praise of Violent Acts” in May 2023, we are updating our Violence and Incitement policy to clarify that content glorifying intimate partner violence or “honor”-based violence is not permitted on our services.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by a perpetrator), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by a perpetrator), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless when shared in a context of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring or take up armaments to locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days. This includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence that targets these locations.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to forcibly enter locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit , as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
  • Threat: Content is a coded statement that is one of the following:
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence againstdo something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmfulviolent acts or to join in carrying out the harmfulviolent acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violenceharm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
  • Context:
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election workers, including claims of election-related wrongdoing against private individuals when combined with a signal of violence or additional context that confirms that the claim could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
This policy has been updated to refine language on depictions of high-severity violence.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by a perpetrator), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by a perpetrator), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless when shared in a context of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring or take up armaments to locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days. This includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence that targets these locations.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to forcibly enter locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election workers, including claims of election-related wrongdoing against private individuals when combined with a signal of violence or additional context that confirms that the claim could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
This policy has been updated to refine language on depictions of high-severity violence.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks for, offers, or, admits to offering or offers services of high-severity violencefor hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins , female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these servicesa hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content iswhen shared in a context ofas part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring or take up armaments to locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days. This includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence that targets these locations.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to forcibly enter locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election workers, including claims of election-related wrongdoing against private individuals when combined with a signal of violence or additional context that confirms that the claim could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
The policy has been updated with minor changes to refine language on services of high-severity violence.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks, admits to offering or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self-defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring or take up armamentsweapons to locations ,(including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election )or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days. This includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence that targets these locations.(or encouraging others to do the same).
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to forcibly enter locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election workers, including claims of election-related wrongdoing against private individuals when combined with a signal of violence or additional context that confirms that the claim could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
The policy will now remove statements of intent and advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to forcibly enter locations where there temporarily are signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks, admits to offering or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defene, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election officialsworkers, including claims of election-related wrongdoing against private individuals when combined with a signal of violence or additional context that confirms that the claim could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
The policy is being updated to increase protections for election workers when there is additional context that the claims could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks , admits to offering or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts non-convicted individuals at risk by revealing their identity and their status as a target of a sting operation as a sexual predator.
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
    • Additionally, we have specific rules and guidance regarding content related to COVID-19 and vaccines. To see these specific rules please click here.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
Policy language about outing individuals is being consolidated in the Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime policy so policy language has been moved there. Policy language about the admission of high and mid-severity violence has also been moved from the Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime policy.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts abductions or kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
    • Calls for action of violence, or
    • Statements advocating for violence, or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts non-convicted individuals at risk by revealing their identity and their status as a target of a sting operation as a sexual predator.
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
    • Additionally, we have specific rules and guidance regarding content related to COVID-19 and vaccines. To see these specific rules please click here.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Facebook looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
The policy has been updated to refine language on kidnappings and abductions to make it consistent throughout.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target
Content that depicts abductions or kidnappings if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
    • Calls for action of violence, or
    • Statements advocating for violence, or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts non-convicted individuals at risk by revealing their identity and their status as a target of a sting operation as a sexual predator.
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
    • Additionally, we have specific rules and guidance regarding content related to COVID-19 and vaccines. To see these specific rules please click here.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Facebook looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
The policy is being updated to clarify that for content where we have additional information and/or context may remove content that puts non-convicted individuals at risk by revealing their identity and the status as a target of a sting operation as a sexual predator.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Content that depicts abductions or kidnappings if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election ( or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm
    • Additionally, we have specific rules and guidance regarding content related to COVID-19 and vaccines. To see these specific rules please click here.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Facebook looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes, or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening, and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there’s a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Content that depicts abductions or kidnappings if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election ( or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm
    • Additionally, we have specific rules and guidance regarding content related to COVID-19 and vaccines. To see these specific rules please click here.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there’s a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence ; or. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to or method thatrepresent s violence ; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence ; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Content that depicts abductions or kidnappings if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Content that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with any individual who is alleged to be a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group, share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member of an at-risk group or have performed professional activities in support of an at-risk group (except for political figures).
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives : U, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration , or the administration ofor outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election ( or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there’s a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Content that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with any individual who is alleged to be a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group, share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member of an at-risk group or have performed professional activities in support of an at-risk group (except for political figures).
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration, or the administration of outcome of an election
Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election ( or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following content, we may require more information and/or context in order to enforce
  • Threats against election officials
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Content that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with any individual who is alleged to be a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group, share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member of an at-risk group or have performed professional activities in support of an at-risk group (except for political figures).
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the administration of outcome of an election
Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities or polling places , or locations used to count votes or administer an election( or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following content, we may require more information and/or context in order to enforce
  • Threats against election officials
These policy updates reflect the additional steps we're taking to help secure the integrity of the election by encouraging voting, connecting people to authoritative information, and reducing the chances of post-election unrest. Read more about these changes here.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s)targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk groupContent that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with any individual who is alleged to be a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group, share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member of an at-risk group or have performed professional activities in support of an at-risk group (except for political figures).
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship,educational facilities or polling places ( or encouraging others to do the same).
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute contributes to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship,educational facilities or polling places ( or encouraging others to do the same).
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation that contributes to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship,educational facilities or polling places (or encouraging others to do the same.)1
1 We have updated our policies to prohibit calls to action or statements of intent to bring weapons to polling places and educational facilities.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm.
Calls to action, Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armamentsweapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities or polling places (or encouraging others to do the same.)1
1 We have updated our policies to prohibit calls to action or statements of intent to bring weapons to polling places and educational facilities.
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and vulnerabilitythe risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerablehigh risk persons, or vulnerablehigh risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerablehigh risk persons, or vulnerablehigh risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election.
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm.
Calls to action, statements of intent to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, or encouraging others to do the same.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election.
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm.
Calls to action, statements of intent to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, or encouraging others to do the same.
The language we previously used to describe our policies against violence and incitement was imprecise. We have since replaced it to more clearly explain the policy and underlying rationale.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and vulnerability.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.) including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.)
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence (unless the target is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.) including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.)
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election.
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm.
Calls to action, statements of intent to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, or encouraging others to do the same.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.)
  • Including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.)
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence (unless the target is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.) including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target;; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is an adult public figure convicted or accused of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.)
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election.
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm
Calls to action, statements of intent to bring armaments to a vulnerable location, or encouraging others to do the same
Section 1: Violence and Incitement (New):
This change reflects our effort to enhance protections against violent speech. Over the past year, our conversations with external experts, academics and others has demonstrated that violent statements, regardless of credibility, have a negative effect on people. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we will remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and vulnerability.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy)
  • Including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy); or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy)
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence (unless the target is an adult public figure convicted or accused of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization); or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence (unless the target is a member of a dangerous organization) including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is an adult public figure convicted or accused of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization); or
  • Other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show s or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election.
Formerly Section 1: Credible Violence
In May 2019, we rewrote our policy on credible violence to enhance protections against violent speech. The updated policy has been renamed "Violence and Incitement." For informational purposes, we've maintained the text of the credible violence policy as it read before the rewrite, but please note that these sections have been superseded.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential real-world harm that may be related to content on Facebook. We understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in facetious and non-serious ways. That's why we try to consider the language, context and details in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a targeted person's public visibility and vulnerability. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety.
Do not post:
The following threats:
  • Credible statements of intent to commit violence against any person, groups of people, or place (city or smaller). We assess credibility based upon the information available to us and generally consider statements credible if the following are present:
    • A target (person, group of people, or place) and
      • Bounty/demand for payment, or
      • Mention or image of specific weapon, or
      • Sales offer or ask to purchase weapon, or
      • Spelled-out address or named building, or
    • A target and two or more of the following details (can be two of the same detail):
      • Location
      • Timing
      • Method
  • Any statement of intent to commit violence against a vulnerable person (identified by name, title, image, or other reference) or vulnerable group, including (but not limited to) heads-of-state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
Calls for violence or statements advocating violence against the following targets (identified by name, title, image, or other reference)
  • Any vulnerable person or group including (but not limited to) heads of state, national elected officials, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
  • Public individuals, if credible as defined above
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
  • Where no target is specified but a symbol representing the target or a visual of weapons is included
Aspirational and conditional statements of violence against
  • Any vulnerable groups
  • Public individuals, if credible (unless the individual is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
  • Vulnerable person(s), if credible
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people as may be evident from:
  • As evident from language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • As evident from imagery that shows or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self-defense activities, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage)
Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, clear scientific/educational purpose use or fireworks)
Exposure of vulnerable individuals' identities without their permission
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, representation, support or advocationadvocating1 for violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election2
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm3
1 Updated May 2018.
2 Updated October 2018 with the following annotation: "For more information on this specific update to our policy, please visit the blog post we put out on expanding our voter suppression policies: Expanding Our Policies on Voter Suppression"
3Updated July 2018.
Do not post:
The following threats:
  • Credible statements of intent to commit violence against any person, groups of people, or place (city or smaller). We assess credibility based upon the information available to us and generally consider statements credible if the following are present:
    • A target (person, group of people, or place) and
      • Bounty/demand for payment, or
      • Mention or image of specific weapon, or
      • Sales offer or ask to purchase weapon, or
      • Spelled-out address or named building, or
    • A target and two or more of the following details (can be two of the same detail):
      • Location
      • Timing
      • Method
  • Any statement of intent to commit violence against a vulnerable person (identified by name, title, image, or other reference) or vulnerable group, including (but not limited to) heads-of-state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
Calls for violence or statements advocating violence against the following targets (identified by name, title, image, or other reference)
  • Any vulnerable person or group including (but not limited to) heads of state, national elected officials, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
  • Public individuals, if credible as defined above
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
  • Where no target is specified but a symbol representing the target or a visual of weapons is included
Aspirational and conditional statements of violence against
  • Any vulnerable groups
  • Public individuals, if credible (unless the individual is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
  • Vulnerable person(s), if credible
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people as may be evident from:
  • As evident from language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • As evident from imagery that shows or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self-defense activities, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage)
Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, clear scientific/educational purpose use or fireworks)
Exposure of vulnerable individuals' identities without their permission
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocationadvocating for violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm
Do not post:
The following threats:
  • Credible statements of intent to commit violence against any person, groups of people, or place (city or smaller). We assess credibility based upon the information available to us and generally consider statements credible if the following are present:
    • A target (person, group of people, or place) and
      • Bounty/demand for payment, or
      • Mention or image of specific weapon, or
      • Sales offer or ask to purchase weapon, or
      • Spelled-out address or named building, or
    • A target and two or more of the following details (can be two of the same detail):
      • Location
      • Timing
      • Method
  • Any statement of intent to commit violence against a vulnerable person (identified by name, title, image, or other reference) or vulnerable group, including (but not limited to) heads-of-state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
Calls for violence or statements advocating violence against the following targets (identified by name, title, image, or other reference)
  • Any vulnerable person or group including (but not limited to) heads of state, national elected officials, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
  • Public individuals, if credible as defined above
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
  • Where no target is specified but a symbol representing the target or a visual of weapons is included
Aspirational and conditional statements of violence against
  • Any vulnerable groups
  • Public individuals, if credible (unless the individual is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
  • Vulnerable person(s), if credible
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people as may be evident from:
  • As evident from language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • As evident from imagery that shows or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self-defense activities, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage)
Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, clear scientific/educational purpose use or fireworks)
Exposure of vulnerable individuals' identities without their permission
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocation for violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm
For more information on this specific update to our policy, please visit the blog post we put out on expanding our voter suppression policies: Expanding Our Policies on Voter Suppression
Do not post:
The following threats:
  • Credible statements of intent to commit violence against any person, groups of people, or place (city or smaller). We assess credibility based upon the information available to us and generally consider statements credible if the following are present:
    • A target (person, group of people, or place) and
      • Bounty/demand for payment, or
      • Mention or image of specific weapon, or
      • Sales offer or ask to purchase weapon, or
      • Spelled-out address or named building, or
    • A target and two or more of the following details (can be two of the same detail):
      • Location
      • Timing
      • Method
  • Any statement of intent to commit violence against a vulnerable person (identified by name, title, image, or other reference) or vulnerable group, including (but not limited to) heads-of-state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
Calls for violence or statements advocating violence against the following targets (identified by name, title, image, or other reference)
  • Any vulnerable person or group including (but not limited to) heads of state, national elected officials, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
  • Public individuals, if credible as defined above
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
  • Where no target is specified but a symbol representing the target or a visual of weapons is included
Aspirational and conditional statements of violence against
  • Any vulnerable groups
  • Public individuals, if credible (unless the individual is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
  • Vulnerable person(s), if credible
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people as may be evident from:
  • As evident from language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • As evident from imagery that shows or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self-defense activities, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage)
Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, clear scientific/educational purpose use or fireworks)
Exposure of vulnerable individuals' identities without their permission
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, representation, support or advocation for violence due to the outcome of an election
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm.
Do not post:
The following threats:
  • Credible statements of intent to commit violence against any person, groups of people, or place (city or smaller). We assess credibility based upon the information available to us and generally consider statements credible if the following are present:
    • A target (person, group of people, or place) and
      • Bounty/demand for payment, or
      • Mention or image of specific weapon, or
      • Sales offer or ask to purchase weapon, or
      • Spelled-out address or named building, or
    • A target and two or more of the following details (can be two of the same detail):
      • Location
      • Timing
      • Method
  • Any statement of intent to commit violence against a vulnerable person (identified by name, title, image, or other reference) or vulnerable group, including (but not limited to) heads-of-state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
Calls for violence or statements advocating violence against the following targets (identified by name, title, image, or other reference)
  • Any vulnerable person or group including (but not limited to) heads of state, national elected officials, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
  • Public individuals, if credible as defined above
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
  • Where no target is specified but a symbol representing the target or a visual of weapons is included
Aspirational and conditional statements of violence against
  • Any vulnerable groups
  • Public individuals, if credible (unless the individual is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
  • Vulnerable person(s), if credible
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people as may be evident from:
  • As evident from language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • As evident from imagery that shows or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self-defense activities, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage)
Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, clear scientific/educational purpose use or fireworks)
Exposure of vulnerable individuals' identities without their permission
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, representation, support or advocation for violence due to the outcome of an election
Expériences sur la plateforme
Voyez des exemples du processus d’application des règles sur Facebook, notamment : à quoi ressemble le signalement de quelque chose qui, selon vous, n’a pas sa place sur Facebook, un message vous informant que vous avez enfreint nos Normes de la communauté et un écran d’avertissement sur certains contenus.
Remarque : Nous améliorons constamment nos services, il est donc possible que ce que vous voyez ici soit légèrement différent de ce que nous utilisons actuellement.
EXPÉRIENCE SUR LA PLATEFORME
Le signalement
EXPÉRIENCE SUR LA PLATEFORME
La communication post-signalement
EXPÉRIENCE SUR LA PLATEFORME
Le retrait du contenu
EXPÉRIENCE SUR LA PLATEFORME
Les écrans d’avertissement
Données
Consultez le plus récent rapport d’application des Normes de la communauté
Mise en application
Nous appliquons les mêmes règles partout dans le monde, pour tous les utilisateurs de Facebook.
Équipe d’examinateurs
Notre équipe internationale composée de plus de 15 000 examinateurs travaille chaque jour pour assurer la sécurité des utilisateurs de Facebook.
Engagement des intervenants
Des experts externes, des universitaires, des ONG et des décideurs politiques contribuent à l’élaboration des Normes de la communauté Facebook.
Obtenir de l’aide au sujet de la violence et de l’incitation
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