制限されている商品およびサービス

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ポリシーの基本理念
安全を促し、有害な可能性のある活動を抑止するため、弊社では、個人、製造業者、小売業者がプラットフォーム上で一定の商品およびサービスを購入、販売、抽選、贈呈、譲渡または取引する試みを禁止しています。弊社は、以下のポリシーで定める薬物乱用につながるおそれのあるいかなる薬物のやり取りや販売も容認しません。実店舗およびオンライン小売店は、弊社のサービス外で販売している銃火器、アルコール、タバコを宣伝することができますが、18歳未満の未成年に向けたこうしたコンテンツの表示は制限されます。また、禁止されている文書の交換および禁止されている金融サービスの助長も禁止されています。弊社は、店舗またはオンライン小売店でのこれらの商品の販売や、本ポリシーの対象となる商品およびサービスの規制の変更を支持すること、ならびに治療に関連する医薬品の使用を支持または懸念することに関するディスカッション(身体的または精神的な副反応のディスカッションを含む)を認めています。
制限されている商品およびサービスには以下のカテゴリがあります。
  • 薬物および医薬品
  • 武器、弾薬、爆発物
  • タバコおよび関連製品
  • アルコール
  • 健康とウェルネス
  • オンラインギャンブルおよびオンラインゲーム
  • 絶滅危惧種および保護種(野生生物、植物)
  • 歴史的遺物
  • 危険物および有害物質
  • 体の一部や体液
  • リコールされた製品
  • 禁止されている文書および金融サービス
それぞれのカテゴリについて、以下に詳しく説明します。
薬物および医薬品
以下は禁止されています。
リスクが高い薬物(コカイン、フェンタニル、ヘロインなど、乱用や中毒を生じさせる可能性が高い薬物または過剰摂取を含む重大な健康上のリスクに関連する薬物)
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • リスクが高い薬物の購入、販売、取引、取引調整、寄付、贈答、または要求を試みるもの
  • コンテンツの投稿者が自身で、または他の人を介してリスクが高い薬物を購入、取引または取引調整していることを認めるもの
  • 回復、治療、または薬物使用をやめるためのその他のサポートについて、それらを受けていることを認めたりそれらに言及したりすることなく個人の使用を認めるもの。こうしたサポートなどについて認めたり言及したりするコンテンツにおいては、リスクが高い薬物について肯定的に発言したり、その使用を奨励したり、その手配をしたり、またはその作成・使用を指導したりしてはなりません。
  • リスクが高い薬物の手配または宣伝(リスクが高い薬物について肯定的に発言したり、その使用を奨励したり、または使用・作成を指導したりすること)を行うもの
  • 注: 危険性の高い薬物の合法性についての議論や主張、または危険性の高い薬物の科学的・医学的な利点についての議論は認められています。これにはニュースおよび公共サービス広報が含まれます。
非医療用の薬物(意図された医療目的のために使用されていない、または気分の高揚を得るために使用される薬物または物質。これには前駆的化学物質、またはこのような薬物の生成に使用される物質が含まれます)
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • 非医療用薬物の購入、販売、取引、取引調整、寄付、贈答または要求を試みるもの
  • コンテンツの投稿者が自身で、または他の人を介して非医療用薬物を購入、取引または取引調整していることを認めるもの
  • 回復、治療、または薬物使用をやめるためのその他のサポートについて、それらを受けていることを認めたりそれらに言及したりすることなく個人の使用を認めるもの。こうしたサポートなどについて認めたり言及したりするコンテンツにおいては、非医療用薬物について肯定的に発言したり、その使用を奨励したり、その手配をしたり、またはその作成・使用を指導したりしてはなりません。
  • 非医療用薬物の手配または宣伝(非医療用薬物について肯定的に発言したり、その使用を奨励したり、または使用・作成を指導したりすること)を行うもの
  • 非医療用薬物関連器具の販売または宣伝を試みるもの
  • 非医療用薬物を描写する商品を含むもの
処方箋(処方箋を必要とする薬物、または医療従事者による投与が必要な薬物)
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • 処方箋の購入、販売、または取引を試みるもの。ただし、以下の場合を除きます。
    • 18歳以上の成人に制限されている場合で、教育・議論の文脈の中であることが明確な、ワクチン価格の表示
    • 18歳以上の成人に制限されている場合で、認可された医療関係の電子商取引事業者が投稿する配送の提供。このコンテンツには、資格のある医療従事者への相談または有効な処方箋の取得に関する免責情報が含まれている必要があります。
  • 処方箋の寄付または贈答を試みるもの(公衆衛生上の危機、経済・社会危機、または自然災害の状況下を除く)
  • 処方箋を要求するもの(医学的な文脈の中で、処方箋の購入または入手のしやすさ、効能について議論するコンテンツを除く)
  • 注: 処方薬の合法性についての議論や主張、または処方薬の科学的・医学的な利点についての議論は認められています。これにはニュースおよび公共サービス広報が含まれます。
幻覚剤
  • 幻覚剤の購入、販売、取引、寄付、贈答、または要求を試みるコンテンツ
  • 注: 幻覚剤の合法性についての議論や主張、幻覚剤の科学的・医学的な利点についての議論は認められています。
大麻および大麻由来製品
  • 大麻、およびTHCもしくは関連する精神活性成分が含まれる製品の購入、販売、取引、寄付、贈答または要求を試みるコンテンツ
以下のコンテンツは、表示を制限し、18歳以上の成人のみを対象とします。
幻覚剤
  • 幻覚剤の個人的な使用を認めるコンテンツ、幻覚剤を手配・宣伝する(幻覚剤を肯定的に取り上げる)コンテンツ、または幻覚剤の使用を奨励するコンテンツ
    • ただし、上記のいずれかがフィクションまたはドキュメンタリーの文脈で発生する場合は除きます。
大麻および大麻由来製品
  • 大麻、およびTHCもしくは関連する精神活性成分が含まれる製品の手配または宣伝(これらの薬物について肯定的に発言したり、その使用を奨励したり、または使用・作成を指導したりすること)を行うコンテンツ
  • 大麻、およびTHCもしくは関連する精神活性成分が含まれる製品の購入、販売または取引を試みるものではない、大麻販売者により投稿されたビジネス関連コンテンツ
  • 経口カンナビジオール(CBD)製品または類似のカンナビノイド製品の購入、販売、取引、寄付、贈答または要求を試みるコンテンツ
  • 非経口カンナビジオール(CBD)製品または類似のカンナビノイド製品の購入、販売、取引、寄付、贈答または要求を試みるコンテンツ
  • 非経口カンナビジオール(CBD)製品または類似のカンナビノイド製品に関連する疾患の主張をするコンテンツ
  • 大麻関連器具を描写するコンテンツ
処方薬
  • 文脈(認可された医療関係の電子商取引事業者が投稿など)にかかわらず、処方薬の購入、販売または取引を試みるコンテンツ
  • 市販薬の購入、販売、取引、寄付、贈答、または要求を試みるコンテンツ
  • 処方薬の投与または摂取を含むコンテンツ
武器、弾薬、爆発物
以下は禁止されています。
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • 銃火器、銃火器のパーツ、弾薬、爆発物、または殺傷力強化装置の購入、販売または取引を試みるもの。ただし、以下の場合を除きます。
    • 合法的な実店舗(小売ビジネス、ウェブサイト、ブランドや、政府機関(警察局または消防局など)を含む)を代表するページ、グループもしくはInstagramプロフィール、または合法的な実店舗に代わってコンテンツを共有する一般の個人によって投稿されるもの。視聴は21歳以上の利用者のみに制限されます。
  • 以下の文脈において投稿されるものを除き、銃火器、銃火器のパーツ、弾薬、爆発物、または殺傷力強化装置の寄付または贈答を試みるもの
    • 合法的な実店舗(小売りビジネス、ウェブサイト、ブランドや、政府機関を含む)を代表するページ、グループもしくはInstagramプロフィールによるか、または合法的な実店舗に代わってコンテンツを共有する一般の個人による、銃火器および弾薬の寄付、取引または買い戻し。視聴は21歳以上の利用者のみに制限されます。
    • 合法的な実店舗(小売りビジネス、政府関係機関、非営利団体を含む)が行うか、または合法的な実店舗と関連したりその支援を受けたりする一般の個人が行う銃火器のオークションまたは抽選。視聴は21歳以上の利用者のみに制限されます。
  • 銃火器、銃火器のパーツ、弾薬、爆発物、または殺傷力強化装置を要求するもの
  • 文脈や投稿者にかかわらず、銃火器や銃火器のパーツを3Dプリンターまたはコンピューターを使用して製造するための説明書の購入、販売、贈答、交換、譲渡、手配を試みたり、肯定的な発言をしたり、使用を奨励したり、またはそうした説明書へのアクセスを提供するもの
  • マシンガン改造装置の購入、販売、取引、寄付、贈答を試みたり、要求したり、所有を認めるもの
以下のコンテンツは、表示を制限し、21歳以上の成人のみを対象とします。
武器、弾薬、爆発物
  • 合法的な実店舗、事業体(小売ビジネス、ウェブサイト、ブランド、政府機関を含む)が投稿するコンテンツやこれらを宣伝するコンテンツで、銃火器、銃火器のパーツ、弾薬、爆発物、または殺傷力強化装置の購入、販売、取引、寄付、贈答、または要求(オークションまたは抽選によるものを含む)を試みるもの
以下のコンテンツは、表示を制限し、18歳以上の成人のみを対象とします。
刃物やその他の武器
  • 刃物やその他の武器(ペッパースプレー、ナックルリングなど)の購入、販売、取引、手配、寄付、贈答または要求を試みるコンテンツ
  • 銃火器、銃火器のパーツ、弾薬、爆発物、殺傷力強化装置、または刃物について商品レビューで肯定的に発言したり、使用を指導したり、使用を奨励するコンテンツ
  • 殺傷力のない付属品の販売申し出および宣伝
タバコおよび関連製品
以下は禁止されています。
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • タバコ/ニコチン関連製品、または喫煙を模す製品(あらゆる種類の電子ニコチン伝達システム(以下「ENDS」)製品(電子タバコ、ベイブ、ニコチンフリーベイブなど)を含む)の購入、販売または取引を試みるもの
    • 合法的な実店舗(小売ビジネス、ウェブサイト、ブランドを含む)を代表するページ、グループもしくはInstagramプロフィール、または合法的な実店舗に代わってコンテンツを共有する一般の個人によって投稿された場合(配送サービスやブランドのプレゼントの提供を含む)を除きます。
  • タバコ/ニコチン製品または「ENDS」製品の寄付または贈答を試みるもの
    • 合法的な実店舗(小売ビジネス、ウェブサイト、ブランドを含む)を代表するページ、グループもしくはInstagramプロフィール、または合法的な実店舗に代わってコンテンツを共有する一般の個人によって投稿された場合(配送サービスやブランドのプレゼントの提供を含む)を除きます。
  • タバコ/ニコチン関連製品、または喫煙を模す製品(あらゆる種類の「ENDS」製品(ニコチン・フリー・ベイプ)を含む)を要求するもの
以下のコンテンツは、表示を制限し、18歳以上の成人のみを対象とします。
  • 合法的な実店舗(小売ビジネス、ウェブサイト、ブランドを含む)により投稿されたコンテンツやそれらを宣伝するコンテンツで、アルコールやタバコ製品の購入、販売、取引、寄付、または贈答を試みるもの
  • タバコ、ニコチン製品または「ENDS」製品の消費を描写するコンテンツ
  • タバコ、ニコチン製品、「ENDS」製品またはタバコブランドの使用を手配または宣伝するコンテンツ
  • 禁煙製品を描写するコンテンツ
  • タバコ、タバコに関連する器具またはタバコブランドについて議論し、またはその使用を推進するコンテンツ
  • ノンフィクションの文脈で喫煙またはタバコ消費を描写するメディアコンテンツ
    • 禁煙キャンペーン、タバコ中毒に関するカウンセリングサービス、タバコ中毒のリハビリ、またはPSAの文脈を除く。
アルコール
以下は禁止されています。
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • アルコールの購入、販売または取引を試みるもの。ただし、以下の場合を除きます。
    • 合法的な実店舗(小売ビジネス、ウェブサイト、ブランドを含む)を代表するページ、グループもしくはInstagramプロフィール、または合法的な実店舗に代わってコンテンツを共有する一般の個人によって投稿された場合(配送サービスやブランドのプレゼントの提供を含む)
    • アルコールに言及するコンテンツ、またはイベント、レストラン、バー、パーティなどでアルコールが取引もしくは消費される、アルコールを扱う施設に招待するコンテンツ
  • アルコールまたはタバコの寄付または贈答を試みるもの(ただし、合法的な実在する事業体(小売りビジネス、ウェブサイト、ブランドを含む)を代表するページ、グループもしくはInstagramプロフィールによる投稿、または合法的な実在する事業体に代わってコンテンツを共有する一般の個人による投稿を除く)
  • アルコール製品およびアルコール飲料を要求するもの
以下のコンテンツは、表示を制限し、18歳以上の成人のみを対象とします。
  • 合法的な実店舗(小売ビジネス、ウェブサイト、ブランドを含む)により投稿されたコンテンツやそれらを宣伝するコンテンツで、アルコール製品やアルコール飲料の購入、販売、取引、寄付または贈答を試みるもの
  • アルコール製品やアルコール飲料の消費を描写するコンテンツ、またはアルコール飲料のレシピをシェアするコンテンツ
  • アルコール製品に言及するコンテンツ、またはアルコールが取引もしくは消費される、アルコールを扱う施設に招待するコンテンツ
健康とウェルネス
以下のコンテンツは、表示を制限し、18歳以上の成人のみを対象とします。
減量または増量関連の商品またはサービス
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • 減量または増量関連の商品またはサービスの購入、販売、取引、寄付、贈答、言及または要求を試みるもの
  • 好意的な文脈で減量もしくは増量関連の商品の使用を告白もしくは描写するもの、またはその副作用について議論するもの
  • ダイエット商品の手配または宣伝(肯定的に発言したり、使用を奨励したり、使用・作成を指導したりすること)を表示するもの
  • 容姿に関する劣等性を主張する発言(すなわち、個人の容姿、特定の体の部位、衛生状態を攻撃する否定的な用語、表現、質問)、またはつまんだ皮下脂肪を示す特定の身体部分のクローズアップの描写を含むもの
  • ジュエリーやパッチなどのウェアラブル製品を使用するだけで結果が得られるとする主張
  • 減量または増量の文脈でクリックベイト手法(健康についての大げさまたは極端な主張を含む扇情的な表現、免責情報や限定条件の記載なしで特定の期間内の具体的な成果を約束することなど)を用いること
美容製品、美容処置または美容整形
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • 美容製品、美容処置または美容整形の購入、販売、取引、寄付、言及または要求を試みるもの。例えば次のようなものがあります。
    • 漂白クリームなどの肌の美白製品
    • 顔や身体の機能や構造に関する処置や回復を意図した美容処置
  • 美容処置のプラス面やマイナス面、または副作用を強調しながら、美容処置の使用を告白または描写するもの
  • 美容処置や美容整形の手配や宣伝を表示するもの(美容処置や美容整形について肯定的に発言したり、その利用を奨励したり、その利用・実施を指導したりすること)
  • 容姿に関する劣等性を主張する発言(すなわち、個人の容姿、特定の体の部位、衛生状態を攻撃する否定的な用語、表現、質問)を含むもの
注: エクササイズ方法(ピラティスなど)や一時的な美容関連商品・サービス(メイクなど)の宣伝は本ポリシーの対象ではありません。
誤解を招く健康法
  • 不治の病や末期疾患(以下に網羅的に記載)の治療、治癒または完治の主張(医療専門家や保健機関による主張を含む)。注: これらの疾患の症状の治療や管理に関する主張には適用されません。
    • 糖尿病
    • ヘルペス
    • 甲状腺疾患
    • 乾癬
    • エボラ出血熱
    • がん
    • 自閉症
    • アルツハイマー病
    • パーキンソン病
    • 筋萎縮性側索硬化症(ALS)
    • ヒト免疫不全ウイルス(HIV)
  • 健康の文脈でクリックベイト手法(健康についての大げさまたは極端な主張を含む扇情的な表現、免責情報や限定条件の記載なしで特定の期間内の健康関連の具体的な成果を約束することなど)を用いること。
性的興奮を高めるための成人向けの製品
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • フィクションまたはノンフィクションの文脈で、性的快感を刺激したり、性的興奮を高めたりすることが主な目的である成人向けの製品の購入、販売、宣伝、取引、寄付、贈答または要求を試みるもの。例えば次のようなものがあります。
    • アダルトグッズ
    • ポルノ製品
    • 性的欲求を刺激したり性的能力を改善する製品などの非外科的な性器増強製品
    • 性的欲求または性的興奮を刺激することが主な目的である製品
    • 明確な文脈のないアダルトグッズの描写
性・生殖に関する健康またはウェルネス関連の製品
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • 性・生殖に関する健康またはウェルネス関連の製品の購入、販売、宣伝、取引、寄付、贈答または要求を試みるもの。例えば次のようなものがあります。
    • 性的快感を主な目的としており、医療上のメリットを目的としていない性・生殖に関する健康またはウェルネス関連の製品(男根または女性器を連想させる物体が含まれる製品を含む)
    • 生殖障害に対処する製品
    • 性器の美容整形
    • 成人の性器手術
    • 性的快感に重点を置いた性教育
    • ホルモン製品(テストステロンブースターなど)
成人向けの性ビジネス
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • 性的快感を刺激したり、性的興奮を高めたりするための成人向けの性ビジネスの購入、販売、宣伝または要求を試みるもの。例えば次のようなものがあります。
    • 成人向けエンターテイメントビジネス
    • 成人向け施設
    • 教育的な性サービス
オンラインギャンブルおよびオンラインゲーム
以下のコンテンツは、表示を制限し、18歳以上の成人のみを対象とします。
オンラインギャンブルおよびオンラインゲーム
  • プレイに何らかの金銭的な支払い(現金、またはビットコインなどのデジタル通貨や仮想通貨を含む)が必要で、かつ賞金に金銭的価値のあるものを含んでいるオンラインゲームやオンラインギャンブルのサービスの販売、取引、描写または宣伝を試みるコンテンツ。例えば、次のような行為が含まれます。
    • スキルゲーム、宝くじ/ラッフル、賭博、スポーツ賭博、カジノゲーム、運試し、懸賞/賞品の抽選
    • 限定的なトライアル期間を提供し、その期間後に支払いを求めるギャンブルゲーム
ソーシャルカジノゲーム
  • 金銭または金銭的価値を獲得する機会のない、スロットマシンなどのギャンブルゲームをシミュレーションするソーシャルカジノゲームの販売、取引、描写または宣伝を試みるコンテンツ。これには、金銭的価値のない「コイン」を獲得する機会を示唆するコンテンツも含まれます。
ギャンブルの文脈での無料ゲーム
  • ギャンブルゲームをシミュレーションする無料ゲームの販売、取引、描写または宣伝を試みるコンテンツで、ゲームをプレイするために金銭的価値のあるものを要求されないが、金銭または金銭的価値を獲得する機会がある可能性のあるもの。
絶滅危惧種および保護種(野生生物、植物)
以下は禁止されています。
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • 絶滅危惧種やその体の一部、または保護植物の購入、販売、取引、寄付、贈答、または要求を試みるもの
  • コンテンツの投稿者またはその仲間が他の人を介して行った絶滅危惧種やその体の一部、または保護植物の密猟、購入または取引を告白または推奨するもの。これには、見知らぬ人が行った密猟を描写するものは含まれません。
  • コンテンツの投稿者またはその仲間が行った絶滅危惧種やその体の一部の密猟を描写するもの
  • 絶滅危惧種やその体の一部、または絶滅が危惧される野生動物や植物の手配や宣伝(肯定的に発言したり、密猟を奨励したり、またはそれらから作られる製品の使用・作成を指導したりすること)を表示するもの
絶滅危惧種以外の動物
  • 以下の場合を除き、絶滅危惧種以外の生きている動物の購入、販売、または取引を試みるコンテンツ
    • 合法的な実店舗(小売ビジネス、合法的なウェブサイト、ブランド、保護シェルターを含む)を代表するページ、グループ、Instagramプロフィールによる投稿、または合法的な実店舗に代わってコンテンツを共有する一般の個人による投稿
    • 絶滅危惧種以外の生きている動物の引き取り、贈答、要求、寄付、または新たな飼い主探しをする投稿(利用者間で譲渡する際の引き取り料金を含む)
    • 宗教上の行為のために動物を販売したり、行方不明のペットに関して報奨金を提供したりすること
    • 家畜の販売を行う投稿
    • 動物の角、臓器、四肢、死骸、剥製、糞(堆肥や肥料を除く)の購入、販売、贈答、要求、または寄付を行う投稿
    • 食用に動物関連商品(卵や魚など)を提供する投稿
歴史的遺物
以下は禁止されています。
歴史的遺物の購入、販売、取引、寄付、贈答、または要求を試みるコンテンツ
危険物および有害物質
以下は禁止されています。
危険物および有害物質の購入、販売、取引、寄付、贈答、または要求を試みるコンテンツ
人体の一部や体液
以下は禁止されています。
以下に該当するコンテンツ:
  • 体の一部の購入、販売または取引を試みるもの(これは、人的搾取に関するポリシーに基づき禁止されている人身売買に関するコンテンツに該当しない場合でも禁止されています)
  • 人間の体液の交換を要求するもの
  • 人間の体液の購入、販売、または取引を試みるもの
  • 人間の体液(精液や血漿)を寄付するための投稿を除く
リコールされた製品
以下は禁止されています。
リコールされた製品の購入、販売、取引、取引調整、寄付、贈答、または要求を試みるコンテンツ
禁止されている文書および金融サービス
以下は禁止されています。
以下の勧誘、作成、販売、購入、または取引を助長または提案するコンテンツ
  • 偽の、偽造された、または盗まれた文書(以下を含みますが、これらに限定されません)
    • パスポート、運転免許証、ビザ、グリーンカードなど、公的機関発行の本人確認書類
    • 財務書類
    • 通貨。ただし、ボードゲーム用であることが状況から明らかな場合、ボードゲーム用の通貨を除きます。
    • クーポン(有形およびデジタル)。対象外の品目の購入に使用されるクーポンや、期限切れのクーポンが含まれます。
    • 教育関連書類、資格認定書
  • 偽の、偽造された、または盗まれた商品およびサービス(以下を含みますが、これらに限定されません)
    • 金融商品(盗まれたクレジットカードまたは不正購入に利用できるその他の金融商品を含む)
    • 偽のレビュー(割引、返金、または無料アイテムの見返りとしてレビューを提供するよう利用者を暗黙的または明示的に促すもの)
    • 盗まれた商品やサービス(有形およびデジタルを含む)
  • 不正に操作または使用されるデバイスおよびサブスクリプション(以下を含みますが、これらに限定されません)
    • デジタルコンテンツの不正なアクセス、ストリーミングまたは録画を可能にするデバイスの改造
    • 不正なストリーミングサブスクリプション
    • ジェイルブレイク済み/不正ソフトウェアまたはツールを搭載したデバイス、制限解除されたテレビボックス
    • 有料オンラインサブスクリプションサービスのログイン認証情報の購入、販売、または取引の提案
    • セキュリティ対策を回避するためのアクセスコード
    • 操作、改造または偽造された測定機器
    • 不正確な価格設定を実現するためにデバイスの物理的な操作の利用を認める、宣伝する、または求める。
  • 個人を特定できる情報その他の個人情報には、以下が含まれますが、これらに限定されません。
    • 個人識別番号および本人確認書類(デジタルアイデンティティを含む)(ただし、架空の人物のものを除く)
  • 不正行為を可能にする製品(以下を含みますが、これらに限定されません)
    • 今後行われる試験の問題または解答用紙。
    • 試験での不正行為を可能にする製品、サービスまたはデバイス。
    • 不正な方法による薬物検査の合格を可能にする製品またはサービス。
    • 利用者に代わって論文を書くことを提案するサービス。
商業的または金銭的利益を得るための不正行為の助長を手配、提案、または勧誘する以下のようなコンテンツ。
  • マネーミュール(以下のコンテンツを含む)。
    • マネーミュールを提案または要求する(他人が自分の銀行口座を使用することを許したり他人の代わりに金銭を送金したりすることの見返りとして金銭または利益の取り分を提供することで、被害者を知らぬ間にマネーロンダリングに参加させる)。
    • 被害者の銀行口座を使用して第三者への金銭を受け入れて送金する仕事を持ちかけることで、マネーミュールを提案または要求する。
  • マネーロンダリング(以下のコンテンツを含む)。
    • 以下のいずれかの手段を含む、一連の複雑な金融取引を介して金銭の出所を偽装することで、違法に獲得した金銭が正当なものであるかのように見せる企てであるマネーロンダリングを助長することを依頼、勧誘、または提案する。
      • SWIFT (国際銀行間通信協会)または類似手段を介した資金の送金を試みる。
      • 現金の受領または送金を支援するために利用可能な銀行口座の種類に関する詳細を探ったり提供したりする。
以下のコミュニティ規定を施行するには、追加の情報や背景情報が必要となります。
以下のコンテンツは削除される場合があります。
  • 個人に対する盗撮やその録画を容易にする商品やサービス(スパイカメラ、携帯電話トラッカー(不明な電話番号の追跡を可能にするものを含む)、その他の隠し監視装置など)を提案または要求する。
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We also prohibit the exchange of prohibited documents and the facilitation of prohibited financial services. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consist of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Body Parts and Fluids
  • Recalled Goods
  • Prohibited Documents and Financial Services
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of high risk drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purpose or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
  • Attempts to sell or promote non-medical drugs paraphernalia.
  • Contains merchandise depicting non-medical drugs.
Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over. This content must also include a disclaimer to consult a licensed health professional or obtain a valid prescription.
  • Attempts to donate or gift prescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks for prescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of prescription drugs in a medical context.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Business related content posted by marijuana dispensaries where there are no attempts to buy, sell or trade marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content making disease claims relating to non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.
Prescription drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs in any context, including when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for over-the-counter medicine.
  • Content that includes admission or consumption of prescription drugs.
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, gift, exchange, transfer, coordinate, speaks positively about, encourages the use of or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, asks for or admits ownership machine gun conversion devices.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or asks for (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed items and other weapons:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate, donate, gift or asks for: bladed items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
  • Content that speaks positively about, provides instructions to use or encourages the use of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, lethal enhancements, or bladed items in product reviews
  • Sales offers and the promotion of non-lethal accessories
Tobacco and Related Products
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Attempts to donate or gift tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
  • Content depicting Tobacco Cessation Products
  • Content discussing or promoting the use of tobacco, tobacco paraphernalia, or tobacco brands
  • Media content depicting smoking or tobacco consumption in a non-fictional context
    • Except in the context of anti-smoking campaigns, counseling services for smoking addiction, smoking rehabilitation, or PSA context
Alcohol
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
    • Content refers to alcohol or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol products and beverages.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol products or beverages.
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages.
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed.
Health and Wellness
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss or weight gain products or services
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention or ask for weight loss or weight gain products or services.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss or weight gain product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product.
  • Contains statements of inferiority about physical appearance (i.e., terms, descriptions, or questions that are negative and attack an individual’s appearance, specific body parts, or hygiene), or depictions of close ups of a specific body area showing pinched fat.
  • Claims that results can be achieved solely by using wearable products, such as jewelry or patches.
  • Employs clickbait tactics in a weight loss or weight gain context, such as sensational language with exaggerated or extreme health claims, or promises of specific outcomes within a set timeframe without disclaimers or qualifiers.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as bleaching creams.
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery.
  • Contains statements of inferiority about physical appearance, (i.e., terms, descriptions, or questions that are negative and attack an individual’s appearance, specific body parts, or hygiene)
Note: The promotion of workout methods (such as Pilates) or temporary cosmetics (such as makeup) are not covered by this policy.
Misleading Health Practices
  • Claims (including those from health professionals or health organizations) to cure, heal, or eliminate any of the following incurable diseases and/or terminal illnesses (exhaustive list): Note: This does not apply to claims about treating or managing symptoms of these conditions.
    • Diabetes
    • Herpes
    • Thyroid
    • Psoriasis
    • Ebola
    • Cancer
    • Autism
    • Alzheimer's
    • Parkinson's
    • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
    • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
  • Employs clickbait tactics in a health context, such as sensational language with exaggerated or extreme health claims, or promises of specific health-related results within a set timeframe without disclaimers or qualifiers.
Adult sexual arousal products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for adult sexual arousal products, where the primary focus is to stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal, in a fictional or non-fictional context. This includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
    • Depiction of sex toys with no clear context
Reproductive Health or Wellness Products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for reproductive health or wellness products. This includes:
    • Reproductive Health or Wellness products when focused on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits, including those containing phallic or yonic objects
    • Products addressing sexual reproductive disorders
    • Cosmetic genital surgeries
    • Adult genital surgeries
    • Sex education with focus on sexual pleasure
    • Hormone products (e.g., testosterone boosters)
Adult sexual businesses
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, or ask for adult sexual businesses, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal. This includes:
    • Adult entertainment businesses
    • Adult establishments
    • Instructional sexual services
Online Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Online Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws.
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter.
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Free-to-play games with Gambling context
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote free-to-play games that simulate gambling games, where anything of monetary value is not required to play the game, but there may be an opportunity to win money or money’s worth.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
Non-endangered animals
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of adopting, gifting, asking for, donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
    • Posted in the context of sale of livestock.
    • Posted in the context of buying, selling or gifting, asking for, donating animal horns, organs, limbs, carcasses, taxidermy, feces (excluding compost or fertilizer).
    • Posted in the context of offering animals’ related products for human consumption such as: eggs, fish, etc.
Historic Artifacts
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials.
Human Body Parts and Bodily Fluids
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Asking for human fluids exchange.
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human fluids.
  • Except when posted for donation of human fluids such as semen or blood plasma.
Recalled Goods
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for recalled goods.
Prohibited Documents and Financial Services
We do not allow:
Content that facilitates or offers the solicitation, creation, sale, purchase or trade of the following:
  • Fake, Forged, or Stolen Documents, including but not limited to:
    • Government identification documents, such as passports, driving licenses, visas or green cards.
    • Financial documents.
    • Currency, except board-game currency if there is clear context that it is for board-game purposes.
    • Vouchers and coupons, both physical and digital, including those used to purchase items for which they were not intended or if they are expired.
    • Educational documents and professional certificates.
  • Fake, Forged, or Stolen Goods and Services, including but not limited to:
    • Financial Instruments, including stolen credit cards or other financial instruments that can be used for unauthorized purchases.
    • Fake reviews, implicitly or explicitly incentivising users to provide reviews in exchange for discounts, refunds or free items.
    • Stolen goods and services, including physical and digital.
  • Devices and subscriptions that are manipulated or used in an unauthorised manner, including but not limited to:
    • Device manipulation to provide unauthorized access, streaming, or recording of digital content.
    • Unauthorized streaming subscriptions.
    • Jailbroken and loaded devices or unlocked TV boxes.
    • Offers to buy, sell, or trade login credentials for paywalled online subscription services.
    • Access codes to circumvent security measures.
    • Manipulated, altered, or fake measurement devices.
    • Admits to, promotes or solicits use of physical manipulation of devices to achieve inaccurate pricing.
  • Personal Identifiable or Other Personal Information, including but not limited to:
    • Personal identification numbers and identity documents, including digital identity, except if it belongs to a fictional character.
  • Products that enable cheating, including but not limited to:
    • Future exam papers or answer sheets.
    • Products, services, or devices that enable cheating in exams.
    • Products or services that enable passing drug tests in an unauthorized manner.
    • Services that offer to write papers on behalf of the user.
Content that coordinates, offers, or solicits the facilitation of fraudulent activities for commercial or financial gain, such as:
  • Money Muling, including content that:
    • Offers or asks for money muling (causing victims to be unknowing participants in money laundering by offering money or share of profits in exchange for allowing others to use their bank accounts or transferring money on behalf of others).
    • Offers or asks for money muling by offering employment to accept and transfer money to third parties using the victim’s bank account.
  • Money Laundering, including content that:
    • Requests, solicits, or offers to facilitate money laundering, which is an attempt to make illegally obtained money appear legitimate by disguising the origin of the money through a complex sequence of financial transactions, including through any of the following means:
      • Seeking transfer of funds through SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) or similar methods,
      • Seeking or offering details on types of bank accounts available to support receipt or transfer of cash.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We may remove content that:
  • Offers or asks for products or services designed to facilitate the surreptitious viewing or recording of individuals, e.g., spy cams, mobile phone trackers (including those that allow tracing unknown phone numbers), or other hidden surveillance equipment.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consist of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Body Parts and Fluids
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of high risk drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purpose or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
  • Attempts to sell or promote non-medical drugs paraphernalia.
  • Contains merchandise depicting non-medical drugs.
Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over. This content must also include a disclaimer to consult a licensed health professional or obtain a valid prescription.
  • Attempts to donate or gift prescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks for prescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of prescription drugs in a medical context.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Business related content posted by marijuana dispensaries where there are no attempts to buy, sell or trade marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content making disease claims relating to non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.
Prescription drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs in any context, including when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for over-the-counter medicine.
  • Content that includes admission or consumption of prescription drugs.
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, gift, exchange, transfer, coordinate, speaks positively about, encourages the use of or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, asks for or admits ownership machine gun conversion devices.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or asks for (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed items and other weapons:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate, donate, gift or asks for: bladed items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
  • Content that speaks positively about, provides instructions to use or encourages the use of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, lethal enhancements, or bladed items in product reviews
  • Sales offers and the promotion of non-lethal accessories
Tobacco and Related Products
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Attempts to donate or gift tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
  • Content depicting Tobacco Cessation Products
  • Content discussing or promoting the use of tobacco, tobacco paraphernalia, or tobacco brands
  • Media content depicting smoking or tobacco consumption in a non-fictional context
    • Except in the context of anti-smoking campaigns, counseling services for smoking addiction, smoking rehabilitation, or PSA context
Alcohol
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
    • Content refers to alcohol or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol products and beverages.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol products or beverages.
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages.
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed.
Health and Wellness
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss or weight gain products or services
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention or ask for weight loss or weight gain products or services.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss or weight gain product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product.
  • Depict a before and after body-change comparison in the context of weight loss, showcasing weight loss after using a product in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
  • Contains statements of inferiority about physical appearance (i.e., terms, descriptions, or questions that are negative and attack an individual’s appearance, specific body parts, or hygiene), or depictions of close ups of a specific body area showing pinched fat.
  • Claims that results can be achieved solely by using wearable products, such as jewelry or patches.
  • Employs clickbait tactics in a weight loss or weight gain context, such as sensational language with exaggerated or extreme health claims, or promises of specific outcomes within a set timeframe without disclaimers or qualifiers.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as bleaching creams.
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery.
  • Depict the before and after transformation of skin conditions after the usage of a cosmetic product, procedure, or surgery in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
  • Contains statements of inferiority about physical appearance, (i.e., terms, descriptions, or questions that are negative and attack an individual’s appearance, specific body parts, or hygiene)
Note: The promotion of workout methods (such as Pilates) or temporary cosmetics (such as makeup)Fitness services such as Pilates, and temporary cosmetics such as makeup are not covered by this policy.
Misleading Health Practices
  • Claims (including those from health professionals or health organizations) to cure, heal, or eliminate any of the following incurable diseases and/or terminal illnesses (exhaustive list): Note: This does not apply to claims about treating or managing symptoms of these conditions.
    • Diabetes
    • Herpes
    • Thyroid
    • Psoriasis
    • Ebola
    • Cancer
    • Autism
    • Alzheimer's
    • Parkinson's
    • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
    • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
  • Employs clickbait tactics in a health context, such as sensational language with exaggerated or extreme health claims, or promises of specific health-related results within a set timeframe without disclaimers or qualifiers.
Adult sexual arousal products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for adult sexual arousal products, where the primary focus is to stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal, in a fictional or non-fictional context. This includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
    • Depiction of sex toys with no clear context
Reproductive Health or Wellness Products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for reproductive health or wellness products, where the primary focus is on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits. This includes:
    • Reproductive Health or Wellness products when focused on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits, including those containing phallic or yonic objects
    • Products addressing sexual reproductive disorders, where the primary focus is on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits
    • Cosmetic genital surgeries
    • Adult genital surgeries
    • Sex education with focus on sexual pleasure
    • Hormone products (e.g., testosterone boosters)
Adult sexual businesses
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, or ask for adult sexual businesses, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal. This includes:
    • Adult entertainment businesses
    • Adult establishments
    • Instructional sexual services
Online Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Online Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws.
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter.
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Free-to-play games with Gambling context
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote free-to-play games that simulate gambling games, where anything of monetary value is not required to play the game, but there may be an opportunity to win money or money’s worth.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
Non-endangered animals
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of adopting, gifting, asking for, donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
    • Posted in the context of sale of livestock.
    • Posted in the context of buying, selling or gifting, asking for, donating animal horns, organs, limbs, carcasses, taxidermy, feces (excluding compost or fertilizer).
    • Posted in the context of offering animals’ related products for human consumption such as: eggs, fish, etc.
Historic Artifacts
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials.
Human Body Parts and Bodily Fluids
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Asking for human fluids exchange.
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human fluids.
  • Except when posted for donation of human fluids such as semen or blood plasma.
Recalled Goods
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for recalled goods.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consist of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Body Parts and Fluids
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of high risk drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
  • Attempts to sell or promote non-medical drugs paraphernalia.
  • Contains merchandise depicting non-medical drugs.
Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over. This content must also include a disclaimer to consult a licensed health professional or obtain a valid prescription.
  • Attempts to donate or gift prescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks for prescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of prescription drugs in a medical context
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Business related content posted by marijuana dispensaries where there are no attempts to buy, sell or trade marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products
  • Content making disease claims relating to non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.
Prescription drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs in any context, including when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for over-the-counter medicine.
  • Content that includes admission or consumption of prescription drugs.
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities; and visibility is restricted to adults 21 years of age and over.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Attempts to buy,Sst>sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, donate, gift, asks for or admits ownership machine gun conversion devices
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed iItems and other weapons:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate, donate, gift or asks for: bladed items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
  • Content that speaks positively about, provides instructions to use or encourages the use of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, lethal enhancements, or bladed items in product reviews
  • Sales offers and the promotion of non-lethal accessories
Tobacco and Related Products
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Attempts to donate or gift tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
  • Content depicting Tobacco Cessation Products
  • Content discussing or promoting the use of tobacco, tobacco paraphernalia, or tobacco brands
  • Media content depicting smoking or tobacco consumption in a non-fictional context
    • Except in the context of anti-smoking campaigns, counseling services for smoking addiction, smoking rehabilitation, or PSA context
Alcohol
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways
    • Content refers to alcohol or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities
  • Asks for alcohol products and beverages
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol products or beverages
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed
Health and Wellness
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss products or services
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention,or ask for, weight loss products or services
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product
  • Depict a before and after body-change comparison in the context of weight loss, showcasing weight loss after using a product in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as; bleaching creams
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery
  • Depict the before and after transformation of skin conditions after the usage of a cosmetic product, procedure, or surgery in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception
Note: Fitness services such as Pilates, and temporary cosmetics such as makeup are not covered by this policy.
Adult sexual arousal products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for adult sexual arousal products, where the primary focus is tothat can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal, in a fictional or non-fictional context. This includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
    • Depiction of sex toys with no clear context
Reproductive Health or Wellness Products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for reproductive health or wellness products, where the primary focus is on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits. This includes:
    • Reproductive Health or Wellness products when focused on sexual pleasure and containing phallic or yonic objects
    • Products addressing sexual reproductive disorders, where the primary focus is on sexual pleasure and not medical benefits
    • Cosmetic genital surgeries
    • Adult genital surgeries
    • Sex education with focus on sexual pleasure
Adult sexual businesses
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, or ask for adult sexual businesses, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal. This includes:
    • Adult entertainment businesses
    • Adult establishments
    • Instructional sexual services
Online Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Online Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Free-to-play games with Gambling context
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote free-to-play games that simulate gambling games, where anything of monetary value is not required to play the game, but there may be an opportunity to win money or money’s worth.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
Non-endangered animals
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of adopting, gifting, asking for, donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
  • Posted in the context of sale of livestock.
  • Posted in the context of buying, selling or gifting, asking for, donating animal horns, organs, limbs, carcasses, taxidermy, feces (excluding compost or fertilizer).
  • Posted in the context of offering animals’ related products for human consumption such as; eggs, fish, etc.
Historic Artifacts
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Human Body Parts and Bodily Fluids
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Asking for human fluids exchange
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human fluids, except for a donation
    • Except when posted for donation of human fluids such as semen or blood plasma
Recalled Goods
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for recalled goods.
Added clarifications on content we we restrict visibility to adults aged 18 years and over and other prohibited content
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consist of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Body Parts and Fluids
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of high risk drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
  • Attempts to sell or promote non-medical drugs paraphernalia.
  • Contains merchandise depicting non-medical drugs.
Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over. This content must also include a disclaimer to consult a licensed health professional or obtain a valid prescription.
  • Attempts to donate or gift prescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks for prescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of prescription drugs in a medical context
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Business related content posted by marijuana dispensaries where there are no attempts to buy, sell or trade marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products
  • Content making disease claims relating to non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.
Prescription drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs in any context, including when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for over-the-counter medicine.
  • Content that includes admission or consumption of prescription drugs.
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade machine gun conversion devices
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed Items:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate, donate, gift or asks for: bladed items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
Tobacco and Related Products
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Attempts to donate or gift tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
Alcohol
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways
    • Content refers to alcohol or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities
  • Asks for alcohol products and beverages
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol products or beverages
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed
Health and Wellness
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss products or services
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, ask for, weight loss products or services
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product
  • Depict a before and after body-change comparison in the context of weight loss, showcasing weight loss after using a product in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as; bleaching creams
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery
  • Depict the before and after transformation of skin conditions after the usage of a cosmetic product, procedure, or surgery in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception
Note: Fitness services such as Pilates, and temporary cosmetics such as makeup are not covered by this policy.
Adult sexual arousal products
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for adult sexual arousal products, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal. This includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
Online Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Online Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
Non-endangered animals
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of adopting, gifting, asking for, donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
  • Posted in the context of sale of livestock.
  • Posted in the context of buying, selling or gifting, asking for, donating animal horns, organs, limbs, carcasses, taxidermy, feces (excluding compost or fertilizer).
  • Posted in the context of offering animals’ related products for human consumption such as; eggs, fish, etc.
Historic Artifacts
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Human Body Parts and Bodily Fluids
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Asking for human fluids exchange
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human fluids, except for a donation
    • Except when posted for donation of human fluids such as semen or blood plasma
Recalled Goods
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for recalled goods.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consist of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Body Parts and Fluids
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of high risk drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
  • Attempts to sell or promote non-medical drugs paraphernalia.
  • Contains merchandise depicting non-medical drugs.
Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses when restricted to adults 18 years of age or over. This content must also include a disclaimer to consult a licensed health professional or obtain a valid prescription.
  • Attempts to donate or gift prescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks for prescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of prescription drugs in a medical context
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of prescription drugs is allowed. This includes news and public service announcements.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Business related content posted by marijuana dispensaries where there are no attempts to buy, sell or trade marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products
  • Content making disease claims relating to non-ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
  • Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.
Prescription drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade prescription drugs in any context, including when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for over-the-counter medicine.
  • Content that includes admission or consumption of prescription drugs.
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade machine gun conversion devices
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed Items:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate, donate, gift or asks for: bladed items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
Tobacco and Related Products
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Attempts to donate or gift tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
Alcohol
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways
    • Content refers to alcohol or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities
  • Asks for alcohol products and beverages
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol products or beverages
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed
Health and Wellness
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss products or services
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, ask for, weight loss products or services
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product
  • Depict a before and after body-change comparison in the context of weight loss, showcasing weight loss after using a product in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as; bleaching creams
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery
  • Depict the before and after transformation of skin conditions after the usage of a cosmetic product, procedure, or surgery in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception
Note: Fitness services such as Pilates, and temporary cosmetics such as makeup are not covered by this policy.
Adult sexual arousal products
Content that:
  • ttempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate, gift or ask for adult sexual arousal products, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increase a person’s sexual arousal. This includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
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Online Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Online Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
LiveNon-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of adopting, gifting, asking for, donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
  • Posted in the context of sale of livestock.
  • Posted in the context of buying, selling or gifting, asking for, donating animal horns, organs, limbs, carcasses, taxidermy, feces (excluding compost or fertilizer).
  • Posted in the context of offering animals’ related products for human consumption such as; eggs, fish, etc.
Historic Artifacts
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Human Body Parts and Bodily Fluids
We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Asking for human fluids exchange
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human fluids, except for a donation
    • Except when posted for donation of human fluids such as semen or blood plasma
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, as well as advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy , and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Restricted Goods and Services consists of the following categories:
  • Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
  • Weapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Tobacco and Related Products
  • Alcohol
  • Health and Wellness
  • Online Gambling and Games
  • Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
  • Historic Artifacts
  • Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Locally Illegal Content, Products, or Services
Each category is detailed below.
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
Do not post:We do not allow:
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical Prescription drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceuticalprescription drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceuticalprescription drugs, except in the event of an economic, health, societal or natural disaster crisis.
  • Asks forpharmaceuticalprescription drugs, except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceuticalprescription drugs in a medical context
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
MarijuanaCannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
    • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Products
  • Content that coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) marijuana and products containing THC or related psychoactive components.
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or ask for ingestible cannabidiol (CBD) or similar cannabinoid products.
FirearmsWeapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when:
    • posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade machine gun conversion devices
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
FirearmsWeapons, Ammunitions, or Explosives
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Bladed weaponsItems
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, coordinate,donate, gift or asks for:bladed weapons items and any other weapons (e.g., pepper spray or knuckle rings).
Alcohol Tobacco and Related Products
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco/nicotine related products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Products (e.g., electronic cigarettes, vapes, and nicotine free-vapes).
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
      • Content refers to alcohol/ tobacco, that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco/nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
    • Except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco/nicotine products, or products that simulate smoking, including all kinds of “ENDS” products (nicotine-free vapes).
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
  • Content depicting the consumption of tobacco, nicotine products, or “ENDS” products.
  • Content that coordinates or promotes the use of tobacco, nicotine products, “ENDS” products, or tobacco brands.
Alcohol/Tobacco
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including offering delivery services and brand giveaways
    • Content refers to alcohol /tobaccoor offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, or party and so on
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities
  • Asks for alcohol products and beveragesor tobacco
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products or beverages
  • Content depicting the consumption of alcohol products or beverages or sharing recipes for alcoholic beverages
  • Content referring to alcohol products or offering an invitation to an alcohol venue where alcohol will be exchanged or consumed
Health and Wellness
Do not post:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Weight loss products or servicesand potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift, mention, ask for, weight loss products or servicesor potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, in a favorable context or discusses its side effects.or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make) a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
  • Depict a before and after body-change comparison in the context of weight loss, showcasing weight loss after using a product in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception.
Cosmetic Products, Procedures, or Surgeries
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, mention, or ask for cosmetic products, procedures, or surgeries. This includes:
    • Skin Whitening products such as; bleaching creams
    • Cosmetic procedures with the intention to treat, or restore function or structure of people’s faces or bodies.
  • Admits to or depicts using a cosmetic procedure or surgery, highlighting its positive or negative impact, or side effects
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or perform) of a cosmetic procedure or surgery
  • Depict the before and after transformation of skin conditions after the usage of a cosmetic product, procedure, or surgery in a manner that may make people feel bad about their appearance or imply negative self-perception
Note: Fitness services such as Pilates, and temporary cosmetics such as makeup are not covered by this policy.
Content that:
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products Adult sexual arousal products
  • attempts to buy, sell, promote, trade, donate or, gift or ask forsex toys andadult sexual arousalenhancements products, that can stimulate a person’s sexual pleasure or increasing a person’s sexual arousal this includes:
    • Sex toys
    • Erotic products
    • Non-surgical genital enhancement products, such as products that stimulate sexual desire or improve sexual performance
    • Products where the primary focus is to stimulate sexual desire or arousal
Real moneyOnline Gambling and Games
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Real moneyOnline Gambling and Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g., bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize., This includes but is not limited to:
    • Games of skill, lotteries/raffles, betting, sports betting, casino games, games of chance, or sweepstakes/prize draws
    • Gambling Games offering a limited trial period and requiring payment thereafter
Social Casino Games
  • Content that attempts to sell, trade, depict or promote social casino games that simulate gambling games such as slot machines, where there is no opportunity to win money or money’s worth. This includes content that indicates the opportunity to win “coins” of no monetary value.
Endangered and protected species (wildlife and plants)
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts or protected plants species.
  • Admits to or encourages the poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions) to use or make products from endangered species or their parts, or any endangered wildlife or plants.
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
    • Selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Historic Artifacts
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Human blood Body Parts and Fluids
Do not post:We do not allow:
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human body parts, even beyond the human-trafficking content prohibited under the Human Exploitation policy.
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade human bloodhuman fluids, except for a donationor gift
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Content Requiring Additional Context to Enforce
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
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Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade machine gun conversion devices.
High-risk drugs (drugs that have a high potential for misuse, addiction, or are associated with serious health risks, including overdose; e.g., cocaine, fentanyl, heroin).
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or ask for high-risk drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of high-risk drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use high-risk drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) high-risk drugs.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
  • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
We are introducing a new policy section within our Restricted Goods and Services policy for the highest-risk drug violations, including fentanyl sales
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade machine gun conversion devices
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purposes or are used to achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
  • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
We are clarifying our prohibition on the sale of machine gun conversion devices (e.g., glock switches and auto sears). While this has been a long-standing prohibition, we are looking to make this policy more explicit in response to the external pressure from stakeholders and recent escalations.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, as well as advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purpose or are used recreationally to achieve an altered mental stateto achieve a high - this includes precursor chemicals or substances that are used for the production of these drugs.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
  • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
This update was based on external feedback on the need to enforce on sales of “precursors,” or chemicals that can be used in the manufacture of dangerous drugs. These were previously enforced under our policies, and we are updating our external community standards to provide clarity that removing sales of precursor chemicals of non-medical drugs is a priority.
Additionally, we are updating the policy rationale for our Restricted Goods policies to emphasize that we remove any content that attempts to buy or sell dangerous drugs. We do not tolerate individuals attempting to buy or sell non-medical drugs on our platforms.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purpose or are used recreationally to achieve an altered mental state.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Entheogens
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for entheogens.
  • Note: Debating or advocating for the legality or discussing scientific or medical merits of entheogens is allowed.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
Entheogens
  • Content that shows admission to personal use of, coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about), or encourages the use of entheogens.
  • Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
In response to an Oversight Board recommendation in a Policy Advisory Statement, we committed to review our approach to non-medical drugs in religious or traditional contexts. This update was based on stakeholder engagement with a broad range of academics and civil society organizations affected by the policy, including scholars focussed on health, medicine, anthropology, clinical psychology, drug policy, ethnography, ethno-ornithology, religion, psychedelic drug research, as well as legal experts, regulators, freedom of expression advocates, health professionals, traditional/religious healer associations, community leaders, and indigenous groups. In our consultations, we explored how to balance protection of speech and dialogue about traditional and religious substances against the safety risks involved with promotion of non-medical drugs. We also listened to stakeholders describe the contextual complexity of what constitutes a religious or traditional context due to the diversity of cultural and legal practices in different regions and national contexts. Two themes stood out: The first was the difficulty of defining religious or traditional indicators/contexts on a global scale; attempts to do so could lead to excluding groups the policy is trying to protect. The second was the viewpoint that speech around entheogens should be allowed because these substances do not harm people by themselves and because this gives voice to communities that have been using these substances for centuries. We used the input we received on these points to craft a revision of our approach to “positive discussion” of non-medical drugs in traditional or religious contexts.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
Non-medical drugs (drugs or substances that are not being used for an intended medical purpose or are used recreationally to achieve an altered mental state.)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs (drugs that require a prescription or medical professionals to administer)
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster. even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites
Non-medical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying, trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associates through others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
Hazardous Goods and Materials
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
The policy is being updated to clarify that content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for hazardous goods and materials is prohibited.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, as well as advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy. To encourage safety and compliance with common legal restrictions, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell or trade non-medical drugs, pharmaceutical drugs and marijuana. We also prohibit the purchase, sale, gifting, exchange, and transfer of firearms, including firearm parts or ammunition, between private individuals on Facebook. Some of these items are not regulated everywhere; however, because of the borderless nature of our community, we try to enforce our policies as consistently as possible. Firearm stores and online retailers may promote items available for sale off of our services as long as those retailers comply with all applicable laws and regulations. We allow discussions about sales of firearms and firearm parts in stores or by online retailers and advocating for changes to firearm regulation. Regulated goods that are not prohibited by our Community Standards may be subject to our more stringent Commerce Policies.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster. even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites
Non-medical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying,trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associatesthrough others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
Real money gambling
  • Content that attempts to sell or promote online gaming and gambling services where anything of monetary value (including cash or digital/virtual currencies, e.g. bitcoin) is required to play and anything of monetary value forms part of the prize.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
As part of our response to an Oversight Board decision, we are updating our context-specific policy to clarify that in certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
The title and policy rationale has also been updated to clarify our principled approach, which is based on the potential harm these products and services can result in rather than in existing regulations. New policy language has also been added to address gambling content to protect minors against potentially harmful content.
Finally, the real money online gaming policy update was based on global stakeholder engagement with various gambling regulatory authorities, gambling and addiction subject matter experts and fundraising professionals in the non-profit sector. We also connected with experts who work at the intersection of content governance and online gambling. In our consultations, we explored the harms or risks of allowing online gambling in organic content. We also sought to understand the impact of prohibiting online gambling on charities or smaller, “friendly” examples of gambling and whether there were other unexpected consequences of prohibiting online gambling. We listened to experts tell us about the variety of harms associated with online gambling, including addiction, financial ruin, and diminished mental and physical health. However, there was a general consensus that while all forms of gambling carry risk, not all gambling is harmful. Only a small percentage of those that gamble has gambling problems. All stakeholders we spoke to highlighted the importance of reducing harm by protecting those most at risk, including problem gamblers and minors. Generally, stakeholders acknowledged that small-dollar raffles are not as problematic. We used the input we received on these points to craft a revision to our Restricted Goods and Services policy.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, or trade, firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies (e.g. police department, fire department) or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster. even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites
Non-medical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, co-ordinate the trade of, donate, or gift or asks for non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying or trading or co-ordinating the trade of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Pharmaceutical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
  • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
  • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks for endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or their associatesthrough others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species or their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or their associates.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks for human blood except for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar store, entities, including retail businesses websites, brands, or government agencies which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses websites or brands, which attempt to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products.
Bladed weapons
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products and potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product or potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
This update clarifies that the co-ordination of the trade of non-medical goods is prohibited on the platform.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department).
  • Attempts to donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements except when posted in the following contexts:
    • Donating, trading in or buying back firearms and ammunition by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites, brands or government agencies, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • An auction or raffle of firearms by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, government-affiliated organizations or non-profits, or private individuals affiliated with or sponsored by legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements
  • Sells, gifts, exchanges, transfers, coordinates, promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of) or provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts regardless of context or poster.
Non-medical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,orgift or asks forsolicit non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage. This content may not speak positively about, encourage use of, coordinate or provide instructions to make or use non-medical drugs.
  • Speaks positively, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs.
  • Coordinates or promotes (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the use of, or provides instructions to use or make) non-medical drugs.
Marijuana and Pharmaceutical drugs
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade pharmaceutical drugs except when:
    • Listing the price of vaccines in an explicit education or discussion context.
    • Offering delivery when posted by legitimate healthcare e-commerce businesses.
    • Attempts to donate or gift pharmaceutical drugs
    • Asks for pharmaceutical drugs except when content discusses the affordability, accessibility or efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs in a medical context
Marijuana
Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or asks for marijuana.
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate,or gift or asks forsolicit endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species orand their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others.their associatesthrough others. This does not include depictions of poaching by strangers.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species orand their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.their associates.
  • Speaks positively, coordinates or encourages the poaching of endangered species and their parts.
  • Provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species and their parts.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively about, encourages the poaching of, or provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species or their parts)
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, legitimate websites, brands, or rehoming shelters, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
    • Posted in the context of donating or rehoming live non-endangered animals, including rehoming fees for peer-to-peer adoptions, selling an animal for a religious offering, or offering a reward for lost pets.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that asks forsolicits human blood exceptunless for a donation or gift.
Alcohol / tobacco
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell or trade alcohol or tobacco except when:
    • Posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Content refers to alcohol/tobacco that will be exchanged or consumed on location at an event, restaurant, bar, party and so on.
  • Attempts to donate or gift alcohol or tobacco except when posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing legitimate brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businesses, websites or brands, or a private individual sharing content on behalf of legitimate brick-and-mortar entities.
  • Asks for alcohol or tobacco
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or supplements.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift or solicitasks for historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimatea brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businessesstore, legitimate websites, brands, or government agencies which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift (including in the context of an auction or a raffle) firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting legitimatea brick-and-mortar entities, including retail businessesstore, legitimate websites or brands, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services.
Bladed weapons
  • Content thatwhich attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss productsand potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss productsor potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, unless in condemnationor potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures, except when admitting to use in a disapproval context.
  • Shows coordination or promotion (by which we mean speaks positively, encourages the use of or provides instructions to use or make a diet product or perform dangerous cosmetic procedures).
  • Speaks positively, coordinates or encourages the use of weight loss products.
  • Provides instructions to use or make weight loss products.
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
  • Admits to or depicts using a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure, unless in condemnation.
  • Speaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
  • Provides instructions to use or perform a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
The policy has been updated to refine the definition of promotion, improve references to “solicit,” and clarify certain aspects of the policy. It also reorganizes sections to mirror internal documentation.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department).
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit non-medical drugs.
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage.
  • Speaks positively, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs.
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs.
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram profile representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand.
Endangered species (wildlife and plants):
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit endangered species or their parts.
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others.
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others.
  • Speaks positively, coordinates or encourages the poaching of endangered species and their parts.
  • Provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species and their parts.
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade human blood.
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or gift.
Weight loss products
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products or supplements.
Historical artifacts
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate gift or solicit historical artifacts.
Except when any of the above occurs in a fictional or documentary context
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 21 years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults 18 years of age and older:
Alcohol/tobacco
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services.
Bladed weapons
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products.
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, unless in condemnation.
  • Speaks positively, coordinates or encourages the use of weight loss products.
  • Provides instructions to use or make weight loss products.
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures
Content that:
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
  • Admits to or depicts using a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure, unless in condemnation.
  • Speaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
  • Provides instructions to use or perform a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure.
Sex toys and sexual enhancement products
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products
This policy update clarifies that content related to regulated goods that’s shared in a fictional or documentary context is allowed under the policy. It also updates the policy to restrict visibility to people over 18 years old for content attempting to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift sex toys and sexual enhancement products.
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department)
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit non-medical drugs
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage
  • Speaks positively, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing a real brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand
Endangered species:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit endangered species or their parts
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Speaks positively, coordinates or encourages the poaching of endangered species and their parts
  • Provides instructions to use or make products from endangered species and their parts
Live non-endangered animals excluding livestock:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, or trade human blood
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or a gift
Weight loss products:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift weight loss products or supplements
Historical artifacts:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit historical artifacts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services
Bladed weapons:
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, unless in condemnation
  • Speaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of weight loss products
  • Provides instructions to use or make weight loss products
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Admits to or depicts using a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure, unless in condemnation
  • Speaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Provides instructions to use or perform a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
Policy Rationale
To encourage safety and deter potentially harmful activities, we prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers, and retailers to purchase, sell, raffle, gift, transfer or trade certain goods and services on our platform. We do not tolerate the exchange or sale of any drugs that may result in substance abuse covered under our policies below. Brick-and-mortar and online retailers may promote firearms, alcohol, and tobacco items available for sale off of our services; however, we restrict visibility of this content for minors. We allow discussions about the sale of these goods in stores or by online retailers, advocating for changes to regulations of goods and services covered in this policy, and advocating for or concerning the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the context of medical treatment, including discussion of physical or mental side effects.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department)
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit non-medical drugs
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage
  • Promotes,Speaks positively, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing a real brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand
Endangered species:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit endangered species or their parts
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Speaks positively, of the poachingcoordinates or encourages the poaching of of endangered species and their parts
  • Promotes, encourages, or coordinates the poaching ofProvides instructions to use or make products fromendangered species and their parts
Live non-endangered animals:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, or trade human blood
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or a gift
Weight loss products:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim and attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift weight loss products or supplements
Historical artifacts:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit historical artifacts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services
Bladed weapons:
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, unless in condemnation
  • PromotesSpeaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of weight loss products
  • Provides instructions to use or make weight loss products
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Admits to or depicts using a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure, unless in condemnation
  • PromotesSpeaks positively, coordinates, or encourages the use of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Provides instructions to use or perform a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department)
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit non-medical drugs
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing a real brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand
Endangered species:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit endangered species or their parts
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Speaks positively of the poaching of endangered species and their parts
  • Promotes, encourages, or coordinates the poaching of endangered species and their parts
Live non-endangered animals:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, or trade human blood
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or a gift
Weight lossDiet products:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim with a commercial offerand attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, or gift weight loss products or supplements
Historical artifacts:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit historical artifacts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services
Bladed weapons:
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of weight loss products
  • Mentions or depicts a weight loss product or supplement, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use, or
    • Explicitly mentions the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery, or
    • Asks the audience to buy, or
    • Lists the price, or
    • Gives away the product for free
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift weight loss products
  • Admits to or depicts using a weight loss product, unless in condemnation
  • Promotes or encourages the use of weight loss products
  • Provides instructions to use or make weight loss products
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure:
  • Mentions or depicts the cosmetic procedure, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure, or
    • Explicitly mentions the procedure is for sale, or
    • Asks the audience to purchase the procedure, or
    • Lists the price of the procedure, or
    • Gives away the procedure for free
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Admits to or depicts using a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure, unless in condemnation
  • Promotes or encourages the use of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
  • Provides instructions to use or perform a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department)
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit non-medical drugs
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products between private individuals, and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing a real brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand
Endangered species:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit endangered species or their parts
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Speaks positively of the poaching of endangered species and their parts
  • Promotes, encourages, or coordinates the poaching of endangered species and their parts
Live non-endangered animals:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, or trade human blood
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or a gift
Diet products:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim with a commercial offer
Historical artifacts:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit historical artifacts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services
Bladed weapons:
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of weight loss products
  • Mentions or depicts a weight loss product or supplement, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use, or
    • Explicitly mentions the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery, or
    • Asks the audience to buy, or
    • Lists the price, or
    • Gives away the product for free
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure:
  • Mentions or depicts the cosmetic procedure, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure, or
    • Explicitly mentions the procedure is for sale, or
    • Asks the audience to purchase the procedure, or
    • Lists the price of the procedure, or
    • Gives away the procedure for free
These policies are not new; we’ve long had policies against regulated goods (the details of which are struck through, below). This month, we rewrote the Regulated Goods section of our Community Standards so that the language is simpler and the prohibitions are easier to follow.
Do not post:
Firearms
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift or solicit firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements between private individuals, unless posted by a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department)
  • Provides access to 3D printing or computer aided manufacturing instructions for firearms or firearms parts even when posted by brick and mortar stores, brands and legitimate websites.
Non-medical drugs:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit non-medical drugs
  • Admits to buying or trading non-medical drugs by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Admits to personal use without acknowledgment of or reference to recovery, treatment, or other assistance to combat usage
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
Marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift alcohol or tobacco products between private individuals, and is not posted by a Page, Group, or Instagram Profile representing a real brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand
Endangered species:
Content that
  • Attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate, gift, or solicit endangered species or their parts
  • Admits to poaching, buying or trading of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content either by themselves or through others
  • Depicts poaching of endangered species and their parts committed by the poster of the content by themselves or through others
  • Speaks positively of the poaching of endangered species and their parts
  • Promotes, encourages, or coordinates the poaching of endangered species and their parts
Live non-endangered animals:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell or trade live non-endangered animals between private individuals.
Human blood:
  • Content that attempts to buy, sell, or trade human blood
  • Content that solicits human blood unless for a donation or a gift
Diet products:
  • Content about weight loss that contains a miracle claim with a commercial offer
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Firearms
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand, or government agency which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or lethal enhancements.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Alcohol / Tobacco:
  • Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services
Bladed weapons:
  • Content which attempts to buy, sell, trade, donate or gift bladed weapons.
Weight loss products:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of weight loss products
  • Mentions or depicts a weight loss product or supplement, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use, or
    • Explicitly mentions the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery, or
    • Asks the audience to buy, or
    • Lists the price, or
    • Gives away the product for free
Potentially dangerous cosmetic procedures:
Content that promotes the use or depicts the sale of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure:
  • Mentions or depicts the cosmetic procedure, and
    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure, or
    • Explicitly mentions the procedure is for sale, or
    • Asks the audience to purchase the procedure, or
    • Lists the price of the procedure, or
    • Gives away the procedure for free
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs that
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or 3D gun printing files of any firearm or its parts, and*
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
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    • Asking the audience to buy, or
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    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
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      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
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      • Lists the price, or
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    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
  • 3D gun printing files or instructions to manufacture firearms using 3D printers or CNC milling machines, including links to websites where such files or instructions are made available, may not be shared by anyone. A Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand can otherwise post content that may promote these items only for sale off of our services and as long as those retailers comply with all applicable laws and regulations. *
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    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
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      • Explicitly mentions the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery, or
      • Asks the audience to buy, or
      • Lists the price, or
      • Gives away the product for free
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      • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure, or
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    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
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    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
  • 3D gun printing files or instructions to manufacture firearms using 3D printers or CNC milling machines, including links to websites where such files or instructions are made available, may not be shared by anyone. A Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand can otherwise post content that may promote these items only for sale off of our services and as long as those retailers comply with all applicable laws and regulations. *
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  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
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Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer alcohol or tobacco products between private individuals. This includes content that:
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      • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
      • Including any type of contact information
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    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery or
    • Asking the audience to buy or
    • Listing the price or
    • Giving away the product for free
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    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure or
    • Explicitly mentioning the procedure is for sale or
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      • Explicitly mentions the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery, or
      • Asks the audience to buy, or
      • Lists the price, or
      • Gives away the product for free
  • Promotes the use or depicts the sale of a potentially dangerous certain cosmetic procedures such as those involving body enhancement:
    • Mentions or depicts the cosmetic procedure, and
      • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure, or
      • Explicitly mentions the procedure is for sale, or
      • Asks the audience to purchase the procedure, or
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    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
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    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
  • 3D gun printing files or instructions to manufacture firearms using 3D printers or CNC milling machines, including links to websites where such files or instructions are made available, may not be shared by anyone. A Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand can otherwise post content that may promote these items only for sale off of our services and as long as those retailers comply with all applicable laws and regulations. *
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  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that attempts to sell live animals between private individuals.
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer alcohol or tobacco products between private individuals. This includes content that:
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      • Asks the audience to buy, or
      • Lists price or notes product is free
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    • Encourages contact about the product either by:
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
      • Including any type of contact information
  • Promotes the use or depicts the sale of weight loss products
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    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for donation or sale or trade or delivery or
    • Asking the audience to buy or
    • Listing the price or
    • Giving away the product for free
  • Promotes the use or depicts the sale of a potentially dangerous cosmetic procedure
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    • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for the procedure or
    • Explicitly mentioning the procedure is for sale or
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    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
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Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, or 3D gun printing files of any of the above, and a product unrelated to firearmsof any firearm or its parts *, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
  • 3D gun printing files or instructions to manufacture firearms using 3D printers or CNC milling machines, including links to websites where such files or instructions are made available, may not be shared by anyone. A Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand can otherwise post content that may promote these items only for sale off of our services and as long as those retailers comply with all applicable laws and regulations. *
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts 3D gun printing files of any of the above and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioned the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing price or noting product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that attempts to sell live animals between private individuals.
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer alcohol or tobacco products between private individuals. This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts alcohol or tobacco, and
    • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
      • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade, or
      • Asks the audience to buy, or
      • Lists price or notes product is free
      • And is not posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase knives, which includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts a knife or bladed weapon, and
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade or delivery, or
  • Asks the audience to buy, or
  • Lists the price, or
  • Asks or gives away the product for free between private individuals, or
  • Encourages contact about the product either by:
    • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
    • Including any type of contact information
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services. This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts alcohol or tobacco, and
    • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asks the audience to buy, or
    • Lists the price or notes product is free or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by:
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
      • Including any type of contact information
The updates reflected here are not changes to our policy, but are continued attempts to clarify policy language. *
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives, 3D gun printing files of any of the above, and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts 3D gun printing files of any of the above and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioned the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing price or noting product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that attempts to sell live animals between private individuals.
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer alcohol or tobacco products between private individuals. This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts alcohol or tobacco, and
    • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
      • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade, or
      • Asks the audience to buy, or
      • Lists price or notes product is free
      • And is not posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website or brand
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase knives, which includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts a knife or bladed weapon, and
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade or delivery, or
  • Asks the audience to buy, or
  • Lists the price, or
  • Asks or gives away the product for free between private individuals, or
  • Encourages contact about the product either by:
    • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
    • Including any type of contact information
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults eighteen years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick and mortar store, legitimate website or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of alcohol or tobacco products off of Facebook's services. This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts alcohol or tobacco, and
    • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asks the audience to buy, or
    • Lists the price or notes product is free or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by:
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
      • Including any type of contact information
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to offer, sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, explosives, 3D gun printing files of any of the above, and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or transfer including any of the following, unless posted by an entity representing a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brandtrade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or deliveryor
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts, unless posted by a Page representing a real brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, brand or government agency (e.g. police department, fire department). This includes content that:
  • Mentions or depicts 3D gun printing files or any of the above and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean:
    • Explicitly mentioned the product is for sale or trade, or
    • Asking the audience to buy, or
    • Listing price or noting product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as:
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that attempts to sell live animals between private individuals.
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase knives which includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts a knife or bladed weapon, and
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or trade or delivery, or
  • Asks the audience to buy, or
  • Lists the price, or
  • Asks or gives away the product for free between private individuals, or
  • Encourages contact about the product either by:
    • Explicitly asking to be contacted, or
    • Including any type of contact information
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or transfer including any of the following, unless posted by an entity representing a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts.
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that attempts to sell live animals between private individuals.¹
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
¹ As we strive to protect the welfare of animals against illicit trades, we cannot always ensure their safety in a peer-to-peer transaction. We will still allow such sales if posted by brick-and-mortar entities, animal rehoming, and adoption agencies and shelters. This is an update to our existing policy, which already prohibits the sale of endangered wildlife and their parts. We will continue working to keep both people and animals safe and also plan on providing new reporting options on Facebook so that people can report content that violates this policy.
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use or make of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or transfer including any of the following, unless posted by an entity representing a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts.
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by or promoting a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
Do not post:
Content about non-medical drugs (other than alcohol or tobacco) that
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, attempts purchase, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or transfer including any of the following, unless posted by an entity representing a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts.
Content that depicts the trade (buying or selling) of human organs and/or blood where trade is defined as:
  • Mentioning or depicting the human organs and/or blood, and
  • Indicating that human organs and/or blood are available for selling or buying, or
  • Listing a price or expressing willingness to discuss price
Content that encourages contact to facilitate the trade of human organs and/or blood
Content that coordinates or supports the poaching or selling of endangered species and their parts
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
Do not post:
  • Coordinates or encourages others to sell non-medical drugs
  • Depicts, admits to, or promotes sales of non-medical drugs by the poster of the content or their associates
  • Promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for use of non-medical drugs
  • Admits, either in writing or verbally, to personal use of non-medical drugs unless posted in a recovery context
Content that depicts the sale or attempt to purchase marijuana and pharmaceutical drugs. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
  • Makes an attempt to sell or trade, by which we mean any of the following:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
    • Attempting to solicit the product, defined as:
      • Stating interest in buying the product, or
      • Asking if anyone has the product for sale/trade
  • This applies to both individual pieces of content and Pages and Groups primarily dedicated to the sale of marijuana or pharmaceutical drugs
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, or transfer firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives between private individuals. This includes content that
  • Mentions or depicts firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives and a product unrelated to firearms, and
  • Makes an attempt to sell or transfer including any of the following, unless posted by an entity representing a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand:
    • Explicitly mentioning the product is for sale or trade or delivery
    • Asking the audience to buy
    • Listing the price or noting that the product is free
    • Encouraging contact about the product either by
      • Explicitly asking to be contacted
      • Including any type of contact information
    • Making an attempt to solicit the item for sale, defined as
      • Stating that they are interested in buying the good, or
      • Asking if anyone else has the good for sale/trade
Content that attempts to sell, gift, exchange, transfer, promote or otherwise provide access to instructions for 3D printing or computer-aided manufacturing of firearms or firearm parts.
For the following content, we restrict visibility to adults twenty-one years of age and older:
Content posted by a brick-and-mortar store, legitimate website, or brand, which coordinates or promotes the sale or transfer of firearms, firearm parts, ammunition, or explosives. This includes content that
  • Explicitly mentions the product is for sale or transfer and
    • Asks the audience to buy the product, or
    • Lists the price or notes that the product is free, or
    • Encourages contact about the product either by explicitly asking to be contacted or including any type of contact information
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