Facebook Community Standards
Policies that outline what is and isn't allowed on the Facebook app.
Instagram Community Guidelines
Policies that outline what is and isn't allowed on the Instagram app.
Meta Advertising Standards
Policies for ad content and business assets.
Other policies
Other policies that apply to Meta technologies.
How Meta improves
How we update our policies, measure results, work with others, and more.
Our Approach To Dangerous Organizations and Individuals
How we keep our platforms safe from groups and individuals that promote violence, terrorism, organized crime, and hate.
Our approach to the opioid epidemic
How we support communities in the face of the opioid epidemic.
Our approach to elections
How we help prevent interference, empower people to vote and more.
Our approach to misinformation
How we work with independent fact-checkers, and more, to identify and take action on misinformation.
Our approach to newsworthy content
How we assess content for newsworthiness.
Our approach to Facebook Feed ranking
How we reduce problematic content in News Feed.
Our approach to explaining ranking
How we build AI systems.
Content Library and Content Library API
Comprehensive access to public data from Facebook and Instagram
Ad Library tools
Comprehensive and searchable database of all ads currently running across Meta technologies
Other research tools and datasets
Additional tools for in-depth research on Meta technologies and programs
Community Standards Enforcement Report
Quarterly report on how well we're doing at enforcing our policies on the Facebook app and Instagram.
Intellectual Property
Report on how well we're helping people protect their intellectual property.
Government Requests for User Data
Report on government request for people's data.
Content Restrictions Based on Local Law
Report on when we restrict content that's reported to us as violating local law.
Internet Disruptions
Report on intentional internet restrictions that limit people's ability to access the internet.
Widely Viewed Content Report
Quarterly report on what people see on Facebook, including the content that receives the widest distribution during the quarter.
Regulatory and Other Transparency Reports
Download current and past regulatory reports for Facebook and Instagram.
There are a number of reasons why Meta may draft a new policy for the Facebook Community Standards and Instagram Community Guidelines or revise an existing one.
Here’s how it works.
Meta’s Content Policy team, which sits in more than a dozen locations around the world, is responsible for developing our Community Standards and Community Guidelines. The team includes subject matter experts in issues like hate speech, child safety and terrorism as well as people with experience in criminal prosecution, rape crisis counseling, academics, human rights, law and education. Many have also worked on issues of voice and safety long before coming to Meta.
The Integrity team assesses the global impact of potential policy changes and builds the technology to scale the detection and enforcement of new policies.
The Global Operations team, whose employees, contractors and outsourcing partners are responsible for enforcing our policies, keep us informed about trends or times when we may need to clarify a policy.
Research teams may also point us to data or user sentiment that seems best addressed through policy-making.
Sometimes, we identify a gap in our policy, or an external stakeholder tells us that a policy fails to address an issue that’s important to them. In other cases, the press draws attention to a policy gap.
