Cheating and Deceitful Practices

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Cheating and Deceitful Practices

Ads may not promote products or services that are designed to enable people to engage in cheating or deceitful practices.

Overview

Advertisers can't run ads for products or services that promote cheating or deceitful practices.

Guidelines

Ads can't promote:

  • Dishonest practices. This includes but is not limited to products and services that:
  • Enable people to circumvent security systems, including software that encourages software, passwords, or credentials hacking
  • Facilitate the secretive viewing or recording of individuals, including spy cams, mobile phone trackers, or other hidden surveillance equipment
  • Deliberately disrupt communication or signal sharing, including jammer and descrambling devices that intercept the connection between a phone and mobile phone base station
  • Alter a vehicle to deceive others, including license plate obfuscation, odometer tampering, radar detectors or traffic light changers
  • Enable people to cheat on exams or drug tests


  • Counterfeit documents. This includes but is not limited to:
  • Fake documents, including counterfeit educational degrees, passports, immigration papers, or fake currency
  • Information on how to forge documents or currency, including any links to informational websites


  • Unauthorized streaming devices. This includes but is not limited to products or services that:
  • Facilitate or encourage access to digital content in an unauthorized manner, including the sale or use of augmented set-top boxes


  • Free reviews and giveaways. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Incentivizing or soliciting for reviews in exchange for free products
Reporting
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Universal entry point

We have an option to report, whether it's on a post, comment, story, message, profile or something else.

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Get started

We help people report things that they don’t think should be on our platform.

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Select a problem

We ask people to tell us more about what’s wrong. This helps us send the report to the right place.

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Check your report

Make sure the details are correct before you click Submit. It’s important that the problem selected truly reflects what was posted.

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Report submitted

After these steps, we submit the report. We also lay out what people should expect next.

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More options

We remove things if they go against our Community Standards, but you can also Unfollow, Block or Unfriend to avoid seeing posts in future.

Post-report communication
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Update via notifications

After we’ve reviewed the report, we’ll send the reporting user a notification.

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More detail in the Support Inbox

We’ll share more details about our review decision in the Support Inbox. We’ll notify people that this information is there and send them a link to it.

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Appeal option

If people think we got the decision wrong, they can request another review.

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Post-appeal communication

We’ll send a final response after we’ve re-reviewed the content, again to the Support Inbox.

Takedown experience
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Immediate notification

When someone posts something that doesn't follow our rules, we’ll tell them.

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Additional context

We’ll also address common misperceptions and explain why we made the decision to enforce.

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Policy Explanation

We’ll give people easy-to-understand explanations about the relevant rule.

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Option for review

If people disagree with the decision, they can ask for another review and provide more information.

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Final decision

We set expectations about what will happen after the review has been submitted.

Warning screens
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Warning screens in context

We cover certain content in News Feed and other surfaces, so people can choose whether to see it.

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More information

In this example, we give more context on why we’ve covered the photo with more context from independent fact-checkers

Enforcement

We have the same policies around the world, for everyone on Facebook.

Review teams

Our global team of over 15,000 reviewers work every day to keep people on Facebook safe.

Stakeholder engagement

Outside experts, academics, NGOs and policymakers help inform the Facebook Community Standards.