Community Standards
Policies that outline what is and isn't allowed on our apps.
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Policies for ad content and business assets.
Other policies
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How Meta improves
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Age-Appropriate Content
Explore how we help teens have safe, positive experiences on Facebook and Instagram.
Our Approach To Dangerous Organizations and Individuals
How we approach dangerous organizations and individuals.
Our approach to the opioid epidemic
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Our approach to elections
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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
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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
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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.
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.
Advertisers can't run ads for products or services that promote cheating or deceitful practices.
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.
