Fraud, Scams and Deceptive Practices

Policy details

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Nov 12, 2025

Ads Must Comply with the Community Standard on Fraud, Scams and Deceptive Practices.

Overview

We aim to protect users and businesses from being deceived out of their money, property or personal information. We achieve this by removing content and combatting behavior that purposefully employs deceptive means – such as wilful misrepresentation, stolen information and exaggerated claims – to either scam or defraud users and businesses, or to drive engagement. This includes content that seeks to coordinate or promote these activities using our platform. We allow people to raise awareness and educate others as well as condemn these activities.

This policy provides specific additional protections beyond what is prohibited in the Community Standards for Fraud, Scam and Deceptive Practices.

Additional Guidelines for Ads

The following are additional requirements ads must follow, in addition to the requirements in our Community Standard on Frauds, Scams and Deceptive Practices.

Misleading Health Practices

Ads can't

Promote 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):

Diabetes

Herpes

Thyroid

Psoriasis

Ebola

Cancer

Autism

Alzheimer's

Parkinson's

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Promise specific health-related results in specific time with no qualifying or disclaimer language.

Employ click-bait tactics in a health context, such as the use of sensational language that makes exaggerated or extreme health claims.

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.