Bullying and Harassment

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Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Tier 1: Universal protections for everyone:
  • Everyone is protected from:
    • Unwanted contact that is:
      • Repeated, OR
      • Sexually harassing, OR
      • Is directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
    • Calls for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of individuals.
    • Attacks based on their experience of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity.
    • Severe sexualized commentary.
    • Derogatory sexualized photoshop or drawings
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
    • Claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
    • Claims that individuals are lying about being a victim of a violent tragedy or terrorist attack, including claims that they are:
      • Acting or pretending to be a victim of a specific event, or
      • Paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threats to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, email address or medical records (as defined in the Privacy Violations policy).
  • Calls for, or statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Content that degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Everyone is protected from the following, but for adult public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Calls for death and statements in favor of contracting or developing a medical condition.
    • Celebration or mocking of death or medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted infections.
    • Statements of inferiority about physical appearance.
Tier 2: Additional protections for all Minors, Private Adults and Limited Scope Public Figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means):
  • In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures are protected from:
    • Claims about sexual activity, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults (non-consensual sexual touching).
    • Content sexualizing another adult (sexualization of minors is covered in the Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity policy).
    • Harassing pranks
  • All minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures) are protected from the following, but for minor public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Dehumanizing comparisons (in written or visual form) to or about:
      • Animals and insects, including subhuman creatures, that are culturally perceived as inferior.
      • Bacteria, viruses, microbes, and diseases.
      • Inanimate objects, including trash, filth, feces.
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, and so on).
  • Content that ranks them based on physical appearance or character traits.
  • Content that degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied (except in fight-sport contexts).
Tier 3: Additional protections for Private Minors, Private Adults, and Minor Involuntary Public Figures:
  • In addition to all the protections listed above, all private minors, private adults (who must self-report), and minor involuntary public figures are protected from:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
    • Calls for action, statements of intent, aspirational or conditional statements, or statements advocating or supporting exclusion.
    • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults.
    • Expressions of contempt, disgust, or content rejecting the existence of an individual, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
  • When self-reported, private minors, private adults, and minor involuntary public figures are protected from the following:
    • First-person voice bullying.
    • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
    • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
    • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
    • Non-negative character or ability claims.
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
Tier 4: Additional protections for Private Minors only:
  • Minors get the most protection under our policy. In addition to all the protections listed above, private minors are also protected from:
    • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
    • Videos of physical bullying against minors, shared in any context.
    • Derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing.
Bullying and harassment through pages, groups, events and messages
  • The protections of Tiers 1 through 4 are also enforced on pages, groups, events and messages.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the target or an authorized representative of the target.
  • Post content described above that would otherwise require the target to report the content or where the content an indicates that the poster is directly targeting the target (for example: the target is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target (alive or deceased) that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target that the content is unwanted.
  • Initiate contact that is sexually harassing the recipient. We will remove any content shared in an unwanted context when we have a confirmation from the recipient, or an authorized representative of the recipient that contact is unwanted.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Election officials
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Tier 1: Universal protections for everyone:
  • Everyone is protected from:
    • Unwanted contact that is:
      • Repeated, OR
      • Sexually harassing, OR
      • Is directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
    • Calls for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of individuals.
    • Attacks based on their experience of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity.
    • Severe sexualized commentary.
    • Derogatory sexualized photoshop or drawings
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
    • Claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
    • Claims that individuals are lying about being a victim of a violent tragedy or terrorist attack, including claims that they are:
      • Acting or pretending to be a victim of a specific event, or
      • Paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threats to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, email address or medical records (as defined in the Privacy Violations policy).
  • Calls for, or statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Content that degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Everyone is protected from the following, but for adult public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Calls for death and statements in favor of contracting or developing a medical condition.
    • Celebration or mocking of death or medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted infections.
    • Statements of inferiority about physical appearance.
Tier 2: Additional protections for all Minors, Private Adults and Limited Scope Public Figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means):
  • In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures are protected from:
    • Claims about sexual activity, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults (non-consensual sexual touching).
    • Content sexualizing another adult (sexualization of minors is covered in the Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity policy).
    • Harassing pranks
  • All minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures) are protected from the following, but for minor public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Dehumanizing comparisons (in written or visual form) to or about:
      • Animals and insects, including subhuman creatures, that are culturally perceived as inferior.
      • Bacteria, viruses, microbes, and diseases.
      • Inanimate objects, including trash, filth, feces.
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, and so on).
  • Content that ranks them based on physical appearance or character traits.
  • Content that degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied (except in fight-sport contexts).
Tier 3: Additional protections for Private Minors, Private Adults, and Minor Involuntary Public Figures:
  • In addition to all the protections listed above, all private minors, private adults (who must self-report), and minor involuntary public figures are protected from:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
    • Calls for action, statements of intent, aspirational or conditional statements, or statements advocating or supporting exclusion.
    • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults.
    • Expressions of contempt, disgust, or content rejecting the existence of an individual, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
  • When self-reported, private minors, private adults, and minor involuntary public figures are protected from the following:
    • First-person voice bullying.
    • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
    • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
    • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
    • Non-negative character or ability claims.
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
Tier 4: Additional protections for Private Minors only:
  • Minors get the most protection under our policy. In addition to all the protections listed above, private minors are also protected from:
    • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
    • Videos of physical bullying against minors, shared in any context.
    • Derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing.
Bullying and harassment through pages, groups, events and messages
  • The protections of Tiers 1 through 4 are also enforced on pages, groups, events and messages.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the target or an authorized representative of the target.
  • Post content described above that would otherwise require the target to report the content or where the content an indicates that the poster is directly targeting the target (for example: the target is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target (alive or deceased) that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target that the content is unwanted.
  • Initiate contact that is sexually harassing the recipient. We will remove any content shared in an unwanted context when we have a confirmation from the recipient, or an authorized representative of the recipient that contact is unwanted.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Election officials
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Tier 1: Universal protections for everyone:
  • Everyone is protected from:
    • Unwanted contact that is:
      • Repeated, OR
      • Sexually harassing, OR
      • Is directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
    • Calls for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of individuals.
    • Attacks based on their experience of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity.
    • Severe sexualized commentary.
    • Derogatory sexualized photoshop or drawings
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
    • Claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
    • Claims that individuals are lying about being a victim of a violent tragedy or terrorist attack, including claims that they are:
      • Acting or pretending to be a victim of a specific event, or
      • Paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threats to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, email address or medical records (as defined in the Privacy Violations policy).
  • Calls for, or statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Content that degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Everyone is protected from the following, but for adult public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Calls for death and statements in favor of contracting or developing a medical condition.
    • Celebration or mocking of death or medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted infections.
    • Derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing.
    • Statements of inferiority about physical appearance.
Tier 2: Additional protections for all Minors, Private Adults and Limited Scope Public Figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means):
  • In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures are protected from:
    • Claims about sexual activity, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults (non-consensual sexual touching).
    • Content sexualizing another adult (sexualization of minors is covered in the Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity policy).
  • All minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures) are protected from the following, but for minor public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Dehumanizing comparisons (in written or visual form) to or about:
      • Animals and insects, including subhuman creatures, that are culturally perceived as inferior.
      • Bacteria, viruses, microbes, and diseases.
      • Inanimate objects, including trash, filth, feces.
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, and so on).
  • Content that ranks them based on physical appearance or character traits.
  • Content that degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied (except in fight-sport contexts).
Tier 3: Additional protections for Private Minors, Private Adults, and Minor Involuntary Public Figures:
  • In addition to all the protections listed above, all private minors, private adults (who must self-report), and minor involuntary public figures are protected from:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
    • Calls for action, statements of intent, aspirational or conditional statements, or statements advocating or supporting exclusion.
    • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults.
    • Expressions of contempt, disgust, or content rejecting the existence of an individual, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
  • When self-reported, private minors, private adults, and minor involuntary public figures are protected from the following:
    • First-person voice bullying.
    • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
    • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
    • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
    • Non-negative character or ability claims.
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
Tier 4: Additional protections for Private Minors only:
  • Minors get the most protection under our policy. In addition to all the protections listed above, private minors are also protected from:
    • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
    • Videos of physical bullying against minors, shared in any context.
    • Derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing.
Bullying and harassment through pages, groups, events and messages
  • The protections of Tiers 1 through 4 are also enforced on pages, groups, events and messages.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the target or an authorized representative of the target.
  • Post content described above that would otherwise require the target to report the content or where the content an indicates that the poster is directly targeting the target (for example: the target is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target (alive or deceased) that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target that the content is unwanted.
  • Initiate contact that is sexually harassing the recipient. We will remove any content shared in an unwanted context when we have a confirmation from the recipient, or an authorized representative of the recipient that contact is unwanted.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Election officials
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Tier 1: Universal protections for everyone:
  • Everyone is protected from:
    • Unwanted contact that is:
      • Repeated, OR
      • Sexually harassing, OR
      • Is directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
    • Calls for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of individuals.
    • Attacks based on their experience of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity.
    • Severe sexualized commentary.
    • Derogatory sexualized photoshop or drawings
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
    • Claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
    • Claims that individuals are lying about being a victim of a violent tragedy or terrorist attack, including claims that they are:
      • Acting or pretending to be a victim of a specific event, or
      • Paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threats to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, email address or medical records (as defined in the Privacy Violations policy).
  • Calls for, or statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Content that degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Everyone is protected from the following, but for adult public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Calls for death and statements in favor of contracting or developing a medical condition.
    • Celebration or mocking of death or medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted infections.
    • Derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing.
    • Statements of inferiority about physical appearance.
Tier 2: Additional protections for all Minors, Private Adults and Limited Scope Public Figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means):
  • In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures are protected from:
    • Claims about sexual activity, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults (non-consensual sexual touching).
    • Content sexualizing another adult (sexualization of minors is covered in the Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity policy).
  • All minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures) are protected from the following, but for minor public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Dehumanizing comparisons (in written or visual form) to or about:
      • Animals and insects, including subhuman creatures, that are culturally perceived as inferior.
      • Bacteria, viruses, microbes, and diseases.
      • Inanimate objects, including trash, filth, feces.
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, and so on).
  • Content that ranks them based on physical appearance or character traits.
  • Content that degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied (except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts).
Tier 3: Additional protections for Private Minors, Private Adults, and Minor Involuntary Public Figures:
  • In addition to all the protections listed above, all private minors, private adults (who must self-report), and minor involuntary public figures are protected from:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
    • Calls for action, statements of intent, aspirational or conditional statements, or statements advocating or supporting exclusion.
    • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults.
    • Expressions of contempt, disgust, or content rejecting the existence of an individual, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
  • When self-reported, private minors, private adults, and minor involuntary public figures are protected from the following:
    • First-person voice bullying.
    • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
    • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
    • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
    • Non-negative character or ability claims.
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
Tier 4: Additional protections for Private Minors only:
  • Minors get the most protection under our policy. In addition to all the protections listed above, private minors are also protected from:
    • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
    • Videos of physical bullying against minors, shared in anya non-condemning context.
    • Videos of physical bullying against minors, shared in a condemning context, where we add a cover so people can choose whether to see it.
Bullying and harassment through pages, groups, events and messages
  • The protections of Tiers 1 through 4 are also enforced on pages, groups, events and messages.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the target or an authorized representative of the target.
  • Post content described above that would otherwise require the target to report the content or where the content an indicates that the poster is directly targeting the target (for example: the target is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target (alive or deceased) that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the target or an authorized representative of the target that the content is unwanted.
  • Initiate contact that is sexually harassing the recipient. We will remove any content shared in an unwanted context when we have a confirmation from the recipient, or an authorized representative of the recipient that contact is unwanted.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Election officials
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
The Policy was updated to remove videos depicting the physical bullying of minors when shared in a condemning context and allowing such content only in a fight-sports context.
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platformsFacebook to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Tier 1: Universal protections for everyone:
  • Everyone is protected from:
    • Unwanted contact that is:
      • Repeated, OR
      • Sexually harassing, OR
      • Is directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
    • Calls for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of individuals.
    • Attacks based on their experience of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity.
    • Severe sexualized commentary.
    • Derogatory sexualized photoshop or drawings
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
    • Claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
    • Claims that individuals are lying about being a victim of a violent tragedy or terrorist attack, including claims that they are:
      • Acting or pretending to be a victim of a specific event, or
      • Paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threats to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, email address or medical records (as defined in the Privacy Violations policy).
  • Calls for, or statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Content that degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Everyone is protected from the following, but for adult public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Calls for death and statements in favor of contracting or developing a medical condition.
    • Celebration or mocking of death or medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted infections.
    • Derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing.
    • Statements of inferiority about physical appearance.
Tier 2: Additional protections for all Minors, Private Adults and Limited Scope Public Figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means):
  • In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures are protected from:
    • Claims about sexual activity, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults (non-consensual sexual touching).
    • Content sexualizing another adult (sexualization of minors is covered in the Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity policy).
  • All minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures) are protected from the following, but for minor public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Dehumanizing comparisons (in written or visual form) to or about:
      • Animals and insects, including subhuman creatures, that are culturally perceived as inferior.
      • Bacteria, viruses, microbes, and diseases.
      • Inanimate objects, including trash, filth, feces.
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, and so on).
  • Content that ranks them based on physical appearance or character traits.
  • Content that degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied (except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts).
Tier 3: Additional protections for Private Minors, Private Adults, and Minor Involuntary Public Figures:
  • In addition to all the protections listed above, all private minors, private adults (who must self-report), and minor involuntary public figures are protected from:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
    • Calls for action, statements of intent, aspirational or conditional statements, or statements advocating or supporting exclusion.
    • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults.
    • Expressions of contempt, disgust, or content rejecting the existence of an individual, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
  • When self-reported, private minors, private adults, and minor involuntary public figures are protected from the following:
    • First-person voice bullying.
    • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
    • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
    • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
    • Non-negative character or ability claims.
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
Tier 4: Additional protections for Private Minors only:
  • Minors get the most protection under our policy. In addition to all the protections listed above, private minors are also protected from:
    • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
    • Videos of physical bullying against minors, shared in a non-condemning context.
    • Videos of physical bullying against minors, shared in a condemning context, where we add a cover so people can choose whether to see it.
Bullying and harassment through pages, groups, events and messages
  • The protections of Tiers 1 through 4 are also enforced on pages, groups, events and messages.
We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it: Videos of physical bullying against minors shared in a condemning context
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the targetvictim or an authorized representative of the targetvictim.
  • Create accounts to contact someone who has blocked you.
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim has not reported it directly.
  • Post content described above that would otherwise require the targetvictim to report the content or where the content an indicates that the poster is directly targeting the victimtarget (for example: the target (alive or deceased)victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the targetvictim or an authorized representative of the victimtarget (alive or deceased) that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content praising, celebrating or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the targetvictim or an authorized representative of the targetvictim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the targetvictim or an authorized representative of the targetvictim that the content is unwanted.
  • Initiate contact that is unwanted, including when contact is sexually harassing the recipient. We will remove any content shared in an unwanted context when we have a confirmation from the recipient, or an authorized representative of the recipient that contact is unwanted.
  • Engage in mass harassment against individuals that targets them based on their decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine with:
  • Statements of mental or moral inferiority based on their decision, or
  • Statements that advocate for or allege a negative outcome as a result of their decision, except for widely proven and/or accepted COVID-19 symptoms or vaccine side effects.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Election officials
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Tier 1: Universal protections for everyone:
  • Everyone is protected from:
    • RepeatedUnwanted contact whichthat is:
      • UnwantedRepeated, ORor
      • Sexually harassing, ORor
      • IsDdirected at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
    • Calls for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of individuals.
    • Attacks based on their experience of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity.
    • Severe sexualized commentary.
    • Derogatory sexualized photoshop or drawings
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
    • Claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
    • Claims that individuals are lying about being a victim of a violent tragedy or terrorist attack, including claims that they are:
      • Acting or pretending to be a victim of a specific event, or
      • Paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threats to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, email address or medical records (as defined in the Privacy Violations policy).
  • Calls for, or statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Content that degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Everyone is protected from the following, but for adult public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Calls for death and statements in favor of contracting or developing a medical condition.
    • Celebration or mocking of death or medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted infections.
    • Derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing.
    • Statements of inferiority about physical appearance.
Tier 2: Additional protections for all Minors, Private Adults and Limited Scope Public Figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means):
  • In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures are protected from:
    • Claims about sexual activity, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults (non-consensual sexual touching).
    • Content sexualizing another adult (sexualization of minors is covered in the Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity policy).
  • All minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures) are protected from the following, but for minor public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
    • Dehumanizing comparisons (in written or visual form) to or about:
      • Animals and insects, including subhuman creatures, that are culturally perceived as inferior.
      • Bacteria, viruses, microbes, and diseases.
      • Inanimate objects, including trash, filth, feces.
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, and so on).
  • Content that ranks them based on physical appearance or character traits.
  • Content that degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied (except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts).
Tier 3: Additional protections for Private Minors, Private Adults, and Minor Involuntary Public Figures:
  • In addition to all the protections listed above, all private minors, private adults (who must self-report), and minor involuntary public figures are protected from:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
    • Calls for action, statements of intent, aspirational or conditional statements, or statements advocating or supporting exclusion.
    • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults.
    • Expressions of contempt, disgust, or content rejecting the existence of an individual, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
  • When self-reported, private minors, private adults, and minor involuntary public figures are protected from the following:
    • First-person voice bullying.
    • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
    • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
    • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
    • Non-negative character or ability claims.
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
Tier 4: Additional protections for Private Minors only:
  • Minors get the most protection under our policy. In addition to all the protections listed above, private minors are also protected from:
    • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
    • Videos of physical bullying against minors, shared in a non-condemning context.
Tier 5: Bullying and harassment through pages, groups, events and messages
  • The protections of Tiers 1 through 4 are also enforced on pages, groups, events and messages.
We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it:
Videos of physical bullying against minors shared in a condemning context
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim.
  • Create accounts to contact someone who has blocked you.
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim has not reported it directly.
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (for example: the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content praising, celebrating or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Repeatedly contact someone to sexually harass them. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Initiate contact that is unwanted, including when contact is sexually harassing the recipient. We will remove any content shared in an unwanted context when we have a confirmation from the recipient, or an authorized representative of the recipient that contact is unwanted.
  • Engage in mass harassment against individuals that targets them based on their decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine with:
    • Statements of mental or moral inferiority based on their decision, or
    • Statements that advocate for or allege a negative outcome as a result of their decision, except for widely proven and/or accepted COVID-19 symptoms or vaccine side effects.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Election officials
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
The update clarifies that unwanted sexual harassment in private messages violates the Bullying and Harassment policy even when shared only one time.
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual personal activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for users between the ages of 13 and 18.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on Facebook to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Tier 1:Universal protections for everyone:Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Everyone is protected from:
  • Repeatedly contact which ising someone in a manner that is:
    • Unwanted, or
    • Sexually harassing, or
    • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
  • Attacking someone based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
  • CallsCalling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of individualspeople.
  • Attacks based on their experience of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
  • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity.
  • Severe sexualized commentary.
  • Derogatory sexualized photoshop or drawings
  • AttacksAttacking someone through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
  • Claims thatPosting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
  • Claims that individuals are lying about being a victim of a violent tragedy or terrorist attack, including claims that they are: Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies or terrorist attacks by name or by image, with claims that they are:
    • Acting/orpretending to be a victim of anspecific event , or.
    • Otherwise pPaid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threatsening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, email address or medical records (as defined in the Privacy Violations policy).
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity.
  • Making severe sexualized commentary
  • Sharing derogatory sexualized photoshopped imagery or drawings
  • Callsing for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Posting Content that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Everyone is protected from the following, but for adult public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • CallingCalls for death,and statements in favor ofor to contracting or developing a medical condition.
    • Celebration or mocking of death or medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted infections.
    • Derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing.
    • Statements of inferiority about physical appearance.
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity.
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease.
    • Sexualizing another adult.
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread:
    • Attacks referenced in Tier 1, 2 and 4 of this policy.
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease or physical harm.
Tier 2: Additional protections for all Minors, Private Adults andTarget private individuals, Limited Scope Public Figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means) or public figures who are minors with:
  • In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures are protected from:
  • Claims about sexual activity, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults (non-consensual sexual touching).
  • Content sexualizing another adult (sexualization of minors is covered in the Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity policy).
  • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases except in the context of criminal allegations against adults about non-consensual sexual touching.
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Negative physical descriptions.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust.
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
  • All minors (private individuals and public figures), private adults and limited scope public figures) are protected from the following, but for minor public figures, they must be purposefully exposed to:
  • Dehumanizing comparisons (in written or visual form) to or about:
    • Animals and insects, including subhuman creatures, that are culturally perceived as inferior.
    • Bacteria, viruses, microbes, and diseases.
    • Inanimate objects, including trash, filth, feces.
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, and so on).
  • Content that ranks them based on physical appearance or character traits.
  • Content that degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied (except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts).
Tier 3: Additional protections for Private Minors, Private Adults, and Minor Involuntary Public Figures:Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • In addition to all the protections listed above, all private minors, private adults (who must self-report), and minor involuntary public figures are protected from:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
    • Calls for action, statements of intent, aspirational or conditional statements, or statements advocating or supporting exclusion.
    • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults.
    • Expressions of contempt, disgust, or content rejecting the existence of an individual, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
  • When self-reported, private minors, private adults, and minor involuntary public figures are protected from the following:
    • First-person voice bullying.
    • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
    • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
    • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
    • Non-negative character or ability claims.
    • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
  • For adults and minors:
    • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
    • ontent that praises, celebrates or mocks their death or medical condition.
    • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • For minors:
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
Tier 4: Additional protections for Private Minors only: Target private individuals or limited scope public figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means) with:
  • Minors get the most protection under our policy. In addition to all the protections listed above, private minors are also protected from:
    • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
    • Videos of physical bullying against minors, shared in a non-condemning context.
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality.
  • Content sexualizing another adult.
  • Content that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts.
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury.
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims.
    • First-person voice bullying only if the object targets more than one private individual.
Tier 5: Bullying and harassment through pages, groups, events and messages Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • The protections of Tiers 1 through 4 are also enforced on pages, groups, events and messages.
  • Targeted cursing.
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • Coordination, advocacy or promotion of exclusion.
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose off-line harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them.
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
Tier 6: Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
  • Videos of physical bullying shared in a non-condemning context.
Tier 7: Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • First-person voice bullying.
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
  • Non-negative character or ability claims (including claims about mental illness).
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context.
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it:
Videos of physical bullying against minors shared in a condemning context
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim.
  • Create accounts to contact someone who has blocked you.
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim has not reported it directly.
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (for example: the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content praising, celebrating or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Repeatedly contact someone to sexually harass them. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Engage in mass harassment against individuals that targets them based on their decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine with:
    • Statements of mental or moral inferiority based on their decision, or
    • Statements that advocate for or allege a negative outcome as a result of their decision, except for widely proven and/or accepted COVID-19 symptoms or vaccine side effects.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Election officials
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
The policy is being updated to reduce the number of tiers to simplify the policy and improve its explicability.
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual personal activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for users between the ages of 13 and 18.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on Facebook to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Tier 1: Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Repeatedly contacting someone in a manner that is:
    • Unwanted, or
    • Sexually harassing, or
    • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
  • Attacking someone based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people.
  • Attacking someone through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies or terrorist attacks by name or by image, with claims that they are:
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event.
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, email address or medical records (as defined in the Privacy Violations policy).
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity.
  • Making severe sexualized commentary
  • Sharing derogatory sexualized photoshopped imagery or drawings
  • Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Posting content that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • Calling for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity.
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease.
    • Sexualizing another adult.
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread:
    • Attacks referenced in Tier 1, 2 and 4 of this policy.
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease or physical harm.
Tier 2: Target private individuals, limited scope public figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means) or public figures who are minors with:
  • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases except in the context of criminal allegations against adults about non-consensual sexual touching.
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Negative physical descriptions.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust.
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
Tier 3: Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults and minors:
    • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
    • Content that praises, celebrates or mocks their death or medical condition.
    • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • For minors:
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
Tier 4: Target private individuals or limited scope public figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means) with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality.
  • Content sexualizing another adult.
  • Content that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts.
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury.
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims.
    • First-person voice bullying only if the object targets more than one private individual.
Tier 5: Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing.
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • Coordination, advocacy or promotion of exclusion.
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose off-line harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them.
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
Tier 6: Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
  • Videos of physical bullying shared in a non-condemning context.
Tier 7: Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • First-person voice bullying.
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
  • Non-negative character or ability claims (including claims about mental illness).
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context.
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it:
Videos of physical bullying against minors shared in a condemning context
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim.
  • Create accounts to contact someone who has blocked you.
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim has not reported it directly.
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (for example: the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content praising, celebrating or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Repeatedly contact someone to sexually harass them. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Engage in mass harassment against individuals that targets them based on their decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine with:
    • Statements of mental or moral inferiority based on their decision, or
    • Statements that advocate for or allege a negative outcome as a result of their decision, except for widely proven and/or accepted COVID-19 symptoms or vaccine side effects.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Election officials
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
The policy is being updated to include a definition of public figures as recommended by the Oversight Board.
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Tier 1: Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Repeatedly contacting someone in a manner that is:
    • Unwanted, or
    • Sexually harassing, or
    • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
  • Attacking someone based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people.
  • Attacking someone through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies or terrorist attacks by name or by image, with claims that they are:
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event.
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address,or email address or medical records (as defined in the Privacy Violations policy).
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity.
  • Making severe sexualized commentary
  • Sharing derogatory sexualized photoshopped imagery or drawings
  • Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Posting content that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • Calling for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity.
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease.
    • Sexualizing another adult.
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread:
    • Attacks referenced in Tier 1, 2 and 4 of this policy.
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease or physical harm.
Tier 2: Target private individuals, limited scope public figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means) or public figures who are minors with:
  • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases except in the context of criminal allegations against adults about non-consensual sexual touching.
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Negative physical descriptions.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust.
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
Tier 3: Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults and minors:
    • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
    • Content that praises, celebrates or mocks their death or medical condition.
    • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • For minors:
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
Tier 4: Target private individuals or limited scope public figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means) with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality.
  • Content sexualizing another adult.
  • Content that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts.
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury.
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims.
    • First-person voice bullying only if the object targets more than one private individual.
Tier 5: Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing.
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • Coordination, advocacy or promotion of exclusion.
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose off-line harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them.
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
Tier 6: Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
  • Videos of physical bullying shared in a non-condemning context.
Tier 7: Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • First-person voice bullying.
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
  • Non-negative character or ability claims (including claims about mental illness).
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context.
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it:
Videos of physical bullying against minors shared in a condemning context
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim.
  • Create accounts to contact someone who has blocked you.
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim has not reported it directly.
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (for example: the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content praising, celebrating or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Repeatedly contact someone to sexually harass them. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Engage in mass harassment against individuals that targets them based on their decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine with:
    • Statements of mental or moral inferiority based on their decision, or
    • Statements that advocate for or allege a negative outcome as a result of their decision, except for widely proven and/or accepted COVID-19 symptoms or vaccine side effects.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Election officials
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
The policy has been updated to remove threats to release medical records as well as claims about mental illness against private individuals when that individual reports the content.
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Tier 1: Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Repeatedly contacting someone in a manner that is:
    • Unwanted, or
    • Sexually harassing, or
    • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
  • Attacking someone based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people.
  • Attacking someone through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies or terrorist attacks by name or by image, with claims that they are:
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event.
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address or email address.
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity.
  • Making severe sexualized commentary
  • Sharing derogatory sexualized photoshopped imagery or drawings
  • Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Posting content that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • Calling for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity.
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease.
    • Sexualizing another adult.
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread:
    • Attacks referenced in Tier 1, 2 and 4 of this policy.
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease or physical harm.
Tier 2: Target private individuals, limited scope public figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means) or public figures who are minors with:
  • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases except in the context of criminal allegations against adults about non-consensual sexual touching.
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Negative physical descriptions.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust.
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
Tier 3: Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults and minors:
    • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
    • Content that praises, celebrates or mocks their death or medical condition.
    • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • For minors:
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
Tier 4: Target private individuals or limited scope public figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means) with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality.
  • Content sexualizing another adult.
  • Content that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts.
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury.
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims.
    • First-person voice bullying only if the object targets more than one private individual.
Tier 5: Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing.
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • Coordination, advocacy or promotion of exclusion.
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose off-line harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them.
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
Tier 6: Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
  • Videos of physical bullying shared in a non-condemning context.
Tier 7: Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • First-person voice bullying.
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
  • Non-negative character or ability claims.
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context.
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it:
Videos of physical bullying against minors shared in a condemning context
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim.
  • Create accounts to contact someone who has blocked you.
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim has not reported it directly.
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (for example: the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content praising, celebrating or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Repeatedly contact someone to sexually harass them. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Engage in mass harassment against individuals that targets them based on their decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine with:
    • Statements of mental or moral inferiority based on their decision, or
    • Statements that advocate for or allege a negative outcome as a result of their decision, except for widely proven and/or accepted COVID-19 symptoms or vaccine side effects.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Election officials
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
The policy is being updated to include election officials as individuals at heightened risk of offline harm.
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Tier 1: Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Repeatedly contacting someone in a manner that is:
    • Unwanted, or
    • Sexually harassing, or
    • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
  • Attacking someone based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people.
  • Attacking someone through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies or terrorist attacks by name or by image, with claims that they are:
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event.
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address or email address.
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity.
  • Making severe sexualized commentary
  • Sharing derogatory sexualized photoshopped imagery or drawings
  • Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Posting content that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • Calling for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity.
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease.
    • Sexualizing another adult.
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread:
    • Attacks referenced in Tier 1, 2 and 4 of this policy.
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease or physical harm.
Tier 2: Target private individuals, limited scope public figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means) or public figures who are minors with:
  • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases except in the context of criminal allegations against adults about non-consensual sexual touching.
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Negative physical descriptions.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust.
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
Tier 3: Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults and minors:
    • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
    • Content that praises, celebrates or mocks their death or medical condition.
    • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • For minors:
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
Tier 4: Target private individuals or limited scope public figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means) with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality.
  • Content sexualizing another adult.
  • Content that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts.
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury.
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims.
    • First-person voice bullying only if the object targets more than one private individual.
Tier 5: Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing.
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • Coordination, advocacy or promotion of exclusion.
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose off-line harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them.
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
Tier 6: Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
  • Videos of physical bullying shared in a non-condemning context.
Tier 7: Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • First-person voice bullying.
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
  • Non-negative character or ability claims.
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context.
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it:
Videos of physical bullying against minors shared in a condemning context
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim.
  • Create accounts to contact someone who has blocked you.
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim has not reported it directly.
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (for example: the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content praising, celebrating or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Repeatedly contact someone to sexually harass them. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Engage in mass harassment against individuals that targets them based on their decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine with:
    • Statements of mental or moral inferiority based on their decision, or
    • Statements that advocate for or allege a negative outcome as a result of their decision, except for widely proven and/or accepted COVID-19 symptoms or vaccine side effects.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
The policy is being updated to include the definition of limited scope public figures in Tier 4 in addition to Tier 2.
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms, from making threats to releasing personally identifiable information, to sending threatening messages, and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. For private individuals, our protection goes further: we remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for users between the ages of 13 and 18.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to share and re-share postspost and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on Facebook to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we’re doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Do not:
Tier 1: Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Repeatedly contacting someone in a manner that is:
    • Unwanted, or
    • Sexually harassing, or
    • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
  • Attacking someone based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people.
  • Attacking someone through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (for example: whore, slut).
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies or terrorist attacks by name or by image, with claims that they are:
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event.
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address or email address.
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity.
  • Making severe sexualized commentary
  • Sharing derogatory sexualized photoshopped imagery or drawings
  • Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
  • Posting content that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted in the process of, or right after, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • Calling for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity.
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease.
    • Sexualizing another adult.
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread:
    • Attacks referenced in Tier 1, 2 and 4 of this policy.
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease or physical harm.
Tier 2: Target private individuals, involuntarylimited scope public figures (for example, individuals whose primary fame is limited to their activism, journalism, or those who become famous through involuntary means) or public figures who are minors with:
  • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases except in the context of criminal allegations against adults about non-consensual sexual touching.
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Negative physical descriptions.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust.
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
Tier 3: Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults and minors:
    • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
    • Content that praises, celebrates or mocks their death or medical condition.
    • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • For minors:
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
Tier 4: Target private individuals or involuntary publiclimited scope figures with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear and so on).
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality.
  • Content sexualizing another adult.
  • Content that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating.
  • Content that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts.
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury.
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims.
    • First-person voice bullying only if the object targets more than one private individual.
Tier 5: Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing.
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • Coordination, advocacy or promotion of exclusion.
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviews against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose off-line harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them.
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
Tier 6: Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
  • Videos of physical bullying shared in a non-condemning context.
Tier 7: Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • First-person voice bullying.
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
  • Non-negative character or ability claims.
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context.
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it:
Videos of physical bullying against minors shared in a condemning context
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim.
  • Create accounts to contact someone who has blocked you.
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim has not reported it directly.
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (for example: the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content praising, celebrating or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content sexualizing a public figure. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Repeatedly contact someone to sexually harass them. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Engage in mass harassment against individuals that targets them based on their decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine with:
    • Statements of mental or moral inferiority based on their decision, or
    • Statements that advocate for or allege a negative outcome as a result of their decision, except for widely proven and/or accepted COVID-19 symptoms or vaccine side effects.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
The Bullying and Harassment policy has traditionally provided fewer protections for public figures compared to private individuals to allow for broad discussion and critical commentary of people with a large public audience, such as heads of state or celebrities. Because this commentary could expose public figures to harmful content that could sexualize, degrade them, or attack their appearance, we are increasing the protections for public figures without censoring political or benign commentary.
This policy update was based on global engagement with many stakeholders, including free speech advocates, human rights experts, women’s safety groups, cartoonists and satirists, female politicians and journalists, representatives of the LGBTIQ+ community, minority groups, content creators and public figures. In our consultations, we explored how best to balance our values of safety and voice, given that public figures are often the subject of media discussion, critical commentary and satire. We also looked at the severity of related harms and listened to diverse perspectives on the limits of political speech or critical commentary. The stakeholders were divided on where to draw the line; a minority called for allowing all attacks, some for removing anything unrelated to a public figure’s line of work, others suggested adopting a sexual harassment approach. Broadly, stakeholders acknowledged that these attacks disproportionately target and intimidate women and members of minority groups and recommended that we recognise power dynamics in our policy approach. We used the input we received on these points to craft a revision to our bullying and harassment policy.
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual personal activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for users between the ages of 13 and 18.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on Facebook to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Tier 1: Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Repeatedly contacting someone in a manner that is:
    • Unwanted, or
    • Sexually harassing, or
    • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation.
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Attacking someonethem based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse.
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people.
  • Attacking someonethem through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut).
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur.
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies or terrorist attacks by name or by image, with claims that they are:
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event.
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event.
  • Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address or email address.
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity.
  • Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • Calling for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity.
    • Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment.
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease.
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread:
    • Attacks referenced in Tier 1, 2 and 4 of this policy.
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease or physical harm.
Tier 2: Target private individuals, involuntary public figures or public figures who are minors with:
  • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases except in the context of criminal allegations against adults about non-consensual sexual touching. .
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing.
    • Negative physical descriptions.
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust.
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
Tier 3: Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults:
    • Calls for death, or to contract or develop a medical condition.
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way.
    • Content that praises, celebrates or mocks their death or medical condition.
  • For minors:
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.and so on).
Tier 4: Target private individuals or involuntary public figures with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”).
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.and so on).
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions.
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality.
  • Content sexualizing another adult.
  • Content that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating.
  • Content that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied except in self-defense and fight-sport contexts..
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury.
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims.
    • First-person voiceSelf-referential bullying only if the object targets more than one private individual.
Tier 5: Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing.
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • Coordination, advocacyadvocation or promotion of exclusion.
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations and business reviewsagainst adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose real-worldoff-line harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them.
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults.
Tier 6: Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior.
  • Videos of physical bullying shared in a non-condemning context.
Tier 7: Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • First-person voiceSelf-referential bullying.
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery.
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy.
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion").
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions.
  • Non-negative character or ability claims.
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context.
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity.
We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it:
Videos of physical bullying against minors shared in a condemning context
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim.
  • Create accounts to contact someone who has blocked you.
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim has not reported it directly.
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (for example:e.g. the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Post content praising, celebrating or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report.
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted.
  • Engage in mass harassment against individuals that targets them based on their decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine with:
    • Statements of mental or moral inferiority based on their decision, or
    • Statements that advocate for or allege a negative outcome as a result of their decision, except for widely proven and/or accepted COVID-19 symptoms or vaccine side effects.
  • Remove directed mass harassment, when:
    • Targeting, via any surface, ‘individuals at heightened risk of offline harm’, defined as:
      • Human rights defenders
      • Minors
      • Victims of violent events/tragedies
      • Opposition figures in at-risk countries during election periods
      • Government dissidents who have been targeted based on their dissident status
      • Ethnic and religious minorities in conflict zones
      • Member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
    • Targeting any individual via personal surfaces, such as inbox or profiles, with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Objectionable content that is based on a protected characteristic
  • Disable accounts engaged in mass harassment as part of either
    • State or state-affiliated networks targeting any individual via any surface.
    • Adversarial networks targeting any individual via any surface with:
      • Content that violates the bullying and harassment policies for private individuals or,
      • Content that targets them based on a protected characteristic, or,
      • Content or behavior otherwise deemed to be objectionable in local context
In response to an Oversight Board recommendation we committed to reformat the Bullying and Harassment Community Standard to clearly define the approach to different target user categories. Edits to this section have been made to reformat the section accordingly and bring alignment with internal documentation for transparency.
We’re also updating our policy on mass harassment which was based on global engagement with a broad range of stakeholders directly impacted by the policy, including feminist and women's rights activists, representatives of the LGBT community, minority groups, journalists, human rights activists, and public figures. We also connected with experts who study online harassment and state-sponsored influence operations, as well as advocates for freedom of expression. In our consultations, we explored the way stakeholders experienced brigading and mass harassment on our platforms, including the actors and targets involved, the tactics employed, and the coordinated nature of such attacks. We also discussed at length the numerous online and offline harms that may stem from such behaviors as well as the challenges in differentiating between legitimate forms of mass activity and abusive forms of brigading. Overall, stakeholders acknowledged that mass activity used for activism versus for harmful brigading can often exhibit similar online behaviors (i.e. mass reporting, comment flooding, or hashtag bombing). It was therefore recommended that we focus on context-specific factors to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate use-cases, such as the nature of the content posted, the impact on the victim, and the behavior's potential for offline harm. The input received on such issues was used to craft the first iteration of our brigading and mass harassment policy.
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact someone in a manner that is:
  • Unwanted or
  • Sexually harassing or
  • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity
  • Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • Calling for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disabilityor to contract or develop a medical condition
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Targeted cursing
    • Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease, or physical harm
Target private individuals, involuntary public figures, or public figures who are minors, with:
  • Calls for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disabilityor to contract or develop a medical condition
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • Negative physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disabilityor to contract or develop a medical condition
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
    • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injurymedical condition
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals or involuntary public figures with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content sexualizing another adult
  • Content that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Content that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose real-world harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared within a condemning captioncontext
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim
  • Create accounts to to contact someone who has blocked you
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim hasn’t reported it directly
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (e.g., the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted
  • Post content praising, celebrating, or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted
  • Engage in mass harassment against individuals that targets them based on their decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine with:
    • statements of mental or moral inferiority based on their decision, or
    • statements that advocate for or allege a negative outcome as a result of their decision, except for widely proven and/or accepted COVID-19 symptoms or vaccine side effects.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact someone in a manner that is:
  • Unwanted or
  • Sexually harassing or
  • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity
  • Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • Calling for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Targeted cursing
    • Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease, or physical harm
Target private individuals, involuntary public figures, or public figures who are minors, with:
  • Calls for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disability
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • Negative physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disability
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
    • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals or involuntary public figures with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content sexualizing another adult
  • Content that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Content that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose real-world harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim
  • Create accounts to to contact someone who has blocked you
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim hasn’t reported it directly
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (e.g., the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted
  • Post content praising, celebrating, or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted
  • Engage in mass harassment against individuals that targets them based on their decision to take or not take the COVID-19 vaccine with:
    • statements of mental or moral inferiority based on their decision, or
    • statements that advocate for or allege a negative outcome as a result of their decision, except for widely proven and/or accepted COVID-19 symptoms or vaccine side effects.
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms, from making threats to releasing personally identifiable information, to sending threatening messages, and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. For private individuals, our protection goes further: we remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for users between the ages of 13 and 18.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to share and re-share postspost and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on Facebook to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we’re doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact someone in a manner that is:
  • Unwanted or
  • Sexually harassing or
  • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity
  • Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • Calling for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Targeted cursing
    • Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease, or physical harm
Target private individuals, involuntary public figures, or public figures who are minors, with:
  • Calls for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disability
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • Negative physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disability
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
    • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals or involuntary public figures with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content sexualizing another adult
  • Content that depicts others in the process of, or right after menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating where context further degrades the individual or contains an expression of disgustContent that further degrades or expresses disgust toward individuals who are depicted menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individualContent that further degrades individuals who are depicted being physically bullied
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death or serious physical injury
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose real-world harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:We add a cover to this content so people can choose whether to see it:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim
  • Create accounts to to contact someone who has blocked you
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim hasn’t reported it directly
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (e.g., the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted
  • Post content praising, celebrating, or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact someone in a manner that is:
  • Unwanted or
  • Sexually harassing or
  • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation,sexual harassment, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity
  • Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • Calling for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Targeted cursing
    • Calls for death, serious disease, disability, epidemic disease, or physical harm
Target another private individuals, involuntary public figures,or public figure who is aare minors, with:
  • Calls for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disability
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • Negative physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death, serious disease, epidemic disease, or disability
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
    • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content sexualizing another adult
  • Content that depicts others in the process of, or right after menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating where context further degrades the individual or contains an expression of disgust
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individual
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults. We allow criminal allegations so that people can draw attention to personal experiences or offline events. In cases in which criminal allegations pose real-world harm to the named individual, however, we may remove them
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy, except in at-risk countries where the Violence and Incitement policy should be applied
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not:
  • Post content that targets private individuals through unwanted Pages, Groups and Events. We remove this content when it is reported by the victim or an authorized representative of the victim
  • Create accounts to to contact someone who has blocked you
  • Post attacks that use derogatory terms related to female gendered cursing. We remove this content when the victim or an authorized representative of the victim informs us of the content, even if the victim hasn’t reported it directly
  • Post content that would otherwise require the victim to report the content or an indicator that the poster is directly targeting the victim (e.g., the victim is tagged in the post or comment). We will remove this content if we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted
  • Post content praising, celebrating, or mocking anyone's death. We also remove content targeting a deceased individual that we would normally require the victim to report
  • Post content calling for or stating an intent to engage in behavior that would qualify as bullying and harassment under our policies. We will remove this content when we have confirmation from the victim or an authorized representative of the victim that the content is unwanted
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact someone in a manner that is:
  • Unwanted or
  • Sexually harassing or
  • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Calling for, or making statements of intent to engage in, bullying and/or harassment
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threatening to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Making statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating for them to engage in a sexual activity
  • Creating Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by:
    • Calling for death or serious disease , epidemic disease, or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have a sexually transmitted disease
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Targeted cursing
    • Calls for death, serious disease, or disability, epidemic disease, or physical harm
Target another private individual, or public figure who is a minor, with:
  • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • Negative physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death or serious disease, epidemic disease, or disability
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
    • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content sexualizing another adult
  • Content that depicts others in the process of, or right after menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating where context further degrades the individual or contains an expression of disgust
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individual
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy, except in at-risk countries where the Violence and Incitement policy should be applied
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact someone in a manner that is:
  • Unwanted or
  • Sexually harassing or
  • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threaten to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Creating or posting content to Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by: , for example
    • Calling for death or serious disease or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Making claims that the individual has or may have aabout sexually transmitted diseases
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Targeted cursing
    • Calls for death, serious disease or disability, or physical harm
Target another private individual, or public figure who is a minor, with:
  • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • High-severity physical descriptionsNegative physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
    • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content sexualizing another adult
  • Content that depicts others in the process of, or right after menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating where context further degrades the individual or contains an expression of disgust
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individual
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy, except in at-risk countries where the Violence and Incitement policy should be applied
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact someone in a manner that is:
  • Unwanted or
  • Sexually harassing or
  • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threaten to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Creating or posting content to Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by, for example
    • Calling for death or serious disease or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted diseases
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Targeted cursing
    • Calls for death, serious disease or disability, or physical harm
Target another private individual, or public figure who is a minor, with:
  • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
  • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • High-severity physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Female-gendered cursing terms when used in a derogatory way
    • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content that depicts others in the process of, or right after menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating where context further degrades the individual or contains an expression of disgust
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individual
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy, except in at-risk countries where the Violence and Incitement policy should be applied
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact someone in a manner that is:
  • Unwanted or
  • Sexually harassing or
  • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threaten to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Creating or posting content to Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by, for example
    • Calling for death or serious disease or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted diseases
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Targeted cursing
    • Calls for death, serious disease or disability, or physical harm
Target another private individual, or public figure who is a minor, with:
  • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • High-severity physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content that depicts others in the process of, or right after menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating where context further degrades the individual or contains an expression of disgust
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individual
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figures with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Content questioning hygiene
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy, except in at-risk countries where the Violence and Incitement policy should be applied
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact someone in a manner that is:
  • Unwanted or
  • Sexually harassing or
  • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threaten to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Creating or posting content to Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by, for example
    • Calling for death or serious disease or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted diseases
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Targeted cursing
    • Calls for death, serious disease or disability, or physical harm
Target another private individual, or public figure who is a minor, with:
  • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • High-severity physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals or involuntary minor public figureswith:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content that depicts others in the process of, or right after menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating where context further degrades the individual or contains an expression of disgust
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individual
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors or involuntary minor public figureswith:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Content questioning hygiene
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy, except in at-risk countries where the Violence and Incitement policy should be applied
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms from making threats and releasing personally identifiable information to sending threatening messages and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. We define public figures as state and national level government officials, political candidates for those offices, people with over one million fans or followers on social media and people who receive substantial news coverage.
For private individuals, our protection goes further: We remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for anyone under the age 18, regardless of user status.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to post and share if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on our platforms to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying. Learn more about what we are doing to protect people from bullying and harassment here.
Note: This policy does not apply to individuals who are part of designated organizations under the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy or individuals who died prior to 1900.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact someone in a manner that is:
  • Unwanted or
  • Sexually harassing or
  • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threaten to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Creating or posting content to Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by, for example
    • Calling for death or serious disease or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted diseases
  • Sending messages that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Targeted cursing
    • Calls for death, serious disease or disability, or physical harm
Target another private individual, or public figure who is a minor, with:
  • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • High-severity physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
    • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through negative physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content that depicts others in the process of, or right after menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating where context further degrades the individual or contains an expression of disgust
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individual
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
  • Content that praises, celebrates, or mocks their death
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Content questioning hygiene
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy, except in at-risk countries where the Violence and Incitement policy should be applied
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Neutral or positive physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
Do not:
Repeatedly contact a single person despite that person's clear desire and action to prevent that contactsomeone in a manner than is:
  • Unwanted or
  • Sexually harassing or
  • Directed at a large number of individuals with no prior solicitation
Repeatedly contact large numbers of people with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threaten to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Creating or posting content to Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by, for example
    • Calling for death or serious disease or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted diseases
  • Sending messages to any individual that contain the following attacks when aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Targeted cursing aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Calls for death, serious disease or disability, or physical harm aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
Target another private individual, or public figure who is a minor, with:
  • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • High-severity physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through high-severitynegative physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content that depicts others in the process of, or right after menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating where context further degrades the individual or contains an expression of disgust
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individual
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Content questioning hygiene
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy, except in at-risk countries where the Violence and Incitement policy should be applied
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Low-severityNeutral or positivephysical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
Do not:
Repeatedly contact a single person despite that person's clear desire and action to prevent that contact
Repeatedly contact large numbers of people with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Threaten to release an individual's private phone number, residential address, or email address
  • Creating or posting content to Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by, for example
    • Calling for death or serious disease or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted diseases
  • Sending messages to any individual that contain
    • Targeted cursing aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Calls for death, serious disease or disability, or physical harm aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
Target another private individual, or public figure who is a minor, with:
  • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • High-severity physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through high-severity physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content that depicts others in the process of, or right after menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating where context further degrades the individual or contains an expression of disgust
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individual
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Content questioning hygiene
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy, except in at-risk countries where the Violence and Incitement policy should be applied
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Low-severity physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
Section 9: Bullying and Harassment (New):
Previously, our Community Standards included separate sections for bullying and harassment. The distinction was confusing to people, especially victims of bullying and/or harassment. That's why we opted to combine the two policies, expanding their scope to include additional protection for public figures. We continue to distinguish between public and private individuals because we think it's important to allow for discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience, but moving forward, for public figures we will remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment.
Policy Rationale
Bullying and harassment happen in many places and come in many different forms, from making threats to releasing personally identifiable information, to sending threatening messages, and making unwanted malicious contact. We do not tolerate this kind of behavior because it prevents people from feeling safe and respected on Facebook.
We distinguish between public figures and private individuals because we want to allow discussion, which often includes critical commentary of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. For public figures, we remove attacks that are severe as well as certain attacks where the public figure is directly tagged in the post or comment. For private individuals, our protection goes further: we remove content that's meant to degrade or shame, including, for example, claims about someone's sexual activity. We recognize that bullying and harassment can have more of an emotional impact on minors, which is why our policies provide heightened protection for users between the ages of 13 and 18.
Context and intent matter, and we allow people to share and re-share posts if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to bullying and harassment. In certain instances, we require self-reporting because it helps us understand that the person targeted feels bullied or harassed. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on Facebook to help protect against it.
We also have a Bullying Prevention Hub, which is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including information on how to start important conversations about bullying.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact a single person despite that person's clear desire and action to prevent that contact
Repeatedly contact large numbers of people with no prior solicitation
Target anyone maliciously by:
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault, sexual exploitation, or domestic abuse
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)
  • Posting content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur
  • Posting content about victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
    • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
    • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
  • Creating or posting content to Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by, for example
    • Calling for death or serious disease or disability
    • Making statements of intent of advocating to engage in sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted diseases
  • Sending messages to any individual that contain
    • Targeted cursing aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
    • Calls for death, serious disease or disability, or physical harm aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
Target another private individual, or public figure who is a minor, with:
  • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases
  • Pages or Groups created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing
    • High-severity physical descriptions
    • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt or disgust
Target public figures by purposefully exposing them to:
  • For adults
    • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
    • Statements of intent to engage in a sexual activity or advocating to engage in a sexual activity
    • Claims about sexually transmitted disease
  • For minors
    • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
    • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
Target private individuals with:
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object (“cow," “monkey” “potato”)
  • Content manipulated to highlight, circle, or otherwise negatively draw attention to specific physical characteristics (nose, ear, etc.)
  • Attacks through high-severity physical descriptions
  • Content that ranks individuals on physical appearance or personality
  • Content that depicts others in the process of, or right after menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating where context further degrades the individual or contains an expression of disgust
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individual
  • In addition to the above, attacks through Pages or Groups:
    • Negative character or ability claims
    • Self-referential bullying; Only if the Object targets more than 1 private individual
Target private adults (who must self-report) or any private minors with:
  • Targeted cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement, sexual orientation or gender identity
  • Content questioning hygiene
  • Coordination, advocation, or promotion of exclusion
  • Negative character or ability claims, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust, except in the context of criminal allegations against adults
Target private individuals who are minors with:
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared in a non-condemning context
Target private individuals (who must self-report) with:
  • Self-referential bullying
  • Unwanted manipulated imagery
  • Comparison to other public, fictional or private individuals on the basis of physical appearance
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy, except in at-risk countries where the Violence and Incitement policy should be applied
  • Comparisons to animals or insects that are not culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior (“tiger," “lion")
  • Low-severity physical descriptions
  • Non-negative character or ability claims
  • Any bullying or harassment violation, when shared in an endearing context
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to a lack of sexual activity
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption
Formerly Section 9: Bullying
In May 2019, we combined our bullying and harassment policies. For informational purposes, we've maintained the text of the bullying and harassment policies as they read before the merge, but please note that these sections have been superseded.
Policy Rationale
Bullying happens in many places and comes in many different forms from making statements degrading someone's character to posting inappropriate images to threatening someone. We do not tolerate bullying on Facebook because we want the members of our community to feel safe and respected.
We will remove content that purposefully targets private individuals with the intention of degrading or shaming them. We recognize that bullying can be especially harmful to minors, and our policies provide heightened protection for minors because they are more vulnerable and susceptible to online bullying. In certain instances, we require the individual who is the target of bullying to report content to us before removing it.
Our bullying policies do not apply to public figures because we want to allow discourse, which often includes critical discussion of people who are featured in the news or who have a large public audience. Discussion of public figures nonetheless must comply with our Community Standards, and we will remove content about public figures that violates other policies, including hate speech or credible threats.
Our Bullying Prevention Hub is a resource for teens, parents, and educators seeking support for issues related to bullying and other conflicts. It offers step-by-step guidance, including on how to start important conversations for people being bullied, parents who have a child being bullied or accused of bullying, and educators who have students involved with bullying.
Do not post:
Content about another private individual that reflects
  • Claims about sexual activity
  • DegradingHigh-severity physical descriptions 1
  • Ranking individuals on physical appearance or personality2
  • Threats of non-consensual sexual touching
  • Sexualized text targeting another individual
  • Attacks through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)3
  • An individual in a context that is intended to degrade, for example, menstruating, urinating, vomiting, or defecating
  • Physical bullying where the context further degrades the individual
  • Comparison to animals that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object
Content that has been photoshopped to target and demean an individual, including by highlighting specific physical characteristics or threatening violence in text or with imagery
Content that specifies an individual as the target of
  • Statements of intent to commit violence
  • Calls for action of violence
  • Statements advocating violence
  • Aspirational and conditional statements of violence
  • Physical bullying
  • Claims about religious identity or blasphemy4
In addition, we may remove Pages or Groups that are dedicated to attacking individual(s) by, for example
  • Cursing at an individual or individuals
  • Making negative character claims
  • Making negative ability claims
  • Claims about blasphemy5
  • Appearing to be first person but is actually posted by a different individual than the person referenced and targets more than one individual6
We also remove content that is targeted at minors when it contains:
  • Cursing
  • Claims about romantic involvement or sexual orientation
  • Allegations about criminal or illegal behavior
  • Coordinating, advocating, or promoting exclusion
  • Negative character claims
  • Negative ability claims7
  • Expressions of contempt or disgust
  • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
  • Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with no caption or a neutral or praising caption
In some cases, content is written in the first person but is actually posted by a different individual than the person referenced in the content. This may be done to target the person in the content with the intention of degrading or shaming them. We remove:
Content that contains the following and is reported by the individual depicted:8
  • Claims about sexual activity
  • Comparisons to animals that are culturally perceived as intellectually or physically inferior or to an inanimate object
  • DegradingHigh-severity physical descriptions 9
  • Ranking individuals on physical appearance or personality10
  • Cursing at a person
  • Claims about romantic involvement or sexual orientation
  • Negative character or ability claims
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
Videos of physical bullying or violence against minors in a fight context shared with a condemning caption 11
Formerly Section 10: Harassment
In May 2019, we combined our bullying and harassment policies. For informational purposes, we've maintained the text of the bullying and harassment policies as they read before the merge, but please note that these sections have been superseded.
Policy Rationale
We do not tolerate harassment on Facebook. We want people to feel safe to engage and connect with their community. Our harassment policy applies to both public and private individuals because we want to prevent unwanted or malicious contact on the platform. Context and intent matter, and we allow people to share and re-share posts if it is clear that something was shared in order to condemn or draw attention to harassment. In addition to reporting such behavior and content, we encourage people to use tools available on Facebook to help protect against it.
Do not:
Repeatedly contact a single person despite that person's clear desire and action to prevent that contact
Repeatedly contact large numbers of people with no prior solicitation
Send messages to any individual that contain
  • Targeted cursing aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread 12
  • Calls for death, serious disease or disability, or physical harm aimed at an individual or group of individuals in the thread
  • Bullying policy violations
  • Claims that a victim of a violent tragedy is lying about being a victim, acting/pretending to be a victim of a verified event, or otherwise is paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event when sent directly to a survivor and/or immediate family member of a survivor or victim
Send messages to a group that contain any bullying policy violations, regardless of whether the person being targeted is a public or private individual
Target anyone maliciously, including public figures, by
  • Attacking them based on their status as a victim of sexual assault or sexual exploitation
  • Threatening any participant in public discourse with violence in an attempt to intimidate or silence them
  • Calling for self-injury or suicide of a specific person, or group of people
  • Attacking them through derogatory terms related to sexual activity (e.g. whore, slut)13
Post content about a violent tragedy, or victims of violent tragedies that include claims that a violent tragedy did not occur14
Target victims or survivors of violent tragedies by name or by image, with claims that they are
  • Lying about being a victim of an event
  • Acting/pretending to be a victim of an event
  • Otherwise paid or employed to mislead people about their role in the event
Target a minor who is a public figure with: 15
  • Claims about sexual activity or sexually transmitted disease(s)
  • Content has been photoshopped to include threats of violence either in text or image (for example, adding bullseye, dart, gun to head)
  • Calls for death or serious disease or disability
  • Statements of intent to commit violence or low severity harm in an attempt to silence someone
  • Objects created to attack through:
    • Targeted cursing 16
    • DegradingHigh-severity physical description 17
    • Claims about blasphemy
    • Expressions of contempt
    • Expressions of disgust
Post content about anyone, including a public figure, that contains a name, photo, or video of the individual and: 18
  • Any statements of intent to commit lethal violence, or
  • Any calls for action of lethal violence, or
  • Any statements advocating lethal violence
1 Updated August 2018.
2 Updated August 2018.
3 Updated November 2018.
4 Updated May 2018.
5 Updated May 2018.
6 Updated May 2018.
7 Deleted August 2018.
8 Entire section, beginning with "In some cases, content is written..." and ending in "Negative character or ability claims," added in May 2018.
9 Updated August 2018.
10 Updated August 2018.
11 Updated August 2018.
12 Updated August 2018.
13 Updated November 2018.
14 Updated March 2019 with the following annotation: "In the wake of tragic mass shootings in Sandy Hook, CT and Parkland, FL, we saw a spike in content that referenced victims and survivors as liars and crisis actors or denied the events happened. We have since been working with advocacy organizations to understand the contours of these claims and found that often times harassment takes the form of claims that a violent tragedy did not occur. In an effort to protect victims and survivors, we have expanded our harassment policies to account for such denials."
15 Entire section, beginning with "Target a minor..." and ending in "Expressions of disgust," added in May 2018.
16 Updated August 2018.
17 Updated August 2018.
18 Entire section, beginning with "Post content about anyone..." and ending in "Any statements advocating lethal violence," added in November 2018.
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