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Policy Rationale
In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on our platforms. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into two tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove Glorification, Support, and Representation of Tier 1 entities, their leaders, founders or prominent members, as well as unclear references to them.
In addition, we do not allow content that glorifies, supports, or represents events that Meta designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow (1) Glorification, Support, or Representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims. We also remove content that Glorifies, Supports or Represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.We remove unclear references to these designated events or ideologies.
Tier 2 includes Violent Non-State Actors that engage in violence against state or military actors in an armed conflict but do not intentionally target civilians. It also includes Violence Inducing Entities that are engaged in preparing or advocating for future violence but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date. These are also entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hateful Conduct or Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policies on or off the platform. We remove Glorification, Material Support, and Representation of these entities, their leaders, founders or prominent members.
We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals in the context of social and political discourse. This includes content reporting on, neutrally discussing or condemning dangerous organizations and individuals or their activities.
News reporting includes information that is shared to raise awareness about local and global events in which designated dangerous organizations and individuals are involved.
  • E.g. “Breaking News: Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in Somalia”
  • E.g. “Timeline and expert analysis: How the shooting at the Buffalo Supermarket unfolded and what did the perpetrator say in court”
Neutral discussion includes factual statements, commentary, questions, and other information that do not express positive judgment around the designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
  • E.g. “Al Qaeda represents less threat than ISIS given the lack of leadership and finance”
  • E.g. “Anders Breivik is one example of how complex the radicalization process can be”
Condemnation includes disapproval, disgust, rejection, criticism, mockery, and other negative expressions about a designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
  • E.g. “I feel disgusted by the crime of Salvador Ramos. The judge’s words resonated so much to me. He should get no mercy by the court”
  • E.g. “Hitler’s crimes shall never be forgotten ever. These were some of the darkest moments in history”
Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions while simultaneously limiting risks of potential offline harm. We thus require people to clearly indicate their intent when creating or sharing such content. If a user's intention is ambiguous or unclear, we default to removing content.
In line with international human rights law, our policies allow discussions about the human rights of designated individuals or members of designated dangerous entities, unless the content includes other glorification, support, or representation of designated entities or other policy violations, such as incitement to violence.
Please see our Corporate Human Rights Policy for more information about our commitment to internationally recognized human rights.
We Remove:
We remove Glorification, Support and Representation of various dangerous organizations and individuals. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
Glorification, defined as any of the below:
  • Legitimizing or defending the violent or hateful acts of a designated entity by claiming that those acts have a moral, political, logical or other justification that makes them acceptable or reasonable.
    • E.g. "Hitler did nothing wrong."
  • Characterizing or celebrating the violence or hate of a designated entity as an achievement or accomplishment;
    • E.g. “Hizbul Mujahideen is winning the war for a free and independent Kashmir”
  • An aspirational statement of membership or statement that you would like to be a designated entity or the perpetrator of a violating violent event.
    • E.g. “I wish I can join ISIS and be part of the Khilafah”
We remove Glorification of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities as well as designated events.
For Tier 1 and designated events, we may also remove unclear or contextless references if the user’s intent was not clearly indicated. This includes unclear humor, captionless or positive references that do not glorify the designated entity’s violence or hate.
Support, defined as any of the below:
  • Material Support
    • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity – including funneling money towards or away from a designated entity;
      • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
    • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
      • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
    • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
      • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
  • Other Support
    • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
      • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
    • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
      • E.g. "Contact the Atomwaffen Division – (XXX) XXX-XXXX"
We remove all Support of Tier 1 and Material Support of Tier 2.
Representation, defined as any of the below:
  • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
    • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
  • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
    • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations and designated events.
Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, attempted multiple-victim violence, multiple victim violence, serial murders, and violating violent events
We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in organized crime, including those designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence on the platform. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that glorifies them or their acts, including unclear references to them. In addition, we remove any support for these individuals and organizations.
We do not allow content that glorifies, supports, or represents events that Meta designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events. Nor do we allow (1) content that glorifies, supports, or represents the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims.
We also do not allow Glorification, Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies, as well as unclear references to them.
Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
  • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
  • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
  • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
  • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
Hate Entity, defined as an organization or individual that spreads and encourages hate against others based on their protected characteristics. The entity’s activities are characterized by at least some of the following behaviors:
  • Violence, threatening rhetoric, or dangerous forms of harassment targeting people based on their protected characteristics;
  • Repeated use of hate speech;
  • Representation of Hate Ideologies or other designated Hate Entities, and/or
  • Glorification or Support of other designated Hate Entities or Hate Ideologies.
Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
  • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
  • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
Multiple-Victim Violence and Serial Murders
  • We consider an event to be multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence.
  • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a serial murderer.
Hateful Ideologies
  • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
    • Nazism
    • White Supremacy
    • White Nationalism
    • White Separatism
  • We remove explicit Glorification, Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actors and Violence Inducing Entities
Organizations and individuals designated by Meta as Violent Non-state Actors or Violence Inducing Entities are not allowed to have a presence on our platforms, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these communities are actively engaged in violence, against state or military actors in armed conflicts (Violent Non-State Actors) or are preparing or advocating or creating conditions for future violence (Violence Inducing Entities), material support of these entities is not allowed. We will also remove glorification of these entities.
Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
  • Engages in a pattern of purposive and planned acts of high-severity violence targeting government, military or other armed groups taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and does not intentionally and explicitly target civilians with high-severity violence; AND/OR
  • Deprives communities of access to critical infrastructure or natural resources; AND/OR
  • Engages in a pattern of attacks intended to bring significant damage to infrastructure that is not linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians.
Violence Inducing Entities are defined as follows:
A Violence Inducing Entity (General) is a non-state actor that:
  • Has as its stated goal or intended function to provide, through violence, an unsanctioned governmental enforcing function (such as, police, military, immigration) in place of, or in addition to, the government itself; or to disrupt through violence a governmental enforcing function;
  • Has engaged in a substantial step towards this stated goal on Meta’s platforms; and
  • Has engaged in multiple instances of threatening or inciting high-severity violence (online or offline);
A Hate Banned Entity is a non-state actor that:
  • Engages in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but does not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
Policy Rationale
In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on our platforms. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into two tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove Glorification, Support, and Representation of Tier 1 entities, their leaders, founders or prominent members, as well as unclear references to them.
In addition, we do not allow content that glorifies, supports, or represents events that Meta designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow (1) Glorification, Support, or Representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims. We also remove content that Glorifies, Supports or Represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.We remove unclear references to these designated events or ideologies.
Tier 2 includes Violent Non-State Actors that engage in violence against state or military actors in an armed conflict but do not intentionally target civilians. It also includes Violence Inducing Entities that are engaged in preparing or advocating for future violence but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date. These are also entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate SpeechHateful Conduct or Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policies on or off the platform. We remove Glorification, Material Support, and Representation of these entities, their leaders, founders or prominent members.
We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals in the context of social and political discourse. This includes content reporting on, neutrally discussing or condemning dangerous organizations and individuals or their activities.
News reporting includes information that is shared to raise awareness about local and global events in which designated dangerous organizations and individuals are involved.
  • E.g. “Breaking News: Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in Somalia”
  • E.g. “Timeline and expert analysis: How the shooting at the Buffalo Supermarket unfolded and what did the perpetrator say in court”
Neutral discussion includes factual statements, commentary, questions, and other information that do not express positive judgment around the designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
  • E.g. “Al Qaeda represents less threat than ISIS given the lack of leadership and finance”
  • E.g. “Anders Breivik is one example of how complex the radicalization process can be”
Condemnation includes disapproval, disgust, rejection, criticism, mockery, and other negative expressions about a designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
  • E.g. “I feel disgusted by the crime of Salvador Ramos. The judge’s words resonated so much to me. He should get no mercy by the court”
  • E.g. “Hitler’s crimes shall never be forgotten ever. These were some of the darkest moments in history”
Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions while simultaneously limiting risks of potential offline harm. We thus require people to clearly indicate their intent when creating or sharing such content. If a user's intention is ambiguous or unclear, we default to removing content.
In line with international human rights law, our policies allow discussions about the human rights of designated individuals or members of designated dangerous entities, unless the content includes other glorification, support, or representation of designated entities or other policy violations, such as incitement to violence.
Please see our Corporate Human Rights Policy for more information about our commitment to internationally recognized human rights.
We Remove:
We remove Glorification, Support and Representation of various dangerous organizations and individuals. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
Glorification, defined as any of the below:
  • Legitimizing or defending the violent or hateful acts of a designated entity by claiming that those acts have a moral, political, logical or other justification that makes them acceptable or reasonable.
    • E.g. "Hitler did nothing wrong."
  • Characterizing or celebrating the violence or hate of a designated entity as an achievement or accomplishment;
    • E.g. “Hizbul Mujahideen is winning the war for a free and independent Kashmir”
  • An aspirational statement of membership or statement that you would like to be a designated entity or the perpetrator of a violating violent event.
    • E.g. “I wish I can join ISIS and be part of the Khilafah”
We remove Glorification of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities as well as designated events.
For Tier 1 and designated events, we may also remove unclear or contextless references if the user’s intent was not clearly indicated. This includes unclear humor, captionless or positive references that do not glorify the designated entity’s violence or hate.
Support, defined as any of the below:
  • Material Support
    • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity – including funneling money towards or away from a designated entity;
      • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
    • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
      • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
    • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
      • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
  • Other Support
    • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
      • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
    • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
      • E.g. "Contact the Atomwaffen Division – (XXX) XXX-XXXX"
We remove all Support of Tier 1 and Material Support of Tier 2.
Representation, defined as any of the below:
  • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
    • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
  • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
    • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations and designated events.
Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, attempted multiple-victim violence, multiple victim violence, serial murders, and violating violent events
We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in organized crime, including those designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence on the platform. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that glorifies them or their acts, including unclear references to them. In addition, we remove any support for these individuals and organizations.
We do not allow content that glorifies, supports, or represents events that Meta designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events. Nor do we allow (1) content that glorifies, supports, or represents the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims.
We also do not allow Glorification, Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies, as well as unclear references to them.
Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
  • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
  • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
  • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
  • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
Hate Entity, defined as an organization or individual that spreads and encourages hate against others based on their protected characteristics. The entity’s activities are characterized by at least some of the following behaviors:
  • Violence, threatening rhetoric, or dangerous forms of harassment targeting people based on their protected characteristics;
  • Repeated use of hate speech;
  • Representation of Hate Ideologies or other designated Hate Entities, and/or
  • Glorification or Support of other designated Hate Entities or Hate Ideologies.
Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
  • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
  • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
Multiple-Victim Violence and Serial Murders
  • We consider an event to be multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence.
  • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a serial murderer.
Hateful Ideologies
  • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
    • Nazism
    • White Supremacy
    • White Nationalism
    • White Separatism
  • We remove explicit Glorification, Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actors and Violence Inducing Entities
Organizations and individuals designated by Meta as Violent Non-state Actors or Violence Inducing Entities are not allowed to have a presence on our platforms, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these communities are actively engaged in violence, against state or military actors in armed conflicts (Violent Non-State Actors) or are preparing or advocating or creating conditions for future violence (Violence Inducing Entities), material support of these entities is not allowed. We will also remove glorification of these entities.
Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
  • Engages in a pattern of purposive and planned acts of high-severity violence targeting government, military or other armed groups taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and does not intentionally and explicitly target civilians with high-severity violence; AND/OR
  • Deprives communities of access to critical infrastructure or natural resources; AND/OR
  • Engages in a pattern of attacks intended to bring significant damage to infrastructure that is not linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians.
Violence Inducing Entities are defined as follows:
A Violence Inducing Entity (General) is a non-state actor that:
  • Uses weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces; AND
    • Coordinates in preparation for inter-community violence or civil war; OR
    • Advocates for violence against government officials or violent disruptions of civic events; OR
    • Engages in theft, vandalism, burglary or other damage to property; OR
    • Engages in mid-severity violence at civic events; OR
    • Promotes bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest
  • Has as its stated goal or intended function to provide, through violence, an unsanctioned governmental enforcing function (such as, police, military, immigration) in place of, or in addition to, the government itself; or to disrupt through violence a governmental enforcing function;
  • Has engaged in a substantial step towards this stated goal on Meta’s platforms; and
  • Has engaged in multiple instances of threatening or inciting high-severity violence (online or offline);
      • A Violence Inducing Conspiracy Network is a non-state actor that:
      • Is identified by a name, mission statement, symbol, or shared lexicon; AND
      • Promotes unfounded theories that attempts to explain the ultimate causes of significant social and political problems, events and circumstances with claims of secret plots by two or more powerful actors; AND
      • Has explicitly advocated for or has been directly linked to a pattern of offline physical harm by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms identified in the unfounded theories promoted by the network.
      A Hate Banned Entity is a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but does not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
      • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on our platformsMeta. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into two tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
      Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove Glorification, Support, and Representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members.
      In addition, we do not allow content that glorifies, supports, or represents events that Meta designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow (1) Glorification, Support, or Representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims. We also remove content that Glorifies, Supports or Represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy. We remove unclear references to these designated events or ideologies
      We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals in the context of social and political discourse. This includes content reporting on, neutrally discussing or condemning dangerous organizations and individuals or their activities.
      News reporting includes information that is shared to raise awareness about local and global events in which designated dangerous organizations and individuals are involved.
      • E.g. “Breaking News: Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in Somalia”
      • E.g. “Timeline and expert analysis: How the shooting at the Buffalo Supermarket unfolded and what did the perpetrator say in court”
      Neutral discussion includes factual statements, commentary, questions, and other information that do not express positive judgment around the designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “Al Qaeda represents less threat than ISIS given the lack of leadership and finance”
      • E.g. “Anders Breivik is one example of how complex the radicalization process can be”
      Condemnation includes disapproval, disgust, rejection, criticism, mockery, and other negative expressions about a designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “ I feel disgusted by the crime of Salvador Ramos. The judge’s words resonated so much to me. He should get no mercy by the court”
      • E.g. “Hitler’s crimes shall never be forgotten ever. These were some of the darkest moments in history”
      Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions while simultaneously limiting risks of potential offline harm. We thus require people to clearly indicate their intent when creating or sharing such content. If a user's intention is ambiguous or unclear, we default to removing content.
      In line with international human rights law, our policies allow discussions about the human rights of designated individuals or members of designated dangerous entities, unless the content includes other glorification, support, or representation of designated entities or other policy violations, such as incitement to violence.
      Please see our Corporate Human Rights Policy for more information about our commitment to internationally recognized human rights.
      We Remove:
      We remove glorification, support and representation of various dangerous organizations and individuals. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
      Glorification, defined as any of the below:
      • Legitimizing or defending the violent or hateful acts of a designated entity by claiming that those acts have a moral, political, logical or other justification that makes them acceptable or reasonable.
        • E.g. "Hitler did nothing wrong."
      • Characterizing or celebrating the violence or hate of a designated entity as an achievement or accomplishment;
        • E.g. “Hizbul Mujahideen is winning the war for a free and independent Kashmir”
      • An aspirational statement of membership or statement that you would like to be a designated entity or the perpetrator of a violating violent event.
        • E.g. “I wish I can join ISIS and be part of the Khilafah”
      We remove Glorification of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities as well as designated events.
      For Tier 1 and designated events, we may also remove unclear or contextless references if the user’s intent was not clearly indicated. This includes unclear humor, captionless or positive references that do not glorify the designated entity’s violence or hate.
      Support, defined as any of the below:
      • Material Support
        • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity – including funneling money towards or away from a designated entity;
          • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
        • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
          • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
        • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
          • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
      • Other Support
        • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
          • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
        • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
          • E.g. "Contact the Atomwaffen Division – (XXX) XXX-XXXX"
      We remove Support of Tier 1 and Material Support of Tier 2.
      Representation, defined as any of the below:
      • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
        • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
      • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
        • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
      We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations and designated events.
      Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
      Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, attempted multiple-victim violence, multiple victim violence, serial murders, and violating violent events
      We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in organized crime, including those designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence onthe on the platform. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that glorifies them or their acts, including unclear references to them. In addition, we remove any support for these individuals and organizations.
      We do not allow content that glorifies, supports, or represents events that Meta designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events. Nor do we allow (1) content that glorifies, supports, or represents the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims.
      We also do not allow Glorification, Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies, as well as unclear references to them.
      Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
      • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
      • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate Entity, defined as an organization or individual that spreads and encourages hate against others based on their protected characteristics. The entity’s activities are characterized by at least some of the following behaviors:
      • Violence, threatening rhetoric, or dangerous forms of harassment targeting people based on their protected characteristics;
      • Repeated use of hate speech;
      • Representation of Hate Ideologies or other designated Hate Entities, and/or
      • Glorification or Support of other designated Hate Entities or Hate Ideologies.
      Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
      • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
      Multiple-Victim Violence and Serial Murders
      • We consider an event to be multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence.
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a serial murderer.
      Hateful Ideologies
      • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
        • Nazism
        • White Supremacy
        • White Nationalism
        • White Separatism
      • We remove explicit Glorification, Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
      Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actors and Violence Inducing Entities
      Organizations and individuals designated by Meta as Violent Non-state Actors or Violence Inducing Entities are not allowed to have a presence on our platformsFacebook, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these communities are actively engaged in violence, against state or military actors in armed conflicts (Violent Non-State Actors) or are preparing or advocating or creating conditions for future violence (Violence Inducing Entities), material support of these entities is not allowed. We will also remove glorification of these entities.
      Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
      • Engages in a pattern of purposive and planned acts of high-severity violence targeting government, military or other armed groups taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and does not intentionally and explicitly target civilians with high-severity violence; AND/OR
      • Deprives communities of access to critical infrastructure or natural resources; AND/OR
      • Engages in a pattern of attacks intended to bring significant damage to infrastructure that is not linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians.
      Violence Inducing Entities are defined as follows:
      A Violence Inducing Entity (General) is a non-state actor that:
      • Uses weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces; AND
        • Coordinates in preparation for inter-community violence or civil war; OR
        • Advocates for violence against government officials or violent disruptions of civic events; OR
        • Engages in theft, vandalism, burglary or other damage to property; OR
        • Engages in mid-severity violence at civic events; OR
        • Promotes bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest
      A Violence Inducing Conspiracy Network is a non-state actor that:
      • Is identified by a name, mission statement, symbol, or shared lexicon; AND
      • Promotes unfounded theories that attempts to explain the ultimate causes of significant social and political problems, events and circumstances with claims of secret plots by two or more powerful actors; AND
      • Has explicitly advocated for or has been directly linked to a pattern of offline physical harm by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms identified in the unfounded theories promoted by the network.
      A Hate Banned Entity is a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but does not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
      • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on Meta. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into threetwotiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
      Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove praiseGlorification, substantive Support, and Representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members.
      In addition, we do not allow content that praisesglorifies, substantively supports, or represents events that Meta designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow (1) praiseGlorification, substantive Support, or Representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims. We also remove content that praisesGlorifies, substantively Supports or Represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.We remove unclear references to these designated events or ideologies
      Tier 2focuses on entities that engage in violence against state or military actors but do not generally target civilians -- what we call “Violent Non-State Actors.” We remove all substantive support and representation of these entities, their leaders, and their prominent members. We remove any praise of these groups’ violent activities.
      Tier 3focuses on entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations policies on-or-off the platform or demonstrate strong intent to engage in offline violence in the near future, but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date or advocated for violence against others based on their protected characteristics. This includes Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and individuals and groups banned for promoting hatred. Tier 3 entities may not have a presence or coordinate on our platforms.
      Tier 2 includes Violent Non-State Actors that engage in violence against state or military actors in an armed conflict but do not intentionally target civilians. It also includes Violence Inducing Entities that are engaged in preparing or advocating for future violence but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date. These are also entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policies on or off the platform. We remove Glorification, Material Support, and Representation of these entities, their leaders, founders or prominent members.
      We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals in the context of social and political discourse. This includes content reporting on, neutrally discussing or condemning dangerous organizations and individuals or their activities.
      News reporting includes information that is shared to raise awareness about local and global events in which designated dangerous organizations and individuals are involved.
      • E.g. “Breaking News: Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in Somalia”
      • E.g. “Timeline and expert analysis: How the shooting at the Buffalo Supermarket unfolded and what did the perpetrator say in court”
      Neutral discussion includes factual statements, commentary, questions,and other information that do not express positive judgment around the designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “Al Qaeda represents less threat than ISIS given the lack of leadership and finance”
      • E.g. “Anders Breivik is one example of how complex the radicalization process can be”
      Condemnation includes disapproval, disgust, rejection, criticism, mockery, and other negative expressions about a designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “ I feel disgusted by the crime of Salvador Ramos. The judge’s words resonated so much to me. He should get no mercy by the court”
      • E.g. “Hitler’s crimes shall never be forgotten ever. These were some of the darkest
      Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions while simultaneously limiting risks of potential offline harm. We thus require people to clearly indicate their intent when creating or sharing such content. If a user's intention is ambiguous or unclear, we default to removing content.
      In line with international human rights law, our policies allow discussions about the human rights of designated individuals or members of designated dangerous entities, unless the content includes other praiseglorification, substantive support, or representation of designated entities or other policy violations, such as incitement to violence.
      Please see our Corporate Human Rights Policy for more information about our commitment to internationally recognized human rights.
      We Remove:
      We remove praiseglorification, substantive support and representation of various dangerous organizations and individuals. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
      Praise, defined as any of the below:
      • Speak positively about a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “The fighters for the Islamic State are really brave!”
      • Give a designated entity or event a sense of achievement;
        • E.g., “Timothy McVeigh is a martyr.”
      • Legitimizing the cause of a designated entity by making claims that their hateful, violent, or criminal conduct is legally, morally, or otherwise justified or acceptable;
        • E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
      • Aligning oneself ideologically with a designated entity or event.
        • E.g., “I stand with Brenton Tarrant.”
      We remove Praise of Tier 1 entities and designated events. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by Tier 2 entities.
      Glorification, defined as any of the below:
      • Legitimizing or defending the violent or hateful acts of a designated entity by claiming that those acts have a moral, political, logical or other justification that makes them acceptable or reasonable.
        • E.g. "Hitler did nothing wrong."
      • Characterizing or celebrating the violence or hate of a designated entity as an achievement or accomplishment;
        • E.g. “Hizbul Mujahideen is winning the war for a free and independent Kashmir”
      • Aligning oneself ideologically with a designated entity or eventAn aspirational statement of membership or statement that you would like to be a designated entity or the perpetrator of a violating violent event.
        • E.g. “I wish I can join ISIS and be part of the Khilafah”
      We remove Glorification of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities as well as designated events.
      For Tier 1 and designated events, we may also remove unclear or contextless references if the user’s intent was not clearly indicated. This includes unclear humor, captionless or positive references that do not glorify the designated entity’s violence or hate.
      Substantive Support, defined as any of the below:
      • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity - including funnelling money towards, or away from a designated entity;
        • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
      • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
      • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “Contact the Atomwaffen Division - (XXX) XXX-XXXX”
      • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
      • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
        • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
      • Material Support
        • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity – including funneling money towards or away from a designated entity;
          • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
        • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
          • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
        • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
          • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
      • Other Support
        • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
          • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
        • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
          • E.g. "Contact the Atomwaffen Division – (XXX) XXX-XXXX"
      We remove Substantive Support of Tier 1 and Material Support of Tier 2 entities and designated events.
      Representation, defined as any of the below:
      • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
        • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
      • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
        • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
      We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations, Hate-Banned Entities, and designated events.
      Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
      Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, attempted multiple-victim violence, multiple victim violence, serial murders, and violating violent events
      We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in organized crime, including those designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence onthe platform. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that praisesglorifies them or their acts, including unclear references to them. In addition, we remove any coordination of substantive support for these individuals and organizations.
      We do not allow content that praisesglorifies, substantively supports, or represents events that Meta designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events. Nor do we allow (1) content that praisesglorifies, substantively supports, or represents the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims.
      We also do not allow PraiseGlorification, Substantive Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies, as well as unclear references to them..
      Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
      • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
      • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate Entity, defined as an organization or individual that spreads and encourages hate against others based on their protected characteristics. The entity’s activities are characterized by at least some of the following behaviors:
      • Violence, threatening rhetoric, or dangerous forms of harassment targeting people based on their protected characteristics;
      • Repeated use of hate speech;
      • Representation of Hate Ideologies or other designated Hate Entities, and/or
      • Glorification or substantive support of other designated Hate Entities or Hate Ideologies.
      Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
      • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
      Multiple-Victim Violence and Serial Murders
      • We consider an event to be multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence.
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a serial murderer.
      Hateful Ideologies
      • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
        • Nazism
        • White Supremacy
        • White Nationalism
        • White Separatism
      • We remove explicit Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
      Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actorsand Violence Inducing Entities
      Organizations and individuals designated by Meta as Violent Non-state Actors or Violence Inducing Entities are not allowed to have a presence on Facebook, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these communities are actively engaged in violence, against state or military actors in armed conflicts (Violent Non-State Actors) or are preparing or advocating or creating conditions for future violence (Violence Inducing Entities),substantivematerial support of these entities is similarly not allowed. We will also remove praise of violenceglorification ofcarried out by these entities.
      Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
      • Engages in a pattern of purposive and planned acts of high-severity violence targeting government, military or other armed groups taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and does not intentionally and explicitly target civilians with high-severity violence; AND/OR
      • Deprives communities of access to critical infrastructure or natural resources; AND/OR Engages in a pattern of attacks intended to bring significant damage to infrastructure that is not linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians.
      • engages in purposive and planned acts of violence primarily against a government military or other armed communities; and
      • that causes or attempts to
        • cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or
        • deprive communities of access to vital infrastructure and natural resources, and/or bring significant damage to property, linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      Violence Inducing Entities are defined as follows:
      A Violence Inducing Entity (General) is a non-state actor that:
      • Uses weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces; AND
        • Coordinates in preparation for inter-community violence or civil war; OR
        • Advocates for violence against government officials or violent disruptions of civic events; OR
        • Engages in theft, vandalism, burglary or other damage to property; OR
        • Engages in mid-severity violence at civic events; OR
        • Promotes bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest.
      A Violence Inducing Conspiracy Network is a non-state actor that:
      • Is identified by a name, mission statement, symbol, or shared lexicon; AND
      • Promotes unfounded theories that attempts to explain the ultimate causes of significant social and political problems, events and circumstances with claims of secret plots by two or more powerful actors; AND
      • Has explicitly advocated for or has been directly linked to a pattern of offline physical harm by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms identified in the unfounded theories promoted by the network.
      A Hate Banned Entity is a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but does not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      Tier 3: Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and Hate Banned Entities
      Pages, Communities, Events, and Profiles or other Facebook entities that are - or claim to be - maintained by, or on behalf of, Militarized Social Movements and Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks are prohibited. Admins of these pages, communities and events will also be removed.
      Click here to read more about how we address movements and organizations tied to violence.
      We do not allow Representation of Organizations and individuals designated by Meta as Hate-Banned Entities.
      Militarized Social Movements (MSMs), which include:
      • Militia Communities, defined as non-state actors that use weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces and:
        • Coordinate in preparation for violence or civil war; or
        • Distribute information about the tactical use of weapons for combat; or
        • Coordinate militarized tactical coordination in a present or future armed civil conflict or civil war.
      • Communities supporting violent acts amid protests, defined as non-State actors that repeatedly:
        • Coordinate, promote, admit to or engage in:
        • Acts of street violence against civilians or law enforcement; or
        • Arson, Looting, or other destruction of property; or
        • Threaten to violently disrupt an election process; or
        • Promote bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest.
      Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks (VICNs), defined as a Non-State Actor that:
      • Organizes under a name, sign, mission statement, or symbol; and
      • Promote theories that attribute violent or dehumanizing behavior to people or organizations that have been debunked by credible sources; and
      • Has inspired multiple incidents of real-world violence by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms promoted by these debunked theories.
      Hate-Banned Entities, defined as entities that engage in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but do not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
      • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
      Introducing change is to streamline the tiering and enforcement approach.
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on MetaFacebook. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into three tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
      Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 entities include terrorist, hate, and criminal organizations. We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members.
      In addition, we do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Meta designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow (1) praise, substantive support, or representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims. We also remove content that praises, substantively supports or represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.
      Tier 2 focuses on entities that engage in violence against state or military actors but do not generally target civilians -- what we call “Violent Non-State Actors.” We remove all substantive support and representation of these entities, their leaders, and their prominent members. We remove any praise of these groups’ violent activities.
      Tier 3 focuses on entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations policies on-or-off the platform or demonstrate strong intent to engage in offline violence in the near future, but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date or advocated for violence against others based on their protected characteristics. This includes Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and individuals and groups banned for promoting hatred. Tier 3 entities may not have a presence or coordinate on our platforms.
      We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals in the context of social and political discourse. This includes content reporting on, neutrally discussing or condemning dangerous organizations and individuals or their activities.to report on, condemn, or neutrally discuss them or their activities.
      News reporting includes information that is shared to raise awareness about local and global events in which designated dangerous organizations and individuals are involved.
      • E.g. “Breaking News: Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in Somalia”
      • E.g. “Timeline and expert analysis: How the shooting at the Buffalo Supermarket unfolded and what did the perpetrator say in court”
      Neutral discussion includes factual statements, commentary, questions,and other information that do not express positive judgment around the designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “Al Qaeda represents less threat than ISIS given the lack of leadership and finance”
      • E.g. “Anders Breivik is one example of how complex the radicalization process can be”
      Condemnation includes disapproval, disgust, rejection, criticism, mockery, and other negative expressions about a designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “ I feel disgusted by the crime of Salvador Ramos. The judge’s words resonated so much to me. He should get no mercy by the court”
      • E.g. “Hitler’s crimes shall never be forgotten ever. These were some of the darkest moments in history”
      Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions while simultaneously limiting risks of potential offline harm. We thus require people to clearly indicate their intent when creating or sharing such content. If a user's intention is ambiguous or unclear, we default to removing content.
      In line with international human rights law, our policies allow discussions about the human rights of designated individuals or members of designated dangerous entities, unless the content includes other praise, substantive support, or representation of designated entities or other policy violations, such as incitement to violence.
      Please see our Corporate Human Rights Policy for more information about our commitment to internationally recognized human rights.
      We Remove:
      We remove Ppraise, Ssubstantive Ssupport, and Rrepresentation of various Ddangerous Oorganizations and individuals. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
      Praise, defined as any of the below:
      • Speak positively about a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “The fighters for the Islamic State are really brave!”
      • Give a designated entity or event a sense of achievement;
        • E.g., “Timothy McVeigh is a martyr.”
      • Legitimizing the cause of a designated entity by making claims that their hateful, violent, or criminal conduct is legally, morally, or otherwise justified or acceptable;
        • E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
      • Aligning oneself ideologically with a designated entity or event.
        • E.g., “I stand with Brenton Tarrant.”
      We remove Praise of Tier 1 entities and designated events. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by Tier 2 entities.
      Substantive Support, defined as any of the below:
      • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity - including funnelling money towards, or away from a designated entity;
        • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
      • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
      • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “Contact the Atomwaffen Division - (XXX) XXX-XXXX”
      • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
      • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
        • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
      We remove Substantive Support of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities and designated events.
      Representation, defined as any of the below:
      • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
        • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
      • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
        • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
      We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations, Hate-Banned Entities, and designated events.
      Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
      Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, attempted multiple-victim violence, multiple victim violence, serial murders, and violating violent events
      We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in organized crime, including those designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence onthe platform. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that praises them or their acts. In addition, we remove any coordination of substantive support for these individuals and organizations.
      We do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Meta designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events. Nor do we allow (1) praise, substantive support, or representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims.
      We also do not allow Praise, Substantive Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies.
      Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
      • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
      • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate Entity, defined as an organization or individual that spreads and encourages hate against others based on their protected characteristics. The entity’s activities are characterized by at least some of the following behaviors:
      • Violence, threatening rhetoric, or dangerous forms of harassment targeting people based on their protected characteristics;
      • Repeated use of hate speech;
      • Representation of Hate Ideologies or other designated Hate Entities, and/or
      • Glorification or substantive support of other designated Hate Entities or Hate Ideologies.
      Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
      • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
      Multiple-Victim Violence and Serial Murders
      • We consider an event to be multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence.
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a serial murderer.
      Hateful Ideologies
      • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
        • Nazism
        • White Supremacy
        • White Nationalism
        • White Separatism
      • We remove explicit Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
      Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actors
      Organizations and individuals designated by Meta as Violent Non-state Actors are not allowed to have a presence on Facebook, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these communities are actively engaged in violence, substantive support of these entities is similarly not allowed. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by these entities.
      Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
      • engages in purposive and planned acts of violence primarily against a government military or other armed communities; and
      • that causes or attempts to
        • cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or
        • deprive communities of access to vital infrastructure and natural resources, and/or bring significant damage to property, linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      Tier 3: Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and Hate Banned Entities
      Pages, Communities, Events, and Profiles or other Facebook entities that are - or claim to be - maintained by, or on behalf of, Militarized Social Movements and Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks are prohibited. Admins of these pages, communities and events will also be removed.
      Click here to read more about how we address movements and organizations tied to violence.
      We do not allow Representation of Organizations and individuals designated by Meta as Hate-Banned Entities.
      Militarized Social Movements (MSMs), which include:
      • Militia Communities, defined as non-state actors that use weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces and:
        • Coordinate in preparation for violence or civil war; or
        • Distribute information about the tactical use of weapons for combat; or
        • Coordinate militarized tactical coordination in a present or future armed civil conflict or civil war.
      • Communities supporting violent acts amid protests, defined as non-State actors that repeatedly:
        • Coordinate, promote, admit to or engage in:
        • Acts of street violence against civilians or law enforcement; or
        • Arson, Looting, or other destruction of property; or
        • Threaten to violently disrupt an election process; or
        • Promote bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest.
      Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks (VICNs), defined as a Non-State Actor that:
      • Organizes under a name, sign, mission statement, or symbol; and
      • Promote theories that attribute violent or dehumanizing behavior to people or organizations that have been debunked by credible sources; and
      • Has inspired multiple incidents of real-world violence by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms promoted by these debunked theories.
      Hate-Banned Entities, defined as entities that engage in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but do not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
      • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
      We are updating the Community Standards to reflect the first phase of implementation of the praise policy revamp, which entails allowing social and political discourse at-scale. We are adding definitions and examples for news reporting, neutral discussion and condemnation of DOI, as recommended by the Oversight Board in the Al-Jazeera case.
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on Facebook. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into three tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
      Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 entities include terrorist, hate, and criminal organizations. We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members.
      In addition, we do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that FacebookMeta designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, multipleserial murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow (1) praise, substantive support, or representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks ; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims. We also remove content that praises, substantively supports or represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.
      Tier 2 focuses on entities that engage in violence against state or military actors but do not generally target civilians -- what we call “Violent Non-State Actors.” We remove all substantive support and representation of these entities, their leaders, and their prominent members. We remove any praise of these groups’ violent activities.
      Tier 3 focuses on entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations policies on-or-off the platform or demonstrate strong intent to engage in offline violence in the near future, but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date or advocated for violence against others based on their protected characteristics. This includes Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and individuals and groups banned for promoting hatred. Tier 3 entities may not have a presence or coordinate on our platforms.
      We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals to report on, condemn, or neutrally discuss them or their activities. Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions while simultaneously limiting risks of potential offline harm. We thus require people to clearly indicate their intent when creating or sharing such content. If a user's intention is ambiguous or unclear, we default to removing content.
      In line with international human rights law, our policies allow discussions about the human rights of designated individuals or members of designated dangerous entities, unless the content includes other praise, substantive support, or representation of designated entities or other policy violations, such as incitement to violence.
      Please see our Corporate Human Rights Policy for more information about our commitment to internationally recognized human rights.
      We Remove:
      We remove Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of various Dangerous Organizations. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
      Praise, defined as any of the below:
      • Speak positively about a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “The fighters for the Islamic State are really brave!”
      • Give a designated entity or event a sense of achievement;
        • E.g., “Timothy McVeigh is a martyr.”
      • Legitimizing the cause of a designated entity by making claims that their hateful, violent, or criminal conduct is legally, morally, or otherwise justified or acceptable;
        • E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
      • Aligning oneself ideologically with a designated entity or event.
        • E.g., “I stand with Brenton Tarrant.”
      We remove Praise of Tier 1 entities and designated events. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by Tier 2 entities.
      Substantive Support, defined as any of the below:
      • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity - including funnelling money towards, or away from a designated entity;
        • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
      • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
      • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “Contact the Atomwaffen Division - (XXX) XXX-XXXX”
      • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
      • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
        • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
      We remove Substantive Support of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities and designated events.
      Representation, defined as any of the below:
      • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
        • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
      • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
        • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
      We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations, Hate-Banned Entities, and designated events.
      Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
      Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, attempted multiple-victim violence, multiple victim violence, multipleserial murders, and violating violent events
      We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in organized crime, including those designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence onthe platform. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that praises them or their acts. In addition, we remove any coordination of substantive support for these individuals and organizations.
      We do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Meta designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events. Nor do we allow (1) praise, substantive support, or representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims.
      We also do not allow Praise, Substantive Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies.
      Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
      • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
      • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is organized under a name, sign, or symbol; and
      • has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, national origin, disability, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or serious disease.
      Hate Entity, defined as an organization or individual that spreads and encourages hate against others based on their protected characteristics. The entity’s activities are characterized by at least some of the following behaviors:
      • Violence, threatening rhetoric, or dangerous forms of harassment targeting people based on their protected characteristics;
      • Repeated use of hate speech;
      • Representation of Hate Ideologies or other designated Hate Entities, and/or
      • Glorification or substantive support of other designated Hate Entities or Hate Ideologies.
      Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
      • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
      Multiple-Victim Violence and MultipleSerial Murders
      • We consider an event to be multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence.
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multipleserial murderer.
      Hateful Ideologies
      • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
        • Nazism
        • White Supremacy
        • White Nationalism
        • White Separatism
      • We remove explicit Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
      Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actors
      Organizations and individuals designated by Meta as Violent Non-state Actors are not allowed to have a presence on Facebook, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these communities are actively engaged in violence, substantive support of these entities is similarly not allowed. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by these entities.
      Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
      • engages in purposive and planned acts of violence primarily against a government military or other armed communities; and
      • that causes or attempts to
        • cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or
        • deprive communities of access to vital infrastructure and natural resources, and/or bring significant damage to property, linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      Tier 3: Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and Hate Banned Entities
      Pages, Communities, Events, and Profiles or other Facebook entities that are - or claim to be - maintained by, or on behalf of, Militarized Social Movements and Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks are prohibited. Admins of these pages, communities and events will also be removed.
      Click here to read more about how we address movements and organizations tied to violence.
      We do not allow Representation of Organizations and individuals designated by Meta as Hate-Banned Entities.
      Militarized Social Movements (MSMs), which include:
      • Militia Communities, defined as non-state actors that use weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces and:
        • Coordinate in preparation for violence or civil war; or
        • Distribute information about the tactical use of weapons for combat; or
        • Coordinate militarized tactical coordination in a present or future armed civil conflict or civil war.
      • Communities supporting violent acts amid protests, defined as non-State actors that repeatedly:
        • Coordinate, promote, admit to or engage in:
        • Acts of street violence against civilians or law enforcement; or
        • Arson, Looting, or other destruction of property; or
        • Threaten to violently disrupt an election process; or
        • Promote bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest.
      Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks (VICNs), defined as a Non-State Actor that:
      • Organizes under a name, sign, mission statement, or symbol; and
      • Promote theories that attribute violent or dehumanizing behavior to people or organizations that have been debunked by credible sources; and
      • Has inspired multiple incidents of real-world violence by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms promoted by these debunked theories.
      Hate-Banned Entities, defined as entities that engage in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but do not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
      • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
      This update was based on feedback a wide range of experts and organizations, including political scientists, criminologists, sociologists, extremism and online hate experts, former law enforcement officers, and human rights and freedom of expression groups. In our consultations, we explored how to increase the precision of our Hate Entity designation signals to better align with our practices and underlying values. Stakeholders expressed support for the direction the signals have taken so far, but also called for further inclusion of behaviors related to hateful misinformation/disinformation, conspiracy theories, and doxxing based on Protected Characteristics, as well as for the definition of hate entities to be widened to capture codified hate speech.
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on Facebook. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into three tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
      Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 entities include terrorist, hate, and criminal organizations. We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members.
      In addition, we do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, multiple murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow praise, substantive support, or representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks. We also remove content that praises, substantively supports or represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.
      Tier 2 focuses on entities that engage in violence against state or military actors but do not generally target civilians -- what we call “Violent Non-State Actors.” We remove all substantive support and representation of these entities, their leaders, and their prominent members. We remove any praise of these groups’ violent activities.
      Tier 3 focuses on entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations policies on-or-off the platform or demonstrate strong intent to engage in offline violence in the near future, but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date or advocated for violence against others based on their protected characteristics. This includes Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and individuals and groups banned for promoting hatred. Tier 3 entities may not have a presence or coordinate on our platforms.
      We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals to report on, condemn, or neutrally discuss them or their activities. Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions while simultaneously limiting risks of potential offline harm., but wWe thusrequire people to clearly indicate their intentwhen creating or sharing such content. If thea user's intention is ambiguous orunclear, we maydefault to removeing content.
      In line with international human rights law, our policies allow discussions about the human rights of designated individuals or members of designated dangerous entities, unless the content includes other praise, substantive support, or representation of designated entities or other policy violations, such as incitement to violence.
      Please see our Corporate Human Rights Policy for more information about our commitment to internationally recognized human rights.
      We Remove:
      We remove Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of various Dangerous Organizations. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
      Praise, defined as any of the below:
      • Speak positively about a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “The fighters for the Islamic State are really brave!”
      • Give a designated entity or event a sense of achievement;
        • E.g., “Timothy McVeigh is a martyr.”
      • Legitimizing the cause of a designated entity by making claims that their hateful, violent, or criminal conduct is legally, morally, or otherwise justified or acceptable;
        • E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
      • Aligning oneself ideologically with a designated entity or event.
        • E.g., “I stand with Brenton Tarrant.”
      We remove Praise of Tier 1 entities and designated events. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by Tier 2 entities.
      Substantive Support, defined as any of the below:
      • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity - including funnelling money towards, or away from a designated entity;
        • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
      • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
      • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “Contact the Atomwaffen Division - (XXX) XXX-XXXX”
      • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
      • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
        • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
      We remove Substantive Support of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities and designated events.
      Representation, defined as any of the below:
      • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
        • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
      • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
        • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
      We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations, Hate-Banned Entities, and designated events.
      Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
      Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, attempted multiple-victim violence, multiple victim violence, multiple murders, and violating violent events
      We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in organized crime, including those designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence onthe platform. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that praises them or their acts. In addition, we remove any coordination of substantive support for these individuals and organizations.
      We do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events.
      We also do not allow Praise, Substantive Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies.
      Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
      • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
      • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is organized under a name, sign, or symbol; and
      • has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, national origin, disability, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or serious disease.
      Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
      • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
      Multiple-Victim Violence and Multiple Murders
      • We consider an event to be multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence.
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer.
      Hateful Ideologies
      • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
        • Nazism
        • White Supremacy
        • White Nationalism
        • White Separatism
      • We remove explicit Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
      Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actors
      Organizations and individuals designated by Facebook as Violent Non-state Actors are not allowed to have a presence on Facebook, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these groups are actively engaged in violence, substantive support of these entities is similarly not allowed. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by these entities.
      Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
      • engages in purposive and planned acts of violence primarily against a government military or other armed groups; and
      • that causes or attempts to
        • cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or
        • deprive communities of access to vital infrastructure and natural resources, and/or bring significant damage to property, linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      Tier 3: Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and Hate Banned Entities
      Pages, Groups, Events, and Profiles or other Facebook entities that are - or claim to be - maintained by, or on behalf of, Militarized Social Movements and Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks are prohibited. Admins of these pages, groups and events will also be removed.
      Click here to read more about how we address movements and organizations tied to violence.
      We do not allow Representation of Organizations and individuals designated by Facebook as Hate-Banned Entities.
      Militarized Social Movements (MSMs), which include:
      • Militia Groups, defined as non-state actors that use weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces and:
        • Coordinate in preparation for violence or civil war; or
        • Distribute information about the tactical use of weapons for combat; or
        • Coordinate militarized tactical coordination in a present or future armed civil conflict or civil war.
      • Groups supporting violent acts amid protests, defined as non-State actors that repeatedly:
        • Coordinate, promote, admit to or engage in:
        • Acts of street violence against civilians or law enforcement; or
        • Arson, Looting, or other destruction of property; or
        • Threaten to violently disrupt an election process; or
        • Promote bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest.
      Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks (VICNs), defined as a Non-State Actor that:
      • Organizes under a name, sign, mission statement, or symbol; and
      • Promote theories that attribute violent or dehumanizing behavior to people or organizations that have been debunked by credible sources; and
      • Has inspired multiple incidents of real-world violence by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms promoted by these debunked theories.
      Hate-Banned Entities, defined as entities that engage in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but do not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
      • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
      In keeping with our commitments to the Oversight Board, and to improve transparency, we have updated our Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy to clarify that advocating for the human rights of dangerous entities, or calling for those rights to be respected is allowed under our policies.
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on our platforms. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into two tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
      Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove Glorification, Support, and Representation of Tier 1 entities, their leaders, founders or prominent members, as well as unclear references to them.
      In addition, we do not allow content that glorifies, supports, or represents events that Meta designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow (1) Glorification, Support, or Representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims. We also remove content that Glorifies, Supports or Represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.We remove unclear references to these designated events or ideologies.
      Tier 2 includes Violent Non-State Actors that engage in violence against state or military actors in an armed conflict but do not intentionally target civilians. It also includes Violence Inducing Entities that are engaged in preparing or advocating for future violence but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date. These are also entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policies on or off the platform. We remove Glorification, Material Support, and Representation of these entities, their leaders, founders or prominent members.
      We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals in the context of social and political discourse. This includes content reporting on, neutrally discussing or condemning dangerous organizations and individuals or their activities.
      News reporting includes information that is shared to raise awareness about local and global events in which designated dangerous organizations and individuals are involved.
      • E.g. “Breaking News: Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in Somalia”
      • E.g. “Timeline and expert analysis: How the shooting at the Buffalo Supermarket unfolded and what did the perpetrator say in court”
      Neutral discussion includes factual statements, commentary, questions, and other information that do not express positive judgment around the designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “Al Qaeda represents less threat than ISIS given the lack of leadership and finance”
      • E.g. “Anders Breivik is one example of how complex the radicalization process can be”
      Condemnation includes disapproval, disgust, rejection, criticism, mockery, and other negative expressions about a designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “I feel disgusted by the crime of Salvador Ramos. The judge’s words resonated so much to me. He should get no mercy by the court”
      • E.g. “Hitler’s crimes shall never be forgotten ever. These were some of the darkest moments in history”
      Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions while simultaneously limiting risks of potential offline harm. We thus require people to clearly indicate their intent when creating or sharing such content. If a user's intention is ambiguous or unclear, we default to removing content.
      In line with international human rights law, our policies allow discussions about the human rights of designated individuals or members of designated dangerous entities, unless the content includes other glorification, support, or representation of designated entities or other policy violations, such as incitement to violence.
      Please see our Corporate Human Rights Policy for more information about our commitment to internationally recognized human rights.
      We Remove:
      We remove Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of various Dangerous Organizations. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
      Praise, defined as any of the below:
      • Speak positively about a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “The fighters for the Islamic State are really brave!”
      • Give a designated entity or event a sense of achievement;
        • E.g., “Timothy McVeigh is a martyr.”
      • Legitimizing the cause of a designated entity by making claims that their hateful, violent, or criminal conduct is legally, morally, or otherwise justified or acceptable;
        • E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
      • Aligning oneself ideologically with a designated entity or event.
        • E.g., “I stand with Brenton Tarrant.”
      We remove Praise of Tier 1 entities and designated events. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by Tier 2 entities.
      Substantive Support, defined as any of the below:
      • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity - including funnelling money towards, or away from a designated entity;
        • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
      • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
      • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “Contact the Atomwaffen Division - (XXX) XXX-XXXX”
      • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
      • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
        • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
      We remove Substantive Support of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities and designated events.
      Representation, defined as any of the below:
      • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
        • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
      • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
        • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
      We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations, Hate-Banned Entities, and designated events.
      Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
      Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, attempted multiple-victim violence, multiple victim violence, multiple murders, and violating violent events
      We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in organized crime, including those designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence onthe platform. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that praises them or their acts. In addition, we remove any coordination of substantive support for these individuals and organizations.
      We do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events.
      We also do not allow Praise, Substantive Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies.
      Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
      • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
      • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is organized under a name, sign, or symbol; and
      • has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, national origin, disability, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or serious disease.
      Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
      • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
      Multiple-Victim Violence and Multiple Murders
      • We consider an event to be multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence.
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer.
      Hateful Ideologies
      • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
        • Nazism
        • White Supremacy
        • White Nationalism
        • White Separatism
      • We remove explicit Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
      Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actors
      Organizations and individuals designated by Facebook as Violent Non-state Actors are not allowed to have a presence on Facebook, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these groups are actively engaged in violence, substantive support of these entities is similarly not allowed. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by these entities.
      Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
      • engages in purposive and planned acts of violence primarily against a government military or other armed groups; and
      • that causes or attempts to
        • cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or
        • deprive communities of access to vital infrastructure and natural resources, and/or bring significant damage to property, linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      Tier 3: Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and Hate Banned Entities
      Pages, Groups, Events, and Profiles or other Facebook entities that are - or claim to be - maintained by, or on behalf of, Militarized Social Movements and Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks are prohibited. Admins of these pages, groups and events will also be removed.
      Click here to read more about how we address movements and organizations tied to violence.
      We do not allow Representation of Organizations and individuals designated by Facebook as Hate-Banned Entities.
      Militarized Social Movements (MSMs), which include:
      • Militia Groups, defined as non-state actors that use weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces and:
        • Coordinate in preparation for violence or civil war; or
        • Distribute information about the tactical use of weapons for combat; or
        • Coordinate militarized tactical coordination in a present or future armed civil conflict or civil war.
      • Groups supporting violent acts amid protests, defined as non-State actors that repeatedly:
        • Coordinate, promote, admit to or engage in:
        • Acts of street violence against civilians or law enforcement; or
        • Arson, Looting, or other destruction of property; or
        • Threaten to violently disrupt an election process; or
        • Promote bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest.
      Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks (VICNs), defined as a Non-State Actor that:
      • Organizes under a name, sign, mission statement, or symbol; and
      • Promote theories that attribute violent or dehumanizing behavior to people or organizations that have been debunked by credible sources; and
      • Has inspired multiple incidents of real-world violence by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms promoted by these debunked theories.
      Hate-Banned Entities, defined as entities that engage in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but do not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
      • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
      As part of our response to an Oversight Board decision, we are updating our context-specific policy to clarify that in certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on Facebook. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into three tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
      Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 entities include terrorist, hate, and criminal organizations. We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members.
      In addition, we do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, mass murdersmultiple-victim violence or attempted mass murdersmultiple-victim violence, multiple murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow praise, substantive support, or representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks. We also remove content that praises, substantively supports or represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.
      Tier 2 focuses on entities that engage in violence against state or military actors but do not generally target civilians -- what we call “Violent Non-State Actors.” We remove all substantive support and representation of these entities, their leaders, and their prominent members. We remove any praise of these groups’ violent activities.
      Tier 3 focuses on entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations policies on-or-off the platform or demonstrate strong intent to engage in offline violence in the near future, but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date or advocated for violence against others based on their protected characteristics. This includes Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and individuals and groups banned for promoting hatred. Tier 3 entities may not have a presence or coordinate on our platforms.
      We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals to report on, condemn, or neutrally discuss them or their activities. Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions, but we require people to clearly indicate their intent. If the intention is unclear, we may remove content.
      We Remove:
      We remove Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of various Dangerous Organizations. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
      Praise, defined as any of the below:
      • Speak positively about a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “The fighters for the Islamic State are really brave!”
      • Give a designated entity or event a sense of achievement;
        • E.g., “Timothy McVeigh is a martyr.”
      • Legitimizing the cause of a designated entity by making claims that their hateful, violent, or criminal conduct is legally, morally, or otherwise justified or acceptable;
        • E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
      • Aligning oneself ideologically with a designated entity or event.
        • E.g., “I stand with Brenton Tarrant.”
      We remove Praise of Tier 1 entities and designated events. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by Tier 2 entities.
      Substantive Support, defined as any of the below:
      • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity - including funnelling money towards, or away from a designated entity;
        • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
      • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
      • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “Contact the Atomwaffen Division - (XXX) XXX-XXXX”
      • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
      • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
        • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
      We remove Substantive Support of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities and designated events.
      Representation, defined as any of the below:
      • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
        • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
      • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
        • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
      We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations, Hate-Banned Entities, and designated events.
      Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
      Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, massattempted multiple-victim violence, multiple-victim violenceand multiple murderers, and violating violent events
      We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in organized crime, including those designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence onthe platform. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that praises them or their acts. In addition, we remove any coordination of substantive support for these individuals and organizations.
      We do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, mass murdersmultiple-victim violence or attempted mass murdersmultiple-victim violence, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events.
      We also do not allow Praise, Substantive Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies.
      Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
      • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
      • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is organized under a name, sign, or symbol; and
      • has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, national origin, disability, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or serious disease.
      Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
      • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
      MassMultiple-Victim Violence and Multiple Murderers
      • We consider an event to be a mass murdermultiple-victim violenceor an attempted mass murdermultiple-victim violenceif it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a mass murdererperpetratoror an attempted mass murdererperpetrator of multiple-victim violence.
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer.
      Hateful Ideologies
      • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
        • Nazism
        • White Supremacy
        • White Nationalism
        • White Separatism
      • We remove explicit Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
      Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actors
      Organizations and individuals designated by Facebook as Violent Non-state Actors are not allowed to have a presence on Facebook, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these groups are actively engaged in violence, substantive support of these entities is similarly not allowed. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by these entities.
      Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
      • engages in purposive and planned acts of violence primarily against a government military or other armed groups; and
      • that causes or attempts to
        • cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or
        • deprive communities of access to vital infrastructure and natural resources, and/or bring significant damage to property, linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      Tier 3: Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and Hate Banned Entities
      Pages, Groups, Events, and Profiles or other Facebook entities that are - or claim to be - maintained by, or on behalf of, Militarized Social Movements and Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks are prohibited. Admins of these pages, groups and events will also be removed.
      Click here to read more about how we address movements and organizations tied to violence.
      We do not allow Representation of Organizations and individuals designated by Facebook as Hate-Banned Entities.
      Militarized Social Movements (MSMs), which include:
      • Militia Groups, defined as non-state actors that use weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces and:
        • Coordinate in preparation for violence or civil war; or
        • Distribute information about the tactical use of weapons for combat; or
        • Coordinate militarized tactical coordination in a present or future armed civil conflict or civil war.
      • Groups supporting violent acts amid protests, defined as non-State actors that repeatedly:
        • Coordinate, promote, admit to or engage in:
        • Acts of street violence against civilians or law enforcement; or
        • Arson, Looting, or other destruction of property; or
        • Threaten to violently disrupt an election process; or
        • Promote bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest.
      Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks (VICNs), defined as a Non-State Actor that:
      • Organizes under a name, sign, mission statement, or symbol; and
      • Promote theories that attribute violent or dehumanizing behavior to people or organizations that have been debunked by credible sources; and
      • Has inspired multiple incidents of real-world violence by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms promoted by these debunked theories.
      Hate-Banned Entities, defined as entities that engage in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but do not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on Facebook. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into three tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
      Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 entities include terrorist, hate, and criminal organizations. We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members.Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members.
      In addition, we do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, mass murders or attempted mass murders, multiple murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow praise, substantive support, or representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks. We also remove content that praises, substantively supports or represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.
      Tier 2 focuses on entities that engage in violence against state or military actors but do not generally target civilians -- what we call “Violent Non-State Actors.” We remove all substantive support and representation of these entities, their leaders, and their prominent members. We remove any praise of these groups’ violent activities.
      Tier 3 focuses on entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations policies on-or-off the platform or demonstrate strong intent to engage in offline violence in the near future, but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date or advocated for violence against others based on their protected characteristics. This includes Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and individuals and groups banned for promoting hatred. Tier 3 entities may not have a presence or coordinate on our platforms.
      We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals to report on, condemn, or neutrally discuss them or their activities. Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions, but we require people to clearly indicate their intent. If the intention is unclear, we may remove content.
      We Remove:
      We remove Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of various Dangerous Organizations. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
      Praise, defined as any of the below:
      • Speak positively about a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “The fighters for the Islamic State are really brave!”
      • Give a designated entity or event a sense of achievement;
        • E.g., “Timothy McVeigh is a martyr.”
      • Legitimizing the cause of a designated entity by making claims that their hateful, violent, or criminal conduct is legally, morally, or otherwise justified or acceptable;
        • E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
      • Aligning oneself ideologically with a designated entity or event.
        • E.g., “I stand with Brenton Tarrant.”
      We remove Praise of Tier 1 entities and designated events. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by Tier 2 entities.
      Substantive Support, defined as any of the below:
      • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity - including funnelling money towards, or away from a designated entity;
        • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
      • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
      • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “Contact the Atomwaffen Division - (XXX) XXX-XXXX”
      • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
      • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
        • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
      We remove Substantive Support of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities and designated events.
      Representation, defined as any of the below:
      • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
        • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
      • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
        • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
      We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations, Hate-Banned Entities, and designated events.
      Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
      Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, mass and multiple murderers, and violating violent events
      We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in terrorism, organized hate, or organized crime to have a presence on our platforms. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities on our services. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that praises them or their acts. In addition, we remove any coordination of substantive support for these individuals and organizations.We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in organized crime, including those designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence onthe platform. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that praises them or their acts. In addition, we remove any coordination of substantive support for these individuals and organizations.
      We do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, mass murders or attempted mass murders, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events.
      We also do not allow Praise, Substantive Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies.
      Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
      • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
      • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is organized under a name, sign, or symbol; and
      • has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, national origin, disability, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or serious disease.
      Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
      • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
      Mass and Multiple Murderers
      • We consider an event to be a mass murder or an attempted mass murder if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a mass murderer or an attempted mass murderer.
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer.
      Hateful Ideologies
      • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
        • Nazism
        • White Supremacy
        • White Nationalism
        • White Separatism
      • We remove explicit Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
      Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actors
      Organizations and individuals designated by Facebook as Violent Non-state Actors are not allowed to have a presence on Facebook, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these groups are actively engaged in violence, substantive support of these entities is similarly not allowed. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by these entities.
      Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
      • engages in purposive and planned acts of violence primarily against a government military or other armed groups; and
      • that causes or attempts to
        • cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or
        • deprive communities of access to vital infrastructure and natural resources, and/or bring significant damage to property, linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      Tier 3: Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and Hate Banned Entities
      Pages, Groups, Events, and Profiles or other Facebook entities that are - or claim to be - maintained by, or on behalf of, Militarized Social Movements and Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks are prohibited. Admins of these pages, groups and events will also be removed.
      Click here to read more about how we address movements and organizations tied to violence.
      We do not allow Representation of Organizations and individuals designated by Facebook as Hate-Banned Entities.
      Militarized Social Movements (MSMs), which include:
      • Militia Groups, defined as non-state actors that use weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces and:
        • Coordinate in preparation for violence or civil war; or
        • Distribute information about the tactical use of weapons for combat; or
        • Coordinate militarized tactical coordination in a present or future armed civil conflict or civil war.
      • Groups supporting violent acts amid protests, defined as non-State actors that repeatedly:
        • Coordinate, promote, admit to or engage in:
        • Acts of street violence against civilians or law enforcement; or
        • Arson, Looting, or other destruction of property; or
        • Threaten to violently disrupt an election process; or
        • Promote bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest.
      Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks (VICNs), defined as a Non-State Actor that:
      • Organizes under a name, sign, mission statement, or symbol; and
      • Promote theories that attribute violent or dehumanizing behavior to people or organizations that have been debunked by credible sources; and
      • Has inspired multiple incidents of real-world violence by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms promoted by these debunked theories.
      Hate-Banned Entities, defined as entities that engage in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but do not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      For the sake of transparency we’ve added specific language about our sanctions obligations related to United States Government designated Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs), Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow any organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on Facebook. This includes organizations or individuals involved in the following:
      • Terrorist activity.
      • Organized hate.
      • Mass murder (including attempts) or multiple murders.
      • Human trafficking.
      • Organized violence or criminal activity.
      We also remove content that expresses support or praise for groups, leaders or individuals involved in these activities. Learn more about our work to fight terrorism online here.
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on Facebook. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into three tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
      Tier 1focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 entities include terrorist, hate, and criminal organizations. We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members.
      In addition, we do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, mass murders or attempted mass murders, multiple murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow praise, substantive support, or representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks. We also remove content that praises, substantively supports or represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.
      Tier 2 focuses on entities that engage in violence against state or military actors but do not generally target civilians -- what we call “Violent Non-State Actors.” We remove all substantive support and representation of these entities, their leaders, and their prominent members. We remove any praise of these groups’ violent activities.
      Tier 3focuses on entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations policies on-or-off the platform or demonstrate strong intent to engage in offline violence in the near future, but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date or advocated for violence against others based on their protected characteristics. This includes Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and individuals and groups banned for promoting hatred. Tier 3 entities may not have a presence or coordinate on our platforms.
      We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals to report on, condemn, or neutrally discuss them or their activities. Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions, but we require people to clearly indicate their intent. If the intention is unclear, we may remove content.
      We do not allow the following people (living or deceased) or groups to maintain a presence (for example, have an account, Page or Group) on our platform:
      • Militarized Social Movements (MSM), such as militias or groups that support and organize violent acts amid protests.
      • Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, such as QAnon.
      Terrorist organizations and terrorists, which include:
      • Any non-state actor that:
        • Engages in, advocates or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence.
        • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians.
        • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization.
        • In order to achieve a political, religious or ideological aim.
      Hate organizations and their leaders and prominent members
      • A hate organization is defined as:
        • Any association of 3 or more people that is organized under a name, sign, or symbol and that has an ideology, statements or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, serious disease or disability.
      Mass and multiple murderers (including attempts)
      • We consider a homicide to be a mass murder if it results in 3 or more deaths in one incident.
      • We consider an attempted mass murder to be one where an individual uses a weapon or vehicle to attempt mass harm in a public space or against more than one person.
      • We consider any individual who has committed 2 or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer.
      Human trafficking groups and their leaders
      • Human trafficking groups are organizations responsible for any of the following:
        • Prostitution of others, forced/bonded labor, slavery or the removal of organs.
        • Recruiting, transporting, transferring, detaining, providing, harboring or receiving a minor, or an adult against their will.
      Criminal organizations and their leaders and prominent members
      • A criminal organization is defined as:
        • Any association of 3 or more people that is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia, that has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity, including but not limited to:
          • Homicide.
          • Drug trafficking.
          • Arms trafficking.
          • Identity theft.
          • Money laundering.
          • Extortion or trafficking.
          • Assault.
          • Kidnapping.
          • Sexual exploitation (covered in section 7 and section 8).
      We do not allow symbols that represent any of the above organizations or individuals to be shared on our platform without context that condemns or neutrally discusses the content.
      We do not allow content that praises any of the above organizations or individuals or any acts committed by them.
      We do not allow coordination of support for any of the above organizations or individuals or any acts committed by them.
      We do not allow content that praises, supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, mass murders or attempted mass murders, serial murders, hate crimes and violating events.
      We do not allow the following groups to maintain a Page, Group, Event or Instagram profile on our platform, or to have one maintained on their behalf. The admins of these Pages, Groups and Events will also be removed:
      Click here to read more about how we address movements and organizations tied to violence.
      We Remove:
      We remove Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of various Dangerous Organizations. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
      Praise, defined as any of the below:
      • Speak positively about a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “The fighters for the Islamic State are really brave!”
      • Give a designated entity or event a sense of achievement;
        • E.g., “Timothy McVeigh is a martyr.”
      • Legitimizing the cause of a designated entity by making claims that their hateful, violent, or criminal conduct is legally, morally, or otherwise justified or acceptable;
        • E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
      • Aligning oneself ideologically with a designated entity or event.
        • E.g., “I stand with Brenton Tarrant.”
      We remove Praise of Tier 1 entities and designated events. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by Tier 2 entities.
      Substantive Support, defined as any of the below:
      • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity - including funnelling money towards, or away from a designated entity;
        • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
      • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
      • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “Contact the Atomwaffen Division - (XXX) XXX-XXXX”
      • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
        • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
      • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
        • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
      We remove Substantive Support of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities and designated events.
      Representation, defined as any of the below:
      • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
        • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
      • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
        • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
      We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations, Hate-Banned Entities, and designated events.
      Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
      Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, mass and multiple murderers, and violating violent events
      We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in terrorism, organized hate, or organized crime to have a presence on our platforms. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities on our services. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that praises them or their acts. In addition, we remove any coordination of substantive support for these individuals and organizations.
      We do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, mass murders or attempted mass murders, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events.
      We also do not allow Praise, Substantive Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies.
      Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
      • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
      • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is organized under a name, sign, or symbol; and
      • has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, national origin, disability, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or serious disease.
      Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
      • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
      Mass and Multiple Murderers
      • We consider an event to be a mass murder or an attempted mass murder if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a mass murderer or an attempted mass murderer.
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer.
      Hateful Ideologies
      • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
        • Nazism
        • White Supremacy
        • White Nationalism
        • White Separatism
      • We remove explicit Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
      Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actors
      Organizations and individuals designated by Facebook as Violent Non-state Actors are not allowed to have a presence on Facebook, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these groups are actively engaged in violence, substantive support of these entities is similarly not allowed. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by these entities.
      Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
      • engages in purposive and planned acts of violence primarily against a government military or other armed groups; and
      • that causes or attempts to
        • cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or
        • deprive communities of access to vital infrastructure and natural resources, and/or bring significant damage to property, linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      Tier 3: Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and Hate Banned Entities
      Pages, Groups, Events, and Profiles or other Facebook entities that are - or claim to be - maintained by, or on behalf of, Militarized Social Movements and Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks are prohibited. Admins of these pages, groups and events will also be removed.
      Click here to read more about how we address movements and organizations tied to violence.
      We do not allow Representation of Organizations and individuals designated by Facebook as Hate-Banned Entities.
      Militarized Social Movements (MSMs), which include:
      • Militia Groups, defined as non-state actors that use weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces and:
        • Coordinate in preparation for violence or civil war; or
        • Distribute information about the tactical use of weapons for combat; or
        • Coordinate militarized tactical coordination in a present or future armed civil conflict or civil war.
      • Groups supporting violent acts amid protests, defined as non-State actors that repeatedly:
        • Coordinate, promote, admit to or engage in:
        • Acts of street violence against civilians or law enforcement; or
        • Arson, Looting, or other destruction of property; or
        • Threaten to violently disrupt an election process; or
        • Promote bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest.
      Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks (VICNs), defined as a Non-State Actor that:
      • Organizes under a name, sign, mission statement, or symbol; and
      • Promote theories that attribute violent or dehumanizing behavior to people or organizations that have been debunked by credible sources; and
      • Has inspired multiple incidents of real-world violence by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms promoted by these debunked theories.
      Hate-Banned Entities, defined as entities that engage in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but do not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      This update does not make substantive changes to the Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy, but rather restructures the formatting, consolidates and formalizes adjustments announced in various statements but not listed in the Community Standards, and updates the policy rationale to better reflect our thinking surrounding dangerous organizations and individuals in order to offer additional user transparency.
      We do not allow the following people (living or deceased) or groups to maintain a presence (for example, have an account, Page, Group) on our platform:
      Terrorist organizations and terrorists, which include:
      • Any non-state actor that:
        • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
        • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
        • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
        • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate organizations and their leaders and prominent members
      • A hate organization is defined as:
        • Any association of three or more people that is organized under a name, sign, or symbol and that has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, serious disease or disability.
      Mass and multiple murderers (including attempts)
      • We consider a homicide to be a mass murder if it results in three or more deaths in one incident
      • We consider an attempted mass murder to be one where an individual uses a weapon or vehicle to attempt mass harm in a public space or against more than one person
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer
      Human trafficking groups and their leaders
      • Human trafficking groups are organizations responsible for any of the following:
        • Prostitution of others, forced/bonded labor, slavery, or the removal of organs
        • Recruiting, transporting, transferring, detaining, providing, harboring, or receiving a minor, or an adult against their will
      Criminal organizations and their leaders and prominent members
      • A criminal organization is defined as:
        • Any association of three or more people that is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia, that has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity, including (but not limited to)
          • Homicide
          • Drug trafficking
          • Arms trafficking
          • Identity theft
          • Money laundering
          • Extortion or trafficking
          • Assault
          • Kidnapping
          • Sexual exploitation (covered in section 7 and section 8)
      We do not allow symbols that represent any of the above organizations or individuals to be shared on our platform without context that condemns or neutrally discusses the content.
      We do not allow content that praises any of the above organizations or individuals or any acts committed by them.
      We do not allow coordination of support for any of the above organizations or individuals or any acts committed by them.
      We do not allow content that praises, supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, mass murders or attempted mass murders, serial murders, hate crimes and violating events.
      We do not allow the following groups to maintain a Page, Group, Event or IG profile on our platform, or to have one maintained on their behalf. The Admins of these Pages, Groups and Events will also be removed:
      • Militarized Social Movements (MSM), such as militias or groups that support and organize violent acts amid protests.
      • Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, such as QAnon.
      Click here to read more about how we address movements and organizations tied to violence.
      Click here to read more about how we address movements and organizations tied to violence.
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on our platforms. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into two tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
      Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove Glorification, Support, and Representation of Tier 1 entities, their leaders, founders or prominent members, as well as unclear references to them.
      In addition, we do not allow content that glorifies, supports, or represents events that Meta designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow (1) Glorification, Support, or Representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims. We also remove content that Glorifies, Supports or Represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.We remove unclear references to these designated events or ideologies.
      Tier 2 includes Violent Non-State Actors that engage in violence against state or military actors in an armed conflict but do not intentionally target civilians. It also includes Violence Inducing Entities that are engaged in preparing or advocating for future violence but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date. These are also entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policies on or off the platform. We remove Glorification, Material Support, and Representation of these entities, their leaders, founders or prominent members.
      We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals in the context of social and political discourse. This includes content reporting on, neutrally discussing or condemning dangerous organizations and individuals or their activities.
      News reporting includes information that is shared to raise awareness about local and global events in which designated dangerous organizations and individuals are involved.
      • E.g. “Breaking News: Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in Somalia”
      • E.g. “Timeline and expert analysis: How the shooting at the Buffalo Supermarket unfolded and what did the perpetrator say in court”
      Neutral discussion includes factual statements, commentary, questions, and other information that do not express positive judgment around the designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “Al Qaeda represents less threat than ISIS given the lack of leadership and finance”
      • E.g. “Anders Breivik is one example of how complex the radicalization process can be”
      Condemnation includes disapproval, disgust, rejection, criticism, mockery, and other negative expressions about a designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “I feel disgusted by the crime of Salvador Ramos. The judge’s words resonated so much to me. He should get no mercy by the court”
      • E.g. “Hitler’s crimes shall never be forgotten ever. These were some of the darkest moments in history”
      Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions while simultaneously limiting risks of potential offline harm. We thus require people to clearly indicate their intent when creating or sharing such content. If a user's intention is ambiguous or unclear, we default to removing content.
      In line with international human rights law, our policies allow discussions about the human rights of designated individuals or members of designated dangerous entities, unless the content includes other glorification, support, or representation of designated entities or other policy violations, such as incitement to violence.
      Please see our Corporate Human Rights Policy for more information about our commitment to internationally recognized human rights.
      We do not allow the following people (living or deceased) or groups to maintain a presence (for example, have an account, Page, Group) on our platform:
      Terrorist organizations and terrorists, which include:
      • Any non-state actor that:
        • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
        • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
        • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
        • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate organizations and their leaders and prominent members
      • A hate organization is defined as:
        • Any association of three or more people that is organized under a name, sign, or symbol and that has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, serious disease or disability.
      Mass and multiple murderers (including attempts)
      • We consider a homicide to be a mass murder if it results in three or more deaths in one incident
      • We consider an attempted mass murder to be one where an individual uses a weapon or vehicle to attempt mass harm in a public space or against more than one person
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer
      Human trafficking groups and their leaders
      • Human trafficking groups are organizations responsible for any of the following:
        • Prostitution of others, forced/bonded labor, slavery, or the removal of organs
        • Recruiting, transporting, transferring, detaining, providing, harboring, or receiving a minor, or an adult against their will
      Criminal organizations and their leaders and prominent members
      • A criminal organization is defined as:
        • Any association of three or more people that is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia, that has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity, including (but not limited to)
          • Homicide
          • Drug trafficking
          • Arms trafficking
          • Identity theft
          • Money laundering
          • Extortion or trafficking
          • Assault
          • Kidnapping
          • Sexual exploitation (covered in section 7 and section 8)
      We do not allow symbols that represent any of the above organizations or individuals to be shared on our platform without context that condemns or neutrally discusses the content.
      We do not allow content that praises any of the above organizations or individuals or any acts committed by them.
      We do not allow coordination of support for any of the above organizations or individuals or any acts committed by them.
      We do not allow content that praises, supports, or represents events that Facebook designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, mass murders or attempted mass murders, serial murders,hate crimes and violating events.or mass shootings.
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on our platforms. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into two tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
      Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms - including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove Glorification, Support, and Representation of Tier 1 entities, their leaders, founders or prominent members, as well as unclear references to them.
      In addition, we do not allow content that glorifies, supports, or represents events that Meta designates as violating violent events - including terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow (1) Glorification, Support, or Representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims. We also remove content that Glorifies, Supports or Represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.We remove unclear references to these designated events or ideologies.
      Tier 2 includes Violent Non-State Actors that engage in violence against state or military actors in an armed conflict but do not intentionally target civilians. It also includes Violence Inducing Entities that are engaged in preparing or advocating for future violence but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date. These are also entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policies on or off the platform. We remove Glorification, Material Support, and Representation of these entities, their leaders, founders or prominent members.
      We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals in the context of social and political discourse. This includes content reporting on, neutrally discussing or condemning dangerous organizations and individuals or their activities.
      News reporting includes information that is shared to raise awareness about local and global events in which designated dangerous organizations and individuals are involved.
      • E.g. “Breaking News: Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in Somalia”
      • E.g. “Timeline and expert analysis: How the shooting at the Buffalo Supermarket unfolded and what did the perpetrator say in court”
      Neutral discussion includes factual statements, commentary, questions, and other information that do not express positive judgment around the designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “Al Qaeda represents less threat than ISIS given the lack of leadership and finance”
      • E.g. “Anders Breivik is one example of how complex the radicalization process can be”
      Condemnation includes disapproval, disgust, rejection, criticism, mockery, and other negative expressions about a designated dangerous organization or individual and their behavior.
      • E.g. “I feel disgusted by the crime of Salvador Ramos. The judge’s words resonated so much to me. He should get no mercy by the court”
      • E.g. “Hitler’s crimes shall never be forgotten ever. These were some of the darkest moments in history”
      Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions while simultaneously limiting risks of potential offline harm. We thus require people to clearly indicate their intent when creating or sharing such content. If a user's intention is ambiguous or unclear, we default to removing content.
      In line with international human rights law, our policies allow discussions about the human rights of designated individuals or members of designated dangerous entities, unless the content includes other glorification, support, or representation of designated entities or other policy violations, such as incitement to violence.
      Please see our Corporate Human Rights Policy for more information about our commitment to internationally recognized human rights.
      We Remove:
      We remove Glorification, Support and Representation of various dangerous organizations and individuals. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
      Glorification, defined as any of the below:
      • Legitimizing or defending the violent or hateful acts of a designated entity by claiming that those acts have a moral, political, logical or other justification that makes them acceptable or reasonable.
        • E.g. "Hitler did nothing wrong."
      • Characterizing or celebrating the violence or hate of a designated entity as an achievement or accomplishment;
        • E.g. “Hizbul Mujahideen is winning the war for a free and independent Kashmir”
      • An aspirational statement of membership or statement that you would like to be a designated entity or the perpetrator of a violating violent event.
        • E.g. “I wish I can join ISIS and be part of the Khilafah”
      We remove Glorification of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities as well as designated events.
      For Tier 1 and designated events, we may also remove unclear or contextless references if the user’s intent was not clearly indicated. This includes unclear humor, captionless or positive references that do not glorify the designated entity’s violence or hate.
      Support, defined as any of the below:
      • Material Support
        • Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity – including funneling money towards or away from a designated entity;
          • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
        • Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
          • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
        • Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
          • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
      • Other Support
        • Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
          • E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
        • Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
          • E.g. "Contact the Atomwaffen Division – (XXX) XXX-XXXX"
      We remove all Support of Tier 1 and Material Support of Tier 2.
      Representation, defined as any of the below:
      • Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
        • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”
      • Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.
        • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”
      We remove Representation of Tier 1 and 2 Designated Organizations and designated events.
      Types and Tiers of Dangerous Organizations
      Tier 1: Terrorism, organized hate, large-scale criminal activity, attempted multiple-victim violence, multiple victim violence, serial murders, and violating violent events
      We do not allow individuals or organizations involved in organized crime, including those designated by the United States government as specially designated narcotics trafficking kingpins (SDNTKs); hate; or terrorism, including entities designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), to have a presence on the platform. We also don't allow other people to represent these entities. We do not allow leaders or prominent members of these organizations to have a presence on the platform, symbols that represent them to be used on the platform, or content that glorifies them or their acts, including unclear references to them. In addition, we remove any support for these individuals and organizations.
      We do not allow content that glorifies, supports, or represents events that Meta designates as terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, serial murders, hate crimes or violating violent events. Nor do we allow (1) content that glorifies, supports, or represents the perpetrator(s) of such attacks; (2) perpetrator-generated content relating to such attacks; or (3) third-party imagery depicting the moment of such attacks on visible victims.
      We also do not allow Glorification, Support, or Representation of designated hateful ideologies, as well as unclear references to them.
      Terrorist organizations and individuals, defined as a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
      • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
      • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
      • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate Entity, defined as an organization or individual that spreads and encourages hate against others based on their protected characteristics. The entity’s activities are characterized by at least some of the following behaviors:
      • Violence, threatening rhetoric, or dangerous forms of harassment targeting people based on their protected characteristics;
      • Repeated use of hate speech;
      • Representation of Hate Ideologies or other designated Hate Entities, and/or
      • Glorification or Support of other designated Hate Entities or Hate Ideologies.
      Criminal Organizations, defined as an association of three or more people that:
      • is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
      • has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping.
      Multiple-Victim Violence and Serial Murders
      • We consider an event to be multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence.
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a serial murderer.
      Hateful Ideologies
      • While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that there are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
        • Nazism
        • White Supremacy
        • White Nationalism
        • White Separatism
      • We remove explicit Glorification, Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
      Tier 2: Violent Non-State Actors and Violence Inducing Entities
      Organizations and individuals designated by Meta as Violent Non-state Actors or Violence Inducing Entities are not allowed to have a presence on our platforms, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these communities are actively engaged in violence, against state or military actors in armed conflicts (Violent Non-State Actors) or are preparing or advocating or creating conditions for future violence (Violence Inducing Entities), material support of these entities is not allowed. We will also remove glorification of these entities.
      Violent Non-State Actors, defined as any non-state actor that:
      • Engages in a pattern of purposive and planned acts of high-severity violence targeting government, military or other armed groups taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and does not intentionally and explicitly target civilians with high-severity violence; AND/OR
      • Deprives communities of access to critical infrastructure or natural resources; AND/OR
      • Engages in a pattern of attacks intended to bring significant damage to infrastructure that is not linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians.
      Violence Inducing Entities are defined as follows:
      A Violence Inducing Entity (General) is a non-state actor that:
      • Uses weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces; AND
        • Coordinates in preparation for inter-community violence or civil war; OR
        • Advocates for violence against government officials or violent disruptions of civic events; OR
        • Engages in theft, vandalism, burglary or other damage to property; OR
        • Engages in mid-severity violence at civic events; OR
        • Promotes bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest
      A Violence Inducing Conspiracy Network is a non-state actor that:
      • Is identified by a name, mission statement, symbol, or shared lexicon; AND
      • Promotes unfounded theories that attempts to explain the ultimate causes of significant social and political problems, events and circumstances with claims of secret plots by two or more powerful actors; AND
      • Has explicitly advocated for or has been directly linked to a pattern of offline physical harm by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms identified in the unfounded theories promoted by the network.
      A Hate Banned Entity is a non-state actor that:
      • Engages in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but does not rise to the level of a Tier 1 entity because they have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.
      For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
      • In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow any organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence, from having a presence on Facebook. This includes organizations or individuals involved in the following:
      • Terrorist activity
      • Organized hate
      • Mass murder (including attempts)serial or multiple murder
      • Human trafficking
      • Organized violence or criminal activity
      We also remove content that expresses support or praise for groups, leaders, or individuals involved in these activities. Learn more about our work to fight terrorism online here.
      We do not allow the following people (living or deceased) or groups to maintain a presence (for example, have an account, Page, Group) on our platform:
      Terrorist organizations and terrorists, which include:
      • Any non-state actor that:
        • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
        • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
        • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
        • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate organizations and their leaders and prominent members
      • A hate organization is defined as:
        • Any association of three or more people that is organized under a name, sign, or symbol and that has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, serious disease or disability.
      Mass and serialmultiple murderers (including attempts)
      • We consider a homicide to be a mass murder if it results in fourthree or more deaths in one incident
      • We consider an attempted mass murder to be one where an individual uses a weapon or vehicle to attempt mass harm in a public space or against more than one person
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a serialmultiple murderer
      • We make these assessments based upon the information available to us and will generally apply this policy to a mass or serial murderer who meets any of the following criteria:
        • They were convicted of mass or serial murder.
        • They were killed by law enforcement during commission of the mass or serial murder or during subsequent flight.
        • They killed themselves at the scene or in the aftermath of the mass or serial murder.
        • They were identified by law enforcement with images from the crime.
      Human trafficking groups and their leaders
      • Human trafficking groups are organizations responsible for any of the following:
        • Prostitution of others, forced/bonded labor, slavery, or the removal of organs
        • Recruiting, transporting, transferring, detaining, providing, harboring, or receiving a minor, or an adult against their will
      Criminal organizations and their leaders and prominent members
      • A criminal organization is defined as:
        • Any association of three or more people that is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia, that has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity, including (but not limited to)
          • Homicide
          • Drug trafficking
          • Arms trafficking
          • Identity theft
          • Money laundering
          • Extortion or trafficking
          • Assault
          • Kidnapping
          • Sexual exploitation (covered in section 7 and section 8)
      We do not allow symbols that represent any of the above organizations or individuals to be shared on our platform without context that condemns or neutrally discusses the content.
      We do not allow content that praises any of the above organizations or individuals or any acts committed by them.
      We do not allow coordination of support for any of the above organizations or individuals or any acts committed by them.
      We do not allow the following people (living or deceased) or groups to maintain a presence (for example, have an account, Page, Group) on our platform:
      Terrorist organizations and terrorists, which include:1
      • A terrorist organization is defined as:
        • Any non-governmental organization that engages in premeditated acts of violence against persons or property to intimidate a civilian population, government, or international organization in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim
      • A member of a terrorist organization or any person who commits a terrorist act is considered a terrorist
        • A terrorist act is defined as a premeditated act of violence against persons or property carried out by a non-government actor to intimidate a civilian population, government, or international organization in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      • Any non-state actor that:
        • Engages in, advocates, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
        • Which causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
        • With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization
        • In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
      Hate organizations and their leaders and prominent members
      • A hate organization is defined as:
        • Any association of three or more people that is organized under a name, sign, or symbol and that has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, serious disease or disability.
      Mass and serial murderers
      • We consider a homicide to be a mass murder if it results in four or more deaths in one incident
      • We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a serial murderer
      • We make these assessments based upon the information available to us and will generally apply this policy to a mass or serial murderer who meets any of the following criteria:
        • They were convicted of mass or serial murder.
        • They were killed by law enforcement during commission of the mass or serial murder or during subsequent flight.
        • They killed themselves at the scene or in the aftermath of the mass or serial murder.
        • They were identified by law enforcement with images from the crime.
      Human trafficking groups and their leaders
      • Human trafficking groups are organizations responsible for any of the following:
        • Prostitution of others, forced/bonded labor, slavery, or the removal of organs
        • Recruiting, transporting, transferring, detaining, providing, harboring, or receiving a minor, or an adult against their will
      Criminal organizations and their leaders and prominent members
      • A criminal organization is defined as:
        • Any association of three or more people that is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia, that has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity, including (but not limited to)
          • Homicide
          • Drug trafficking
          • Arms trafficking
          • Identity theft
          • Money laundering
          • Extortion or trafficking
          • Assault
          • Kidnapping
          • Sexual exploitation (covered in section 7 and section 8)
      We do not allow symbols that represent any of the above organizations or individuals to be shared on our platform without context that condemns or neutrally discusses the content.
      We do not allow content that praises any of the above organizations or individuals or any acts committed by them.
      We do not allow coordination of support for any of the above organizations or individuals or any acts committed by them.
      We've updated how we define terrorist organizations in order to provide more clarity around our guidelines. The revised definition still focuses on behavior, not ideology and recognizes that the threat of violence, and the intention to coerce and intimidate particularly civilian populations to achieve a political or ideological agenda, are equally critical when considering what terrorism is. More detail on our updated definition and recent efforts to combat hate and extremism are available here.1
      Policy Rationale
      In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow any organizations or individuals that are engaged in the following to have a presence on Facebook:that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence, from having a presence on Facebook. This includes organizations or individuals involved n the following:
      • Terrorist activity
      • Organized hate
      • Mass or serial murder
      • Human trafficking
      • Organized violence or criminal activity
      We also remove content that expresses support or praise for groups, leaders, or individuals involved in these activities.
      We updated the rationale for our dangerous individuals & organizations policy to clarify our position. We have always taken a definitional approach to groups banned under this policy - we don't want to be a platform that enables or contributes to violence, so we prohibit those who proclaim a violent mission or are engaging in violence from maintaining a presence on Facebook.
      This change did not prompt a change in enforcement. That said, it is worth noting that while our policy against dangerous individuals & organizations remains the same, we regularly evaluate individuals, organizations, domains, events and bands that may be dangerous and designate them accordingly.
      User experiences
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      Note: We’re always improving, so what you see here may be slightly outdated compared to what we currently use.
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