Suicide, Self-Injury, and Eating Disorders

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Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide, self-injury and eating disorders to help inform our policies and enforcement, and we work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want our services to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another. We may also limit the ability to view this content to adults aged 18 and older.
We remove any content that encourages suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations, and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We remove content that contains instructions for extreme weight loss behaviour. We also remove content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery from suicide, self-injury or eating disorders that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting (such as a healed scar) is placed behind a sensitivity screen and we will also limit the ability to view the content to adults aged 18 and older.
When people post or search for suicide, self-injury or eating disorders related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harm we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the Meta Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
We do not allow:
  • Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for suicide, self-injury, or eating disorders.
  • Content that depicts graphic suicide, self-injury or eating disorder imagery
  • Content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
  • Imagery of people when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, protruding spine, scapula, visible bones in arms or legs or hollow cheeks when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that contains instructions for extreme weight loss behaviour
  • Content admitting to extreme weight loss behaviour when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that contains instructions for restrictive dieting when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to be experiencing or have experienced suicide, self-injury or eating disorders
  • Imagery depicting body modification (e.g., tattoo, piercing, scarification, self-flagellation, etc.) when shared in a suicide or self-injury context
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be sensitive. We also limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages 18 and older:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting.
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-injury such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery context
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, protruding spine, scapula, visible bones in arms or legs or hollow cheeks in a recovery context
For the following content, we provide resources to people and limit the ability to view the content to adults aged 18 and older:
  • Written or verbal admission of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders.
  • Vague, potentially suicidal statements or references (including memes or stock imagery about sad mood depression, presenting death as an escape, or content from popular culture with emphasis on dark, depressive thoughts) in a suicide or self-injury context.
For the following content, we limit the ability to view the content to adults aged 18 and older:
  • Mocking or dismissing the concept of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders
  • Narratives that contain a description of suicide with details that go beyond the mere naming or mentioning of the act or the aftermath
  • Admitting to extreme weight loss behavior
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to:
    • Family or legal representative requests,
    • Reports from media, law enforcement, or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs), or the Suicidal Content Contact Form or Instagram Contact Form.
    • We may take into account off-platform signals of admission to or promotion of suicide, self-injury, eating disorders or extreme weight-loss behaviors from a user to assess whether specific content posted by them on Meta platforms could present a risk to others.
Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide, self-injury and eating disorders to help inform our policies and enforcement, and we work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want our services to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another. We may also limit the ability to view this content to adults aged 18 and older.
We remove any content that encourages suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations, and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We remove content that contains instructions for extreme weight loss behaviour. We also remove content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery from suicide, self-injury or eating disorders that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting (such as a healed scar) is placed behind a sensitivity screen and we will also limit the ability to view the content to adults aged 18 and older.
When people post or search for suicide, self-injury or eating disorders related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harm we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the Meta Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
We do not allow:
  • Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for suicide, self-injury, or eating disorders.
  • Content that depicts graphic suicide, self-injury or eating disorder imagery
  • Content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
  • Imagery of people when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, protruding spine, scapula, visible bones in arms or legs or hollow cheeks when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that contains instructions for extreme weight loss behaviour
  • Content admitting to extreme weight loss behaviour when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that contains instructions for restrictive dieting when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to be experiencing or have experienced suicide, self-injury or eating disorders
  • Imagery depicting body modification (e.g., tattoo, piercing, scarification, self-flagellation, etc.) when shared in a suicide or self-injury context
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be sensitive. We also limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages 18 and older:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting.
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-injury such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery context
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, protruding spine, scapula, visible bones in arms or legs or hollow cheeks in a recovery context
For the following content, we provide resources to people and limit the ability to view the content to adults aged 18 and older:
  • Written or verbal admission of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders.
  • Vague, potentially suicidal statements or references (including memes or stock imagery about sad mood depression, presenting death as an escape, or content from popular culture with emphasis on dark, depressive thoughts) in a suicide or self-injury context.
For the following content, we limit the ability to view the content to adults aged 18 and older:
  • Mocking or dismissing the concept of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders
  • Narratives that contain a description of suicide with details that go beyond the mere naming or mentioning of the act or the aftermath
  • Admitting to extreme weight loss behavior
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to:
    • Family or legal representative requests,
    • Reports from media, law enforcement, or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs), or the Suicidal Content Contact Form or Instagram Contact Form.
    • We may take into account off-platform signals of admission to or promotion of suicide, self-injury, eating disorders or extreme weight-loss behaviors from a user to assess whether specific content posted by them on Meta platforms could present a risk to others.
Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide, self-injury and eating disorders to help inform our policies and enforcement, and we work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want our services to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another. We may also limit the ability to view this content to adults aged 18 and older.
We remove any content that encourages suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations, and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context.We remove content that contains instructions for extreme weight loss behaviour. We also remove content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery from suicide, self-injury or eating disorders that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting (such as a healed scar) is placed behind a sensitivity screen and we will also limit the ability to view the content to adults aged 18 and older..
When people post or search for suicide, self-injury or eating disorders related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harm we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the Meta Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
Do not postWe do not allow:
  • Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for suicide, self-injury, or eating disorders.
  • Content that depicts graphic suicide, self-injury, andor eating disorder imagery
  • Content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
  • Imagery of people when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine,or scapula, visible bones in arms or legs or hollow cheeks when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that contains instructions for extreme weight loss behaviourdrastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content admitting to extreme weight loss behaviour when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that contains instructions for restrictive dieting when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to be experiencing or have experienced suicide,or self-injury or eating disorders
  • Imagery depicting body modification (e.g., tattoo, piercing, scarification, self-flagellation, etc.) when shared in a suicide or self-injury context
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be sensitive. We also limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages 18 and older:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting.
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-injury such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery context.
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, protruding spine, scapula in a recovery context.
For the following content, we include a label so that people are aware the content may be sensitive:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery context.
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, includingFor the following content, we provide resources to people and limit the ability to view the content to adults aged 18 and older:
  • Written or verbal admission of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide.
  • Self-harm.
  • Eating disorders.
  • Vague, potentially suicidal statements or references (including memes or stock imagery about sad mood or depression, presenting death as an escape, or content from popular culture with emphasis on dark, depressive thoughts) in a suicide or self-injury context.
For the following content, we limit the ability to view the content to adults aged 18 and older:
  • Mocking or dismissing the concept of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders
  • Narratives that contain a description of suicide with details that go beyond the mere naming or mentioning of the act or the aftermath
  • Admitting to extreme weight loss behavior
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to:
    • Family or legal representative requests,
    • Reports from media, law enforcement, or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs), or the Suicidal Content Contact Form or Instagram Contact Form.
With this revision, we are adding further details to our policy on what content we do restrict for Teens as well as how we address content related to restrictive dieting and extreme weight loss behaviour.
Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide, self-injury and eating disorders to help inform our policies and enforcement, and we work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want our services to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another.
We remove any content that encourages suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations, and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We also remove content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery from suicide, self-injury or eating disorders that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting (such as a healed scar) is placed behind a sensitivity screen.
When people post or search for suicide, self-injury or eating disorders related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harm we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the FacebookMeta Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for suicide, self-injury, or eating disorders.
  • Content that depicts graphic suicide, self-injury, and eating disorder imagery
  • Content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
  • Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to have experienced suicide or self-injury
  • Imagery depicting body modification (e.g., tattoo, piercing, scarification, self-flagellation, etc.) when shared in a suicide or self-injury context
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be sensitive. We also limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages 18 and older:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting.
For the following content, we include a label so that people are aware the content may be sensitive:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery context.
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide.
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide.
  • Self-harm.
  • Eating disorders.
  • Vague, potentially suicidal statements or references (including memes or stock imagery about sad mood or depression) in a suicide or self-injury context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to:
    • Family or legal representative requests,
    • Reports from media, law enforcement, or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs), or the Suicidal Content Contact Form or Instagram Contact Form.
Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide, self-injury and eating disorders to help inform our policies and enforcement, and we work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want our services to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another.
We remove any content that encourages suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations, and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We also remove content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery from suicide, self-injury or eating disorders that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting (such as a healed scar) is placed behind a sensitivity screen.
When people post or search for suicide, self-injury or eating disorders related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harm we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the Meta Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for suicide, self-injury, or eating disorders.
  • Content that depicts graphic suicide, self-injury , and eating disorder imagery
  • Content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
  • Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to have experienced suicide or self-injury
  • Imagery depicting body modification (e.g., tattoo, piercing, scarification, self-flagellation, etc.) when shared in a suicide or self-injury context
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be sensitive. We also limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages 18 and older:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting.
For the following content, we include a label so that people are aware the content may be sensitive:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery context.
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide.
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide.
  • Self-harm.
  • Eating disorders.
  • Vague, potentially suicidal statements or references (including memes or stock imagery about sad mood or depression) in a suicide or self-injury context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to:
    • Family or legal representative requests,
    • Reports from media, law enforcement, or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs), or the Suicidal Content Contact Form or Instagram Contact Form.
Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide, self-injury and eating disorders to help inform our policies and enforcement, and we work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want our services to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another.
We remove any content that encourages suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations, and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We also remove content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery from suicide, self-injury or eating disorders that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting (such as a healed scar) is placed behind a sensitivity screen.
When people post or search for suicide, self-injury or eating disorders related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harm we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the Meta Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for suicide, self-injury, or eating disorders.
  • Content that depicts graphic suicide, self-injury , and eating disorder imagery
  • Content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
  • Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to have experienced suicide or self-injury
  • Imagery depicting body modification (e.g., tattoo, piercing, scarification, self-flagellation, etc.) when shared in a suicide or self-injury context
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be sensitive. We also limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages 18 and older:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting.
For the following content, we include a label so that people are aware the content may be sensitive:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery context.
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide.
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide.
  • Self-harm.
  • Eating disorders.
  • Vague, potentially suicidal statements or references (including memes or stock imagery about sad mood or depression) in a suicide or self-injury context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to:
    • Family or legal representative requests,
    • Reports from media, law enforcement, or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs), or the Suicidal Content Contact Form or Instagram Contact Form.
Clarifying that graphic self-injury imagery includes graphic suicidal and eating disorder imagery.
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide, self-injury and eating disorders to help inform our policies and enforcement, and wework with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide, self-injury , or eating disorders, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want our servicesFacebook to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another.
We remove any content that encourages suicide, self-injury , or eating disorders, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations , and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We also remove content that mocks victims or sur vivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery from suicide, self-injury , or eating disorders that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting ,(such as a healed scar ), is placed behind a sensitivity screen.
When people post or search for suicide, self-injury , or eating disorders related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harm we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the Facebook Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible , because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services. However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
Do not postWe do not allow:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for suicide, self-injury, or eating disorders.
  • Suicide.
  • Self-injury.
  • Eating disorders.
  • Content that depicts graphic self-injury imagery
  • Content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
  • Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
  • Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
  • Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to have experienced suicide or self-injury
  • Imagery depicting body modification (e.g., tattoo, piercing, scarification, self-flagellation, etc.) when shared in a suicide or self-injury context
It is against our policies to post content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
For the following content, we we include a warning screenrestrict content to adults over the age of 18, and include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing. We also limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages 18 and older:upsetting:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screenlabel so that people are aware the content may be sensitiveupsetting to some:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery context.
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide.
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide.
  • Self-harm.
  • Eating disorders.
  • Vague, potentially suicidal statements or references (including memes or stock imagery about sad mood or depression) in a suicide or self-injury context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to :, family or legal representative requests, media reports, law enforcement reports or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs).
    • Family or legal representative requests,
    • Reports from media, law enforcement,or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs), or theA suicide note may also be removed when reported through the Suicidal Content Contact Form or Instagram Contact Form.when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt
We have included language to clarify that we do not allow imagery depicting body modification (e.g., tattoo, piercing, scarification, self-flagellation, etc.) when shared in a suicide or self-injury context because this imagery can be triggering among vulnerable users.
Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide, self-injury and eating disorders to help inform our policies and enforcement, and we work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want our services to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another.
We remove any content that encourages suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations, and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We also remove content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery from suicide, self-injury or eating disorders that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting (such as a healed scar) is placed behind a sensitivity screen.
When people post or search for suicide, self-injury or eating disorders related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harm we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the Meta Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for
  • Suicide.
  • Self-injury.
  • Eating disorders.
Content that depicts graphic self-injury imagery
It is against our policies to post content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to have experienced suicide or self-injury
For the following content, we restrict content to adults over the age of 18, and include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery context.
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide.
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide.
  • Self-harm.
  • Eating disorders.
  • Vague, potentially suicidal statements or references (including memes or stock imagery about sad mood or depression) in a suicide or self-injury context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to, family or legal representative requests, media reports, law enforcement reports or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs).
Reframing the existing policy to have ‘eating disorders’ as its own category.
Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide, self-injury and eating disorders to help inform our policies and enforcement, and we work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want our services to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another.
We remove any content that encourages suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations, and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We also remove content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery from suicide, self-injury or eating disorders that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting (such as a healed scar) is placed behind a sensitivity screen.
When people post or search for suicide, self-injury or eating disorders related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harm we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the Meta Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for
  • Suicide.
  • Self-injury.
  • Eating disorders.
Content that depicts graphic self-injury imagery
It is against our policies to post content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to have experienced suicide or self-injury
For the following content, we restrict content to adults over the age of 18, and include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person's death by suicide or suicide attempt that are determined to be newsworthy.
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery context.
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide.
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide.
  • Self-harm.
  • Eating disorders.
  • Vague, potentially suicidal statements or references (including memes or stock imagery about sad mood or depression) in a suicide or self-injury context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to, family or legal representative requests, media reports, law enforcement reports or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs).
Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide and self-injury to help inform our policies and enforcement, and work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide or self-injury, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want Facebook to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another.
We define self-injury as the intentional and direct injuring of the body, including self-mutilation and eating disorders. We remove any content that encourages suicide or self-injury, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We also remove content that identifies and negatively targets victims or survivors of suicide or self-injury seriously, humorously or rhetorically, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery of suicide or self-harm that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting, such as a healed scar, is placed behind a sensitivity screen.
When people post or search for suicide or self-injury- related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harmsomeone is at immediate risk of harming themselves, we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the Facebook Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible, because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.
However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for
  • Suicide.
  • Self-injury.
  • Eating disorders.
Content that depicts graphic self-injury imagery
It is against our policies to post content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders
Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to have experienced suicide or self-injury
For the following content, we restrict content to adults over the age of 18, and include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person's death by suicide or suicide attempt that are determined to be newsworthy.
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting.
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery contextin a context of recovery.
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide.
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide.
  • Self-harm.
  • Eating disorders.
  • Vague, potentially suicidal statements or references (including memes or stock imagery about sad mood or depression) in a suicide or self-injury context.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to, family or legal representative requests, media reports, law enforcement reports or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs).
These edits do not reflect policy changes, rather additions to the Community Standards for transparency and to better reflect our enforcement.
Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide, self-injury and eating disorders to help inform our policies and enforcement, and we work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want our services to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another.
We remove any content that encourages suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations, and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We also remove content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery from suicide, self-injury or eating disorders that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting (such as a healed scar) is placed behind a sensitivity screen.
When people post or search for suicide, self-injury or eating disorders related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harm we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the Meta Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for
  • Suicide
  • Self-injury
  • Eating disorders
Content that depicts graphic self-injury imagery
Except in limited situations of newsworthiness, it is against our policies to post content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to have experienced suicide or self-injury
For the following content, we restrict content to adults over the age of 18, and include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person's death by suicide that are determined to be newsworthy
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a context of recovery
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide
  • Self-harm
  • Eating disorders
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to, family or legal representative requests, media reports, law enforcement reports or other third party sources (e.g., government agencies, NGOs).
Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide and self-injury to help inform our policies and enforcement, and work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we don’t allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide or self-injury, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want Facebook to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another.
We define self-injury as the intentional and direct injuring of the body, including self-mutilation and eating disorders. We remove any content that encourages suicide or self-injury, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We also remove content that identifies and negatively targets victims or survivors of suicide or self-injury seriously, humorously or rhetorically, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery of suicide or self-harm that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting, such as a healed scar, is placed behind a sensitivity screen.
When people post or search for suicide or self-injury- related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves, we will contact local emergency services to get them help.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible, because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.
However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
In an effort to promote a safe environment on Facebook, we remove content that encourages suicide or self-injury, including certain graphic imagery, real-time depictions, and fictional content that experts tell us might lead others to engage in similar behavior. Self-injury is defined as the intentional and direct injuring of the body, including self-mutilation and eating disorders. We want Facebook to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another, which is why we allow people to discuss suicide and self-injury.
We work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress. We also talk to experts in suicide and self-injury to help inform our policies and enforcement. For example, we have been advised by experts that we should not remove live videos of self-injury while there is an opportunity for loved ones and authorities to provide help or resources.
In contrast, we remove any content that identifies and negatively targets victims or survivors of self-injury or suicide seriously, humorously, or rhetorically.
Learn more about our suicide and self-injury policies and the resources that we provide.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for
  • Suicide
  • Self-injury
  • Eating disorders
Content that depicts graphic self-injury imagery
Except in limited situations of newsworthiness, it is against our policies to post content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to have experienced suicide or self-injury
For the following content, we restrict content to adults over the age of 18, and include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person's death by suicide that are determined to be newsworthy
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a context of recovery
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide
  • Self-harm
  • Eating disorders
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
  • We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to, family or legal representative requests, media reports, law enforcement reports or other third party sources (e.g., government agencies, NGOs).
Policy Rationale
We care deeply about the safety of the people who use our apps. We regularly consult with experts in suicide, self-injury and eating disorders to help inform our policies and enforcement, and we work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress.
While we do not allow people to intentionally or unintentionally celebrate or promote suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, we do allow people to discuss these topics because we want our services to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another.
We remove any content that encourages suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, including fictional content such as memes or illustrations, and any self-injury content which is graphic, regardless of context. We also remove content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders, as well as real time depictions of suicide or self-injury. Content about recovery from suicide, self-injury or eating disorders that is allowed, but may contain imagery that could be upsetting (such as a healed scar) is placed behind a sensitivity screen.
When people post or search for suicide, self-injury or eating disorders related content, we will direct them to local organizations that can provide support and if our Community Operations team is concerned about immediate harm we will contact local emergency services to get them help. For more information, visit the Meta Safety Center.
With respect to live content, experts have told us that if someone is saying they intend to attempt suicide on a livestream, we should leave the content up for as long as possible because the longer someone is talking to a camera, the more opportunity there is for a friend or family member to call emergency services.However, to minimize the risk of others being negatively impacted by viewing this content, we will stop the livestream at the point at which the threat turns into an attempt. As mentioned above, in any case, we will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for
  • Suicide
  • Self-injury
  • Eating disorders
Content that depicts graphic self-injury imagery
Except in limited situations of newsworthiness, it is against our policies to post content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
For the following content, we restrict content to adults over the age of 18, and include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person's death by suicide that are determined to be newsworthy
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a context of recovery
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide
  • Self-harm
  • Eating disorders
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to, family or legal representative requests, media reports, law enforcement reports or other third party sources (e.g., government agencies, NGOs).
Policy Rationale
In an effort to promote a safe environment on Facebook, we remove content that encourages suicide or self-injury, including certain graphic imagery, and real-time depictions and fictional content that experts tell us might lead others to engage in similar behavior. Self-injury is defined as the intentional and direct injuring of the body, including self-mutilation and eating disorders. We want Facebook to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another, which is why we allow people to discuss suicide and self-injury.
We work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress. We also talk to experts in suicide and self-injury to help inform our policies and enforcement. For example, we have been advised by experts that we should not remove live videos of self-injury while there is an opportunity for loved ones and authorities to provide help or resources.
In contrast, we remove any content that identifies and negatively targets victims or survivors of self-injury or suicide seriously, humorously, or rhetorically.
Learn more about our suicide and self-injury policies and the resources that we provide.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for
  • Suicide
  • Self-injury
  • Eating disorders
Content that depicts graphic self-injury imagery
Except in limited situations of newsworthiness, it is against our policies to post content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders.
For the following content, we restrict content to adults over the age of 18, and include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person's death by suicide that are determined to be newsworthy
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a context of recovery
  • Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide
  • Self-harm
  • Eating disorders
Policy Rationale
In an effort to promote a safe environment on Facebook, we remove content that encourages suicide or self-injury, including certain graphic imagery and real-time depictions that experts tell us might lead others to engage in similar behavior. Self-injury is defined as the intentional and direct injuring of the body, including self-mutilation and eating disorders. We want Facebook to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and seek support from one another, which is why we allow people to discuss suicide and self-injury.
We work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress. We also talk to experts in suicide and self-injury to help inform our policies and enforcement. For example, we have been advised by experts that we should not remove live videos of self- harminjury while there is an opportunity for loved ones and authorities to provide help or resources.
In contrast, we remove any content that identifies and negatively targets victims or survivors of self-injury or suicide seriously, humorously, or rhetorically.
Learn more about our suicide and self-injury policies and the resources that we provide.
Policy Rationale
In an effort to promote a safe environment on Facebook, we remove content that encourages suicide or self-injury, including certain graphic imagery and real-time depictions that experts tell us might lead others to engage in similar behavior. Self-injury is defined as the intentional and direct injuring of the body, including self-mutilation and eating disorders. We want Facebook to be a space where people can share their experiences, raise awareness about these issues, and support each other through difficult experiences, and so we allow people to discuss suicide and self-injury. We encourage people to offer and to seek support from one another in connection with these difficult topicsand seek support from one another, which is why we allow people to discuss suicide and self-injury.
We work with organizations around the world to provide assistance to people in distress. We also talk withto experts in suicide and self-injury to help inform our policies and enforcement. For example, we have been advised by experts that we should not remove live videos of self-harm while there is an opportunity for loved ones and authorities to provide help or resources.
In contrast, we remove any content that identifies and negatively targets victims or survivors of self-injury or suicide seriously, humorously, or rhetorically. People can, however, share information about self-injury and suicide to draw attention to the issue and allow for discussion so long as they do not promote or encourage self-injury or suicide.
Learn more about our suicide and self-injury policies and the resources that we provide.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for
  • Suicide
  • Self-injury
  • Eating disorders
Content about self-injury that contains promotional slogans without clear, anti- self-injury disclaimers
Content that depicts graphic self-injury imagery
Except in limited situations of newsworthiness, it is against our policies to post content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
For the following content, we restrict content to adults over the age of 18, andinclude a warningsensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbingupsetting:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person's death by suicide that are determined to be newsworthy
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
  • Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a context of recovery
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide
  • Self mutilationSelf-harm
  • Eating disorders
  • Images or videos where more than one cut of self mutilation is present on a body part and the primary subject of the image is one or more unhealed cuts
We recently made updates to how we enforce our policies on suicide and self-injury. We brought together more than a dozen experts from around the world, who advised that some graphic images of self-harm, particularly cutting, can have the potential to unintentionally promote self-harm even when they are shared in the context of admission or a path to recovery. As a result, based on their feedback, we no longer allow graphic cutting images even in the context of admission, which is reflected in the rationale that underlies our policies on suicide and self-injury.
Do not post:
Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for
  • Suicide
  • Self-injury
  • Eating disorders
Content about self-injury that contains promotional slogans without clear, anti- self-injury disclaimers
Except in limited situations of newsworthiness, it is against our policies to post content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing:
  • Photos or videos depicting a person's death by suicide that are determined to be newsworthy
  • Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting
We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:
  • Suicide
  • Euthanasia/assisted suicide
  • Self mutilation
  • Eating disorders
  • Images or videos where more than one cut of self mutilation is present on a body part and the primary subject of the image is one or more unhealed cuts
User experiences
See some examples of what enforcement looks like for people on Facebook, such as: what it looks like to report something you don’t think should be on Facebook, to be told you’ve violated our Community Standards and to see a warning screen over certain content.
Note: We’re always improving, so what you see here may be slightly outdated compared to what we currently use.
USER EXPERIENCE
Reporting
USER EXPERIENCE
Post-report communication
USER EXPERIENCE
Takedown experience
USER EXPERIENCE
Warning screens
Data
View the latest Community Standards Enforcement Report
Enforcement
We have the same policies around the world, for everyone on Facebook.
Review teams
Our global team of over 15,000 reviewers work every day to keep people on Facebook safe.
Stakeholder engagement
Outside experts, academics, NGOs and policymakers help inform the Facebook Community Standards.
Get help with suicide, self-injury, and eating disorders
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