Violență și incitare

Detalii privind politica
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Detalii privind politica

JURNAL DE MODIFICĂRI
Motivele care stau la baza politicii
Scopul nostru este de a împiedica eventuala violență offline care ar putea avea legătură cu conținutul de pe platformele noastre. Deși înțelegem că utilizatorii își exprimă în mod obișnuit disprețul sau dezacordul amenințând sau incitând la violență prin modalități care nu sunt serioase sau sunt ocazionale, ștergem limbajul care incită sau facilitează actele de violență și amenințările credibile asupra siguranței publice sau personale. Acest lucru include limbajul violent care vizează o persoană sau un grup de persoane, pe baza caracteristicii sau a caracteristicilor protejate ori stării de imigrare. Ștergem conținut, dezactivăm conturi și colaborăm cu poliția, în cazul în care considerăm că există un risc credibil de vătămare corporală sau amenințări directe la adresa siguranței publice. Încercăm, de asemenea, să luăm în considerare limbajul și contextul pentru a face diferența între declarațiile întâmplătoare sau de creștere a vizibilității problemei și conținutul care constituie o amenințare credibilă la adresa publicului sau a siguranței personale. Atunci când stabilim dacă o amenințare este credibilă, este posibil să luăm în considerare și informații suplimentare, precum vizibilitatea publică și riscurile pentru siguranța fizică a unei persoane.
În unele cazuri, vedem amenințări de intenție sau condiționate cu privire la violență, inclusiv exprimarea speranței că vor fi comise acte de violență îndreptate către teroriști și alți participanți violenți (de exemplu, „Teroriștii merită să fie uciși”, „Sper că vor ucide teroriștii”) . Nu le luăm în considerare ca fiind credibile în lipsa unor dovezi clare.
Ștergem:
Eliminăm amenințările cu acte de violență împotriva a diverse ținte. Amenințările cu acte de violență sunt declarații sau imagini care reprezintă o intenție, o dorință sau un apel la violență împotriva unei ținte, iar amenințările pot fi exprimate în diferite tipuri de declarații, cum ar fi declarații de intenție, apelurile la acțiune, susțineri, exprimarea speranței, declarații privind dorința și condiționarea.
Nu interzicem amenințările atunci când acestea sunt distribuite în contextul de creștere a gradului de conștientizare sau al condamnării, atunci când sunt făcute amenințări mai puțin grave în contextul sporturilor de contact sau anumite amenințări la adresa unor participanți violenți, cum ar fi grupurile teroriste.
Protecții universale pentru toată lumea
Toată lumea este protejată de următoarele amenințări:
  • amenințări cu violența care ar putea duce la moarte (sau alte forme de violență de gravitate ridicată);
  • amenințări cu violența care ar putea duce la rănire gravă (violență de gravitate medie). Eliminăm amenințările la adresa persoanelor și a grupurilor publice care nu se bazează pe caracteristici protejate, atunci când sunt credibile, și le eliminăm atunci când se referă la orice alte ținte (inclusiv la grupuri, atunci când se bazează pe caracteristici protejate), indiferent dacă sunt sau nu credibile.
  • admiterea violenței de gravitate ridicată și de gravitate medie (în formă scrisă sau verbală ori reprezentată vizual de către un infractor sau asociat), cu excepția cazului în care aceasta e distribuită în contextul achitării, al autoapărării, în contextul sporturilor de contact (gravitate medie sau mai scăzută) sau când actul de violență a fost comis de instituții de ordine publică, de către personal militar sau personal responsabil cu securitatea statului;
  • amenințări sau descrieri de răpiri, cu excepția cazului în care este evident că acest conținut este distribuit de o victimă sau de familia acesteia în sensul de a obține ajutor sau este distribuit în scopuri de informare, de condamnare sau de creștere a gradului de conștientizare.
Protecții suplimentare pentru Adulții privați, Toți copiii, persoanele cu risc ridicat și persoanele sau grupurile de persoane pe baza caracteristicilor lor protejate:
Pe lângă protecțiile universale acordate tuturor persoanelor, toți adulții privați (atunci când se autoraportează ca atare), copiii și persoanele sau grupurile de persoane vizate pe baza caracteristicii/caracteristicilor lor protejate sunt protejați/protejate împotriva amenințărilor cu acte de violență de gravitate redusă.
Alte tipuri de violență
Pe lângă toate măsurile de protecție enumerate mai sus, eliminăm următoarele:
  • conținuturile care solicită, oferă sau recunosc că oferă servicii de violență de gravitate ridicată (de exemplu, ucigași profesioniști, mercenari, asasini, mutilare genitală a femeilor) sau care încurajează utilizarea acestor servicii.
  • instrucțiuni privind modul de fabricare sau de utilizare a armelor, a căror formulare subliniază în mod explicit scopul de a răni grav sau de a ucide persoane, sau care includ imagini ce arată sau simulează rezultatul final, cu excepția contextului în care conținutul are un scop non-violent, cum ar fi un scop educațional de autoapărare (de exemplu, antrenamente de luptă sau artele martiale) sau care face referire la antrenamentele militare.
  • instrucțiuni despre realizarea sau utilizarea explozibililor, cu excepția cazurilor în care există un context clar care indică faptul că acel conținut are un scop non-violent, precum utilizările recreaționale (de exemplu, artificii, jocuri video comerciale sau pescuit).
  • amenințări de înarmare sau referitoare la aducerea armelor în anumite locații ori la intrarea cu forța în anumite locații (inclusiv, dar fără limitare la lăcașuri de cult, unități de învățământ, secții de votare sau locații utilizate pentru numărarea voturilor sau pentru administrarea procesului electoral) ori în locații unde există semnale temporare de risc crescut de violență.
  • amenințări cu acte de violență legate de vot, de înregistrarea alegătorilor sau de administrarea ori rezultatul unor alegeri, chiar dacă nu există nicio țintă.
  • glorificarea violenței bazate pe gen, care este fie violență între parteneri intimi, fie violență bazată pe onoare.
Pentru următoarele Standarde ale comunității, solicităm informații suplimentare și/sau context pentru a le aplica:
Ștergem:
  • amenințările la adresa instituțiilor de ordine publică sau a funcționarilor electorali, indiferent de statutul de persoană publică al acestora sau de credibilitatea amenințării.
  • afirmațiile codificate în care metoda actului de violență nu este formulată clar, dar amenințarea este voalată sau implicită, așa cum se arată în lista de mai jos, prin combinarea unui semnal amenințător cu un semnal contextual.
    • Amenințare: o afirmație codificată care conține unul dintre următoarele elemente:
      • mesaje postate într-un context de răzbunare (de exemplu, exprimări ale dorinței de implicare în acte de violență împotriva altor persoane, ca răspuns la o suferință sau o amenințare care pot fi reale, percepute sau anticipate);
      • referiri la incidente violente istorice sau fictive (de exemplu, conținut care amenință alte persoane prin referirea la incidente violente istorice cunoscute, care au fost comise de-a lungul istoriei sau în locații fictive);
      • mesaje care acționează ca apel amenințător la acțiune (de exemplu, conținut care invită la acte violente sau care încurajează alte persoane să întreprindă astfel de acte ori să participe la realizarea unor astfel de acte);
      • mesaje care indică sau distribuie cunoștințe despre informații sensibile care ar putea expune alte persoane la violență (de exemplu, conținut care fie indică informații cu caracter personal care ar putea face mai credibilă o amenințare cu violența, fie implică cunoașterea unor astfel de informații. Acest lucru include cunoașterea adresei de domiciliu a unei persoane, a locului de muncă sau a studiilor acesteia, a drumurilor sale zilnice obișnuite sau a locației curente).
    • Context
      • Contextul local sau expertiza confirmă faptul că afirmația în cauză poate duce la acte de violență iminente.
      • Ținta conținutului sau un reprezentant autorizat raportează conținutul către noi.
      • Ținta este un copil.
  • amenințările implicite referitoare la aducerea armamentului în anumite locații, inclusiv, dar fără limitare la lăcașuri de cult, unități de învățământ, secții de votare sau locații utilizate pentru numărarea voturilor sau pentru administrarea procesului electoral (ori încurajarea altor persoane să întreprindă astfel de acțiuni) ori în locații unde există semnale temporare de risc crescut de violență.
  • afirmațiile sau speculațiile despre corupție, nereguli sau prejudecăți legate de alegeri, atunci când sunt combinate cu un semnal care indică faptul că un anumit conținut amenință cu violența (de exemplu, amenințări de înarmare sau de aducere a armelor într-o anumită locație, reprezentări vizuale ale unei arme, referiri la incendiere, furt, vandalism), inclusiv:
    • vizarea unei persoane fizice/unor persoane fizice;
    • vizarea unei anumite locații (stat sau o locație de dimensiuni mai mici);
    • în cazul în care ținta nu este explicită;
  • referirile la adunări sau evenimente legate de alegeri, atunci când sunt combinate cu un semnal care indică faptul că un anumit conținut amenință cu violența (de exemplu, amenințări de înarmare sau de aducere a armelor într-o locație, reprezentări vizuale ale unei arme, referiri la incendiere, furt, vandalism).
  • Amenințări de violență de gravitate mare sau medie în apărarea propriei persoane sau a unei alte persoane, atunci când sunt îndeplinite criteriile de mai jos.
    • Împotriva unei persoane (cu excepția persoanelor identificabile după nume sau chip, a persoanelor vizate pe baza caracteristicilor lor protejate și a copiilor)
    • În contextul pătrunderii în locuință sau al violenței interpersonale, proporțională cu violența la care se răspunde și care reprezintă o amenințare imediată
    • Impactul potențial asupra vocii depășește riscul de violență iminentă
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
We Remove:
We remove threats of violence against various targets. Threats of violence are statements or visuals representing an intention, aspiration, or call for violence against a target, and threats can be expressed in various types of statements such as statements of intent, calls for action, advocacy, expressions of hope, aspirational statements and conditional statements.
We do not prohibit threats when shared in awareness-raising or condemning context, when less severe threats are made in the context of contact sports, or certain threats against violent actors, like terrorist groups.
Universal protections for everyone
Everyone is protected from the following threats:
  • Threats of violence that could lead to death (or other forms of high-severity violence)
  • Threats of violence that could lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence). We remove such threats against public figures and groups not based on protected characteristics when credible, and we remove them against any other targets (including groups based on protected characteristics) regardless of credibility
  • Admissions to high-severity or mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by the perpetrator or an associate), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, contact sports (mid-severity or less), or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel
  • Threats or depictions of kidnappings or abductions, unless it is clear that the content is being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness-raising purposes
Additional protections for Private Adults, All Children, high-risk persons and persons or groups based on their protected characteristics:
In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all private adults (when self-reported), children and persons or groups of people targeted on the basis of their protected characteristic(s), are protected from threats of low-severity violence.
Other Violence
In addition to all of the protections listed above, we remove the following:
  • Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
  • Instructions on how to make or use weapons where there is language explicitly stating the goal to seriously injure or kill people, or imagery that shows or simulates the end result, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as educational self-defense (for example, combat training, martial arts) and military training
  • Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as recreational uses (for example, fireworks and commercial video games, fishing)
  • Threats to take up weapons or to bring weapons to a location or forcibly enter a location (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election), or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Threats of violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election, even if there is no target.
  • Glorification of gender-based violence that is either intimate partner violence or honor-based violence
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We Remove:
  • Threats against law enforcement officers or election officials, regardless of their public figure status or credibility of the threat.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit, as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.
    • Threat: a coded statement that is one of the following:
      • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence against others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
      • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been committed throughout history or in fictional settings)
      • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out violent acts or to join in carrying out the violent acts)
      • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violence (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Context
      • Local context or expertise confirms that the statement in question could lead to imminent violence.
      • The target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
      • The target is a child.
  • Implicit threats to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Claims or speculation about election-related corruption, irregularities, or bias when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism), including:
    • Targeting individual(s)
    • Targeting a specific location (state or smaller)
    • Where the target is not explicit
  • References to election-related gatherings or events when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism).
  • Threats of high- or mid-severity violence in the defense of self or another human when the criteria below are met.
    • Against a person (excluding persons identifiable by name of face, people targeted based on their protected characteristics, and children)
    • In the context of home entry or interpersonal violence that is proportional to the violence responded to and is an immediate threat
    • The potential impact on voice outweighs the risk of imminent violence
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
We Remove:
We remove threats of violence against various targets. Threats of violence are statements or visuals representing an intention, aspiration, or call for violence against a target, and threats can be expressed in various types of statements such as statements of intent, calls for action, advocacy, expressions of hope, aspirational statements and conditional statements.
We do not prohibit threats when shared in awareness-raising or condemning context, when less severe threats are made in the context of contact sports, or certain threats against violent actors, like terrorist groups.
Universal protections for everyone
Everyone is protected from the following threats:
  • Threats of violence that could lead to death (or other forms of high-severity violence)
  • Threats of violence that could lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence). We remove such threats against public figures and groups not based on protected characteristics when credible, and we remove them against any other targets (including groups based on protected characteristics) regardless of credibility
  • Admissions to high-severity or mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by the perpetrator or an associate), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, contact sports (mid-severity or less), or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel
  • Threats or depictions of kidnappings or abductions, unless it is clear that the content is being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness-raising purposes
Additional protections for Private Adults, All Children, high-risk persons and persons or groups based on their protected characteristics:
In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all private adults (when self-reported), children and persons or groups of people targeted on the basis of their protected characteristic(s), are protected from threats of low-severity violence.
Other Violence
In addition to all of the protections listed above, we remove the following:
  • Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
  • Instructions on how to make or use weapons where there is language explicitly stating the goal to seriously injure or kill people, or imagery that shows or simulates the end result, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as educational self-defense (for example, combat training, martial arts) and military training
  • Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as recreational uses (for example, fireworks and commercial video games, fishing)
  • Threats to take up weapons or to bring weapons to a location or forcibly enter a location (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election), or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Threats of violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election, even if there is no target.
  • Glorification of gender-based violence that is either intimate partner violence or honor-based violence
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We Remove:
  • Threats against law enforcement officers or election officials, regardless of their public figure status or credibility of the threat.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit, as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.
    • Threat: a coded statement that is one of the following:
      • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence against others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
      • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been committed throughout history or in fictional settings)
      • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out violent acts or to join in carrying out the violent acts)
      • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violence (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Context
      • Local context or expertise confirms that the statement in question could lead to imminent violence.
      • The target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
  • Implicit threats to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Claims or speculation about election-related corruption, irregularities, or bias when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism), including:
    • Targeting individual(s)
    • Targeting a specific location (state or smaller)
    • Where the target is not explicit
  • References to election-related gatherings or events when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism).
  • Threats of high- or mid-severity violence in the defense of self or another human when the criteria below are met.
    • Against a person (excluding persons identifiable by name of face, people targeted based on their protected characteristics, and children)
    • In the context of home entry or interpersonal violence that is proportional to the violence responded to and is an immediate threat
    • The potential impact on voice outweighs the risk of imminent violence
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
We Remove:
We remove threats of violence against various targets. Threats of violence are statements or visuals representing an intention, aspiration, or call for violence against a target, and threats can be expressed in various types of statements such as statements of intent, calls for action, advocacy, expressions of hope, aspirational statements and conditional statements.
We do not prohibit threats when shared in awareness-raising or condemning context, when less severe threats are made in the context of contact sports, or whencertain threats are directed against certain violent actors, like terrorist groups.
Universal protections for everyone
Everyone is protected from the following threats:
  • Threats of violence that could lead to death (or other forms of high-severity violence)
  • Threats of violence that could lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence). We remove such threats against public figures and groups not based on protected characteristics when credible, and we remove them against any other targets (including groups based on protected characteristics) regardless of credibility
  • Admissions to high-severity or mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by the perpetrator or an associate), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, contact sports (mid-severity or less), or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel
  • Threats or depictions of kidnappings or abductions, unless it is clear that the content is being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness-raising purposes
Additional protections for Private Adults, All Children, high-risk persons and persons or groups based on their protected characteristics:
In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all private adults (when self-reported), children and persons or groups of people targeted on the basis of their protected characteristic(s), are protected from threats of low-severity violence.
Other Violence
In addition to all of the protections listed above, we remove the following:
  • Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
  • Instructions on how to make or use weapons where there is language explicitly stating the goal to seriously injure or kill people, or imagery that shows or simulates the end result, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as educational self-defense (for example, combat training, martial arts) and military training
  • Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as recreational uses (for example, fireworks and commercial video games, fishing)
  • Threats to take up weapons or to bring weapons to a location or forcibly enter a location (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election), or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Threats of violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election, even if there is no target.
  • Glorification of gender-based violence that is either intimate partner violence or honor-based violence
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We Remove:
  • Threats against law enforcement officers or election officials, regardless of their public figure status or credibility of the threat.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit, as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.
    • Threat: a coded statement that is one of the following:
      • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence against others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
      • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been committed throughout history or in fictional settings)
      • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out violent acts or to join in carrying out the violent acts)
      • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violence (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Context
      • Local context or expertise confirms that the statement in question could lead to imminent violence.
      • The target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
  • Implicit threats to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Claims or speculation about election-related corruption, irregularities, or bias when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism), including:
    • Targeting individual(s)
    • Targeting a specific location (state or smaller)
    • Where the target is not explicit
  • References to election-related gatherings or events when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism).
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
We Remove:
We remove threats of violence against various targets. Threats of violence are statements or visuals representing an intention, aspiration, or call for violence against a target, and threats can be expressed in various types of statements such as statements of intent, calls for action, advocacy, aspirational statements and conditional statements.
We do not prohibit threats when shared in awareness-raising or condemning context, when less severe threats are made in the context of contact sports, or when threats are directed against certain violent actors, like terrorist groups.
Universal protections for everyone
Everyone is protected from the following threats:
  • Threats of violence that could lead to death (or other forms of high-severity violence)
  • Threats of violence that could lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence). We remove such threats against public figures and groups not based on protected characteristics when credible, and we remove them against any other targets (including groups based on protected characteristics) regardless of credibility
  • Admissions to high-severity or mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by the perpetrator or an associate), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, contact sports (mid-severity or less), or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel
  • Threats or depictions of kidnappings or abductions, unless it is clear that the content is being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness-raising purposes
Additional protections for Private Adults, All Children, high-risk persons and persons or groups based on their protected characteristics:
In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all private adults (when self-reported), children and persons or groups of people targeted on the basis of their protected characteristic(s), are protected from threats of low-severity violence.
Other Violence
In addition to all of the protections listed above, we remove the following:
  • Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
  • Instructions on how to make or use weapons where there is language explicitly stating the goal to seriously injure or kill people, or imagery that shows or simulates the end result, unless in the context of recreational self-defense, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as educational self-defense (for example, combat training, martial arts) and military training
  • Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose such as recreational uses (for example, fireworks and commercial video games, fishing) (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
  • Threats to take up weapons or to bring weapons to a location or forcibly enter a location (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election), or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Threats of violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election, even if there is no target.
  • Glorification of gender-based violence that is either intimate partner violence or honor-based violence
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We Remove:
  • Threats against law enforcement officers or election officials, regardless of their public figure status or credibility of the threat.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit, as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.
    • Threat: a coded statement that is one of the following:
      • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence against others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
      • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been committed throughout history or in fictional settings)
      • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out violent acts or to join in carrying out the violent acts)
      • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violence (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Context
      • Local context or expertise confirms that the statement in question could lead to imminent violence.
      • The target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
  • Implicit threats to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Claims or speculation about election-related corruption, irregularities, or bias when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism), including:
    • Targeting individual(s)
    • Targeting a specific location (state or smaller)
    • Where the target is not explicit
  • References to election-related gatherings or events when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism).
Defining terms and streamlining provisions in the policy on instructions on how to make weapons and explosives
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
We Remove:
We remove threats of violence against various targets. Threats of violence are statements or visuals representing an intention, aspiration, or call for violence against a target, and threats can be expressed in various types of statements such as statements of intent, calls for action, advocacy, aspirational statements and conditional statements.
We do not prohibit threats when shared in awareness-raising or condemning context, when less severe threats are made in the context of contact sports, or when threats are directed against certain violent actors, like terrorist groups.
Universal protections for everyone
Everyone is protected from the following threats:
  • Threats of violence that could lead to death (or other forms of high-severity violence)
  • Threats of violence that could lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence). We remove such threats against public figures and groups not based on protected characteristics when credible, and we remove them against any other targets (including groups based on protected characteristics) regardless of credibility
  • Admissions to high-severity or mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by the perpetrator or an associate), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, contact sports (mid-severity or less), or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel
  • Threats or depictions of kidnappings or abductions, unless it is clear that the content is being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness-raising purposes
Additional protections for Private Adults, All Children, high-risk persons and persons or groups based on their protected characteristics:
In addition to the universal protections for everyone, all private adults (when self-reported), children and persons or groups of people targeted on the basis of their protected characteristic(s), are protected from threats of low-severity violence.
Other Violence
In addition to all of the protections listed above, we remove the following:
  • Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
  • Instructions on how to make or use weapons where there is language explicitly stating the goal to seriously injure or kill people, or imagery that shows or simulates the end result, unless in the context of recreational self-defense, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo).
  • Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless with context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
  • Threats to take up weapons or to bring weapons to a location or forcibly enter a location (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election), or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Threats of violence related to voting, voter registration, or the administration or outcome of an election, even if there is no target.
  • Glorification of gender-based violence that is either intimate partner violence or honor-based violence
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
We Remove:
  • Threats against law enforcement officers or election officials, regardless of their public figure status or credibility of the threat.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit, as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.
    • Threat: a coded statement that is one of the following:
      • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence against others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
      • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been committed throughout history or in fictional settings)
      • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out violent acts or to join in carrying out the violent acts)
      • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violence (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Context
      • Local context or expertise confirms that the statement in question could lead to imminent violence.
      • The target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
  • Implicit threats to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence.
  • Claims or speculation about election-related corruption, irregularities, or bias when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism), including:
    • Targeting individual(s)
    • Targeting a specific location (state or smaller)
    • Where the target is not explicit
  • References to election-related gatherings or events when combined with a signal that content is threatening violence (e.g., threats to take up or bring a weapon, visual depictions of a weapon, references to arson, theft, vandalism).
Following our Policy Forum on “Praise of Violent Acts” in May 2023, we are updating our Violence and Incitement policy to clarify that content glorifying intimate partner violence or “honor”-based violence is not permitted on our services.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by a perpetrator), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by a perpetrator), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless when shared in a context of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring or take up armaments to locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days. This includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence that targets these locations.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to forcibly enter locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit , as shown by the combination of both a threat signal and contextual signal from the list below.Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
  • Threat: Content is a coded statement that is one of the following:
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to engage in violence againstdo something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmfulviolent acts or to join in carrying out the harmfulviolent acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to violenceharm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
  • Context:
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat target of the content or an authorized representative reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election workers, including claims of election-related wrongdoing against private individuals when combined with a signal of violence or additional context that confirms that the claim could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
This policy has been updated to refine language on depictions of high-severity violence.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by a perpetrator), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks for, offers, or admits to offering services of high-severity violence (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins, female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these services
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence (in written or verbal form, or visually depicted by a perpetrator), except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless when shared in a context of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring or take up armaments to locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days. This includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence that targets these locations.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to forcibly enter locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election workers, including claims of election-related wrongdoing against private individuals when combined with a signal of violence or additional context that confirms that the claim could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
This policy has been updated to refine language on depictions of high-severity violence.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks for, offers, or, admits to offering or offers services of high-severity violencefor hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins , female genital mutilation) or advocates for the use of these servicesa hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content iswhen shared in a context ofas part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring or take up armaments to locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days. This includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence that targets these locations.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to forcibly enter locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election workers, including claims of election-related wrongdoing against private individuals when combined with a signal of violence or additional context that confirms that the claim could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
The policy has been updated with minor changes to refine language on services of high-severity violence.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks, admits to offering or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self-defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring or take up armamentsweapons to locations ,(including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election )or locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days. This includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence that targets these locations.(or encouraging others to do the same).
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to forcibly enter locations (including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election) where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days.
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election workers, including claims of election-related wrongdoing against private individuals when combined with a signal of violence or additional context that confirms that the claim could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
The policy will now remove statements of intent and advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to forcibly enter locations where there temporarily are signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks, admits to offering or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defene, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election officialsworkers, including claims of election-related wrongdoing against private individuals when combined with a signal of violence or additional context that confirms that the claim could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
The policy is being updated to increase protections for election workers when there is additional context that the claims could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) and admission of past violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
  • Statements admitting to committing high-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content that asks , admits to offering or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) and admission of past violence toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Statements admitting to committing mid-severity violence except when shared in a context of redemption, self-defense, fight-sports context or when committed by law enforcement, military or state security personnel.
Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Calls for action of violence, or
  • Statements advocating for violence, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts non-convicted individuals at risk by revealing their identity and their status as a target of a sting operation as a sexual predator.
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
    • Additionally, we have specific rules and guidance regarding content related to COVID-19 and vaccines. To see these specific rules please click here.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Meta looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
Policy language about outing individuals is being consolidated in the Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime policy so policy language has been moved there. Policy language about the admission of high and mid-severity violence has also been moved from the Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime policy.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap or abduct a target or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction
Content that depicts abductions or kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
    • Calls for action of violence, or
    • Statements advocating for violence, or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts non-convicted individuals at risk by revealing their identity and their status as a target of a sting operation as a sexual predator.
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
    • Additionally, we have specific rules and guidance regarding content related to COVID-19 and vaccines. To see these specific rules please click here.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Facebook looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
The policy has been updated to refine language on kidnappings and abductions to make it consistent throughout.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence.
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence.
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence.
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence.
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target
Content that depicts abductions or kidnappings if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally-produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) toward private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
  • Statements advocating violence, or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target, or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence, or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high-risk persons or high-risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence, or
    • Calls for action of violence, or
    • Statements advocating for violence, or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there is evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction.
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by a Page or with a news logo).
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission.
  • Content that puts non-convicted individuals at risk by revealing their identity and their status as a target of a sting operation as a sexual predator.
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers.
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm.
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
    • Additionally, we have specific rules and guidance regarding content related to COVID-19 and vaccines. To see these specific rules please click here.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Facebook looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call-to-action (e.g. content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g. content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there is a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
The policy is being updated to clarify that for content where we have additional information and/or context may remove content that puts non-convicted individuals at risk by revealing their identity and the status as a target of a sting operation as a sexual predator.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Content that depicts abductions or kidnappings if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election ( or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm
    • Additionally, we have specific rules and guidance regarding content related to COVID-19 and vaccines. To see these specific rules please click here.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. Facebook looks at the below signals to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.
    • Shared in a retaliatory context (e.g., expressions of desire to do something harmful to others in response to a grievance or threat that may be real, perceived or anticipated)
    • References to historical or fictional incidents of violence (e.g., content that threatens others by referring to known historical incidents of violence that have been executed throughout history or in fictional settings)
    • Acts as a threatening call to action (e.g., content inviting or encouraging others to carry out harmful acts or to join in carrying out the harmful acts)
    • Indicates knowledge of or shares sensitive information that could expose others to harm (e.g., content that either makes note of or implies awareness of personal information that might make a threat of physical violence more credible. This includes implying knowledge of a person's residential address, their place of employment or education, daily commute routes, or current location)
    • Local context or subject matter expertise confirms that the statement in question could be threatening, and/or could lead to imminent violence or physical harm.
    • The subject of the threat reports the content to us.
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there’s a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method that represents violence
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Content that depicts abductions or kidnappings if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election ( or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm
    • Additionally, we have specific rules and guidance regarding content related to COVID-19 and vaccines. To see these specific rules please click here.
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there’s a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence ; or. This includes content where a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament or method to represent violence
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to or method thatrepresent s violence ; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence ; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Content that depicts abductions or kidnappings if it is clear the content is not being shared by a victim or their family as a plea for help, or shared for informational, condemnation or awareness raising purposes
Threats of high-severity violence using digitally produced or altered imagery to target living people with armaments, methods of violence or dismemberment.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Content that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with any individual who is alleged to be a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group, share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member of an at-risk group or have performed professional activities in support of an at-risk group (except for political figures).
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognisable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives : U, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration , or the administration ofor outcome of an election
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election ( or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm.
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporarily signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm. This may be the case, for example, when there’s a known protest and counter-protest planned or violence broke out at a protest in the same city within the last 7 days
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Content that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with any individual who is alleged to be a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group, share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member of an at-risk group or have performed professional activities in support of an at-risk group (except for political figures).
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration, or the administration of outcome of an election
Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election ( or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following content, we may require more information and/or context in order to enforce
  • Threats against election officials
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
Do not post:
  • Content that puts LGBTQI+ people at risk by revealing their sexual identity against their will or without permission
  • Content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without veil against their will or without permission
  • Violent threats against law enforcement officers
  • Violent threats against people accused of a crime. We remove this content when we have reason to believe that the content is intended to cause physical harm
  • Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm
  • Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit
  • Threats against election officials
  • Implicit statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities, polling places, or locations used to count votes or administer an election (or encouraging others to do the same). We may also restrict calls to bring armaments to certain locations where there are temporary signals of a heightened risk of violence or offline harm.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline violence that may be related to content on our platforms. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious and casual ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates violence and credible threats to public or personal safety. This includes violent speech targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) or immigration status. We remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual or awareness-raising statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information such as a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats of violence, including expressions of hope that violence will be committed, directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g., “Terrorists deserve to be killed,” “I hope they kill the terrorists”). We deem those non-credible, absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Content that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with any individual who is alleged to be a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group, share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member of an at-risk group or have performed professional activities in support of an at-risk group (except for political figures).
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, conditional or aspirational statements, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the administration of outcome of an election
Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities or polling places , or locations used to count votes or administer an election( or encouraging others to do the same).
For the following content, we may require more information and/or context in order to enforce
  • Threats against election officials
These policy updates reflect the additional steps we're taking to help secure the integrity of the election by encouraging voting, connecting people to authoritative information, and reducing the chances of post-election unrest. Read more about these changes here.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s)targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, unnamed specified persons, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk groupContent that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with any individual who is alleged to be a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group, share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member of an at-risk group or have performed professional activities in support of an at-risk group (except for political figures).
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship,educational facilities or polling places ( or encouraging others to do the same).
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation and unverifiable rumors that contribute contributes to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship,educational facilities or polling places ( or encouraging others to do the same).
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation that contributes to the risk of imminent violence or physical harm.
Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring weapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship,educational facilities or polling places (or encouraging others to do the same.)1
1 We have updated our policies to prohibit calls to action or statements of intent to bring weapons to polling places and educational facilities.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, high risk persons, or high risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm.
Calls to action, Statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to bring armamentsweapons to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, educational facilities or polling places (or encouraging others to do the same.)1
1 We have updated our policies to prohibit calls to action or statements of intent to bring weapons to polling places and educational facilities.
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and vulnerabilitythe risks to their physical safety.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerablehigh risk persons, or vulnerablehigh risk groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerablehigh risk persons, or vulnerablehigh risk groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election.
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm.
Calls to action, statements of intent to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, or encouraging others to do the same.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Admissions, statements of intent or advocacy, calls to action, or aspirational or conditional statements to kidnap a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence; or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence; or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election.
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm.
Calls to action, statements of intent to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, or encouraging others to do the same.
The language we previously used to describe our policies against violence and incitement was imprecise. We have since replaced it to more clearly explain the policy and underlying rationale.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and vulnerability.
In some cases, we see aspirational or conditional threats directed at terrorists and other violent actors (e.g. Terrorists deserve to be killed), and we deem those non credible absent specific evidence to the contrary.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.) including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.)
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence (unless the target is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.) including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Content about other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.)
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election.
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm.
Calls to action, statements of intent to bring armaments to locations, including but not limited to places of worship, or encouraging others to do the same.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.)
  • Including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.)
Content that asks or offers services for hire to kill others (for example, hitmen, mercenaries, assassins) or advocates for the use of a hitman, mercenary or assassin against a target.
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence (unless the target is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.) including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target;; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is an adult public figure convicted or accused of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.); or
  • Other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization, or is described as having carried out violent crimes or sexual offenses, wherein criminal/predator status has been established by media reports, market knowledge of news event, etc.)
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show or simulate the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election.
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm
Calls to action, statements of intent to bring armaments to a vulnerable location, or encouraging others to do the same
Section 1: Violence and Incitement (New):
This change reflects our effort to enhance protections against violent speech. Over the past year, our conversations with external experts, academics and others has demonstrated that violent statements, regardless of credibility, have a negative effect on people. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we will remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook. While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non-serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety. We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and vulnerability.
Do not post:
Threats that could lead to death (and other forms of high-severity violence) of any target(s) where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit high-severity violence; or
  • Calls for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy)
  • Including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target and/or includes a visual of an armament to represent violence; or
  • Statements advocating for high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy); or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit high-severity violence (unless the target is an organization or individual covered in the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy)
Threats that lead to serious injury (mid-severity violence) towards private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
  • Statements advocating violence (unless the target is an adult public figure convicted or accused of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization); or
  • Calls for mid-severity violence (unless the target is a member of a dangerous organization) including content where no target is specified but a symbol represents the target; or
  • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is an adult public figure convicted or accused of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization); or
  • Other target(s) apart from private individuals, minor public figures, vulnerable persons, or vulnerable groups and any credible:
    • Statements of intent to commit violence; or
    • Calls for action of violence; or
    • Statements advocating for violence; or
    • Aspirational or conditional statements to commit violence (unless the target is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
Threats that lead to physical harm (or other forms of lower-severity violence) towards private individuals (self-reporting required) or minor public figures where threat is defined as any of the following:
  • Private individuals (name and/or face match are required) or minor public figures that includes:
    • Statements of intent, calls for action, advocating, aspirational or conditional statements to commit low-severity violence
Imagery of private individuals or minor public figures that has been manipulated to include threats of violence either in text or pictorial (adding bulls eye, dart, gun to head, etc.)
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if there’s evidence of a goal to seriously injure or kill people, through:
  • Language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • Photos or videos that show s or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless the aforementioned content is shared as part of recreational self defense, for military training purposes, commercial video games, or news coverage (posted by Page or with news logo)
Providing instructions on how to make or use explosives:
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example part of commercial video games, clear scientific/educational purpose, fireworks, or specifically for fishing)
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocating for high or mid-severity violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election.
Formerly Section 1: Credible Violence
In May 2019, we rewrote our policy on credible violence to enhance protections against violent speech. The updated policy has been renamed "Violence and Incitement." For informational purposes, we've maintained the text of the credible violence policy as it read before the rewrite, but please note that these sections have been superseded.
Policy Rationale
We aim to prevent potential real-world harm that may be related to content on Facebook. We understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in facetious and non-serious ways. That's why we try to consider the language, context and details in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety. In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a targeted person's public visibility and vulnerability. We remove content, disable accounts, and work with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety.
Do not post:
The following threats:
  • Credible statements of intent to commit violence against any person, groups of people, or place (city or smaller). We assess credibility based upon the information available to us and generally consider statements credible if the following are present:
    • A target (person, group of people, or place) and
      • Bounty/demand for payment, or
      • Mention or image of specific weapon, or
      • Sales offer or ask to purchase weapon, or
      • Spelled-out address or named building, or
    • A target and two or more of the following details (can be two of the same detail):
      • Location
      • Timing
      • Method
  • Any statement of intent to commit violence against a vulnerable person (identified by name, title, image, or other reference) or vulnerable group, including (but not limited to) heads-of-state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
Calls for violence or statements advocating violence against the following targets (identified by name, title, image, or other reference)
  • Any vulnerable person or group including (but not limited to) heads of state, national elected officials, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
  • Public individuals, if credible as defined above
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
  • Where no target is specified but a symbol representing the target or a visual of weapons is included
Aspirational and conditional statements of violence against
  • Any vulnerable groups
  • Public individuals, if credible (unless the individual is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
  • Vulnerable person(s), if credible
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people as may be evident from:
  • As evident from language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • As evident from imagery that shows or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self-defense activities, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage)
Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, clear scientific/educational purpose use or fireworks)
Exposure of vulnerable individuals' identities without their permission
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, representation, support or advocationadvocating1 for violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election2
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm3
1 Updated May 2018.
2 Updated October 2018 with the following annotation: "For more information on this specific update to our policy, please visit the blog post we put out on expanding our voter suppression policies: Expanding Our Policies on Voter Suppression"
3Updated July 2018.
Do not post:
The following threats:
  • Credible statements of intent to commit violence against any person, groups of people, or place (city or smaller). We assess credibility based upon the information available to us and generally consider statements credible if the following are present:
    • A target (person, group of people, or place) and
      • Bounty/demand for payment, or
      • Mention or image of specific weapon, or
      • Sales offer or ask to purchase weapon, or
      • Spelled-out address or named building, or
    • A target and two or more of the following details (can be two of the same detail):
      • Location
      • Timing
      • Method
  • Any statement of intent to commit violence against a vulnerable person (identified by name, title, image, or other reference) or vulnerable group, including (but not limited to) heads-of-state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
Calls for violence or statements advocating violence against the following targets (identified by name, title, image, or other reference)
  • Any vulnerable person or group including (but not limited to) heads of state, national elected officials, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
  • Public individuals, if credible as defined above
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
  • Where no target is specified but a symbol representing the target or a visual of weapons is included
Aspirational and conditional statements of violence against
  • Any vulnerable groups
  • Public individuals, if credible (unless the individual is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
  • Vulnerable person(s), if credible
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people as may be evident from:
  • As evident from language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • As evident from imagery that shows or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self-defense activities, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage)
Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, clear scientific/educational purpose use or fireworks)
Exposure of vulnerable individuals' identities without their permission
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocationadvocating for violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm
Do not post:
The following threats:
  • Credible statements of intent to commit violence against any person, groups of people, or place (city or smaller). We assess credibility based upon the information available to us and generally consider statements credible if the following are present:
    • A target (person, group of people, or place) and
      • Bounty/demand for payment, or
      • Mention or image of specific weapon, or
      • Sales offer or ask to purchase weapon, or
      • Spelled-out address or named building, or
    • A target and two or more of the following details (can be two of the same detail):
      • Location
      • Timing
      • Method
  • Any statement of intent to commit violence against a vulnerable person (identified by name, title, image, or other reference) or vulnerable group, including (but not limited to) heads-of-state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
Calls for violence or statements advocating violence against the following targets (identified by name, title, image, or other reference)
  • Any vulnerable person or group including (but not limited to) heads of state, national elected officials, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
  • Public individuals, if credible as defined above
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
  • Where no target is specified but a symbol representing the target or a visual of weapons is included
Aspirational and conditional statements of violence against
  • Any vulnerable groups
  • Public individuals, if credible (unless the individual is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
  • Vulnerable person(s), if credible
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people as may be evident from:
  • As evident from language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • As evident from imagery that shows or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self-defense activities, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage)
Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, clear scientific/educational purpose use or fireworks)
Exposure of vulnerable individuals' identities without their permission
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, or advocation for violence due to voting, voter registration, or the outcome of an election
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm
For more information on this specific update to our policy, please visit the blog post we put out on expanding our voter suppression policies: Expanding Our Policies on Voter Suppression
Do not post:
The following threats:
  • Credible statements of intent to commit violence against any person, groups of people, or place (city or smaller). We assess credibility based upon the information available to us and generally consider statements credible if the following are present:
    • A target (person, group of people, or place) and
      • Bounty/demand for payment, or
      • Mention or image of specific weapon, or
      • Sales offer or ask to purchase weapon, or
      • Spelled-out address or named building, or
    • A target and two or more of the following details (can be two of the same detail):
      • Location
      • Timing
      • Method
  • Any statement of intent to commit violence against a vulnerable person (identified by name, title, image, or other reference) or vulnerable group, including (but not limited to) heads-of-state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
Calls for violence or statements advocating violence against the following targets (identified by name, title, image, or other reference)
  • Any vulnerable person or group including (but not limited to) heads of state, national elected officials, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
  • Public individuals, if credible as defined above
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
  • Where no target is specified but a symbol representing the target or a visual of weapons is included
Aspirational and conditional statements of violence against
  • Any vulnerable groups
  • Public individuals, if credible (unless the individual is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
  • Vulnerable person(s), if credible
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people as may be evident from:
  • As evident from language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • As evident from imagery that shows or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self-defense activities, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage)
Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, clear scientific/educational purpose use or fireworks)
Exposure of vulnerable individuals' identities without their permission
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, representation, support or advocation for violence due to the outcome of an election
Misinformation that contributes to imminent violence or physical harm.
Do not post:
The following threats:
  • Credible statements of intent to commit violence against any person, groups of people, or place (city or smaller). We assess credibility based upon the information available to us and generally consider statements credible if the following are present:
    • A target (person, group of people, or place) and
      • Bounty/demand for payment, or
      • Mention or image of specific weapon, or
      • Sales offer or ask to purchase weapon, or
      • Spelled-out address or named building, or
    • A target and two or more of the following details (can be two of the same detail):
      • Location
      • Timing
      • Method
  • Any statement of intent to commit violence against a vulnerable person (identified by name, title, image, or other reference) or vulnerable group, including (but not limited to) heads-of-state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
Calls for violence or statements advocating violence against the following targets (identified by name, title, image, or other reference)
  • Any vulnerable person or group including (but not limited to) heads of state, national elected officials, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists
  • Public individuals, if credible as defined above
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
  • Where no target is specified but a symbol representing the target or a visual of weapons is included
Aspirational and conditional statements of violence against
  • Any vulnerable groups
  • Public individuals, if credible (unless the individual is convicted of certain crimes or is a member of a dangerous organization)
  • Vulnerable person(s), if credible
  • Groups of people or unnamed specific person(s), if credible
  • Places, if credible
Any content created for the express purpose of outing an individual as a member of a designated and recognizable at-risk group
Instructions on how to make or use weapons if the goal is to injure or kill people as may be evident from:
  • As evident from language explicitly stating that goal, or
  • As evident from imagery that shows or simulates the end result (serious injury or death) as part of the instruction
  • Unless there is clear context that the content is for an alternative purpose (for example, shared as part of recreational self-defense activities, training by a country’s military, commercial video games, or news coverage)
Instructions on how to make or use explosives, unless there is clear context that the content is for a non-violent purpose (for example, clear scientific/educational purpose use or fireworks)
Exposure of vulnerable individuals' identities without their permission
Any content containing statements of intent, calls for action, representation, support or advocation for violence due to the outcome of an election
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