Policies that outline what is and isn't allowed on our apps.

Meta Advertising Standards

Policies for ad content and business assets.

Other policies

Other policies that apply to Meta technologies.

How Meta improves

How we update our policies, measure results, work with others, and more.

Age-Appropriate Content

Explore how we help teens have safe, positive experiences on Facebook and Instagram.

Enforcement

Detecting violations

How technology and review teams help us detect and review violating content and accounts.

Taking action

Our three-part approach to content enforcement: remove, reduce and inform.

Security

Threat disruptions

How we take down coordinated adversarial networks to protect people using our services

Security threats

Challenges we investigate and counter around the globe

Threat reporting

Security research into the adversarial networks we’ve taken down since 2017

Features

Our Approach To Dangerous Organizations and Individuals

How we approach dangerous organizations and individuals.

Our approach to the opioid epidemic

How we support communities in the face of the opioid epidemic.

Our approach to elections

How we help prevent interference, empower people to vote and more.

Our approach to misinformation

How we work with independent fact-checkers, and more, to identify and take action on misinformation.

Our approach to newsworthy content

How we assess content for newsworthiness.

Our approach to Facebook Feed ranking

How we reduce problematic content in News Feed.

Our approach to explaining ranking

How we build AI systems.

Governance

Governance innovation

Oversight Board overview

How to appeal to the Oversight Board

Oversight Board cases

Oversight Board recommendations

Creating the Oversight Board

Oversight Board: Further asked questions

Meta’s Bi-Annual Updates on the Oversight Board

Research tools

Content Library and Content Library API

Comprehensive access to public data from Facebook and Instagram

Ad Library tools

Comprehensive and searchable database of all ads currently running across Meta technologies

Other research tools and datasets

Additional tools for in-depth research on Meta technologies and programs

Reports

Community Standards Enforcement Report

Quarterly report on how well we're doing at enforcing our policies on the Facebook app and Instagram.

Intellectual Property

Report on how well we're helping people protect their intellectual property.

Government Requests for User Data

Report on government request for people's data.

Content Restrictions Based on Local Law

Report on when we restrict content that's reported to us as violating local law.

Internet Disruptions

Report on intentional internet restrictions that limit people's ability to access the internet.

Widely Viewed Content Report

Quarterly report on what people see on Facebook, including the content that receives the widest distribution during the quarter.

Regulatory and Other Transparency Reports

Download current and past regulatory reports for Facebook and Instagram.

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Policies

Our policies define what is and isn’t allowed on Meta technologies. If content goes against our policies, we take action on it.

Community Standards

Our policies define what is and isn’t allowed on Meta technologies. If content goes against our policies, we take action on it.

Each section of our Community Standards starts with a “Policy Rationale” that sets out the aims of the policy followed by specific policy lines that outline:

Content that's not allowed; and

Content that requires additional information or context to enforce on, content that is allowed with a warning screen or content that is allowed but can only be viewed by adults aged 18 and older.