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Iba ang maling impormasyon sa iba pang mga uri ng salitang natutugunan sa aming Mga Pamantayan ng Komunidad dahil walang paraan para ipahayag ang malawak na listahan ng kung ano ang ipinagbabawal. Sa graphic na karahasan o mapoot na asal, halimbawa, tinututukoy ng aming mga patakaran ang content na ipinagbabawal namin, at kahit ang mga tao na hindi sang-ayon sa mga patakaran na ito ay pwedeng sundin ang mga ito. Sa maling impormasyon, gayunpaman, hindi naming maibibigay ang nasabing line. Palaging nagbabago ang mundo, at kung ano ang tama sa isang minuto ay maaaring hindi tama sa susunod na minuto. Ang mga tao ay may iba't ibang mga antas din ng impormasyon tungkol sa kanilang mundo, at maaaring maniwala na ang isang bagay ay tama pero hindi. Ang patakaran na ipinagbabawal lang ang “maling impormasyon” ay hindi magbibigay ng nakakatulong na abiso sa mga taong gumagamit ng aming mga serbisyo at magiging unforceable, dahil wala kaming perfect na access sa impormasyon.

Sa halip, ipinapahayag ng aming mga patakaran ang iba’t ibang kategorya ng maling impormasyon at sinusubukan na magbigay ng malinaw na gabay tungkol sa kung paano naming tinatrato ang salitang iyon kapag makita namin ito. Para sa bawat kategorya, ipinapakita ng aming approach ang aming pagsubok na balansehin ang aming mga value ng pagpapahayag, kaligtasan, dignidad, authenticity, at privacy.

Inaalis namin ang maling impormasyon kung malamang na direktang maging dahilan sa napipintong pisikal na pinsala. Inaalis din namin ang content na malamang na direktang maging dahilan sa interference sa paggana ng pampulitikang proseso. Sa pagtukoy kung anong bumubuo sa maling impormasyon sa mga kategoryang ito, nakipag-partner kami sa mga independent expert na may kaalaman at expertise para ma-assess ang katotohanan ng content at kung malamang na direktang maging dahilan sa panganib ng napipintong pinsala. Kasama rito, halimbawa, ang pakikipag-partner sa mga organisasyon para sa mga karapatang pantao na may presence sa isang bansa para matukoy ang katotohanan ng sabi-sabi tungkol sa civil conflict.

Para sa lahat ng iba pang maling impormasyon, nakatuon kami sa pagbawas ng paglaganap o paggawa ng isang environment na pinagyayaman ang productive dialogue. Alam namin na madalas gumamit ng maling impormasyon ang mga tao sa mga hindi nakakapinsalang paraan, tulad ng nag-e-exaggerate ng punto (“Ang team na ito ay mayroong pinakapangit na record sa kasaysayan ng sport!”) o sa humor o satire (“Nanalo ang aking asawa ng Husband of the Year.”). Sa ilang pangyayari, nagbabahagi ang mga tao ng mas personal na mga opinyon na itinuring mali ng iba o nagbabahagi ng impormasyon na naniniwala silang tama pero itinuturing ng iba na hindi kumpleto o nakakalinlang.

Pagkilala kung gaano karaniwan ang nasabing speech, nakatuon kami sa pagbibigay sa mga user ng nakakatulong na impormasyon kapag may potensyal na nakakalinlang o nakakalitong content. Bilang bahagi ng pagsusumikap na iyon, sa labas ng United States nakikipag-partner kami sa mga organisasyon ng third-party fact checking sa maraming bahagi ng mundo para suriin at i-rate ang accuracy ng pinaka viral na content sa aming mga platform (tingnan dito at dito para sa aming approach sa United States). Nagsisimula sa United States, pinapayagan ng programang Mga Community Note ang mga tao na maglagay ng higit pang konteksto sa Facebook, Instagram at Threads post na potensyal na nakakalinlang o nakakalito (tingnandito). Nagbibigay din kami ng mga resource para dagdagan ang media at digital literacy para makapagdesisyon ang mga tao kung ano ang babasahin, pagkakatiwalaan, at ibabahagi nila. Hinihiling namin sa mga tao na i-disclose, gamit ang AI-disclosure tool, kapag nagpo-post sila ng organic na content na may photorealistic video o realistic-sounding na audio na ginawa sa digital na paraan o binago, at maaaring maglagay ng mga penalty kung hindi nila magagawa ito.. Maaari rin kaming maglagay ng label sa ilang content na ginawa o binago sa digital na paraan na gumagawa ng partikular na mataas na panganib ng paglinlang ng mga tao sa isang bagay na mahalaga sa publiko.

Panghuli, ipinagbabawal namin ang content at gawi sa iba pang mga area na madalas mag-overlap sa pagkalat ng maling impormasyon. Halimbawa, ipinagbabawal ng aming Mga Pamantayan ng Komunidad ang mga fake na account, fraud, at pinangasiwaang hindi tamang gawi.

Habang nagbabago at nag-e-evolve ang online at offline na mga environment, magpapatuloy kaming i-evolve ang mga patakaran na ito. Ang mga account na paulit-ulit na ibinabahagi ang maling impormasyong nakalista sa ibaba ay maaaring, dagdag pa sa pag-enforce ng kanilang content, nang alinsunod sa patakarang ito, ay nakakatanggap ng nabawasang distribution, mga limitasyon sa kanilang kakayahang mag-advertise, o maalis mula sa aming mga platform. Ang karagdagang impormasyon sa kung ano ang mangyayari kapag inalis ng Meta ang content ay makikita rito.

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Ang maling impormasyon na inaalis namin:

Inaalis namin ang mga sumusunod na uri ng maling impormasyon:

I. Pisikal na Pinsala o Karahasan

Inaalis namin ang maling impormasyon o hindi ma-verify na mga tsismis na natukoy ng mga expert partner ay malamang na direktang nakakadagdag ng peligro sa napipintong karahasan o pisikal na pananakit sa mga tao. Tinutukoy namin ang maling impormasyon bilang content na may claim na natukoy bilang mali ng maaasahang third party. Tinutukoy namin ang hindi na-verify na sabi-sabi bilang isang claim na kinukumpirma ng mga source expert partner na napakahirap o imposibleng ma-trace, kung saan walang sapat na detalye para mapabulaanan ang claim, o kung saan masyadong kaduda-duda ang claim o masyadong hindi makatwiran para paniwalaan.

Alam namin na misan na ang maling impormasyon na maaaring lumabas na benign ay maaaring, sa partikular na konteksto, maging dahilan sa panganib ng offline na pananakit, kasama ang mga banta ng karahasan na maaaring mag-contribute sa pinatinding panganib ng pagkamatay, malubhang pinsala, o iba pang pisikal na pinsala. Nakikipagtulungan kami sa pandaigdigang network ng mga non-governmental organization (mga NGO), mga not-for-profit na organisasyon, humanitarian organization, at mga international organisasyon na may expertise sa lokal na dynamics na ito.

Sa mga bansang nakakaranas ng pinaigting na panganib na societal na karahasan, proactively kaming nakikipagtulungan sa mga lokal na partner para maunawaan kung aling mga maling claim ay maaaring direktang mag-contribute sa panganib ng napipintong pisikal na pinsala. Ngsusumikap kaming tukuyin at akisin ang content na gumagawa ng mga claim sa aming platform. Halimbawa, sa konsultasyon sa mga lokal na expert, maaari naming alisin ang wala sa kontektso na media na maling nagsasabi para magpakita ng mga pagkilos ng karahasan, mga biktima o perpetrator ng karahasan, mga armas, o military hardware.

II. Mapaminsalang Impormasyon sa Kalusugan

Kumokonsulta kami sa mga nangungunang health organization para matukoy ang maling impormasyon pangkalusugan na malamang na direktang maging dahilan sa napipintong pinsala sa kalusugan at kaligtasan ng publiko. Ang mapinsalang maling impormasyon pangkalusugan na inaalis namin kasama sa mga sumusunod:

Maling impormasyon tungkol sa mga vaccine. Inaalis namin ang maling impormasyon tungkol sa mga vaccine kapag pinagpasyahan ng mga awtoridad sa kalusugan ng publiko na ang impormasyon ay mali at direktang maging dahilan ng napipintong mga pagtanggi sa vaccine. Kasama sa mga ito:

Nagdudulot ng autism ang mga vaccine (halimbawa: “Ang mga nadagdagang vaccination ay ang dahilan kung bakit napakaraming bata ang may autism ngayon.”)

Ang mga vaccine ay nagdudulot ng Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Halimbawa: “Hindi mo ba alam na nagdudulot ng SIDS ang mga vaccine?”

Ang mga vaccine ay nagdudulot ng sakit na dapat nitong protektahan, o ito ang dahilan sa taong binabakunahan para mas malamang na magkasakit ang tao (Halimbawa:) “Sa totoo, ang pagpapa-vaccine ay mas malamang na magdulot sa iyong magkasakit dahil may kasama itong strain ng sakit. Mag-ingat!”)

Ang mga vaccine o ang mga sangkap nito ay nakamamatay, nakakalason, nakakasama o mapanganib (Halimbawa: “Sige, magpa-vaccine ka, kung ayos lang sa iyo na maglagay ng lason sa katawan mo.”)

Mas ligtas ang natural na immunity kaysa sa immunity na nakuha sa vaccine (Halimbawa: “Pinakaligtas na magkasakit na lang kaysa sa vaccine.”)

Mapanganib na magpa-vaccine ng maraming vaccine sa loob ng maikling panahon, kahit na inirerekomenda ng mga doktor ang tiyempo ng mga ito (Halimbawa: “Huwag kang magpa-vaccine ng mahigit sa isa sa isang pagkakataon, mapanganib iyon. Wala akong pakialam kung ano ang sasabihin sa iyo ng doktor mo!”)

Hindi mabisa ang mga vaccine sa pagpigil ng sakit na dapat nitong protektahan. Gayunpaman, para sa mga vaccine para sa COVID-19, trangkaso at malaria, hindi namin inaalis ang mga pahayag na hindi epektibo ang mga vaccine na iyon sa pagpigil ang isang tao na magkaroon ng mga virus na iyon. (Mga halimbawa: Alisin – “Wala naman nagagawa ang mga polio vaccine para mapigilan kang magkaroon ng sakit”; Alisin – “Wala naman talagang nagagawa ang mga vaccine para mapigilan kang magkaroon ng mga sakit”: Payagan – “Hindi ka pinipigilan ng vaccine sa pagkakaroon ng COVID-19, kaya kailangan mo pa rin na mag-social distancing at magsuot ng mask kapag may kasama kang iba.”)

Ang pagkakaroon ng tigdas ay hindi nakakamatay (kinakailangan ng karagdagang impormasyon at/o konteksto) (Halimbawa: “Huwag kang mag-alala kung magkakaroon ka ng tigdas, hindi ito nakamamatay.”)

Kasing bisa ng mga vaccine ang Bitamina C sa pag-iwas sa mga sakit na dahilan kung bakit may mga vaccine.

Maling impormasyon tungkol sa panahon ng mga emergency sa kalusugan na publiko. Inaalis namin ang maling impormasyon sa panahon ng mga emergency sa kalusugan ng publiko kapag pinagpasiyahan ng mga awtoridad sa kalusugan ng publiko na ang impormasyon ay mali at posibleng direktang maging dahilan ng panganib ng napipintong pisikal na pinsala, kasama ang sa pamamagitan ng pagiging dahilan sa panganib nga mga indibiduwal na magkaroon o pagkakalat ng nakakapinsalang sakit o tinatanggihan ang kaugnay na vaccine. Tinutukoy namin ang mga emergency sa kalusugan ng publiko sa pakikipag-partner sa pandaigdigan at mga lokal na awtoridad sa kalusugan.

Pagtataguyod o pag-aadvocate para sa mapaminsalang mga milagrong lunas para sa mga problema sa kalusugan. Kasama rito ang mga paggamot kung saan ang inirerekomendang application, sa isang konteksto sa kalusugan, ay malamang maging dahilan sa panganib ng malubhang pinsala o pagkamatay, at ang paggamot ay walang lehitimong paggamit sa kalusugan (halimbawa: bleach, disinfectant, black salve, caustic soda).

III. Panghihimasok sa Botante at/o Census

Sa pagsusumikap para i-promote ang integridad ng eleksyon at sensus, inaalis namin ang maling impormasyon na malamang na direktang maging dahilan sa panganib ng panghihimasok sa kakahayang lumahok ng mga tao sa mga prosesong ito. Kasama rito ang mga sumusunod:

Maling impormasyon tungkol sa mga petsa, lokasyon, oras, at mga pamamaraan para sa pagboto, pagpaparehistro ng botante, o paglahok sa sensus.

Maling impormasyon tungkol sa kung sino ang maaaring bumoto, mga kwalipikasyon para sa pagboto, bibilangin ba o hindi ang boto, at kung anong impormasyon o mga bagay ang dapat ibigay para bumoto.

Maling impormasyon tungkol sa kung tatakbo o hindi ang isang kandidato.

Maling impormasyon tungkol sa kung sino ang pwedeng lumahok sa sensus at kung anong impormasyon o mga materyal ang dapat ibigay para makalahok.

Maling impormasyon tungkol sa pagiging bahagi ng gobyerno sa sensus, kabilang ang kung saan naaangkop, at pagbabahagi ng impormasyon tungkol sa census ng isang indibidwal sa ibang (hindi kaugnay sa sensus) ahensiya ng gobyerno .

Mali o hindi na-verify na mga claim na ang U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ay nasa lugar na maaaring bumoto.

Malinaw na mga maling pahayag na magkakaroon ng COVID-19 (o ng ibang nakakahawang sakit) ang mga tao kung lalahok sila sa proseso ng pagboto.

Mga maling na pahayag tungkol sa mga kasalukuyang kondisyon sa lugar na maaaring bumoto na gagawing imposibleng makaboto, na na-verify ng election authority.

Mayroon kaming kadaragdang patakaran na nilalayon na i-cover ang mga panawagan para sa karahasan, ang promotion ng ilegal na paglahok, at mga panawagan para sa planadong panghihimasok sa mga eleksyon, na ipinapakita sa iba pang mga seksyon ng aming Mga Pamantayan ng Komunidad.

Para sa sumusunod na content, kasama ang informative label:

Minamanipulang Media

Mae-edit sa maraming paraan ang media. Sa maraming pangyayari, benign ang mga pagbabagong ito, tulad ng content na na-crop o pinaikli para sa artistic na dahilan o nagdagdag ng musika. Sa iba pang mga pangyayari, ang pagmamanipula ay hindi kapansin-pansin at maaari itong manlinlang.

Content na Ginawa o Binago sa Digital na Paraan na Maaaring Makalinlang. Para sa content na hindi lumalabag sa Mga Pamantayan ng Komunidad, maaaring maglagay kami ng informative label sa face ng content – o tanggihan ang content na sinubmit bilang advertisement – kapag ang content ay isang photorealistic image o video, o realistic sounding audio, na ginawa o binago sa digital na paraan at gumagawa ng partikular na mataas na risk ng materyal na nililinlang ang publiko sa isang bagay na mahalaga sa publiko.

Abr 7, 2025

Policy Rationale

Misinformation is different from other types of speech addressed in our Community Standards because there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited. With graphic violence or hateful conduct~~speech~~, for instance, our policies specify the content~~speech~~ we prohibit, and even persons who disagree with those policies can follow them. With misinformation, however, we cannot provide such a line. The world is changing constantly, and what is true one minute may not be true the next minute. People also have different levels of information about the world around them, and may believe something is true when it is not. A policy that simply prohibits “misinformation” would not provide useful notice to the people who use our services and would be unenforceable, as we don’t have perfect access to information.

Instead, our policies articulate different categories of misinformation and try to provide clear guidance about how we treat that speech when we see it. For each category, our approach reflects our attempt to balance our values of expression, safety, dignity, authenticity, and privacy.

We remove misinformation where it is likely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent physical harm. We also remove content that is likely to directly contribute to interference with the functioning of political processes. In determining what constitutes misinformation in these categories, we partner with independent experts who possess knowledge and expertise to assess the truth of the content and whether it is likely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent harm. This includes, for instance, partnering with human rights organizations with a presence on the ground in a country to determine the truth of a rumor about civil conflict.

For all other misinformation, we focus on reducing its prevalence or creating an environment that fosters a productive dialogue. We know that people often use misinformation in harmless ways, such as to exaggerate a point (“This team has the worst record in the history of the sport!”) or in humor or satire (“My husband just won Husband of the Year.”) They also may share their experience through stories that contain inaccuracies. In some cases, people share deeply-held personal opinions that others consider false or share information that they believe to be true but others consider incomplete or misleading.

Recognizing how common such speech is, we focus on providing~~slowing the spread of hoaxes and viral misinformation, and directing~~ users with helpful~~to authoritative~~ information when there is potentially misleading or confusing content. As part of that effort, outside of the United States we partner with third-party fact checking organizations in many parts of the world to review and rate the accuracy of the most viral content on our platforms (see here and here for our approach in the United States). Beginning in the United States, the Community Notes program lets people add more context to Facebook, Instagram and Threads posts that are potentially misleading or confusing (see here). We also provide resources to increase media and digital literacy so people can decide what to read, trust, and share themselves. We require people to disclose, using our AI-disclosure tool, whenever they post organic content with photorealistic video or realistic-sounding audio that was digitally created or altered, and we may apply penalties if they fail to do so. We may also add a label to certain digitally created or altered content that creates a particularly high risk of misleading people on a matter of public importance.

Finally, we prohibit content and behavior in other areas that often overlap with the spread of misinformation. For example, our Community Standards prohibit fake accounts, fraud, and coordinated inauthentic behavior.

As online and offline environments change and evolve, we will continue to evolve these policies. Accounts that repeatedly share the misinformation listed below may, in addition to having their content enforced on in accordance with this policy, receive decreased distribution, limitations on their ability to advertise, or be removed from our platforms. Additional information on what happens when Meta removes content can be found here.

Guidelines

Misinformation we remove:

We remove the following types of misinformation:

I. Physical Harm or Violence

We remove misinformation or unverifiable rumors that expert partners have determined are likely to directly contribute to a risk of imminent violence or physical harm to people. We define misinformation as content with a claim that is determined to be false by an authoritative third party. We define an unverifiable rumor as a claim whose source expert partners confirm is extremely hard or impossible to trace, for which authoritative sources are absent, where there is not enough specificity for the claim to be debunked, or where the claim is too incredulous or too irrational to be believed.

We know that sometimes misinformation that might appear benign could, in a specific context, contribute to a risk of offline harm, including threats of violence that could contribute to a heightened risk of death, serious injury, or other physical harm. We work with a global network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), not-for-profit organizations, humanitarian organizations, and international organizations that have expertise in these local dynamics.

In countries experiencing a heightened risk of societal violence, we work proactively with local partners to understand which false claims may directly contribute to a risk of imminent physical harm. We then work to identify and remove content making those claims on our platform. For example, in consultation with local experts, we may remove out-of-context media falsely claiming to depict acts of violence, victims or perpetrators of violence, weapons, or military hardware.

II. Harmful Health Misinformation

We consult with leading health organizations to identify health misinformation likely to directly contribute to imminent harm to public health and safety. The harmful health misinformation that we remove includes the following:

Misinformation about vaccines. We remove misinformation primarily about vaccines when public health authorities conclude that the information is false and likely to directly contribute to imminent vaccine refusals. They include:

Vaccines cause autism (Ex: “Increased vaccinations are why so many kids have autism these days.”)

Vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Ex: “Don’t you know vaccines cause SIDS?”

Vaccines cause the disease against which they are meant to protect, or cause the person receiving the vaccine to be more likely to get the disease (Ex: “Taking a vaccine actually makes you more likely to get the disease since there’s a strain of the disease inside. Beware!”)

Vaccines or their ingredients are deadly, toxic, poisonous, harmful, or dangerous (Ex: “Sure, you can take vaccines, if you don’t mind putting poison in your body.”)

Natural immunity is safer than vaccine-acquired immunity (Ex: “It’s safest to just get the disease rather than the vaccine.”)

It is dangerous to get several vaccines in a short period of time, even if that timing is medically recommended (Ex: “Never take more than one vaccine at the same time, that is dangerous - I don’t care what your doctor tells you!”)

Vaccines are not effective at preventing the disease against which they purport to protect. However, for the COVID-19, flu, and malaria vaccines, we do not remove claims that those vaccines are not effective in preventing someone from contracting those viruses. (Ex’s: Remove – “The polio vaccine doesn’t do anything to stop you from getting the disease”; Remove – “Vaccines actually don’t do anything to stop you from getting diseases”; Allow – “The vaccine doesn’t stop you from getting COVID-19, that’s why you still need to socially distance and wear a mask when you’re around others.”)

Acquiring measles cannot cause death (requires additional information and/or context) (Ex: “Don’t worry about whether you get measles, it can’t be fatal.”)

Vitamin C is as effective as vaccines in preventing diseases for which vaccines exist.

Promoting or advocating for harmful miracle cures for health issues. These include treatments where the recommended application, in a health context, is likely to directly contribute to the risk of serious injury or death, and the treatment has no legitimate health use (ex: bleach, disinfectant, black salve, caustic soda).

III. Voter or Census Interference

In an effort to promote election and census integrity, we remove misinformation that is likely to directly contribute to a risk of interference with people’s ability to participate in those processes. This includes the following:

Misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation.

Misinformation about who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information or materials must be provided in order to vote.

Misinformation about whether a candidate is running or not.

Misinformation about who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided in order to participate.

Misinformation about government involvement in the census, including, where applicable, that an individual's census information will be shared with another (non-census) government agency.

False or unverified claims that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is at a voting location.

Explicit false claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 (or another communicable disease) if they participate in the voting process.

False claims about current conditions at a U.S. voting location that would make it impossible to vote, as verified by an election authority.

We have additional policies intended to cover calls for violence, the promotion of illegal participation, and calls for coordinated interference in elections, which are represented in other sections of our Community Standards.

For the following content, we include an informative label:

Manipulated Media

Content Digitally Created or Altered that May Mislead. For content that does not otherwise violate the Community Standards, we may place an informative label on the face of content – or reject content submitted as an advertisement – when the content is a photorealistic image or video, or realistic sounding audio, that was digitally created or altered and creates a particularly high risk of materially deceiving the public on a matter of public importance.

Mar 13, 2025

Policy Rationale

Misinformation is different from other types of speech addressed in our Community Standards because there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited. With graphic violence or hate speech, for instance, our policies specify the speech we prohibit, and even persons who disagree with those policies can follow them. With misinformation, however, we cannot provide such a line. The world is changing constantly, and what is true one minute may not be true the next minute. People also have different levels of information about the world around them, and may believe something is true when it is not. A policy that simply prohibits “misinformation” would not provide useful notice to the people who use our services and would be unenforceable, as we don’t have perfect access to information.

Recognizing how common such speech is, we focus on slowing the spread of hoaxes and viral misinformation, and directing users to authoritative information. As part of that effort, outside of the United States we partner with third-party fact checking organizations in many parts of the world to review and rate the accuracy of the most viral content on our platforms (see here and here for our approach in the United States). Beginning in the United States, the Community Notes program lets people add more context to Facebook, Instagram and Threads posts that are potentially misleading or confusing (see here). We also provide resources to increase media and digital literacy so people can decide what to read, trust, and share themselves. We require people to disclose, using our AI-disclosure tool, whenever they post organic content with photorealistic video or realistic-sounding audio that was digitally created or altered, and we may apply penalties if they fail to do so. We may also add a label to certain digitally created or altered content that creates a particularly high risk of misleading people on a matter of public importance.

Guidelines

Misinformation we remove:

We remove the following types of misinformation:

I. Physical Harm or Violence

II. Harmful Health Misinformation

Vaccines cause autism (Ex: “Increased vaccinations are why so many kids have autism these days.”)

Vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Ex: “Don’t you know vaccines cause SIDS?”

Vaccines or their ingredients are deadly, toxic, poisonous, harmful, or dangerous (Ex: “Sure, you can take vaccines, if you don’t mind putting poison in your body.”)

Natural immunity is safer than vaccine-acquired immunity (Ex: “It’s safest to just get the disease rather than the vaccine.”)

Acquiring measles cannot cause death (requires additional information and/or context) (Ex: “Don’t worry about whether you get measles, it can’t be fatal.”)

Vitamin C is as effective as vaccines in preventing diseases for which vaccines exist.

III. Voter or Census Interference

Misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation.

Misinformation about who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information or materials must be provided in order to vote.

Misinformation about whether a candidate is running or not.

Misinformation about who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided in order to participate.

Misinformation about government involvement in the census, including, where applicable, that an individual's census information will be shared with another (non-census) government agency.

False or unverified claims that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is at a voting location.

Explicit false claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 (or another communicable disease) if they participate in the voting process.

False claims about current conditions at a U.S. voting location that would make it impossible to vote, as verified by an election authority.

For the following content, we include an informative label:

Manipulated Media

Ene 7, 2025

Policy Rationale

Misinformation is different from other types of speech addressed in our Community Standards because there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited. With graphic violence or hate speech, for instance, our policies specify the speech we prohibit, and even persons who disagree with those policies can follow them. With misinformation, however, we cannot provide such a line. The world is changing constantly, and what is true one minute may not be true the next minute. People also have different levels of information about the world around them, and may believe something is true when it is not. A policy that simply prohibits “misinformation” would not provide useful notice to the people who use our services and would be unenforceable, as we don’t have perfect access to information.

Recognizing how common such speech is, we focus on slowing the spread of hoaxes and viral misinformation, and directing users to authoritative information. As part of that effort, we partner with third-party fact checking organizations in many parts of the world to review and rate the accuracy of the most viral content on our platforms (see here~~to learn more about how our fact-checking program works)~~and here for our approach in the United States). We also provide resources to increase media and digital literacy so people can decide what to read, trust, and share themselves. We require people to disclose, using our AI-disclosure tool, whenever they post organic content with photorealistic video or realistic-sounding audio that was digitally created or altered, and we may apply penalties if they fail to do so. We may also add a label to certain digitally created or altered content that creates a particularly high risk of misleading people on a matter of public importance.

Guidelines

Misinformation we remove:

We remove the following types of misinformation:

I. Physical Harm or Violence

II. Harmful Health Misinformation

Vaccines cause autism (Ex: “Increased vaccinations are why so many kids have autism these days.”)

Vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Ex: “Don’t you know vaccines cause SIDS?”

Vaccines or their ingredients are deadly, toxic, poisonous, harmful, or dangerous (Ex: “Sure, you can take vaccines, if you don’t mind putting poison in your body.”)

Natural immunity is safer than vaccine-acquired immunity (Ex: “It’s safest to just get the disease rather than the vaccine.”)

Acquiring measles cannot cause death (requires additional information and/or context) (Ex: “Don’t worry about whether you get measles, it can’t be fatal.”)

Vitamin C is as effective as vaccines in preventing diseases for which vaccines exist.

III. Voter or Census Interference

Misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation.

Misinformation about who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information or materials must be provided in order to vote.

Misinformation about whether a candidate is running or not.

Misinformation about who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided in order to participate.

Misinformation about government involvement in the census, including, where applicable, that an individual's census information will be shared with another (non-census) government agency.

False or unverified claims that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is at a voting location.

Explicit false claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 (or another communicable disease) if they participate in the voting process.

False claims about current conditions at a U.S. voting location that would make it impossible to vote, as verified by an election authority.

For the following content, we include an informative label:

Manipulated Media

Hul 18, 2024

Policy Rationale

Misinformation is different from other types of speech addressed in our Community Standards because there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited. With graphic violence or hate speech, for instance, our policies specify the speech we prohibit, and even persons who disagree with those policies can follow them. With misinformation, however, we cannot provide such a line. The world is changing constantly, and what is true one minute may not be true the next minute. People also have different levels of information about the world around them, and may believe something is true when it is not. A policy that simply prohibits “misinformation” would not provide useful notice to the people who use our services and would be unenforceable, as we don’t have perfect access to information.

Recognizing how common such speech is, we focus on slowing the spread of hoaxes and viral misinformation, and directing users to authoritative information. As part of that effort, we partner with third-party fact checking organizations to review and rate the accuracy of the most viral content on our platforms (see here to learn more about how our fact-checking program works). We also provide resources to increase media and digital literacy so people can decide what to read, trust, and share themselves. We require people to disclose, using our AI-disclosure tool, whenever they post organic content with photorealistic video or realistic-sounding audio that was digitally created or altered, and we may apply penalties if they fail to do so. We may also add a label to certain digitally created or altered content that creates a particularly high risk of misleading people on a matter of public importance.

As online and offline environments change and evolve, we will continue to evolve these policies. ~~Pages, Groups, Profiles, and Instagram accounts~~Accounts that repeatedly share the misinformation listed below may, in addition to having their content ~~removed~~enforced on in accordance with this policy, receive decreased distribution, limitations on their ability to advertise, or be removed from our platforms. Additional information on what happens when ~~Facebook~~Meta removes content can be found here.

Guidelines

Misinformation we remove:

We remove the following types of misinformation:

I. Physical Harm or Violence

II. Harmful Health Misinformation

Vaccines cause autism (Ex: “Increased vaccinations are why so many kids have autism these days.”)

Vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Ex: “Don’t you know vaccines cause SIDS?”

Vaccines or their ingredients are deadly, toxic, poisonous, harmful, or dangerous (Ex: “Sure, you can take vaccines, if you don’t mind putting poison in your body.”)

Natural immunity is safer than vaccine-acquired immunity (Ex: “It’s safest to just get the disease rather than the vaccine.”)

Acquiring measles cannot cause death (requires additional information and/or context) (Ex: “Don’t worry about whether you get measles, it can’t be fatal.”)

Vitamin C is as effective as vaccines in preventing diseases for which vaccines exist.

III. Voter or Census Interference

Misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation.

Misinformation about who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information or materials must be provided in order to vote.

Misinformation about whether a candidate is running or not.

Misinformation about who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided in order to participate.

Misinformation about government involvement in the census, including, where applicable, that an individual's census information will be shared with another (non-census) government agency.

False or unverified claims that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is at a voting location.

Explicit false claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 (or another communicable disease) if they participate in the voting process.

False claims about current conditions at a U.S. voting location that would make it impossible to vote, as verified by an election authority.

~~IV. Manipulated Media~~

Media can be edited in a variety of ways. In many cases, these changes are benign, such as content being cropped or shortened for artistic reasons or music being added. In other cases, the manipulation is not apparent and could mislead, particularly in the case of video content. We remove this content because it can go viral quickly and experts advise that false beliefs regarding manipulated media often cannot be corrected through further discourse.

We remove videos under this policy if specific criteria are met: (1) the video has been edited or synthesized, beyond adjustments for clarity or quality, in ways that are not apparent to an average person, and would likely mislead an average person to believe a subject of the video said words that they did not say; and (2) the video is the product of artificial intelligence or machine learning, including deep learning techniques (e.g., a technical deepfake), that merges, combines, replaces, and/or superimposes content onto a video, creating a video that appears authentic.

For the following content, we include an informative label:

Manipulated Media

Hul 9, 2024

Policy Rationale

Misinformation is different from other types of speech addressed in our Community Standards because there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited. With graphic violence or hate speech, for instance, our policies specify the speech we prohibit, and even persons who disagree with those policies can follow them. With misinformation, however, we cannot provide such a line. The world is changing constantly, and what is true one minute may not be true the next minute. People also have different levels of information about the world around them, and may believe something is true when it is not. A policy that simply prohibits “misinformation” would not provide useful notice to the people who use our services and would be unenforceable, as we don’t have perfect access to information.

We remove misinformation where it is likely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent physical harm. We also remove content that is likely to directly contribute to interference with the functioning of political processes ~~and certain highly deceptive manipulated media~~. In determining what constitutes misinformation in these categories, we partner with independent experts who possess knowledge and expertise to assess the truth of the content and whether it is likely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent harm. This includes, for instance, partnering with human rights organizations with a presence on the ground in a country to determine the truth of a rumor about civil conflict, and partnering with health organizations during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Recognizing how common such speech is, we focus on slowing the spread of hoaxes and viral misinformation, and directing users to authoritative information. As part of that effort, we partner with third-party fact checking organizations to review and rate the accuracy of the most viral content on our platforms (see here to learn more about how our fact-checking program works). We also provide resources to increase media and digital literacy so people can decide what to read, trust, and share themselves. We require people to disclose, using our AI-disclosure tool, whenever they post organic content with photorealistic video or realistic-sounding audio that was digitally created or altered, and we may apply penalties if they fail to do so. We may also add a label to certain digitally created or altered content that creates a particularly high risk of misleading people on a matter of public importance.

As online and offline environments change and evolve, we will continue to evolve these policies. Pages, Groups, Profiles, and Instagram accounts that repeatedly share the misinformation listed below may, in addition to having their content removed, receive decreased distribution, limitations on their ability to advertise, or be removed from our platforms. Additional information on what happens when Facebook removes content can be found here.

Misinformation we remove:

We remove the following types of misinformation:

I. Physical Harm or Violence

II. Harmful Health Misinformation

Vaccines cause autism (Ex: “Increased vaccinations are why so many kids have autism these days.”)

Vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Ex: “Don’t you know vaccines cause SIDS?”

Vaccines or their ingredients are deadly, toxic, poisonous, harmful, or dangerous (Ex: “Sure, you can take vaccines, if you don’t mind putting poison in your body.”)

Natural immunity is safer than vaccine-acquired immunity (Ex: “It’s safest to just get the disease rather than the vaccine.”)

Acquiring measles cannot cause death (requires additional information and/or context) (Ex: “Don’t worry about whether you get measles, it can’t be fatal.”)

Vitamin C is as effective as vaccines in preventing diseases for which vaccines exist.

III. Voter or Census Interference

Misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation.

Misinformation about who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information or materials must be provided in order to vote.

Misinformation about whether a candidate is running or not.

Misinformation about who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided in order to participate.

Misinformation about government involvement in the census, including, where applicable, that an individual's census information will be shared with another (non-census) government agency.

False or unverified claims that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is at a voting location.

Explicit false claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 (or another communicable disease) if they participate in the voting process.

False claims about current conditions at a U.S. voting location that would make it impossible to vote, as verified by an election authority.

~~IV. Manipulated Media~~

For the following content, we include an informative label:

Manipulated Media

Hun 10, 2024

Policy Rationale

Misinformation is different from other types of speech addressed in our Community Standards because there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited. With graphic violence or hate speech, for instance, our policies specify the speech we prohibit, and even persons who disagree with those policies can follow them. With misinformation, however, we cannot provide such a line. The world is changing constantly, and what is true one minute may not be true the next minute. People also have different levels of information about the world around them, and may believe something is true when it is not. A policy that simply prohibits “misinformation” would not provide useful notice to the people who use our services and would be unenforceable, as we don’t have perfect access to information.

We remove misinformation where it is likely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent physical harm. We also remove content that is likely to directly contribute to interference with the functioning of political processes and certain highly deceptive manipulated media. In determining what constitutes misinformation in these categories, we partner with independent experts who possess knowledge and expertise to assess the truth of the content and whether it is likely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent harm. This includes, for instance, partnering with human rights organizations with a presence on the ground in a country to determine the truth of a rumor about civil conflict, and partnering with health organizations during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Recognizing how common such speech is, we focus on slowing the spread of hoaxes and viral misinformation, and directing users to authoritative information. As part of that effort, we partner with third-party fact checking organizations to review and rate the accuracy of the most viral content on our platforms (see here to learn more about how our fact-checking program works). We also provide resources to increase media and digital literacy so people can decide what to read, trust, and share themselves. We require people to disclose, using our AI-disclosure tool, whenever they post organic content with photorealistic video or realistic-sounding audio that was digitally created or altered, and we may apply penalties if they fail to do so.We may also add a label to certain digitally created or altered content that creates a particularly high risk of misleading people on a matter of public importance.

Misinformation we remove:

We remove the following types of misinformation:

I. Physical Harm or Violence

II. Harmful Health Misinformation

Vaccines cause autism (Ex: “Increased vaccinations are why so many kids have autism these days.”)

Vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Ex: “Don’t you know vaccines cause SIDS?”

Vaccines or their ingredients are deadly, toxic, poisonous, harmful, or dangerous (Ex: “Sure, you can take vaccines, if you don’t mind putting poison in your body.”)

Natural immunity is safer than vaccine-acquired immunity (Ex: “It’s safest to just get the disease rather than the vaccine.”)

Acquiring measles cannot cause death (requires additional information and/or context) (Ex: “Don’t worry about whether you get measles, it can’t be fatal.”)

Vitamin C is as effective as vaccines in preventing diseases for which vaccines exist.

III. Voter or Census Interference

Misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation.

Misinformation about who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information or materials must be provided in order to vote.

Misinformation about whether a candidate is running or not.

Misinformation about who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided in order to participate.

Misinformation about government involvement in the census, including, where applicable, that an individual's census information will be shared with another (non-census) government agency.

False or unverified claims that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is at a voting location.

Explicit false claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 (or another communicable disease) if they participate in the voting process.

False claims about current conditions at a U.S. voting location that would make it impossible to vote, as verified by an election authority.

IV. Manipulated Media

For the following content, we include an informative label:

Content Digitally Created or Altered that May Mislead

For content that does not otherwise violate the Community Standards, we may place an informative label on the face of content – or reject content submitted as an advertisement – when the content is a photorealistic image or video, or realistic sounding audio, that was digitally created or altered and creates a particularly high risk of materially deceiving the public on a matter of public importance.

May 20, 2024

Policy Rationale

Misinformation is different from other types of speech addressed in our Community Standards because there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited. With graphic violence or hate speech, for instance, our policies specify the speech we prohibit, and even persons who disagree with those policies can follow them. With misinformation, however, we cannot provide such a line. The world is changing constantly, and what is true one minute may not be true the next minute. People also have different levels of information about the world around them, and may believe something is true when it is not. A policy that simply prohibits “misinformation” would not provide useful notice to the people who use our services and would be unenforceable, as we don’t have perfect access to information.

We remove misinformation where it is likely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent physical harm. We also remove content that is likely to directly contribute to interference with the functioning of political processes and certain highly deceptive manipulated media. In determining what constitutes misinformation in these categories, we partner with independent experts who possess knowledge and expertise to assess the truth of the content and whether it is likely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent harm. This includes, for instance, partnering with human rights organizations with a presence on the ground in a country to determine the truth of a rumor about civil conflict, and partnering with health organizations during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Recognizing how common such speech is, we focus on slowing the spread of hoaxes and viral misinformation, and directing users to authoritative information. As part of that effort, we partner with third-party fact checking organizations to review and rate the accuracy of the most viral content on our platforms (see here to learn more about how our fact-checking program works). We also provide resources to increase media and digital literacy so people can decide what to read, trust, and share themselves. We require people to disclose, using our AI-disclosure tool, whenever they post organic content with photorealistic video or realistic-sounding audio that was digitally created or altered, and we may apply penalties if they fail to do so.We may also add a label to certain digitally created or altered content that creates a particularly high risk of misleading people on a matter of public importance.

Misinformation we remove:

We remove the following types of misinformation:

I. Physical Harm or Violence

II. Harmful Health Misinformation

Vaccines cause autism (Ex: “Increased vaccinations are why so many kids have autism these days.”)

Vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Ex: “Don’t you know vaccines cause SIDS?”

Vaccines or their ingredients are deadly, toxic, poisonous, harmful, or dangerous (Ex: “Sure, you can take vaccines, if you don’t mind putting poison in your body.”)

Natural immunity is safer than vaccine-acquired immunity (Ex: “It’s safest to just get the disease rather than the vaccine.”)

Acquiring measles cannot cause death (requires additional information and/or context) (Ex: “Don’t worry about whether you get measles, it can’t be fatal.”)

Vitamin C is as effective as vaccines in preventing diseases for which vaccines exist.

III. Voter or Census Interference

Misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation.

Misinformation about who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information or materials must be provided in order to vote.

Misinformation about whether a candidate is running or not.

Misinformation about who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided in order to participate.

Misinformation about government involvement in the census, including, where applicable, that an individual's census information will be shared with another (non-census) government agency.

False or unverified claims that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is at a voting location.

Explicit false claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 (or another communicable disease) if they participate in the voting process.

False claims about current conditions at a U.S. voting location that would make it impossible to vote, as verified by an election authority.

IV. Manipulated Media

For the following content, we include an informative label:

Content Digitally Created or Altered that May Mislead

Peb 6, 2024

Policy Rationale

Misinformation is different from other types of speech addressed in our Community Standards because there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited. With graphic violence or hate speech, for instance, our policies specify the speech we prohibit, and even persons who disagree with those policies can follow them. With misinformation, however, we cannot provide such a line. The world is changing constantly, and what is true one minute may not be true the next minute. People also have different levels of information about the world around them, and may believe something is true when it is not. A policy that simply prohibits “misinformation” would not provide useful notice to the people who use our services and would be unenforceable, as we don’t have perfect access to information.

We remove misinformation where it is likely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent physical harm. We also remove content that is likely to directly contribute to interference with the functioning of political processes and certain highly deceptive manipulated media. In determining what constitutes misinformation in these categories, we partner with independent experts who possess knowledge and expertise to assess the truth of the content and whether it is likely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent harm. This includes, for instance, partnering with human rights organizations with a presence on the ground in a country to determine the truth of a rumor about civil conflict, and partnering with health organizations during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Recognizing how common such speech is, we focus on slowing the spread of hoaxes and viral misinformation, and directing users to authoritative information. As part of that effort, we partner with third-party fact checking organizations to review and rate the accuracy of the most viral content on our platforms (see here to learn more about how our fact-checking program works). We also provide resources to increase media and digital literacy so people can decide what to read, trust, and share themselves. We may also add a label to certain digitally created or altered content that creates a particularly high risk of misleading people on a matter of public importance.

Misinformation we remove:

We remove the following types of misinformation:

I. Physical Harm or Violence

II. Harmful Health Misinformation

Vaccines cause autism (Ex: “Increased vaccinations are why so many kids have autism these days.”)

Vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Ex: “Don’t you know vaccines cause SIDS?”

Vaccines or their ingredients are deadly, toxic, poisonous, harmful, or dangerous (Ex: “Sure, you can take vaccines, if you don’t mind putting poison in your body.”)

Natural immunity is safer than vaccine-acquired immunity (Ex: “It’s safest to just get the disease rather than the vaccine.”)

Acquiring measles cannot cause death (requires additional information and/or context) (Ex: “Don’t worry about whether you get measles, it can’t be fatal.”)

Vitamin C is as effective as vaccines in preventing diseases for which vaccines exist.

III. Voter or Census Interference

Misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation.

Misinformation about who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information or materials must be provided in order to vote.

Misinformation about whether a candidate is running or not.

Misinformation about who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided in order to participate.

Misinformation about government involvement in the census, including, where applicable, that an individual's census information will be shared with another (non-census) government agency.

False or unverified claims that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is at a voting location.

Explicit false claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 (or another communicable disease) if they participate in the voting process.

False claims about current conditions at a U.S. voting location that would make it impossible to vote, as verified by an election authority.

IV. Manipulated Media

For the following content, we include an informative label:

Content Digitally Created or Altered that May Mislead

Dis 5, 2023

Policy Rationale

Misinformation is different from other types of speech addressed in our Community Standards because there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited. With graphic violence or hate speech, for instance, our policies specify the speech we prohibit, and even persons who disagree with those policies can follow them. With misinformation, however, we cannot provide such a line. The world is changing constantly, and what is true one minute may not be true the next minute. People also have different levels of information about the world around them, and may believe something is true when it is not. A policy that simply prohibits “misinformation” would not provide useful notice to the people who use our services and would be unenforceable, as we don’t have perfect access to information.

Recognizing how common such speech is, we focus on slowing the spread of hoaxes and viral misinformation, and directing users to authoritative information. As part of that effort, we partner with third-party fact checking organizations to review and rate the accuracy of the most viral content on our platforms (see here to learn more about how our fact-checking program works). We also provide resources to increase media and digital literacy so people can decide what to read, trust, and share themselves. We require people to disclose, using our AI-disclosure tool, whenever they post organic content with photorealistic video or realistic-sounding audio that was digitally created or altered, and we may apply penalties if they fail to do so. We may also add a label to certain digitally created or altered content that creates a particularly high risk of misleading people on a matter of public importance.

Misinformation we remove:

We remove the following types of misinformation:

I. Physical Harm or Violence

II. Harmful Health Misinformation

Vaccines cause autism (Ex: “Increased vaccinations are why so many kids have autism these days.”)

Vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Ex: “Don’t you know vaccines cause SIDS?”

Vaccines or their ingredients are deadly, toxic, poisonous, harmful, or dangerous (Ex: “Sure, you can take vaccines, if you don’t mind putting poison in your body.”)

Natural immunity is safer than vaccine-acquired immunity (Ex: “It’s safest to just get the disease rather than the vaccine.”)

Acquiring measles cannot cause death (requires additional information and/or context) (Ex: “Don’t worry about whether you get measles, it can’t be fatal.”)

Vitamin C is as effective as vaccines in preventing diseases for which vaccines exist.

III. Voter or Census Interference

Misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation.

Misinformation about who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information or materials must be provided in order to vote.

Misinformation about whether a candidate is running or not.

Misinformation about who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided in order to participate.

Misinformation about government involvement in the census, including, where applicable, that an individual's census information will be shared with another (non-census) government agency.

~~Content falsely claiming~~False or unverified claimsthat the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is at a voting location.

Explicit false claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 (or another communicable disease) if they participate in the voting process.

False claims about current conditions at a U.S. voting location that would make it impossible to vote, as verified by an election authority.

IV. Manipulated Media

Set 29, 2023

Policy Rationale

Misinformation is different from other types of speech addressed in our Community Standards because there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited. With graphic violence or hate speech, for instance, our policies specify the speech we prohibit, and even persons who disagree with those policies can follow them. With misinformation, however, we cannot provide such a line. The world is changing constantly, and what is true one minute may not be true the next minute. People also have different levels of information about the world around them, and may believe something is true when it is not. A policy that simply prohibits “misinformation” would not provide useful notice to the people who use our services and would be unenforceable, as we don’t have perfect access to information.

Recognizing how common such speech is, we focus on slowing the spread of hoaxes and viral misinformation, and directing users to authoritative information. As part of that effort, we partner with third-party fact checking organizations to review and rate the accuracy of the most viral content on our platforms (see here to learn more about how our fact-checking program works). We also provide resources to increase media and digital literacy so people can decide what to read, trust, and share themselves. We require people to disclose, using our AI-disclosure tool, whenever they post organic content with photorealistic video or realistic-sounding audio that was digitally created or altered, and we may apply penalties if they fail to do so. We may also add a label to certain digitally created or altered content that creates a particularly high risk of misleading people on a matter of public importance.

Misinformation we remove:

We remove the following types of misinformation:

I. Physical Harm or Violence

II. Harmful Health Misinformation

Vaccines cause autism (Ex: “Increased vaccinations are why so many kids have autism these days.”)

Vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Ex: “Don’t you know vaccines cause SIDS?”

Vaccines or their ingredients are deadly, toxic, poisonous, harmful, or dangerous (Ex: “Sure, you can take vaccines, if you don’t mind putting poison in your body.”)

Natural immunity is safer than vaccine-acquired immunity (Ex: “It’s safest to just get the disease rather than the vaccine.”)

Acquiring measles cannot cause death (requires additional information and/or context) (Ex: “Don’t worry about whether you get measles, it can’t be fatal.”)

Vitamin C is as effective as vaccines in preventing diseases for which vaccines exist.

III. Voter or Census Interference

Misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation.

Misinformation about who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information or materials must be provided in order to vote.

Misinformation about whether a candidate is running or not.

Misinformation about who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided in order to participate.

Misinformation about government involvement in the census, including, where applicable, that an individual's census information will be shared with another (non-census) government agency.

Content falsely claiming that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is at a voting location.

Explicit false claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 (or another communicable disease) if they participate in the voting process.

IV. Manipulated Media

To provide transparency that in countries experiencing a heightened risk of societal violence, we identify and remove content making harmful misinformation claims.

Hul 14, 2023

Policy Rationale

Misinformation is different from other types of speech addressed in our Community Standards because there is no way to articulate a comprehensive list of what is prohibited. With graphic violence or hate speech, for instance, our policies specify the speech we prohibit, and even persons who disagree with those policies can follow them. With misinformation, however, we cannot provide such a line. The world is changing constantly, and what is true one minute may not be true the next minute. People also have different levels of information about the world around them, and may believe something is true when it is not. A policy that simply prohibits “misinformation” would not provide useful notice to the people who use our services and would be unenforceable, as we don’t have perfect access to information.

Recognizing how common such speech is, we focus on slowing the spread of hoaxes and viral misinformation, and directing users to authoritative information. As part of that effort, we partner with third-party fact checking organizations to review and rate the accuracy of the most viral content on our platforms (see here to learn more about how our fact-checking program works). We also provide resources to increase media and digital literacy so people can decide what to read, trust, and share themselves. We require people to disclose, using our AI-disclosure tool, whenever they post organic content with photorealistic video or realistic-sounding audio that was digitally created or altered, and we may apply penalties if they fail to do so. We may also add a label to certain digitally created or altered content that creates a particularly high risk of misleading people on a matter of public importance.

Misinformation we remove:

We remove the following types of misinformation:

I. Physical Harm or Violence

II. Harmful Health Misinformation

Vaccines cause autism (Ex: “Increased vaccinations are why so many kids have autism these days.”)

Vaccines cause Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Ex: “Don’t you know vaccines cause SIDS?”

Vaccines or their ingredients are deadly, toxic, poisonous, harmful, or dangerous (Ex: “Sure, you can take vaccines, if you don’t mind putting poison in your body.”)

Natural immunity is safer than vaccine-acquired immunity (Ex: “It’s safest to just get the disease rather than the vaccine.”)

Acquiring measles cannot cause death (requires additional information and/or context) (Ex: “Don’t worry about whether you get measles, it can’t be fatal.”)

Vitamin C is as effective as vaccines in preventing diseases for which vaccines exist.

Misinformation about health during public health emergencies. We remove misinformation during public health emergencies when public health authorities conclude that the information is false and likely to directly contribute to the risk of imminent physical harm, including by contributing to the risk of individuals getting or spreading a harmful disease or refusing an associated vaccine. We identify public health emergencies in partnership with global and local health authorities. This currently includes certain false claims related to COVID-19 in countries still experiencing a publicly announced state of emergency regarding the virus.This currently includes false claims related to COVID-19 that are verified by expert health authorities, about the existence or severity of the virus, how to cure or prevent it, how the virus is transmitted or who is immune, and false claims which discourage good health practices related to COVID-19 (such as getting tested, social distancing, wearing a face mask, and getting a vaccine for COVID-19).Click here for a complete set of rules regarding what misinformation we do not allow regarding COVID-19 and vaccines.

III. Voter or Census Interference

Misinformation about the dates, locations, times, and methods for voting, voter registration, or census participation.

Misinformation about who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a vote will be counted, and what information or materials must be provided in order to vote.

Misinformation about whether a candidate is running or not.

Misinformation about who can participate in the census and what information or materials must be provided in order to participate.

Misinformation about government involvement in the census, including, where applicable, that an individual's census information will be shared with another (non-census) government agency.

Content falsely claiming that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is at a voting location.

Explicit false claims that people will be infected by COVID-19 (or another communicable disease) if they participate in the voting process.

IV. Manipulated Media

Mga experience ng user

Tingnan ang ilang halimbawa kung paano isinasagawa ang pagpapatupad para sa mga tao sa Facebook, tulad ng: kung paano mag-report ng isang bagay na sa tingin mo ay hindi dapat nasa Facebook, masabihan na nilabag mo ang aming Mga Pamantayan ng Komunidad at makakita ng warning screen sa partikular na content.

Tandaan: Palagi kaming nagsusumikap na mag-improve, kaya maaaring bahagyang luma ang nakikita mo rito na kumpara sa ginagamit namin sa kasalukuyan.

EXPERIENCE NG USER

Pagre-report

EXPERIENCE NG USER

Komunikasyon pagkatapos ng pagre-report

EXPERIENCE NG USER

Experience sa pagtanggal

EXPERIENCE NG USER

Mga warning screen

Pagpapatupad

Pare-pareho ang aming mga patakaran sa buong mundo, para sa lahat ng nasa Facebook.

Mga review team

Nagtatrabaho araw-araw ang aming global team na may mahigit sa 15,000 reviewer para panatilihing ligtas ang mga tao sa Facebook.

Pakikibahagi ng stakeholder

Nakakatulong ang mga panlabas na eksperto, academic, NGO, at gumagawa ng patakaran na ipagbigay-alam ang Mga Pamantayan ng Komunidad ng Facebook.

Humingi ng tulong tungkol sa maling impormasyon

Alamin kung ano ang magagawa mo kung makakita ka ng anumang bagay sa Facebook na lumalabag sa aming Mga Pamantayan ng Komunidad.

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