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Violent threats, defined as statements with an intent to kill, injure, or kidnap a specific person or group of people are not permitted. IncitementWe define incitement, defined as statements or actions that glorify or encourage others to produce a credible violent threat, as defined above, are also not permitted.

Intent is exemplified by declarations of the form “I will”, “I’m going to”, or “I plan to.” Conditional statements such as “If you do <something>, I will…” also fall under intent. Incitement is similar, with declarations of the form “You should,” “we need to,” “someone needs to,” or “if they do <something>, you should“I’m glad this happened” or “I wish more people did things like this.” Other statements of intent may be pictoral pictorial in nature, such as a symbol representing a target displayed with an instrument of violence, such as a firearm.

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• encouraging self harm;

• threats to kill, injure, maim or seriously hurt a person or a group of people, and/or commit an act that could lead to death or serious injury, even when a target of the violence is not clearly identified;

• threats of sexual assault;

• asking for or offering services for hire to inflict violence on a specific person or group of people. For example, assassins, mercenaries or hitmen;

• threats to kidnap or abduct or that promotes, supports or advocates for kidnapping or abduction;

• content that depicts violence, kidnappings or abductions if it is clear the content is not being shared for journalistic, informational or awareness raising purposes;

• directly advocating for violence due to voting, voter registration or the administration or outcome of an election

• Coded statements where the method of violence or harm is not clearly articulated, but the threat is veiled or implicit. We look at the subtext to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content.

• Glorifying, praising, condoning or celebrating:

  • violent acts committed by civilians that resulted in the deaths or serious physical injury of others, such as mass shooting and murders

  • violent events against protected groups, (those based on protected characteristics such as race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability, etc.)

• Doxing, demonstrated intent to dox, threats to dox, or expose private personal information about a person or group of persons without their consent. Private personal information includes, but is not limited to:

  • Home address(es)

  • Workplace details

  • Personal phone numbers

  • Social security numbers

  • Financial information such as bank accounts or credit cards

  • Private correspondence

  • Criminal history

  • Private health care history or information

  • Personal photos

  • Embarrassing personal details

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• Statements of intent to commit terrorist acts, or

• Calls for terrorist acts, or

• Statements advocating for terrorist acts, or

• Aspirational or conditional statements to commit terrorist acts

• Statements of intent or advocacy, 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)

• Glorification, praise, condoning or celebration of terrorist acts carried out by terrorist organizations or violent extremist groups.

What is not in violation of these standards?

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