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Language that speaks positively about an entity or event
E.g., “Those Al-Qaeda terrorists are very honorable!”
Provides Providing a sense of achievement
E.g., “Osama bin Laden is a martyr.”
Justifying or legitimizing hateful, violent, or criminal conduct
E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
Aligning oneself ideologically with an entity or event
E.g., “I stand with Elmer Rhodes.”
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Advocating for
defined as any of the following:
Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity - including financial contributionsAn action that financially benefits an entity in any way
E.g., “Donate to the Nazi party!”
Any act which An action that provides material aid support to a designated an entity or event;
E.g., “Send care packages to this address to show our support for Ghislaine Maxwell”
Putting out a A call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
E.g., “Contact the Wagner Group at this number to help the war effort! - (XXX) XXX-XXXX”
Recruiting or or on behalf of a designated entity or event;
E.g., “If you want to fight for the special operation, DM me”
Channeling Providing information or resources, including official communications, either directly, through a third party or on behalf of a designated entity or event
E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses , or is a part of a news reporting.story
Threaten
defined as any of the belowfollowing:
Any language Language that states an intention to take hostile action against someone, for any reason
E.g. “I’m going to beat you up.”
Where hostile action includes, but is not limited to:
sexual assault
physical violence - including killing, injuring, maiming or seriously hurting another person
kidnapping or human trafficking
coded statements where a method of hostile action is not clearly stated, but the threat is implied
Representation
defined as any of the belowfollowing:
Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;
E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKKan enforcer for El Chapo.”
Creating a PageCommunity, Chapter, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook Unpress entity that is or purports claims to be owned by a Designated Entity or prohibited entity or individual, is run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.represents a prohibited event
E.g., A Page community named “American Nazi Party.”
E.g., A profile dedicated to luring people into a dangerous organization
Doxing or Outing
expose Exposes 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
Non-public information regarding sexuality, gender, or gender identity
Private health care history or information
Private correspondence
Criminal history
Personal photos
Embarrassing private personal details
Brigading
When an orchestrated group of people flood target a story, a specific person or a persons comment in order to influence or damage its reputation. This can be through leaving disparaging comments, or attempting to influence the ratings and scoring of stories, perspectives, comments or user profiles.
Dangerous Organizations and Individuals
Dangerous Organizations and Individuals are not allowed to have a presence on Unpress, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these communities are actively engaged in spreading hate and violence. Praise, Advocacy for, and Substantive support of these entities is not allowed.
Terrorist organizations
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, Terrorists and Violent Non-State Actors
defined as a non-state actors actor that:
engages in, advocates for, represents, or lends substantial support to purposive and planned acts of violence,
causes or attempts to cause death, injury or serious harm to civilians, or any other person not taking direct part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, and/or significant damage to property or civil infrastructure linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
With the intent to coerce, intimidate coerces, intimidates and/or influence influences a civilian population, government, or international organizationIn order , or has the stated intention to do so, to achieve a political, religious, financial, or ideological aim.
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defined as an association of three or more people that:
is organized under a name, sign, or symbol; and
has an ideology, statements, or physical actions that attack individuals based on characteristics, including race, religious affiliation, national origin, disability, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, or serious disease.or, that causes or attempts to
cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or
deprive communities of access to vital infrastructure and natural resources, and/or bring significant damage to property, linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians
Criminal Organizations
defined as an association of three or more people that:
is united under a name, color(s), hand gesture(s) or recognized indicia; and
has engaged in or threatens to engage in criminal activity such as homicide, drug trafficking, or kidnapping, for any reason.
Mass Shootings, Multiple-Victim Violence and Multiple Murders
We consider an event to be multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence if it results in three or more casualties in one incident, defined as deaths or serious injuries. Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence.
We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer.
Hateful Ideologies
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Hate Organizations
defined as an association of three or more people that:
has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics such as race, religious affiliation, national origin, disability, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation or serious disease.
An organization does not need to have engaged in criminal conduct or have followed their speech with actual unlawful action to be labeled a hate organization.
Hateful Ideologies
There are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. These ideologies include:
Nazism
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Racial Supremacy
White, Nationalism
White Separatismor Separatism
Ideologies that drive terrorist groups, such as the ideology of the Islamic State, which we consider different and distinct from a particular established world religion.
We remove explicit Praise, Advocation, Substantive Support, and Representation of these ideologies, and remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.
Violent Non-State Actors
Organizations and individuals designated as Violent Non-state Actors are not allowed to have a presence on Unpress, or have a presence maintained by others on their behalf. As these communities are actively engaged in violence, substantive support of these entities is similarly not allowed. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by these entities.
Violent Non-State Actors are defined as any non-state actor that:
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engages in purposive and planned acts of violence primarily against a government military or other armed communities; and
that causes or attempts to
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cause death to persons taking direct part in hostilities in an armed conflict, and/or
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Mass Shootings, Multiple-Victim Violence and Multiple Murders
An event falls within this designation if any of the following are true
there are three or more casualties, defined as death or severe injury, within the same general area over a short period by a single individual
there are multiple casualties over a period of hours or days in different locations by a single impulsive assailant
three or casualties involving stranger-to-stranger violence in different locations with a significant time lapse between them, committed by the same assailant
Any Individual who has committed such an attack is considered to be a perpetrator or an attempted perpetrator of multiple-victim violence. We consider any individual who has committed two or more murders over multiple incidents or locations a multiple murderer.
Militarized Social Movements (MSMs)
include:
Militia Communities, defined as non-state actors that use weapons as a part of their training, communication, or presence; and are structured or operate as unofficial military or security forces and:
Coordinate in preparation for violence or civil war; orDistribute information about the tactical use of weapons for combat; or
Coordinate militarized tactical coordination efforts in a present or future armed civil conflict or civil war.
Communities supporting violent acts amid protests, defined as non-State actors that repeatedly :
Coordinatecoordinate, promote, admit to or engage in:
Acts of street violence against civilians or law enforcement; or
Arson, Looting, or other destruction of property; or
Threaten to violently disrupt an election process; or
Promote bringing weapons to a location when the stated intent is to intimidate people amid a protest.
Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks (VICNs)
defined as a Non-State Actor that:
Organizes under a name, sign, mission statement, or symbol; and
Promote theories that attribute violent or dehumanizing behavior to people or organizations that have been debunked by credible sources; and
Has inspired multiple incidents of real-world violence by adherents motivated by the desire to draw attention to or redress the supposed harms promoted by these debunked theories.
Hate-Banned Entities
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