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There are certain ideologies and beliefs that are inherently tied to violence and attempts to organize people around calls for violence or exclusion of directed towards others based on their protected characteristics. In these cases, we designate the ideology itself and remove content that supports this ideology from our platform. Note that currently our definition of this category is fairly narrow. We are careful to balance the needs with free speech with the protection of our users.

These ideologies include:

  • Nazism or any form or Racial Supremacy, Nationalism or 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 may remove individuals and organizations that ascribe to one or more of these hateful ideologies.

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  • 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 more casualties involving stranger-to-stranger violence in different locations with a significant time lapse between them, committed by the same assailant

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