Terms and Definitions

Praise

defined as any of the below:

• Language that speaks positively about a designated entity or event;

  • E.g., “The fighters for the Islamic State are really brave!”

• Giving a designated entity or event a sense of achievement;

  • E.g., “Timothy McVeigh is a martyr.”

• Legitimizing the cause of a designated entity by making claims that their hateful, violent, or criminal conduct is legally, morally, or otherwise justified or acceptable;

  • E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”

• Aligning oneself ideologically with a designated entity or event.

  • E.g., “I stand with Brenton Tarrant.”

Substantive Support, or Advocating for

defined as any of the below:

• Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity - including funnelling money towards, or away from a designated entity;

  • E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”

• Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;

  • E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”

• Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;

  • E.g., “Contact the Atomwaffen Division - (XXX) XXX-XXXX”

• Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;

  • E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”

• Channeling information or resources, including official communications, 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 news reporting.

Threaten

defined as any of the below:

• Any 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 below:

• Stating that you are a member of a designated entity, or are a designated entity;

  • E.g., “I am a grand dragon of the KKK.”

• Creating a Page, Profile, Event, Group, or other Facebook entity that is or purports to be owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf, or is or purports to be a designated event.

  • E.g., A Page named “American Nazi Party.”

Doxing or Outing

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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Dangerous Organizations and Individuals

Terrorist organizations and individuals

defined as a non-state actors that:

• engages in, advocates, 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 linked to death, serious injury or serious harm to civilians

• With the intent to coerce, intimidate and/or influence a civilian population, government, or international organization

• In order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.

Hate Organizations

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.

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.

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

• While our designations of organizations and individuals focus on behavior, we also recognize that 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

  • White Supremacy

  • White Nationalism

  • White Separatism

• We remove explicit Praise, 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:

• engages in purposive and planned acts of violence primarily against a government military or other armed communities; and

• 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

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; or

  • Distribute information about the tactical use of weapons for combat; or

  • Coordinate militarized tactical coordination in a present or future armed civil conflict or civil war.

• Communities supporting violent acts amid protests, defined as non-State actors that repeatedly:

  • Coordinate, 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

defined as entities that engage in repeated hateful conduct or rhetoric, but have not engaged in or explicitly advocated for violence, or because they lack sufficient connections to previously designated organizations or figures.