Overview

In an effort to prevent and disrupt offline harm and copycat behavior, we prohibit people from facilitating, organizing, promoting or admitting to certain criminal or harmful activities targeted at people, businesses, property or animals. We allow people to debate and advocate for the legality of criminal and harmful activities, as well as draw attention to harmful or criminal activity that they may witness or experience as long as they do not advocate for or coordinate harm.

What happens if you violate these standards?

Content will be removed, platform functionality may be restricted and for egregious violations, accounts may be banned. For more information see our page: Enforcement Approach

What is in violation of these standards?

Do not post content that falls into the following categories:

Harm against people

• Outing:

• Content that exposes the identity or locations affiliated with anyone who is alleged to:

• Be a member of an outing-risk group; and/or

• Share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member(s) of an outing-risk group; and/or

• Have performed professional activities in support of an outing-risk group (except for political figures)

• Content that exposes the undercover status of law enforcement, military, or security personnel if:

• The content contains the agent’s full name or other explicit identification and explicitly mentions their undercover status.

• The imagery identifies the faces of the law enforcement personnel and explicitly mentions their undercover status.

• Swatting, specifically statements of intent, calls to action, representing, supporting, advocating for, depicting, admitting to or speaking positively about it.

• Depicting, promoting, advocating for or encouraging participation in a high-risk viral challenge.

Harm against animals

Statements of intent, calls to action, representing, supporting or advocating for, or depicting, admitting to or promoting:

• Acts of physical harm against animals committed by you or your associates except in cases of hunting, fishing, religious sacrifice, food preparation or processing, pest or vermin, self-defense or redemption.

• Staged animal vs. animal fights, including acts committed by a third party.

Harm against property

Statements of intent, calls to action, representing, supporting or advocating for harm against property that depicts, admits to, or promotes the following acts committed by you or your associates:

• Vandalism.

• Hacking when the intent is to hijack a domain, corrupt or disrupt cyber systems, seek ransoms or gain unauthorized access to data systems.

• Theft when committed by you or your associates, as well as positive statements about theft when committed by a third party.

Voter and/or census fraud

• Offers to buy or sell votes with cash or gifts

• Statements that advocate, provide instructions, or show explicit intent to illegally participate in a voting or census process

For the following content, we include a label so that people are aware the content may be sensitive:

• Imagery depicting a high-risk viral challenge if shared with a caption that condemns or raises awareness of the associated risks.

What is not in violation of these standards?