Community Guidelines
Account Integrity Policy Details
We may restrict or disable accounts, other entities (Pages, groups, events) or business assets (Business Managers, ad accounts) that:
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Violate our Community Standards involving egregious harms, including those we refer to law enforcement due to the risk of imminent harm to individual or public safety
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Violate our Community Standards involving any harms that warrant referral to law enforcement due to the risk of imminent harm to individual of public safety
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Violate our Advertising Standards involving deceptive or dangerous business harms
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Persistently violate our Community Standards by posting violating content and/or managing violating entities or business assets
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Persistently violates our Advertising Standards
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Activity or behavior indicative of a clear violating purpose
We may restrict or disable accounts, other entities (Pages, groups, events) or business assets (Business Managers, ad accounts) that are:
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Owned by the same person or entity as an account that has been disabled
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Created or repurposed to evade a previous account or entity removal, including those assessed to have common ownership and content as previously removed accounts or entities
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Created to contact a user that has blocked an account
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Otherwise used to evade our enforcement actions or review processes
We may restrict or disable accounts, other entities (Pages, groups, events) or business assets (Business Managers, ad accounts) that demonstrate:
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Close linkage with a network of accounts or other entities that violate or evade our policies
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Coordination within a network of accounts or other entities that persistently or egregiously violate our policies
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Activity or behavior indicative of a clear violating purpose through a network of accounts
We will work to restrict or disable accounts or other entities (Pages, groups, events), or business assets (Business Managers, ad accounts) that engage in off-platform activity that can lead to harm on our platform, including those:
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Owned by a convicted sex offender, convicted of offences related to the sexual abuse of children or adults
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Owned by a Designated Entity or run on their behalf
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Prohibited from receiving our products, services or software under applicable laws
In the following scenarios, we may request additional information about an account to ascertain ownership and/or permissible activity:
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Compromised accounts
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Creating or using an account or other entity through automated means, such as scripting (unless the scripting activity occurs through authorized routes and does not otherwise violate our policies)
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Empty accounts with prolonged dormancy