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Community Guidelines

Coordinating Harm and Promoting Crime Policy Details

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We Remove:

Harm against people

 

  • Outing: exposing 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)

  • Outing the undercover status of law enforcement, military, or security personnel if the content contains the agent’s name, their face or badge and any of the following:

  • The agent’s law enforcement organization

  • The agent’s law enforcement operation

  • Explicit mentions of their undercover status

  • Coordinating, threatening, supporting, or admitting to swatting except in the context of awareness raising or condemnation, fictional or staged settings or redemption.

  • Depicting, promoting, advocating for or encouraging participation in a high-risk viral challenge except in the context of awareness raising or condemnation. Where imagery is depicted in these contexts, we include a label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive.

 

Harm against animals

 

  • Coordinating, threatening, supporting or admitting to acts of physical harm against animals (in written, visual or verbal form) except in cases of:

  • Awareness-raising or condemnation

  • Redemption

  • Survival or defense of self, another human or another animal

  • Fictional or staged settings EXCEPT where it depicts staged animal fights or fake animal rescues

  • Hunting or fishing

  • Religious sacrifice

  • Food preparation or processing

  • Pests or vermin

  • Mercy killing

  • Bullfighting

  • Coordinating, threatening, supporting, depicting or admitting to staged animal fights or depicting video imagery of fake animal rescues except in the context of awareness raising or condemnation or redemption.

 

 

Harm against property

 

  • Coordinating, threatening, supporting or admitting to vandalism, theft or malicious hacking (in written, visual or verbal form) , except in the context of

  • Awareness raising or condemnation,

  • Redemption,

  • Fictional or staged settings,

  • Admitting in the context of defense of self, or another human

  • depicting vandalism in protest context,

  • depicting graffiti, or

  • speaking positively about vandalism and theft committed by others.

 

Voter and/or census fraud

 

  • Offers to buy or sell votes with cash, gifts, services or other material goods, except if shared in condemning, awareness raising, news reporting, or humorous or satirical contexts.

  • Advocating, providing instructions for, or demonstrating explicit intent to illegally participate in a voting or census process, except if shared in condemning, awareness raising, news reporting, or humorous or satirical contexts.

 

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 condemning or raising awareness of the associated risks.

For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:

We Remove:

  • Outing: exposing the identity of a person and putting them at risk of harm:

  • LGBTQIA+ members

  • Unveiled women

  • Non-convicted individuals as predators in the context of a sexual predator Sting Operation

  • Individuals involved in legal cases, when their involvement is restricted from public disclosure

  • Witnesses, informants , activists, detained persons or hostages

  • Defectors, when reported by credible government channel

  • Prisoners of war, in the context of an armed conflict

  • Imagery that is likely to deceive the public as to its origin if:

  • The entity depicted or an authorized representative objects to the imagery, and

  • The imagery has the potential to cause harm to members of the public.

  • Statement of intent, call to action, or encouragement to either:

  • Block access to essential services when there is confirmation or publicly available confirmation that emergency vehicles are blocked, OR

  • Target an individual or specific group of people by blocking their access to essential services or unobstructed passage in a way that may threaten their safety

  • Voter or census interference, including:

  • Calls for coordinated interference that would affect an individual’s ability to participate in an official election or census.

  • Claims that voting or census participation may or will result in law enforcement consequences (for example, arrest, deportation or imprisonment).

  • Threats to go to an election site to monitor or watch voters or election officials’ activities if combined with a reference to intimidation (e.g., “Let’s show them who's boss!,”, “They want a war? We’ll give them a war.”).

  • Threats to go to a post-election activity site if combined with a reference to intimidation (e.g., “Let’s show them who's boss!,”, “They want a war? We’ll give them a war.”).

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