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Community Guidelines

Hateful Conduct Policy Details

Do not post:

Tier 1

Content targeting a person or group of people (except groups described as having carried out violent or sexual crimes or representing less than half of a group) on the basis of their aforementioned protected characteristic(s) or immigration status in written or visual form with:

Dehumanizing speech in the form of comparisons to or generalizations about animals, pathogens, or other sub-human life forms, including:

Insects (including but not limited to: cockroaches, locusts)
Animals in general or specific types of animals that are culturally perceived as inferior (including but not limited to: Black people and apes or ape-like creatures; Jewish people and rats; Muslim people and pigs; Mexican people and worms)
Bacteria, viruses, or microbes
Subhumanity (including but not limited to: savages, devils, monsters)

Allegations of serious immorality and criminality:

Sexual predators and pedophiles (including but not limited to: Muslim people having sex with goats or pigs)
Violent criminals (including but not limited to: terrorists, murderers)

Calls and hopes for the following harms (serious or specific threats and calls for violence are addressed under our Violence and Incitement policy):

Contracting a disease
Experiencing a natural disaster
Self-injury or suicide
Death without a perpetrator or method
Accidents and other physical harms caused either by no perpetrator or by a deity

Harmful stereotypes historically linked to intimidation or violence, such as Blackface; Holocaust denial; claims that Jewish people control financial, political, or media institutions; references to Dalits as menial laborers; and comparing Black people to farm equipment.
Mocking the concept, events or victims of hate crimes even if no real person is depicted in an image.
Mocking people for having or experiencing a disease.
Content that describes or negatively targets people with slurs. Slurs are defined as words that inherently create an atmosphere of exclusion and intimidation against people on the basis of a protected characteristic, often because these words are tied to historical discrimination, oppression, and violence.

Tier 2

Content targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) (in written or visual form) with:

Calls or support for exclusion or segregation or statements of intent to exclude or segregate, defined as:

General exclusion, which means calling for general exclusion or segregation, such as “No X allowed!”
Political exclusion, which means denying the right to political participation or arguing for incarceration or denial of political rights.
Economic exclusion, which means denying access to economic entitlements and limiting participation in the labor market. We do allow content arguing for gender-based limitations of military, law enforcement, and teaching jobs. We also allow the same content based on sexual orientation, when the content is based on religious beliefs.
Social exclusion, which means things like denying access to spaces (physical and online) and social services, except for sex or gender-based exclusion from spaces commonly limited by sex or gender, such as restrooms, sports and sports leagues, health and support groups, and specific schools.

Insults, including those about:

Character, including but not limited to allegations of cowardice, dishonesty, basic criminality, and sexual promiscuity or other sexual immorality.
Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity. We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”
Other areas, including but not limited to allegations of worthlessness, uselessness, ugliness, dirtiness.

Expressions that suggest the target causes sickness, including but not limited to “make me vomit.”
Targeted cursing, except certain gender-based cursing in a romantic break-up context, defined as:

Targeted use of “fuck” or variations of “fuck” with intent to insult, such as “Fuck the [Protected Characteristic]!”
Terms or phrases calling for engagement in sexual activity, or contact with genitalia, anus, feces or urine, including but not limited to: suck my dick, kiss my ass, eat shit.

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

Do not post:

Content explicitly providing or offering to provide products or services that aim to change people’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
Content attacking concepts, institutions, ideas, practices, or beliefs associated with protected characteristics, which are likely to contribute to imminent physical harm, intimidation or discrimination against the people associated with that protected characteristic. Meta looks at a range of signs to determine whether there is a threat of harm in the content. These include but are not limited to: content that could incite imminent violence or intimidation; whether there is a period of heightened tension such as an election or ongoing conflict; and whether there is a recent history of violence against the targeted protected group. In some cases, we may also consider whether the speaker is a public figure or occupies a position of authority.

In certain cases, we will allow content that may otherwise violate the Community Standards when it is determined that the content is satirical. Content will only be allowed if the violating elements of the content are being satirized or attributed to something or someone else in order to mock or criticize them.

Note: if you are a European Union user, and are seeing content that you believe violates hate speech laws within your country, you can submit a legal removal request to Facebook or Instagram.