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Suicide, Self-Injury, and Eating Disorders Policy Details

 

Do not post:

Content that promotes, encourages, coordinates, or provides instructions for suicide, self-injury, or eating disorders.

• Content that depicts graphic suicide, self-injury, and eating disorder imagery

• Content depicting a person who engaged in a suicide attempt or death by suicide

• Content that focuses on depiction of ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders

• Content that contains instructions for drastic and unhealthy weight loss when shared together with terms associated with eating disorders

• Content that mocks victims or survivors of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders who are either publicly known or implied to have experienced suicide or self-injury

• Imagery depicting body modification (e.g., tattoo, piercing, scarification, self-flagellation, etc.) when shared in a suicide or self-injury context

For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be sensitive. We also limit the ability to view the content to adults, ages 18 and older:

• Photos or videos depicting a person who engaged in euthanasia/assisted suicide in a medical setting.

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

• Content that depicts older instances of self-harm such as healed cuts or other non-graphic self-injury imagery in a self-injury, suicide or recovery context.

• Content that depicts ribs, collar bones, thigh gaps, hips, concave stomach, or protruding spine or scapula in a recovery context.

We provide resources to people who post written or verbal admissions of engagement in self injury, including:

• Suicide.

• Euthanasia/assisted suicide.

• Self-harm.

• Eating disorders.

• Vague, potentially suicidal statements or references (including memes or stock imagery about sad mood or depression) in a suicide or self-injury context.

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

 

• We may remove suicide notes when we have confirmation of a suicide or suicide attempt. We try to identify suicide notes using several factors, including but not limited to:

  • Family or legal representative requests,

  • Reports from media, law enforcement, or other third party sources (e.g. government agencies, NGOs), or the Suicidal Content Contact Form or Instagram Contact Form.