Facebook Community Standards
Policies that outline what is and isn't allowed on the Facebook app.
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Community Standards Enforcement Report
Quarterly report on how well we're doing at enforcing our policies on the Facebook app and Instagram.
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Policy details
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Policy Rationale
Do not:
Attempt to compromise user accounts, profiles, or other Facebook entities, abuse our products or services, gather sensitive information through deceptive means, or attempt to engage in unauthorized access, including:
- Gaining access to accounts, profiles Facebook, Inc. entities, or user data other than your own through deceptive means or without explicit permission from the account, profile, or entity owner.
- Encouraging or deceiving users to download or run files or programs that will compromise a user’s online or data security, including through malicious software or websites. Such files and programs will be deemed malicious software or "malware" if they harm or gain unauthorized access to a computer, device, or network.
- Attempting to obtain, acquire or request another user’s login credentials, personal information or other sensitive data - whether explicitly or through deceptive means such as phishing (e.g. fake surveys designed to capture log-in info or links to fake login pages or impostor websites) or the use of malicious software or websites.
- Publicly sharing your own or others’ login information, either on platform or through a third party service.
- Creating, sharing or hosting malicious software including browser extensions and mobile applications, on or off the platform that put our users or products and services at risk.
- Providing online infrastructure, including web hosting services, domain name system servers and ad networks that enables abusive links such that a majority of those links on Facebook or Instagram violate the spam or cybersecurity sections of the Community Standards.
User experiencesSee some examples of what enforcement looks like for people on Facebook, such as: what it looks like to report something you don’t think should be on Facebook, to be told you’ve violated our Community Standards and to see a warning screen over certain content.
Note: We’re always improving, so what you see here may be slightly outdated compared to what we currently use.
Reporting
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Universal entry point
We have an option to report, whether it’s on a post, a comment, a story, a message or something else.
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Get started
We help people report things that they don’t think should be on our platform.
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Select a problem
We ask people to tell us more about what’s wrong. This helps us send the report to the right place.
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Report submitted
After these steps, we submit the report. We also lay out what people should expect next.
Post-report communication
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Update via notifications
After we’ve reviewed the report, we’ll send the reporting user a notification.
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More detail in the Support Inbox
We’ll share more details about our review decision in the Support Inbox. We’ll notify people that this information is there and send them a link to it.
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Appeal option
If people think we got the decision wrong, they can request another review.
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Post-appeal communication
We’ll send a final response after we’ve re-reviewed the content, again to the Support Inbox.
Takedown experience
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Immediate notification
When someone posts something that doesn't follow our rules, we’ll tell them.
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Additional context
We’ll also address common misperceptions and explain why we made the decision to enforce.
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Policy Explanation
We’ll give people easy-to-understand explanations about the relevant rule.
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Option for review
If people disagree with the decision, they can ask for another review and provide more information.
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Final decision
We set expectations about what will happen after the review has been submitted.
Enforcement
We have the same policies around the world, for everyone on Facebook.
Review teams
Our global team of over 15,000 reviewers work every day to keep people on Facebook safe.
Stakeholder engagement
Outside experts, academics, NGOs and policymakers help inform the Facebook Community Standards.
Get help with cybersecurityLearn what you can do if you see something on Facebook that goes against our Community Standards.
