Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity

Child sexual exploitation

Content or activity that threatens, depicts, praises, supports, provides instructions for, makes statements of intent, admits participation in or shares links of the sexual exploitation of children (real or non-real minors, toddlers or babies), including but not limited to:

• Sexual intercourse
  • Explicit sexual intercourse or oral sex, defined as mouth or genitals entering or in contact with another person's genitals or anus, where at least one person's genitals are nude.
  • Implied sexual intercourse or oral sex, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
  • Stimulation of genitals or anus, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
  • Presence of by-products of sexual activity.
  • Any of the above involving an animal.
• Children with sexual elements, including but not limited to:
  • Restraints.
  • Focus on genitals.
  • Presence of aroused adult.
  • Presence of sex toys.
  • Sexualised costume.
  • Stripping.
  • Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles).
  • Open-mouth kissing.
• Content of children in a sexual fetish context.
• Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pedophilia unless it is discussed neutrally in an academic or verified health context.
• Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child sexual exploitation by name or image.

Solicitation

Content that solicits

• Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
• Nude imagery of children
• Sexualized imagery of children
• Real-world sexual encounters with children

Inappropriate interactions with children

Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:

• Arranging or planning real-world sexual encounters with children
• Purposefully exposing children to sexually explicit language or sexual material
• Engaging in implicitly sexual conversations in private messages with children
• Obtaining or requesting sexual material from children in private messages

Exploitative intimate imagery and sextortion

Content that attempts to exploit minors by:

• Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose intimate imagery or information.
• Sharing, threatening or stating an intent to share private sexual conversations or intimate imagery.

Sexualization of children

• Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that sexualizes children.
• Groups, Pages and profiles dedicated to sexualizing children.

Child nudity

Content that depicts child nudity where nudity is defined as:

• Close-ups of children’s genitalia
• Real nude toddlers, showing:
  • Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing.
  • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
• Real nude minors, showing:
  • Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by pubic hair or transparent clothing)
  • Visible anus and/or fully nude close-up of buttocks.
  • Uncovered female nipples.
  • No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female nipples are showing.
• Digitally-created depictions of nude minors, toddlers or babies unless the image is for health or educational purposes.

Non-sexual child abuse

Imagery that depicts non-sexual child abuse regardless of sharing intent

Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-sexual child abuse.

• Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-sexual child abuse.
• Imagery of non-sexual child abuse, when law enforcement, child protection agencies, or trusted safety partners request that we leave the content on the platform for the express purpose of bringing a child back to safety.

• Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals.

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

• Imagery posted by a news agency that depicts child nudity in the context of famine, genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity, unless accompanied by a violating caption or shared in a violating context, in which case the content is removed.

We may also remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-sexual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs or other trusted safety partners.