Here's Facebook's once-secret list of content that can get you banned

Here's Facebook's once-secret list of content that can get you banned

6 years ago
Anonymous $CLwNLde341

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/24/facebook-content-that-gets-you-banned-according-to-community-standards.html

Facebook released its "Community Standards" on Tuesday, a list of official rules that outlines the types of posts that can get you banned from using Facebook. It also outlines the types of users it doesn't allow to post.

I dug through Facebook's guidelines to understand what's allowed and what isn't.

Anonymous
6yr

Summary:

Violence and Criminal Behavior

  • Terrorist activity

  • Organized hate

  • Mass or serial murder

  • Human trafficking

  • Organized violence or criminal activity.

  • Regulated goods.

Safety

  • Child nudity and sexual exploitation of children (such as nude images, even if they're posted with "good intentions.")

  • Images of sexual violence.

  • Bullying that "purposefully targets private individuals with the intention of degrading or shaming them."

  • Harassment.

  • Private information that could cause someone physical or financial harm.

Objectionable Content

  • Hate speech.

  • Graphic violence that "glorifies violence or celebrates the suffering or humiliation of others." It does allow graphic violence in cases that "raise awareness about issues," however, and in such cases Facebook places a warning about graphic content and requires the viewer to be over 18 years of age or older.

  • Adult nudity and sexual activity (it allows nudity if it's to raise awareness, for educational or medical reasons, however.) Pictures of art (paintings and sculptures that depict nudity) are allowed.

  • Content that's deemed "cruel and insensitive" including "content that targets victims of serious physical or emotional harm."

Integrity and Authenticity

  • Spam ("misleading or inaccurate information to collect likes, followers, or shares.")

  • Misrepresentation - You need to be a real, verifiable identity on Facebook.

"False news" - Facebook says it tries to reduce "false news" but that satire is allowed. " For these reasons, we don't remove false news from Facebook but instead, significantly reduce its distribution by showing it lower in the News Feed."

Content-Related Requests

  • Removal of an underage accounts (you need to be at least 13 years old to use Facebook).

  • "Government requests for removal of child abuse imagery depicting, for example, beating by an adult or strangling or suffocating by an adult."

  • "Legal guardian requests for removal of attacks on unintentionally famous minors."