Coordinating Harm & Promoting Crime

To safeguard our community and prevent real-world harm, our policy strictly prohibits the facilitation, organization, promotion, or admission of criminal or harmful activities directed at individuals, businesses, property, or animals. This stance is rooted in our commitment to disrupting potential offline harm and deterring copycat behavior, ensuring our platform does not serve as a conduit for criminal actions or coordination of harmful activities. While we recognize the importance of open dialogue and the value of advocating for changes in the legality of certain activities, our policies draw a clear line at content that actively advocates for or coordinates harm. We support the right of our users to highlight and discuss their experiences or observations of harmful or criminal activities, provided such discussions do not cross into the realm of promoting or facilitating harm. Our goal is to maintain a safe and responsible environment where constructive discourse can flourish without endorsing or contributing to harmful conduct.

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Our policy aims to prevent and mitigate harm across our platform, ensuring a safe environment for all users. This encompasses a comprehensive approach to addressing potential harm against people, animals, and property, as well as safeguarding the integrity of civic processes like voting and census participation. Below we detail our stance in these critical areas:

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Harm against people

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• Outing: exposing the identity or locations affiliated with anyone who is alleged to:

• Be a member of an outing-risk group; and/or

• Share familial and/or romantic relationships with a member(s) of an outing-risk group; and/or

• Have performed professional activities in support of an outing-risk group (except for political figures)

• Outing the undercover status of law enforcement, military, or security personnel if the content contains the agent’s name, their face or badge and any of the following:

• The agent’s law enforcement organization

• The agent’s law enforcement operation

• Explicit mentions of their undercover status

• Coordinating, threatening, supporting, or admitting to swatting except in the context of awareness raising or condemnation, fictional or staged settings or redemption.

• Depicting, promoting, advocating for or encouraging participation in a high-risk viral challenge except in the context of awareness raising or condemnation. Where imagery is depicted in these contexts, we include a label so that people are aware that the content may be sensitive.

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Harm against animals

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• Coordinating, threatening, supporting or admitting to acts of physical harm against animals (in written, visual or verbal form) except in cases of:

• Awareness-raising or condemnation

• Redemption

• Survival or defense of self, another human or another animal

• Fictional or staged settings EXCEPT where it depicts staged animal fights or fake animal rescues

• Hunting or fishing

• Religious sacrifice

• Food preparation or processing

• Pests or vermin

• Mercy killing

• Bullfighting

• Coordinating, threatening, supporting, depicting or admitting to staged animal fights or depicting video imagery of fake animal rescues except in the context of awareness raising or condemnation or redemption.

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Harm against property

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• Coordinating, threatening, supporting or admitting to vandalism, theft or malicious hacking (in written, visual or verbal form) , except in the context of

• Awareness raising or condemnation,

• Redemption,

• Fictional or staged settings,

• Admitting in the context of defense of self, or another human

• depicting vandalism in protest context,

• depicting graffiti, or

• speaking positively about vandalism and theft committed by others.

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Voter and/or census fraud

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• Offers to buy or sell votes with cash, gifts, services or other material goods, except if shared in condemning, awareness raising, news reporting, or humorous or satirical contexts.

• Advocating, providing instructions for, or demonstrating explicit intent to illegally participate in a voting or census process, except if shared in condemning, awareness raising, news reporting, or humorous or satirical contexts.

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

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• Imagery depicting a high-risk viral challenge if shared condemning or raising awareness of the associated risks.

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

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We Remove:

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• Outing: exposing the identity of a person and putting them at risk of harm:

o Non-convicted individuals as predators in the context of a sexual predator Sting Operation

o Individuals involved in legal cases when their involvement is restricted from public disclosure

o Witnesses, informants, activists, detained persons, or hostages

o Defectors, when reported by credible government channel

o Prisoners of war, in the context of an armed conflict

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• Imagery that is likely to deceive the public as to its origin if:

o The entity depicted or an authorized representative objects to the imagery, and

o The imagery has the potential to cause harm to members of the public.

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• Statement of intent, call to action, or encouragement to either:

o Block access to essential services when there is confirmation or publicly available confirmation that emergency vehicles are blocked, OR

o Target an individual or specific group of people by blocking their access to essential services or unobstructed passage in a way that may threaten their safety

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• Voter or census interference, including:

o Calls for coordinated interference that would affect an individual’s ability to participate in an official election or census.

o Claims that voting or census participation may or will result in law enforcement consequences (for example, arrest, deportation, or imprisonment).

o Threats to go to an election site to monitor or watch voters or election officials’ activities if combined with a reference to intimidation (e.g., “Let’s show them who's boss!,”, “They want a war? We’ll give them a war.”).

o Threats to go to a post-election activity site if combined with a reference to intimidation (e.g., “Let’s show them who's boss!,”, “They want a war? We’ll give them a war.”).