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We do not allow content or activity that s*xually exploits or endangers children. When we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we report it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), in compliance with applicable law. We know that sometimes people share n**e images of their own children with good intentions; however, we generally remove these images because of the potential for abuse by others and to help avoid the possibility of other people reusing or misappropriating the images.
We also work with external experts, including the Meta Safety Advisory Board, to discuss and improve our policies and enforcement around online safety issues, especially with regard to children. Learn more about the technology we’re using to fight against child exploitation.
Do not post:
Child s*xual exploitation
Content, activity, or interactions that threaten, depict, praise, support, provide instructions for, make statements of intent, admit participation in, or share links of the s*xual exploitation of children (including real minors, toddlers, or babies, or non-real depictions with a human likeness, such as in art, AI-generated content, fictional characters, dolls, etc). This includes but is not limited to:
Sexual in*******se
Explicit s*xual in*******se or oral s*x, defined as mouth or ge****ls entering or in contact with another person's ge****ls or a**s, when at least one person's ge****ls or a**s is visible.
Implied s*xual in*******se or oral s*x, including when contact is imminent or not directly visible.
Stimulation of ge****ls or a**s, including when activity is imminent or not directly visible.
Any of the above involving an animal.
Children with s*xual elements, including but not limited to:
Restraints
Signs of arousal
Focus on ge****ls or a**s
Presence of aroused adult
Presence of s*x toys or use of any object for s*xual stimulation, gratification, or s*xual abuse
Sexualized costume
Stripping
Staged environment (for example, on a bed) or professionally shot (quality/focus/angles)
Open-mouth kissing
Stimulation of human ni***es or squeezing of female breast (EXCEPT in the context of breastfeeding)
Presence of by-products of s*xual activity
Content involving children in a s*xual fe**sh context
Content that supports, promotes, advocates or encourages participation in pe******ia unless it is discussed neutrally in a health context
Content that identifies or mocks alleged victims of child s*xual exploitation by name or image
Solicitation
Content that solicits s*xual content or activity depicting or involving children, defined as:
Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)
N**e imagery of real or non-real children
Sexualized imagery of real or non-real children
Content that solicits s*xual encounters with children
Inappropriate interactions with children
Content that constitutes or facilitates inappropriate interactions with children, such as:
Arranging or planning real-world s*xual encounters with children
Purposefully exposing children to s*xually explicit language or s*xual materialEnticing children to engage in s*xual activity through s*xualized conversations or offering, displaying, obtaining or requesting s*xual material to or from children, through purposeful exposure or in private messages
Engaging in implicitly s*xual conversations in private messages with children
Obtaining or requesting s*xual material from children in private messages
Exploitative intimate imagery and s*xtortion
Content that attempts to exploit real children by:
Coercing money, favors or intimate imagery with threats to expose real or non-real intimate imagery or information
Sharing, threatening, or stating an intent to share private s*xual conversations or real or non-real intimate imagery
Sexualization of children
Content (including photos, videos, real-world art, digital content, and verbal depictions) that s*xualizes real or non-real children
Groups, Pages, and profiles dedicated to s*xualizing real or non-real children
Child nudity
Content that depicts real or non-real child nudity where nudity is defined as:
Close-ups of real or non-real children’s genitalia
Real or non-real n**e toddlers, showing:
Visible genitalia, even when covered or obscured by transparent clothing
Visible a**s and/or fully n**e close-up of buttocks
Real or non-real n**e minors, showing:
Visible genitalia (including genitalia obscured only by p***c hair or transparent clothing)
Visible a**s and/or fully n**e close-up of buttocks
Uncovered female ni***es
No clothes from neck to knee - even if no genitalia or female ni***es are showing
Unless the non-real imagery is for health purposes or is a non-s*xual depiction of child nudity in real-word art
Non-s*xual child abuse
Videos or photos that depict real or non-real non-s*xual child abuse regardless of sharing intent, unless the imagery is from real-world art, cartoons, movies or video games
Content that praises, supports, promotes, advocates for, provides instructions for or encourages participation in non-s*xual child abuse
In addition to removing accounts that violate our Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity (CSEAN) policies, our reviewers and automated systems consider a broad spectrum of signals to help prevent potentially unwanted or unsafe interactions.
We may restrict access to products and features (e.g., the ability to message certain other users)(e.g. the ability to follow certain accounts) for adults based on their interactions with other accounts, searches for or interactions with violating content, or membership in communities (e.g. Groups) we have removed for violating our policies.
For the following content, we include a warning screen so that people are aware the content may be disturbing and limit the ability to view the content to adults ages eighteen and older:
Videos or photos that depict police officers or military personnel committing non-s*xual child abuse
Videos or photos of non-s*xual 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
For the following content, we include a sensitivity screen so that people are aware the content may be upsetting to some:
Videos or photos of violent immersion of a child in water in the context of religious rituals
For the following Community Standards, we require additional information and/or context to enforce:
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 remove imagery depicting the aftermath of non-s*xual child abuse when reported by news media partners, NGOs, or other trusted safety partners.
We may remove content that identifies alleged victims of child s*xual exploitation through means other than name or image if content includes information that is likely to lead to the identification of the individual.
We may remove content created for the purpose of identifying a private minor if there is a risk to the minor’s safety, when requested by Law Enforcement, Government, Trusted Partner, or the content is self-reported by the minor or the minor’s parent/legal guardian
We have updated the examples in the Child Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Nudity (CSEAN) policies based on recent application.
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