Tag: Facebook
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Facebook Has Streamlined its Community Guidelines Regarding the Inauthentic Behaviour
On 12 December 2025, Facebook updated its policy on inauthentic behaviour. Rather than using explicit language to prohibit specific cases, particularly those related to politics and elections, the policy now adopts a more content-agnostic framing. Subcategories of prohibited actions (e.g. distribution, audience building, foreign inauthentic behaviour, and engagement) have been removed and consolidated under a…
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Meta Lifts Restrictions on Imagery Depicting Violence and Death
On 27.06.2025 Facebook and Instagram updated their community guidelines, removing restrictions on content depicting a person’s violent death and acts of brutality committed by police. They also removed the ban on content showing deceased babies. Removed from Facebook’s community guidelines: Imagery depicting a person’s violent death or life threatening event when the act of violence…
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From “Hate Speech” to “Hateful Conduct”
23.04.2025 Meta has updated Facebook’s community guidelines terminology, replacing all mentions of “hate speech” with a definition of hateful conduct. Before: We define a hate speech attack as dehumanizing speech; statements of inferiority, expressions of contempt or disgust; cursing; and calls for exclusion or segregation. (line 1329) After: We define hateful conduct as direct attacks…