Tag: Social Media
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Bluesky Expands Community Guidelines with Detailed Rules on Child Sexual Abuse, AI Deepfakes, and Allowed Contexts
On August 14, 2025, Bluesky published an overhaul of its Community Guidelines, introducing more granular categories and detailed examples of prohibited content. The changes include (among others) additional explicit bans on: AI-generated or animated CSAM (child sexual abuse material): (Do not) Share any content that depicts, simulates, or is AI-generated CSAM (child sexual abuse material)—this…
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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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Race and Gender Identity References Disappear From LinkedIn’s Harassment Guidelines
On July 29, 2025, LinkedIn updated its Community Guidelines section on harassment and abusive content, removing explicit references to race and gender identity. Before: Content that negatively targets others on the basis of inherent traits, like race or gender identity, is enforced under our [Hateful and Derogatory Content] After: Content that negatively targets others on…
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YouTube Removes Ban on Election Fraud Claims
On 28.08.2025 Youtube updated its Community Guidelines, removing the ban on content that claims election fraud, as well as all examples referring to the Brazilian presidential elections. Following lines were removed: Election integrity: Content advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in certain past elections to determine heads of government. Or, content…
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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…
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LinkedIn Restricts Political Advertising
LinkedIn updated their Community Guidelines on 02.10.2025, adding a prohibition of political advertisements posted in exchange for money or personal benefit. Added: We don’t allow political advertisements, endorsements, or support posted in exchange for money or personal benefit. Find the link to the Community Guidelines version here. Author: Kaisla Mäki