We don’t allow content that threatens anyone with violence, calls for it or celebrates it.

Not allowed

  • Threatening to hurt or kill someone, even as a joke.
  • Calling for attacks on a person, a group or a place.
  • Praising, supporting or recruiting for terrorist groups, criminal gangs or any group that uses violence against people. That includes their symbols, songs and speeches.
  • Celebrating an attack, or mocking its victims.
  • Instructions for making weapons or explosives.
  • Fight videos posted to humiliate the person losing, or to stir up more fighting.
  • Cruelty to animals.
  • Gore: very graphic images of dead or badly injured people or animals, posted to shock.

Allowed

  • News and records of real events, including wars, attacks and their victims, shared to inform people. We may mark very graphic posts as sensitive, or keep them out of Explore and For you.
  • Self-defense, martial arts and combat sports.
  • Hunting, and slaughtering animals for food or for Eid, without cruelty.
  • Films, games and fiction, when it’s clear they aren’t real.