Policy updates
A dated record of every change to the rules and the policies behind them.
Commercial Integrity
Policy · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity
Initial standalone Commercial Integrity Policy establishing the umbrella framework for commercial conduct: commercial actors and roles, agency authority and concealed principals, the five-part eligibility architecture, the independent status model, commercial verification as distinct from identity verification, commercial transparency and honesty, category controls differing by feature, creator commerce, brand and creator marketplaces, premium handles, Source API and data licensing, contractual breach versus policy violation, specialist policy precedence and overlap resolution, targeted enforcement and product-specific review pathways. August 20, 2026 Commercial Integrity Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Branded Content & Sponsorship Disclosure Policy · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity
Initial standalone Branded Content & Sponsorship Disclosure Policy establishing what constitutes branded content, material commercial relationships requiring disclosure, when disclosure is required, native platform disclosure controls, placement and prominence, format-specific requirements, acceptable and inadequate disclosure language, truthfulness in endorsements, obligations of sponsors and agencies, editorial sponsorship, reviews, affiliate content, restricted categories, children, political sponsorship, undisclosed native advertising, platform-applied labels, reporting and enforcement. August 20, 2026 Branded Content & Sponsorship Disclosure Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Payments & Restricted Activity Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Creator Monetization Standards Policy · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity
Initial standalone Creator Monetization Standards Policy establishing creator eligibility, minimum age and verification, jurisdictional and account-standing requirements, the separation of publication eligibility from monetization eligibility, monetization-sensitive content, rights and originality, AI-generated content and content farms, invalid activity and revenue adjustment, Support, Memberships, paid content and fundraising, sponsorship and affiliate disclosure, advertising revenue participation, payout onboarding, holds, reserves and reversals, monetization states, proportional restriction levels, remediation, reinstatement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Creator Monetization Standards Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Advertising Standards Policy · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity
Initial standalone Advertising Standards Policy establishing advertiser eligibility and verification, beneficial advertiser disclosure, deceptive advertising and substantiation, pricing and subscription terms, deceptive creative and platform mimicry, landing page requirements, prohibited and restricted categories, alcohol, gambling, nicotine, pharmaceutical, health, financial, digital asset and political advertising, targeting and sensitive attributes, advertising to minors, data use and privacy, discriminatory delivery, transparency and labelling, ad fraud and billing integrity, review and appeals. August 20, 2026 Advertising Standards Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Privacy & Personal Information Policy · Version 1.0 · Privacy & Rights
Initial standalone Privacy & Personal Information Policy establishing the approach to unauthorised disclosure of private information, doxxing and aggregation harm, location and contact information, identity documents, financial, medical and biometric information, private communications, sensitive categories, minors, images and recordings, surveillance and tracking, unlawfully obtained and leaked materials, previously public information and practical obscurity, public figures and organizations, journalism and public-interest balancing, consent and removal requests, redaction, priority handling, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Privacy & Personal Information Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Privacy & Rights August 20, 2026 Civic & Election Integrity Policy · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity
Initial standalone Civic & Election Integrity Policy establishing the approach to political expression, voting-process misinformation, voter suppression, voter intimidation, election authority impersonation, fabricated official communications, election results and predictions, election-fraud allegations, fabricated election evidence, synthetic political media, coordinated inauthentic political activity, political advertising and sponsorship, journalism and public-interest content, correction and contextual treatment, time-sensitive election review, viewpoint neutrality, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Civic & Election Integrity Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity August 20, 2026 Health & Medical Misinformation Policy · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity
Initial standalone Health & Medical Misinformation Policy establishing a high-harm medical misinformation threshold, treatment and prevention misinformation, dangerous purported cures, diagnosis and emergency misinformation, infectious diseases and vaccines, medicines and medical procedures, alternative and complementary medicine, reproductive and mental health, scientific disagreement and emerging research, journalism and personal experience, commercial health claims, contextual treatment below the removal threshold, evidence assessment, changing medical knowledge, expert review, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Health & Medical Misinformation Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity August 20, 2026 Dangerous Activities & Challenges Policy · Version 1.0 · Safety
Initial standalone Dangerous Activities & Challenges Policy establishing the approach to dangerous challenges, hazardous stunts, dangerous pranks, vehicle and machinery risks, hazardous ingestion and exposure, extreme physical activities, harmful imitation, professional sport and controlled activity, minors, journalism and education, safety disclosures, short-form content, sensitive-content treatment, urgent safety escalation, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Dangerous Activities & Challenges Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 20, 2026 Human Exploitation & Trafficking Policy · Version 1.0 · Safety
Initial standalone Human Exploitation & Trafficking Policy establishing the approach to human trafficking, forced labour, debt bondage, exploitative recruitment, sexual trafficking, trafficking involving minors, forced criminal activity, domestic servitude, forced marriage involving exploitation, document confiscation, immigration-based coercion, victim protection, legitimate employment and migration distinctions, journalism and survivor advocacy, urgent safety handling, network-level enforcement, referrals to authorities and appeals. August 20, 2026 Human Exploitation & Trafficking Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 20, 2026 Source Attribution & Provenance Policy · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity
Initial standalone Source Attribution & Provenance Policy establishing the approach to original-content claims, first-hand and primary-source claims, source attribution, quotations, documents and screenshots, images, video and audio, confidential sources, republication and syndication, Official Statements and Newsrooms, corrections and publication history, synthetic-media provenance, technical provenance, publisher-declared and platform-verified provenance, good-faith errors, deliberate source fabrication, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Source Attribution & Provenance Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity August 20, 2026 Account Integrity & Enforcement Evasion Policy · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity
Initial standalone Account Integrity & Enforcement Evasion Policy establishing the approach to personal and organization account control, legitimate multiple accounts, account transfers and sales, credential sharing, enforcement evasion, content-removal evasion, verification circumvention, monetization, advertising and payment evasion, account compromise and recovery, organization administrator changes, related-account assessment, network-level enforcement, technical signals, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Account Integrity & Enforcement Evasion Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity August 20, 2026 Prohibited & Regulated Goods and Services Policy · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity
Initial standalone Prohibited & Regulated Goods and Services Policy establishing the approach to illegal goods and services, controlled drugs, prescription medicines, firearms and weapons, explosives, stolen and counterfeit goods, fraudulent documents and credentials, protected wildlife, alcohol, nicotine and vaping products, gambling, financial products and services, digital assets, commercial sexual services, hazardous materials, criminal services, external transaction facilitation, editorial and commercial distinctions, licensing and verification, age and geographic restrictions, advertising, payment restrictions and proportional enforcement. August 20, 2026 Prohibited & Regulated Goods and Services Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Age Requirements & Age Assurance Policy · Version 1.0 · Youth Safety
Initial standalone Age Requirements & Age Assurance Policy establishing a general minimum account age of 16, under-18 Youth Safety status, age assurance, age estimation, age verification, alternative assurance methods, re-checking and age signals, account and content age restrictions, privacy and data minimisation, Australian Social Media Minimum Age requirements, underage account handling, circumvention, review and appeals, and jurisdiction-specific requirements. August 19, 2026 Age Requirements & Age Assurance Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Youth Safety August 19, 2026 Spam, Fake Engagement & Platform Manipulation Policy · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity
Initial standalone Spam, Fake Engagement & Platform Manipulation Policy establishing the approach to spam, fake followers, artificial likes, views and comments, engagement rings, coordinated inauthentic behaviour, bot and automated activity, AI-generated spam, search and recommendation manipulation, fake reviews and testimonials, multiple-account abuse, metric correction, network-level enforcement, content-quality distinctions and appeals. August 19, 2026 Spam, Fake Engagement & Platform Manipulation Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity August 19, 2026 Synthetic & Manipulated Media Policy · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity
Initial standalone Synthetic & Manipulated Media Policy establishing the approach to AI-generated content, manipulated media, deepfakes, cloned voices, synthetic impersonation, deceptive editing, disclosure, provenance, reconstructions and simulations, satire and artistic use, fabricated evidence, political and crisis content, contextual labelling, corrections, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 19, 2026 Synthetic & Manipulated Media Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity August 19, 2026 Adult Sexual Content & Nudity Policy · Version 1.0 · Safety
Initial standalone Adult Sexual Content & Nudity Policy establishing the approach to pornography, explicit sexual activity, consensual adult nudity, sexualised content, artistic nudity, sexual-health and medical material, journalism and documentary content, sexual services, synthetic sexual content, audience restrictions, sensitive-content treatment, monetization distinctions and proportional enforcement. August 19, 2026 Adult Sexual Content & Nudity Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 19, 2026 Self-Harm, Suicide & Eating Disorders Policy · Version 1.0 · Safety
Initial standalone Self-Harm, Suicide & Eating Disorders Policy establishing the approach to suicide promotion, self-harm encouragement, harmful instructions, eating-disorder promotion, recovery and lived-experience content, vulnerable users and minors, graphic material, journalism and education, sensitive-content treatment, support resources, urgent safety escalation, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 19, 2026 Self-Harm, Suicide & Eating Disorders Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 19, 2026 Impersonation & Identity Abuse Policy · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity
Initial standalone Impersonation & Identity Abuse Policy establishing the approach to individual impersonation, organization impersonation, false affiliation and authority, Verified Status abuse, professional and public names, parody and fan accounts, organization representation, account takeover, synthetic identity impersonation, identity theft, compromised-account recovery and proportional enforcement. August 19, 2026 Impersonation & Identity Abuse Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity August 19, 2026 Graphic & Disturbing Content Policy · Version 1.0 · Safety
Initial standalone Graphic & Disturbing Content Policy establishing the approach to graphic violence, death and human remains, war and atrocity documentation, medical imagery, animal harm, fictional and synthetic violence, victim dignity, public-interest exceptions, sensitive-content warnings, age restrictions, feed and thumbnail treatment, and proportional enforcement. August 19, 2026 Graphic & Disturbing Content Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 19, 2026 Violence & Threats Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 19, 2026 Copyright & Intellectual Property Policy · Version 2.0 · Privacy & Rights
Substantially revised to broaden the title to Copyright & Intellectual Property while retaining copyright as the primary subject, clarify lawful bases for using copyrighted material beyond express permission, distinguish ordinary reports from formal copyright notices, introduce a dedicated DMCA notice and counter-notification framework, distinguish statutory copyright procedures from the general appeals process, introduce repeat-infringer standards, separate trademark and other IP complaints from the DMCA process, and align the Policy with the wider Media.com Trust framework. August 19, 2026 Copyright & Intellectual Property Rules of Engagement · Version 2.0 · Privacy & Rights August 19, 2026 Youth Safety Policy · Version 2.0 · Youth Safety
Substantially revised to separate Youth Safety from account-age eligibility, clarify that under-18 users remain minors even where permitted to hold accounts, distinguish CSAM, grooming and sexual exploitation from lower-severity youth-safety issues, introduce synthetic and manipulated content, narrow the treatment of ordinary images of minors, clarify journalism, education and public-interest context, introduce priority handling for severe child-safety reports, replace universal permanent-ban language with severity-based enforcement, and align reporting, notification and appeals with the wider Media.com Trust framework. August 19, 2026 Youth Safety Rules of Engagement · Version 2.0 · Youth Safety August 19, 2026 Fraud & Criminal Activity Policy · Version 2.0 · Authenticity & Integrity
Substantially revised to replace the undefined High Risk Users framework with Fraud & Criminal Activity, separate criminal-platform abuse from dangerous-organization policy, distinguish past criminal history from current prohibited conduct, introduce specific fraud, scam, identity-fraud and cyber-abuse standards, separate payment and sanctions eligibility from Trust & Safety violations, remove vendor-specific payment-provider rules from the substantive Trust standard, preserve legitimate journalism, cybersecurity research and public-interest discussion, and align enforcement and appeals with the wider Media.com Trust framework. August 19, 2026 Fraud & Criminal Activity Rules of Engagement · Version 2.0 · Authenticity & Integrity August 19, 2026 Bullying & Harassment Policy · Version 2.0 · Safety
Substantially revised to distinguish harassment from legitimate criticism and public-interest reporting, introduce clearer standards for targeted and repeated harassment, address coordinated harassment, preserve the existing concept of harmful re-amplification of previously public information, separate sexual exploitation, violence, hate speech and privacy issues into their relevant specialist Policies, clarify treatment of public figures, introduce contextual assessment, and align enforcement and appeals with the platform-wide Trust framework. August 19, 2026 Bullying & Harassment Rules of Engagement · Version 2.0 · Safety August 19, 2026 Hate Speech & Hateful Conduct Policy · Version 3.0 · Safety
Substantially revised to broaden the title to Hate Speech & Hateful Conduct, consolidate the Protected Characteristics used in the existing Rules and Policy, distinguish attacks on people from criticism of ideas, beliefs and institutions, clarify treatment of slurs, symbols and contextual use, protect legitimate journalism, education, counterspeech and public debate, move violent manifesto treatment primarily to the Dangerous Individuals & Organizations framework, introduce proportional enforcement and platform-wide appeals, and clarify circumstances in which serious safety matters may be referred to authorities. August 19, 2026 Hate Speech & Hateful Conduct Rules of Engagement · Version 3.0 · Safety August 19, 2026
Initial standalone Commercial Integrity Policy establishing the umbrella framework for commercial conduct: commercial actors and roles, agency authority and concealed principals, the five-part eligibility architecture, the independent status model, commercial verification as distinct from identity verification, commercial transparency and honesty, category controls differing by feature, creator commerce, brand and creator marketplaces, premium handles, Source API and data licensing, contractual breach versus policy violation, specialist policy precedence and overlap resolution, targeted enforcement and product-specific review pathways. August 20, 2026 Commercial Integrity Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Branded Content & Sponsorship Disclosure Policy · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity
Initial standalone Branded Content & Sponsorship Disclosure Policy establishing what constitutes branded content, material commercial relationships requiring disclosure, when disclosure is required, native platform disclosure controls, placement and prominence, format-specific requirements, acceptable and inadequate disclosure language, truthfulness in endorsements, obligations of sponsors and agencies, editorial sponsorship, reviews, affiliate content, restricted categories, children, political sponsorship, undisclosed native advertising, platform-applied labels, reporting and enforcement. August 20, 2026 Branded Content & Sponsorship Disclosure Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Payments & Restricted Activity Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Creator Monetization Standards Policy · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity
Initial standalone Creator Monetization Standards Policy establishing creator eligibility, minimum age and verification, jurisdictional and account-standing requirements, the separation of publication eligibility from monetization eligibility, monetization-sensitive content, rights and originality, AI-generated content and content farms, invalid activity and revenue adjustment, Support, Memberships, paid content and fundraising, sponsorship and affiliate disclosure, advertising revenue participation, payout onboarding, holds, reserves and reversals, monetization states, proportional restriction levels, remediation, reinstatement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Creator Monetization Standards Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Advertising Standards Policy · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity
Initial standalone Advertising Standards Policy establishing advertiser eligibility and verification, beneficial advertiser disclosure, deceptive advertising and substantiation, pricing and subscription terms, deceptive creative and platform mimicry, landing page requirements, prohibited and restricted categories, alcohol, gambling, nicotine, pharmaceutical, health, financial, digital asset and political advertising, targeting and sensitive attributes, advertising to minors, data use and privacy, discriminatory delivery, transparency and labelling, ad fraud and billing integrity, review and appeals. August 20, 2026 Advertising Standards Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Privacy & Personal Information Policy · Version 1.0 · Privacy & Rights
Initial standalone Privacy & Personal Information Policy establishing the approach to unauthorised disclosure of private information, doxxing and aggregation harm, location and contact information, identity documents, financial, medical and biometric information, private communications, sensitive categories, minors, images and recordings, surveillance and tracking, unlawfully obtained and leaked materials, previously public information and practical obscurity, public figures and organizations, journalism and public-interest balancing, consent and removal requests, redaction, priority handling, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Privacy & Personal Information Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Privacy & Rights August 20, 2026 Civic & Election Integrity Policy · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity
Initial standalone Civic & Election Integrity Policy establishing the approach to political expression, voting-process misinformation, voter suppression, voter intimidation, election authority impersonation, fabricated official communications, election results and predictions, election-fraud allegations, fabricated election evidence, synthetic political media, coordinated inauthentic political activity, political advertising and sponsorship, journalism and public-interest content, correction and contextual treatment, time-sensitive election review, viewpoint neutrality, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Civic & Election Integrity Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity August 20, 2026 Health & Medical Misinformation Policy · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity
Initial standalone Health & Medical Misinformation Policy establishing a high-harm medical misinformation threshold, treatment and prevention misinformation, dangerous purported cures, diagnosis and emergency misinformation, infectious diseases and vaccines, medicines and medical procedures, alternative and complementary medicine, reproductive and mental health, scientific disagreement and emerging research, journalism and personal experience, commercial health claims, contextual treatment below the removal threshold, evidence assessment, changing medical knowledge, expert review, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Health & Medical Misinformation Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity August 20, 2026 Dangerous Activities & Challenges Policy · Version 1.0 · Safety
Initial standalone Dangerous Activities & Challenges Policy establishing the approach to dangerous challenges, hazardous stunts, dangerous pranks, vehicle and machinery risks, hazardous ingestion and exposure, extreme physical activities, harmful imitation, professional sport and controlled activity, minors, journalism and education, safety disclosures, short-form content, sensitive-content treatment, urgent safety escalation, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Dangerous Activities & Challenges Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 20, 2026 Human Exploitation & Trafficking Policy · Version 1.0 · Safety
Initial standalone Human Exploitation & Trafficking Policy establishing the approach to human trafficking, forced labour, debt bondage, exploitative recruitment, sexual trafficking, trafficking involving minors, forced criminal activity, domestic servitude, forced marriage involving exploitation, document confiscation, immigration-based coercion, victim protection, legitimate employment and migration distinctions, journalism and survivor advocacy, urgent safety handling, network-level enforcement, referrals to authorities and appeals. August 20, 2026 Human Exploitation & Trafficking Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 20, 2026 Source Attribution & Provenance Policy · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity
Initial standalone Source Attribution & Provenance Policy establishing the approach to original-content claims, first-hand and primary-source claims, source attribution, quotations, documents and screenshots, images, video and audio, confidential sources, republication and syndication, Official Statements and Newsrooms, corrections and publication history, synthetic-media provenance, technical provenance, publisher-declared and platform-verified provenance, good-faith errors, deliberate source fabrication, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Source Attribution & Provenance Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity August 20, 2026 Account Integrity & Enforcement Evasion Policy · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity
Initial standalone Account Integrity & Enforcement Evasion Policy establishing the approach to personal and organization account control, legitimate multiple accounts, account transfers and sales, credential sharing, enforcement evasion, content-removal evasion, verification circumvention, monetization, advertising and payment evasion, account compromise and recovery, organization administrator changes, related-account assessment, network-level enforcement, technical signals, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 20, 2026 Account Integrity & Enforcement Evasion Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity August 20, 2026 Prohibited & Regulated Goods and Services Policy · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity
Initial standalone Prohibited & Regulated Goods and Services Policy establishing the approach to illegal goods and services, controlled drugs, prescription medicines, firearms and weapons, explosives, stolen and counterfeit goods, fraudulent documents and credentials, protected wildlife, alcohol, nicotine and vaping products, gambling, financial products and services, digital assets, commercial sexual services, hazardous materials, criminal services, external transaction facilitation, editorial and commercial distinctions, licensing and verification, age and geographic restrictions, advertising, payment restrictions and proportional enforcement. August 20, 2026 Prohibited & Regulated Goods and Services Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Commercial Integrity August 20, 2026 Age Requirements & Age Assurance Policy · Version 1.0 · Youth Safety
Initial standalone Age Requirements & Age Assurance Policy establishing a general minimum account age of 16, under-18 Youth Safety status, age assurance, age estimation, age verification, alternative assurance methods, re-checking and age signals, account and content age restrictions, privacy and data minimisation, Australian Social Media Minimum Age requirements, underage account handling, circumvention, review and appeals, and jurisdiction-specific requirements. August 19, 2026 Age Requirements & Age Assurance Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Youth Safety August 19, 2026 Spam, Fake Engagement & Platform Manipulation Policy · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity
Initial standalone Spam, Fake Engagement & Platform Manipulation Policy establishing the approach to spam, fake followers, artificial likes, views and comments, engagement rings, coordinated inauthentic behaviour, bot and automated activity, AI-generated spam, search and recommendation manipulation, fake reviews and testimonials, multiple-account abuse, metric correction, network-level enforcement, content-quality distinctions and appeals. August 19, 2026 Spam, Fake Engagement & Platform Manipulation Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity August 19, 2026 Synthetic & Manipulated Media Policy · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity
Initial standalone Synthetic & Manipulated Media Policy establishing the approach to AI-generated content, manipulated media, deepfakes, cloned voices, synthetic impersonation, deceptive editing, disclosure, provenance, reconstructions and simulations, satire and artistic use, fabricated evidence, political and crisis content, contextual labelling, corrections, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 19, 2026 Synthetic & Manipulated Media Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Content Integrity August 19, 2026 Adult Sexual Content & Nudity Policy · Version 1.0 · Safety
Initial standalone Adult Sexual Content & Nudity Policy establishing the approach to pornography, explicit sexual activity, consensual adult nudity, sexualised content, artistic nudity, sexual-health and medical material, journalism and documentary content, sexual services, synthetic sexual content, audience restrictions, sensitive-content treatment, monetization distinctions and proportional enforcement. August 19, 2026 Adult Sexual Content & Nudity Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 19, 2026 Self-Harm, Suicide & Eating Disorders Policy · Version 1.0 · Safety
Initial standalone Self-Harm, Suicide & Eating Disorders Policy establishing the approach to suicide promotion, self-harm encouragement, harmful instructions, eating-disorder promotion, recovery and lived-experience content, vulnerable users and minors, graphic material, journalism and education, sensitive-content treatment, support resources, urgent safety escalation, proportional enforcement and appeals. August 19, 2026 Self-Harm, Suicide & Eating Disorders Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 19, 2026 Impersonation & Identity Abuse Policy · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity
Initial standalone Impersonation & Identity Abuse Policy establishing the approach to individual impersonation, organization impersonation, false affiliation and authority, Verified Status abuse, professional and public names, parody and fan accounts, organization representation, account takeover, synthetic identity impersonation, identity theft, compromised-account recovery and proportional enforcement. August 19, 2026 Impersonation & Identity Abuse Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Authenticity & Integrity August 19, 2026 Graphic & Disturbing Content Policy · Version 1.0 · Safety
Initial standalone Graphic & Disturbing Content Policy establishing the approach to graphic violence, death and human remains, war and atrocity documentation, medical imagery, animal harm, fictional and synthetic violence, victim dignity, public-interest exceptions, sensitive-content warnings, age restrictions, feed and thumbnail treatment, and proportional enforcement. August 19, 2026 Graphic & Disturbing Content Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 19, 2026 Violence & Threats Rules of Engagement · Version 1.0 · Safety August 19, 2026 Copyright & Intellectual Property Policy · Version 2.0 · Privacy & Rights
Substantially revised to broaden the title to Copyright & Intellectual Property while retaining copyright as the primary subject, clarify lawful bases for using copyrighted material beyond express permission, distinguish ordinary reports from formal copyright notices, introduce a dedicated DMCA notice and counter-notification framework, distinguish statutory copyright procedures from the general appeals process, introduce repeat-infringer standards, separate trademark and other IP complaints from the DMCA process, and align the Policy with the wider Media.com Trust framework. August 19, 2026 Copyright & Intellectual Property Rules of Engagement · Version 2.0 · Privacy & Rights August 19, 2026 Youth Safety Policy · Version 2.0 · Youth Safety
Substantially revised to separate Youth Safety from account-age eligibility, clarify that under-18 users remain minors even where permitted to hold accounts, distinguish CSAM, grooming and sexual exploitation from lower-severity youth-safety issues, introduce synthetic and manipulated content, narrow the treatment of ordinary images of minors, clarify journalism, education and public-interest context, introduce priority handling for severe child-safety reports, replace universal permanent-ban language with severity-based enforcement, and align reporting, notification and appeals with the wider Media.com Trust framework. August 19, 2026 Youth Safety Rules of Engagement · Version 2.0 · Youth Safety August 19, 2026 Fraud & Criminal Activity Policy · Version 2.0 · Authenticity & Integrity
Substantially revised to replace the undefined High Risk Users framework with Fraud & Criminal Activity, separate criminal-platform abuse from dangerous-organization policy, distinguish past criminal history from current prohibited conduct, introduce specific fraud, scam, identity-fraud and cyber-abuse standards, separate payment and sanctions eligibility from Trust & Safety violations, remove vendor-specific payment-provider rules from the substantive Trust standard, preserve legitimate journalism, cybersecurity research and public-interest discussion, and align enforcement and appeals with the wider Media.com Trust framework. August 19, 2026 Fraud & Criminal Activity Rules of Engagement · Version 2.0 · Authenticity & Integrity August 19, 2026 Bullying & Harassment Policy · Version 2.0 · Safety
Substantially revised to distinguish harassment from legitimate criticism and public-interest reporting, introduce clearer standards for targeted and repeated harassment, address coordinated harassment, preserve the existing concept of harmful re-amplification of previously public information, separate sexual exploitation, violence, hate speech and privacy issues into their relevant specialist Policies, clarify treatment of public figures, introduce contextual assessment, and align enforcement and appeals with the platform-wide Trust framework. August 19, 2026 Bullying & Harassment Rules of Engagement · Version 2.0 · Safety August 19, 2026 Hate Speech & Hateful Conduct Policy · Version 3.0 · Safety
Substantially revised to broaden the title to Hate Speech & Hateful Conduct, consolidate the Protected Characteristics used in the existing Rules and Policy, distinguish attacks on people from criticism of ideas, beliefs and institutions, clarify treatment of slurs, symbols and contextual use, protect legitimate journalism, education, counterspeech and public debate, move violent manifesto treatment primarily to the Dangerous Individuals & Organizations framework, introduce proportional enforcement and platform-wide appeals, and clarify circumstances in which serious safety matters may be referred to authorities. August 19, 2026 Hate Speech & Hateful Conduct Rules of Engagement · Version 3.0 · Safety August 19, 2026