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X's Community Guidelines define what content and behavior is and isn't allowed on the platform — covering manipulated/misleading media, child safety, spam and inauthentic engagement, and scams — plus how X enforces violations (warnings, reach restriction, account locks, suspension). Unlike a Privacy Policy or Terms of Service, this document is mostly about *content moderation*, not data rights — but several clauses still touch on AI and automation in ways that matter for users.

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X – Community Guidelines

Dataset: PGAv2 (Platform Governance Archive v2) — 25 platforms, 2022–2026

PGAv2 (Platform Governance Archive v2) is this wiki’s legacy dataset: pre-tagged JSONL records covering 25 major social-media, messaging, and content-sharing platforms, with risk scores and keywords assigned via systematic extraction of 1,736 high-risk clauses from each platform’s Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, and Community Guidelines, spanning 2022–2026.

Note: This page contains documented policy clauses. Risk assessment is qualitative and context-dependent. For analysis of patterns across platforms, see:

• AI Act Substance Matrix
• Tier Bifurcation
• Scraper Enforcement Gap
• Methodology

Source: sources/jsonl/X_Community_Guidelines.jsonl Last updated: 2026-01-15

Overview

X’s Community Guidelines define what content and behavior is and isn’t allowed on the platform — covering manipulated/misleading media, child safety, spam and inauthentic engagement, and scams — plus how X enforces violations (warnings, reach restriction, account locks, suspension). Unlike a Privacy Policy or Terms of Service, this document is mostly about content moderation, not data rights — but several clauses still touch on AI and automation in ways that matter for users.

Flagged Keywords & Risks

• artificial intelligence — The “Misleading Media” rules treat content “fabricated or simulated… through use of algorithms or broader artificial intelligence” (e.g., deepfakes) as a violation if shared deceptively. Why it matters: this gives X broad, somewhat subjective discretion to decide what counts as deceptive AI-generated media and to restrict its reach or remove it — legitimate satire, art, or clearly-labeled AI content could get caught in enforcement that isn’t always transparent to the poster.
• train AI/models — The snippet captured under this tag actually discusses contextual factors X considers before enforcing abuse policy (intent, history, severity) rather than explicit AI/model-training language. Why it matters: this looks like a keyword/snippet mismatch in the source data rather than a real “we train AI on your posts” disclosure — flagged here for transparency rather than treated as a confirmed training-data clause. Worth re-checking against sources/raw/X/Community Guidelines/ if a future audit needs certainty.
• generative AI — Explicitly includes “computer-generated media - including generative AI media” within its zero-tolerance child sexual exploitation policy. Why it matters: this is a protective rule (closing a loophole where AI-generated abuse material might otherwise evade enforcement), not a data-rights risk to ordinary users — but it shows X already treats “generative AI” as a first-class, named category in its moderation rules.
• automated means — Restricts bot-like behavior: indiscriminate automated following/unfollowing, automation-driven engagement, and automated mass-reporting. Why it matters: this clause regulates users’ automation, not X’s own use of automation on user data — it doesn’t disclose anything about X scraping, training, or processing content with AI. It can also be read broadly enough to restrict legitimate third-party research or archival tools that interact with the platform programmatically.

Legal Context & Research Significance

This page is the rare instance where wearetosed’s “unilateral control” category applies to content moderation discretion rather than a license grant: X’s “Misleading Media” rule lets X decide what counts as deceptive AI-generated content fabricated “through use of algorithms or broader artificial intelligence,” with enforcement options (reach restriction, removal) applied at X’s own judgment and limited transparency to the poster. Soneji et al. (2025) found that ToS;DR-style severity ratings for ambiguous, discretion-heavy clauses like this one tend to produce a “polarizing trend” among users even when the underlying text is rated highly understandable — which matches this page’s own caveat that the automated means clause restricts users’ bot behavior without disclosing anything about X’s own AI processing of content. Unlike X’s Privacy Policy or Terms of Service, this page’s flagged keywords are protective/enforcement-oriented rather than data-extractive, so Atkinson’s (2025) contract-notice framework for scraping prohibitions has limited direct application here.

Changes Summary

Version History

2025-07-22

• Explicit AI clause: YES
• Non-explicit predatory: NO
• Flagged keywords: artificial intelligence, train AI/models, generative AI, automated means

Clause: artificial intelligence

In situations where we are unable to reliably determine if it is misleading media, we may not take action. ### Learn more Not Allowed Manipulated: Media that is shared as authentic but is significantly and deceptively altered, manipulated, or fabricated in a way that fundamentally changes its meaning and can result in widespread confusion on public issues, impact public safety, or cause serious harm, such as: * media that have been substantially edited or post-processed in a manner that fundamentally alters their composition, sequence, timing, or framing and distorts their meaning; * media with visual or auditory information (such as new video frames, overdubbed audio, or modified subtitles) that has been added, edited, or removed that fundamentally changes the understanding, meaning, or context of the media; * media created, edited, or post-processed with enhancements or use of filters that fundamentally changes the understanding, meaning, or context of the content; and * media depicting a real person that has been fabricated or simulated, especially through use of algorithms or broader artificial intelligence. Out-of-context: Media that is not manipulated, but is shared in a deceptive manner or out-of-context or with intent to deceive people about the nature or origin of the content and can result in widespread confusion on public issues, impact public safety, or cause serious harm, such as: * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the source, location, time, or authenticity of the media; * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the identity of the individuals or entities visually depicted in the media; and * media presented with misstatements or misquotations of what is being said or presented with fabricated claims of fact of what is being depicted. Allowed * Sharing manipulated or out-of-context media in non-deceptive ways. Malicious URLs: You may not post malicious, harmful, or deceptive links on X that may cause harm. This includes posting links that may damage or disrupt another person’s browser (malware), compromise a person’s privacy (phishing), and deceptive links that redirect people to unexpected destinations or mislead people about the website’s content. How we enforce The consequences for violating this policy depend on the severity of the violation as well as any previous history of violations. ### Learn more The following is a list of potential enforcement options for content that violates this policy: * Anti-spam challenges: When we detect suspicious levels of activity, accounts may be locked and prompted to provide additional information (e.g., a phone number) or to solve a puzzle. * Denylisting URLs: We denylist or provide warnings about URLs we believe to be unsafe.

Learn more Not Allowed Manipulated: Media that is shared as authentic but is significantly and deceptively altered, manipulated, or fabricated in a way that fundamentally changes its meaning and can result in widespread confusion on public issues, impact public safety, or cause serious harm, such as: * media that have been substantially edited or post-processed in a manner that fundamentally alters their composition, sequence, timing, or framing and distorts their meaning; * media with visual or auditory information (such as new video frames, overdubbed audio, or modified subtitles) that has been added, edited, or removed that fundamentally changes the understanding, meaning, or context of the media; * media created, edited, or post-processed with enhancements or use of filters that fundamentally changes the understanding, meaning, or context of the content; and * media depicting a real person that has been fabricated or simulated, especially through use of algorithms or broader artificial intelligence. Out-of-context: Media that is not manipulated, but is shared in a deceptive manner or out-of-context or with intent to deceive people about the nature or origin of the content and can result in widespread confusion on public issues, impact public safety, or cause serious harm, such as: * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the source, location, time, or authenticity of the media; * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the identity of the individuals or entities visually depicted in the media; and * media presented with misstatements or misquotations of what is being said or presented with fabricated claims of fact of what is being depicted. Allowed * Sharing manipulated or out-of-context media in non-deceptive ways. Malicious URLs: You may not post malicious, harmful, or deceptive links on X that may cause harm. This includes posting links that may damage or disrupt another person’s browser (malware), compromise a person’s privacy (phishing), and deceptive links that redirect people to unexpected destinations or mislead people about the website’s content. How we enforce The consequences for violating this policy depend on the severity of the violation as well as any previous history of violations. ### Learn more The following is a list of potential enforcement options for content that violates this policy: * Anti-spam challenges: When we detect suspicious levels of activity, accounts may be locked and prompted to provide additional information (e.g., a phone number) or to solve a puzzle. * Denylisting URLs: We denylist or provide warnings about URLs we believe to be unsafe. Read more about unsafe links, including how to appeal if we’ve falsely identified your URL as unsafe.

Out-of-context: Media that is not manipulated, but is shared in a deceptive manner or out-of-context or with intent to deceive people about the nature or origin of the content and can result in widespread confusion on public issues, impact public safety, or cause serious harm, such as: * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the source, location, time, or authenticity of the media; * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the identity of the individuals or entities visually depicted in the media; and * media presented with misstatements or misquotations of what is being said or presented with fabricated claims of fact of what is being depicted. Allowed * Sharing manipulated or out-of-context media in non-deceptive ways. Malicious URLs: You may not post malicious, harmful, or deceptive links on X that may cause harm. This includes posting links that may damage or disrupt another person’s browser (malware), compromise a person’s privacy (phishing), and deceptive links that redirect people to unexpected destinations or mislead people about the website’s content. How we enforce The consequences for violating this policy depend on the severity of the violation as well as any previous history of violations. ### Learn more The following is a list of potential enforcement options for content that violates this policy: * Anti-spam challenges: When we detect suspicious levels of activity, accounts may be locked and prompted to provide additional information (e.g., a phone number) or to solve a puzzle. * Denylisting URLs: We denylist or provide warnings about URLs we believe to be unsafe. Read more about unsafe links, including how to appeal if we’ve falsely identified your URL as unsafe. * Restricting Reach: This may include excluding posts from search results, trends, and recommended notifications, removing posts from the For You and Following timelines, restricting a post’s discoverability to the author’s profile, restricting likes, replies, reposts, quote posts, bookmarks, share, pin to profile, or edit post, and downranking the post in replies.

Clause: train AI/models

Thus, context matters. When determining whether to take enforcement action, we may consider a number of factors, including (but not limited to) whether: * the behavior is directed at an individual, group, or protected category of people; * the report has been filed by the target of the abuse or a bystander; * the user has a history of violating our policies; * the severity of the violation; * the content may be a topic of legitimate public interest. ** Is the behavior directed at an individual or group of people?** To strike a balance between allowing different opinions to be expressed on the platform, and protecting our users, we enforce policies when someone reports abusive behavior that targets a specific person or group of people. This targeting can happen in a number of ways (for example, @mentions, tagging a photo, mentioning them by name, and more). ** Has the report been filed by the target of the potential abuse or a bystander?** Some posts may seem to be abusive when viewed in isolation, but may not be when viewed in the context of a larger conversation or historical relationship between people on the platform. For example, friendly banter between friends could appear offensive to bystanders, and certain remarks that are acceptable in one culture or country may not be acceptable in another. To help prevent our teams from making a mistake and removing consensual interactions, in certain scenarios we require a report from the actual target (or their authorized representative) prior to taking any enforcement action. ** Does the user have a history of violating our policies?** We start from a position of assuming that people do not intend to violate our Rules. Unless a violation is so egregious that we must immediately suspend an account, we first try to educate people about our Rules and give them a chance to correct their behavior.

Clause: generative AI

Our priority is to protect minors from physical and psychological harm irrespective of the context in which the content may be shared. We use the terms children and minors interchangeably in any of our policies and define them as any person under the age of 18. Child Sexual Exploitation X has zero tolerance towards any material that features or promotes child sexual exploitation. This may include real media, text, illustrated, or computer-generated media - including generative AI media. Regardless of the intent, anyone viewing, sharing, linking, or engaging with any kind of child sexual exploitation material contributes to the re-victimization of the depicted children and puts children at an extreme risk of being harmed. This also applies to content that may further contribute to victimization of children through the promotion or glorification of child sexual exploitation. ### Learn more Not allowed Any content that depicts or promotes child sexual exploitation is strictly prohibited on X. This includes, but is not limited to, directly or indirectly sharing, requesting, linking to, engaging with (such as liking or reposting, or following accounts that distribute), expressing a desire for, or describing: * depictions of a child engaging in sexually explicit or suggestive acts, which may include edits of such media, such as obscuring faces or body parts; * sexualized commentaries about or directed at a known (or unknown) minor; * links to third-party sites that host child sexual exploitation materials of any kind; and * fantasies about or promoting engagement in child sexual exploitation. Additionally, we prohibit any of the following: * identifying alleged victims of childhood sexual exploitation by name or image; * promoting or normalizing sexual attraction to minors as a form of identity or sexual orientation; * sending sexually explicit media to a child, or engaging or trying to engage a child in a sexually explicit conversation; * trying to obtain sexually explicit media from a child, or trying to engage a child in sexual activity through blackmail or other incentives; * recruiting, advertising or expressing an interest in a commercial sex act involving a child, or in harboring and/or transporting a child for sexual purposes; and * threatening to share, or requesting that others share sexual media of minors, including self-generated sexual media of minors, particularly when engaging in blackmail or bounty tactics.

Clause: automated means

domain, URL path). Engagement Spam: We prohibit inauthentic use of X engagement features to artificially impact traffic or disrupt people’s experience. ### Learn more Not Allowed * Trading, buying, selling (either through monetary or virtual compensation) or soliciting access of X accounts, including the temporary or permanent transfer or sales of accounts, username or X (e.g. “pay for affiliation” schemes) products; * coordinating to exchange engagement in any X features, such as Likes, Polls, Replies, Reposts, Lists, Views, or Follows; * coordinating with and/or compensating others to conduct account metric inflation in any X features, including Likes, Polls, Replies, Reposts, Lists, Views, or Follows; * engaging in “follow churn” – following and then unfollowing large numbers of accounts in an effort to inflate one’s own follower count; * engaging in indiscriminate following – following and/or unfollowing a large number of unrelated accounts in a short time period, particularly by automated means; * engaging with posts aggressively or through the use of automation to drive traffic or attention to accounts, websites, products, services, or initiatives; * engaging in aggressively adding users to Lists or Moments; * duplicating another account’s followers, particularly using automation; * using or promoting third-party services to perform any of the transactions described in this policy; * engaging with X report features or forms, whether manually or through the use of automation, in order to submit duplicate or false reports in large numbers, including repeatedly reporting the same post(s) or accounts; and * coordinating and/or encouraging others to misuse X reporting features to harass others under false pretenses or hope to cause their account(s) or post(s) to be restricted or removed. Allowed * Obtaining prior consent from X if you are a Law Enforcement Organizations (“LEO”) or Non-Governmental Organizations (“NGO”) to use automation to submit reports, provided you identify as such organizations, either by submitting reports through their official email domain or in the application through a verified account representing their affiliated entity. * manually submitting reports in good faith that you believe may violate our policies; and * encouraging others to engage in good faith with X reporting features for customer support queries. Scams: You may not use X to engage in scam tactics to obtain money, property, or private information. ### Learn more Not Allowed Some examples of deceptive tactics that are prohibited under this policy include: * social engineering, including relationship/trust-building schemes; * money-flipping schemes; * fraudulent discounts; and * phishing scams. Allowed X does not intervene in financial disputes between individuals who use X, such as: * claims relating to the sale of goods on X; * disputed refunds from individuals or brands; and * complaints of poor quality goods received.

2025-07-29

• Explicit AI clause: YES
• Non-explicit predatory: NO
• Flagged keywords: artificial intelligence, train AI/models, generative AI, automated means

All clauses unchanged from 2025-07-22 (see above).

2025-08-04

• Explicit AI clause: YES
• Non-explicit predatory: NO
• Flagged keywords: artificial intelligence, train AI/models, generative AI, automated means

generative AI, automated means unchanged from 2025-07-29.

Clause: artificial intelligence (updated wording)

Learn more Not Allowed Manipulated: Media that is shared as authentic but is significantly and deceptively altered, manipulated, or fabricated in a way that fundamentally changes its meaning and can result in widespread confusion on public issues, impact public safety, or cause serious harm, such as: * media that have been substantially edited or post-processed in a manner that fundamentally alters their composition, sequence, timing, or framing and distorts their meaning; * media with visual or auditory information (such as new video frames, overdubbed audio, or modified subtitles) that has been added, edited, or removed that fundamentally changes the understanding, meaning, or context of the media; * media created, edited, or post-processed with enhancements or use of filters that fundamentally changes the understanding, meaning, or context of the content; and * media depicting a real person that has been fabricated or simulated, especially through use of algorithms or broader artificial intelligence. Out-of-context: Media that is not manipulated, but is shared in a deceptive manner or out-of-context or with intent to deceive people about the nature or origin of the content and can result in widespread confusion on public issues, impact public safety, or cause serious harm, such as: * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the source, location, time, or authenticity of the media; * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the identity of the individuals or entities visually depicted in the media; and * media presented with misstatements or misquotations of what is being said or presented with fabricated claims of fact of what is being depicted. Allowed * Sharing manipulated or out-of-context media in non-deceptive ways. Malicious URLs: You may not post malicious, harmful, or deceptive links on X that may cause harm. This includes posting links that may damage or disrupt another person’s browser (malware), compromise a person’s privacy (phishing), and deceptive links that redirect people to unexpected destinations or mislead people about the website’s content. How we enforce The consequences for violating this policy depend on the severity of the violation as well as any previous history of violations. ### Learn more The following is a list of potential enforcement options for content that violates this policy: * Anti-spam challenges: When we detect suspicious levels of activity, accounts may be locked and prompted to provide additional information (e.g., a phone number) or to solve a puzzle. * Denylisting URLs: We denylist or provide warnings about URLs we believe to be unsafe. Read more about unsafe links, including how to appeal if we’ve falsely identified your URL as unsafe.

Out-of-context: Media that is not manipulated, but is shared in a deceptive manner or out-of-context or with intent to deceive people about the nature or origin of the content and can result in widespread confusion on public issues, impact public safety, or cause serious harm, such as: * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the source, location, time, or authenticity of the media; * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the identity of the individuals or entities visually depicted in the media; and * media presented with misstatements or misquotations of what is being said or presented with fabricated claims of fact of what is being depicted. Allowed * Sharing manipulated or out-of-context media in non-deceptive ways. Malicious URLs: You may not post malicious, harmful, or deceptive links on X that may cause harm. This includes posting links that may damage or disrupt another person’s browser (malware), compromise a person’s privacy (phishing), and deceptive links that redirect people to unexpected destinations or mislead people about the website’s content. How we enforce The consequences for violating this policy depend on the severity of the violation as well as any previous history of violations. ### Learn more The following is a list of potential enforcement options for content that violates this policy: * Anti-spam challenges: When we detect suspicious levels of activity, accounts may be locked and prompted to provide additional information (e.g., a phone number) or to solve a puzzle. * Denylisting URLs: We denylist or provide warnings about URLs we believe to be unsafe. Read more about unsafe links, including how to appeal if we’ve falsely identified your URL as unsafe. * Restricting Reach: This may include excluding posts from search results, trends, and recommended notifications, removing posts from the For You and Following timelines, restricting a post’s discoverability to the author’s profile, restricting likes, replies, reposts, quote posts, bookmarks, share, pin to profile, or edit post, and downranking the post in replies.

Clause: train AI/models (updated wording)

Thus, context matters. When determining whether to take enforcement action, we may consider a number of factors, including (but not limited to) whether: * the behavior is directed at an individual, group, or protected category of people; * the report has been filed by the target of the abuse or a bystander; * the user has a history of violating our policies; * the severity of the violation; * the content may be a topic of legitimate public interest. ** Is the behavior directed at an individual or group of people?** To strike a balance between allowing different opinions to be expressed on the platform, and protecting our users, we enforce policies when someone reports abusive behavior that targets a specific person or group of people. This targeting can happen in a number of ways (for example, @mentions, tagging a photo, mentioning them by name, and more). ** Has the report been filed by the target of the potential abuse or a bystander?** Some posts may seem to be abusive when viewed in isolation, but may not be when viewed in the context of a larger conversation or historical relationship between people on the platform. For example, friendly banter between friends could appear offensive to bystanders, and certain remarks that are acceptable in one culture or country may not be acceptable in another. To help prevent our teams from making a mistake and removing consensual interactions, in certain scenarios we require a report from the actual target (or their authorized representative) prior to taking any enforcement action. ** Does the user have a history of violating our policies?** We start from a position of assuming that people do not intend to violate our Rules. Unless a violation is so egregious that we must immediately suspend an account, we first try to educate people about our Rules and give them a chance to correct their behavior.

2025-08-05

• Explicit AI clause: YES
• Non-explicit predatory: NO
• Flagged keywords: artificial intelligence, train AI/models, generative AI, automated means

generative AI, automated means unchanged from 2025-08-04.

Clause: artificial intelligence (updated wording)

Learn more Not Allowed Manipulated: Media that is shared as authentic but is significantly and deceptively altered, manipulated, or fabricated in a way that fundamentally changes its meaning and can result in widespread confusion on public issues, impact public safety, or cause serious harm, such as: * media that have been substantially edited or post-processed in a manner that fundamentally alters their composition, sequence, timing, or framing and distorts their meaning; * media with visual or auditory information (such as new video frames, overdubbed audio, or modified subtitles) that has been added, edited, or removed that fundamentally changes the understanding, meaning, or context of the media; * media created, edited, or post-processed with enhancements or use of filters that fundamentally changes the understanding, meaning, or context of the content; and * media depicting a real person that has been fabricated or simulated, especially through use of algorithms or broader artificial intelligence. Out-of-context: Media that is not manipulated, but is shared in a deceptive manner or out-of-context or with intent to deceive people about the nature or origin of the content and can result in widespread confusion on public issues, impact public safety, or cause serious harm, such as: * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the source, location, time, or authenticity of the media; * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the identity of the individuals or entities visually depicted in the media; and * media presented with misstatements or misquotations of what is being said or presented with fabricated claims of fact of what is being depicted. Allowed * Sharing manipulated or out-of-context media in non-deceptive ways. Malicious URLs: You may not post malicious, harmful, or deceptive links on X that may cause harm. This includes posting links that may damage or disrupt another person’s browser (malware), compromise a person’s privacy (phishing), and deceptive links that redirect people to unexpected destinations or mislead people about the website’s content. How we enforce The consequences for violating this policy depend on the severity of the violation as well as any previous history of violations. ### Learn more The following is a list of potential enforcement options for content that violates this policy: * Anti-spam challenges: When we detect suspicious levels of activity, accounts may be locked and prompted to provide additional information (e.g., a phone number) or to solve a puzzle. * Denylisting URLs: We denylist or provide warnings about URLs we believe to be unsafe. Read more about unsafe links, including how to appeal if we’ve falsely identified your URL as unsafe.

Out-of-context: Media that is not manipulated, but is shared in a deceptive manner or out-of-context or with intent to deceive people about the nature or origin of the content and can result in widespread confusion on public issues, impact public safety, or cause serious harm, such as: * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the source, location, time, or authenticity of the media; * media presented with false or misleading context surrounding the identity of the individuals or entities visually depicted in the media; and * media presented with misstatements or misquotations of what is being said or presented with fabricated claims of fact of what is being depicted. Allowed * Sharing manipulated or out-of-context media in non-deceptive ways. Malicious URLs: You may not post malicious, harmful, or deceptive links on X that may cause harm. This includes posting links that may damage or disrupt another person’s browser (malware), compromise a person’s privacy (phishing), and deceptive links that redirect people to unexpected destinations or mislead people about the website’s content. How we enforce The consequences for violating this policy depend on the severity of the violation as well as any previous history of violations. ### Learn more The following is a list of potential enforcement options for content that violates this policy: * Anti-spam challenges: When we detect suspicious levels of activity, accounts may be locked and prompted to provide additional information (e.g., a phone number) or to solve a puzzle. * Denylisting URLs: We denylist or provide warnings about URLs we believe to be unsafe. Read more about unsafe links, including how to appeal if we’ve falsely identified your URL as unsafe. * Restricting Reach: This may include excluding posts from search results, trends, and recommended notifications, removing posts from the For You and Following timelines, restricting a post’s discoverability to the author’s profile, restricting likes, replies, reposts, quote posts, bookmarks, share, pin to profile, or edit post, and downranking the post in replies.

Clause: train AI/models (updated wording)

Thus, context matters. When determining whether to take enforcement action, we may consider a number of factors, including (but not limited to) whether: * the behavior is directed at an individual, group, or protected category of people; * the report has been filed by the target of the abuse or a bystander; * the user has a history of violating our policies; * the severity of the violation; * the content may be a topic of legitimate public interest. ** Is the behavior directed at an individual or group of people?** To strike a balance between allowing different opinions to be expressed on the platform, and protecting our users, we enforce policies when someone reports abusive behavior that targets a specific person or group of people. This targeting can happen in a number of ways (for example, @mentions, tagging a photo, mentioning them by name, and more). ** Has the report been filed by the target of the potential abuse or a bystander?** Some posts may seem to be abusive when viewed in isolation, but may not be when viewed in the context of a larger conversation or historical relationship between people on the platform. For example, friendly banter between friends could appear offensive to bystanders, and certain remarks that are acceptable in one culture or country may not be acceptable in another. To help prevent our teams from making a mistake and removing consensual interactions, in certain scenarios we require a report from the actual target (or their authorized representative) prior to taking any enforcement action. ** Does the user have a history of violating our policies?** We start from a position of assuming that people do not intend to violate our Rules. Unless a violation is so egregious that we must immediately suspend an account, we first try to educate people about our Rules and give them a chance to correct their behavior.

2025-10-03

• Explicit AI clause: YES
• Non-explicit predatory: NO
• Flagged keywords: artificial intelligence, train AI/models, generative AI, automated means

All clauses unchanged from 2025-08-05 (see above).

2025-10-30

• Explicit AI clause: YES
• Non-explicit predatory: NO
• Flagged keywords: artificial intelligence, train AI/models, generative AI, automated means

artificial intelligence, train AI/models, generative AI unchanged from 2025-10-03.

Clause: automated means (new snippet added)

Engagement Spam: We prohibit inauthentic use of X engagement features to artificially impact traffic or disrupt people’s experience. ### Learn more Not Allowed * Trading, buying, selling (either through monetary or virtual compensation) or soliciting access of X accounts, including the temporary or permanent transfer or sales of accounts, username or X (e.g. “pay for affiliation” schemes) products; * coordinating to exchange engagement in any X features, such as Likes, Polls, Replies, Reposts, Lists, Views, or Follows; * coordinating with and/or compensating others to conduct account metric inflation in any X features, including Likes, Polls, Replies, Reposts, Lists, Views, or Follows; * engaging in “follow churn” – following and then unfollowing large numbers of accounts in an effort to inflate one’s own follower count; * engaging in indiscriminate following – following and/or unfollowing a large number of unrelated accounts in a short time period, particularly by automated means; * engaging with posts aggressively or through the use of automation to drive traffic or attention to accounts, websites, products, services, or initiatives; * engaging in aggressively adding users to Lists or Moments; * duplicating another account’s followers, particularly using automation; * using or promoting third-party services to perform any of the transactions described in this policy; * engaging with X report features or forms, whether manually or through the use of automation, in order to submit duplicate or false reports in large numbers, including repeatedly reporting the same post(s) or accounts; and * coordinating and/or encouraging others to misuse X reporting features to harass others under false pretenses or hope to cause their account(s) or post(s) to be restricted or removed. Allowed * Obtaining prior consent from X if you are a Law Enforcement Organizations (“LEO”) or Non-Governmental Organizations (“NGO”) to use automation to submit reports, provided you identify as such organizations, either by submitting reports through their official email domain or in the application through a verified account representing their affiliated entity. * manually submitting reports in good faith that you believe may violate our policies; and * encouraging others to engage in good faith with X reporting features for customer support queries. Scams: You may not use X to engage in scam tactics to obtain money, property, or private information. ### Learn more Not Allowed Some examples of deceptive tactics that are prohibited under this policy include: * social engineering, including relationship/trust-building schemes; * money-flipping schemes; * fraudulent discounts; and * phishing scams. Allowed X does not intervene in financial disputes between individuals who use X, such as: * claims relating to the sale of goods on X; * disputed refunds from individuals or brands; and * complaints of poor quality goods received. Inauthentic Content You may not share inauthentic content on X that may deceive people or lead to harm.

2025-11-26

• Explicit AI clause: YES
• Non-explicit predatory: NO
• Flagged keywords: artificial intelligence, train AI/models, generative AI, automated means

All clauses unchanged from 2025-10-30 (see above).

2026-01-15

• Explicit AI clause: YES
• Non-explicit predatory: NO
• Flagged keywords: artificial intelligence, train AI/models, generative AI, automated means

All clauses unchanged from 2025-11-26 (see above).