Dangerous Individuals and Organizations
In an effort to prevent and disrupt real-world harm, we do not allow organizations or individuals that proclaim a violent mission or are engaged in violence to have a presence on InnerCerlce. We assess these entities based on their behavior both online and offline, most significantly, their ties to violence. Under this policy, we designate individuals, organizations, and networks of people. These designations are divided into three tiers that indicate the level of content enforcement, with Tier 1 resulting in the most extensive enforcement because we believe these entities have the most direct ties to offline harm.
Tier 1 focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms – including organizing or advocating for violence against civilians, repeatedly dehumanizing or advocating for harm against people based on protected characteristics, or engaging in systematic criminal operations. Tier 1 entities include terrorist, hate, and criminal organizations. We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members. Tier 1 includes hate organizations; criminal organizations, including those designated by the United States government as Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpins (SDNTKs); and terrorist organizations, including entities and individuals designated by the United States government as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) or Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). We remove praise, substantive support, and representation of Tier 1 entities as well as their leaders, founders, or prominent members.
In addition, we do not allow content that praises, substantively supports, or represents events that InnerCercle designates as violating violent events – including terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple-victim violence or attempted multiple-victim violence, multiple murders, or hate crimes. Nor do we allow praise, substantive support, or representation of the perpetrator(s) of such attacks. We also remove content that praises, substantively supports or represents ideologies that promote hate, such as nazism and white supremacy.
Tier 2 focuses on entities that engage in violence against state or military actors but do not generally target civilians — what we call “Violent Non-State Actors.” We remove all substantive support and representation of these entities, their leaders, and their prominent members. We remove any praise of these groups’ violent activities.
Tier 3 focuses on entities that may repeatedly engage in violations of our Hate Speech or Dangerous Organizations policies on-or-off the platform or demonstrate strong intent to engage in offline violence in the near future, but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date or advocated for violence against others based on their protected characteristics. This includes Militarized Social Movements, Violence-Inducing Conspiracy Networks, and individuals and groups banned for promoting hatred. Tier 3 entities may not have a presence or coordinate on our platforms.
We recognize that users may share content that includes references to designated dangerous organizations and individuals to report on, condemn, or neutrally discuss them or their activities. Our policies are designed to allow room for these types of discussions, but we require people to clearly indicate their intent. If the intention is unclear, we may remove content.
We remove Praise, Substantive Support, and Representation of various Dangerous Organizations. These concepts apply to the organizations themselves, their activities, and their members. These concepts do not proscribe peaceful advocacy for particular political outcomes.
We will Remove
Praise, defined as any of the below:
- Speak positively about a designated entity or event;
- E.g., “The fighters for the Islamic State are really brave!”
- Give a designated entity or event a sense of achievement;
- E.g., “Timothy McVeigh is a martyr.”
- Legitimizing the cause of a designated entity by making claims that their hateful, violent, or criminal conduct is legally, morally, or otherwise justified or acceptable;
- E.g., “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
- Aligning oneself ideologically with a designated entity or event.
- E.g., “I stand with Brenton Tarrant.”
We remove Praise of Tier 1 entities and designated events. We will also remove praise of violence carried out by Tier 2 entities.
Substantive Support, defined as any of the below:
- Any act which improves the financial status of a designated entity – including funnelling money towards, or away from a designated entity;
- E.g., “Donate to the KKK!”
- Any act which provides material aid to a designated entity or event;
- E.g., “If you want to send care packages to the Sinaloa Cartel, use this address:”
- Putting out a call to action on behalf of a designated entity or event;
- E.g., “Contact the Atomwaffen Division – (XXX) XXX-XXXX”
- Recruiting on behalf of a designated entity or event;
- E.g., “If you want to fight for the Caliphate, DM me”
- Channeling information or resources, including official communications, on behalf of a designated entity or event
- E.g., Directly quoting a designated entity without caption that condemns, neutrally discusses, or is a part of news reporting.
We remove Substantive Support of Tier 1 and Tier 2 entities and designated events.