Threats, Violence, & Harm

Our Community Guidelines relating to threats, violence, and harm reflect a commitment to removing content that undermines our community’s safety, while also being attentive to urgent expressions of distress on our platform.

To promote safety, the following is prohibited on Snapchat: 

• Glorification of self-harm, including the promotion of self-injury, self-mutilation, suicide, or eating disorders. 

• Encouraging or engaging in violent or threatening behavior, including any content expressing an intention to cause serious physical or emotional harm to a person, a group of people, or damage to their property. Where content indicates a credible and imminent threat to human life or safety, our teams may alert law enforcement agencies who may be positioned to intervene. 

• Vigilante activity. This includes coordinated efforts to intimidate or take physical action against individuals or communities outside proper legal process. 

• Encouraging or engaging in dangerous behavior. This includes engaging in activities likely to be imitated that could lead to serious harm, such as high-risk challenges, reckless driving, or other behavior that poses a risk to public safety. 

• Content that glorifies, or risks inciting, violent or harmful behavior toward people or animals.  

• Snaps of gratuitous or graphic violence, including animal abuse.

Where users report content that indicates a risk of self-harm, our teams review these reports with an eye toward providing helpful resources and potentially identifying opportunities for emergency services to intervene, where possible. Additional information about our safety resources is available on our Privacy, Safety, & Policy Hub.

To further support the well-being of our community, our Here For You portal helps to surface resources from expert localized partners when users search for certain topics related to mental health, anxiety, depression, stress, suicidal thoughts, grief and bullying.

Our approach to responding to threats, violence, and harm are tailored to the situation. When it comes to threats to oneself, our teams work to identify the best means of support via safety resources. Where others are under threat, we strive for safe outcomes both through the enforcement of our policies and, where necessary, in collaboration with law enforcement.

Doing our part to support the safety and well-being of our community is a top priority across our company.