Fact-checked false or disproven medical claims
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What triggers it
Content rated false by a third-party fact checker, or medical claims disproven by an expert organization (including anti-vaccination claims).
What Facebook says
“Content that contains medical claims that have been disproven by an expert organization.”
We last checked this against Facebook's page on .
How to fix it
Remove disproven claims or correct them with authoritative sources.
Good to know
Prohibited category: ineligible to monetize. Check health claims against expert consensus.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's said, the words on screen and the caption. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: not for this rule
- Speech: looked at for this rule
- On-screen text: looked at for this rule
- Caption: looked at for this rule
- Hashtags: not for this rule
Related Facebook rules
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