Buying or selling endangered species or their products
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What triggers it
Offering, seeking or facilitating the sale of endangered animals or plants, or products made from them (ivory, rhino horn, pangolin scales, tiger parts, protected exotic pets), for example with prices, 'DM to buy' or shipping details.
What X says
“You may not attempt to purchase, smuggle, sell, or facilitate the selling of endangered species and/or products made out of endangered species.”
We last checked this against X's page on .
How to fix it
Remove any price, sale or trade offer and contact details. Do not offer protected species or their parts for sale.
Good to know
Watch for a sale or purchase offer next to exotic animals, ivory, horn, scales, pelts or carvings. Does NOT count: zoo, wildlife, conservation or documentary footage, or legal pets of common species, with no sale offer.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown, what's said, the words on screen and the caption. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: looked at 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 X rules
Platforms change their rules often. This page sums up what X publishes; it isn't legal advice.