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TheFakto Rules

Last updated: 6 October 2026

TheFakto is a network of verified real people, all aged 18 or older. These rules say what you may and may not publish here. They are part of our Terms of Service, so breaking them is also breaking the contract. Breaking them costs you the content. Breaking them repeatedly costs you the account.

1. Where these rules apply

Everywhere on TheFakto. Posts, Stories, Wheels, photos, videos, comments, likes and shares, direct messages, voice messages, video calls, your profile name and picture, your bio, Groups, Pages, and the sounds you put on a video. They also apply to what you send in a private message. Private does not mean exempt.

They apply whether you made the content, found it, or generated it with a tool.

2. You are responsible for what you upload

This is the core of TheFakto. Before you publish anything you tick a box confirming two things: that the content is yours or that you have the right to publish it, and that it follows these rules. That tick is a real statement, not a formality.

Editing something in another app does not move the responsibility to that app. Downloading something from another network does not make it yours. If you publish it here, you answer for it here.

Because every account belongs to one identity verified person, we always know which real person published a piece of content. That is the point of this network.

3. Child safety: zero tolerance

No sexual or sexualised content involving anyone under 18. This covers photographs, video, drawings, cartoons, text, and anything produced by an AI tool. It covers content that is not explicit but presents a child in a sexual way. It covers grooming, asking a minor for images, and sharing links to such material.

There is no context in which this is allowed. There is no exception for art, satire, or "it is generated, not real".

What happens: the content is removed, the account is closed permanently at the first offence with no warning, and we report the case to the competent authorities in the Czech Republic with the data we hold. Under Article 18 of the EU Digital Services Act we are required to inform law enforcement when we suspect a criminal offence involving a threat to the life or safety of a person, and we will.

TheFakto is an 18+ service. If you believe a minor has got past verification, report the account and write to honzastegner19@gmail.com.

4. Sexual content and nudity

Not allowed: pornography, explicit sexual acts, visible genitals, visible anus, fully exposed buttocks, female nipples, close ups of covered genitals, and offers of sexual services or paid sexual content.

Judged in context, and usually allowed: breastfeeding, birth, post surgery and health related images, protest where nudity is the message, painting and sculpture, and medical or educational material. Give the context in the post. A caption that explains what you are showing makes the difference between a removal and a keep.

What happens: the content is removed and you get a strike. Repeated sexual content leads to a publishing limit and then to closure.

5. Intimate images shared without consent

Not allowed: sexual or intimate images or video of an adult published without that person's agreement, including images taken from a private chat, hidden camera footage, upskirt images, and "revenge" posts. Also not allowed: threatening to publish such images to get money, more images, or anything else.

What happens: immediate removal, and the account is closed. Threatening to publish intimate images is a criminal offence in many countries and we treat it as one. If you are the victim, report the content and write to us. We will remove it without asking you for proof that you are in the image beyond what is needed to identify the content.

6. Violence, killing and gore

Not allowed: killings, executions, torture, mutilation, dismemberment, visible corpses, severe injuries, and animal or human suffering shown for entertainment or shock. Not allowed: praising or celebrating a violent act or its perpetrator.

Narrow exception: news, documentary and human rights reporting. Real events do get documented, and documenting them has value. If you publish graphic material for that reason, say clearly in the post what it is and why, and do not celebrate what is shown. We may still put it behind a warning or restrict it to adults who choose to see it, and we may remove it if the graphic detail goes beyond what the reporting needs.

What happens: removal and a strike. Content that glorifies the violence, rather than reports it, ends the account.

7. Threats

Not allowed: threats to kill, hurt, sexually assault, kidnap or cause serious harm to a person or a group. Not allowed: statements of intent to attack a place, an event or an institution. Not allowed: calling on others to do any of that, or publishing someone's location so that others can find and harm them.

A threat does not stop being a threat because it was a joke, a reply, or a private message.

What happens: the content goes and the account is closed at the first offence. Credible threats to life or safety are reported to the police.

8. Terrorism and violent extremism

Not allowed: content produced by, or in support of, terrorist organisations or violent extremist groups. No their logos, flags, anthems, recruitment material, training manuals, bomb making instructions, attacker manifestos, or attack footage. No fundraising for them. No presenting their attacks as heroic.

Narrow exception: news reporting, academic research and counter speech that clearly condemns or analyses, with the context stated in the post.

What happens: removal and permanent closure of the account. Competent authorities may order us to remove terrorist content and we comply with lawful orders.

9. War content and glorification of atrocities

War is reported on, and that is legitimate. What is not allowed is using war as entertainment. No glorifying war crimes, ethnic cleansing, mass killings or genocide. No denying or trivialising them. No dead or captured soldiers and civilians shown as trophies. No propaganda produced by a party to a conflict that presents attacks on civilians as a good thing. No recruitment for armed groups.

Narrow exception: reporting, evidence gathering, testimony from people who lived through it, remembrance, and historical or educational material. Say which one it is in the post.

What happens: removal and a strike, or immediate closure where the content glorifies atrocities or recruits for them.

10. Hate speech and slurs

Not allowed: attacking, dehumanising, mocking or calling for the exclusion of people because of race, skin colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or lack of it, disability, serious illness, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or refugee and migrant status.

Not allowed: slurs aimed at those groups, even in one word, even as a reply, even as a "reclaimed" word aimed at somebody else. Not allowed: stereotypes presented as facts, claims that a group is criminal or subhuman by nature, and symbols of regimes built on racial or ethnic hatred.

Narrow exception: quoting hate in order to condemn it, reporting on it, and speaking about a slur used against you. The condemnation has to be visible in the post, not assumed.

What happens: removal and a strike. Organised hate, or a pattern of it, closes the account.

11. Harassment and bullying

Not allowed: repeatedly contacting someone who asked you to stop, pile ons, sexual harassment, unwanted sexual images in messages, insulting someone's body or appearance, mocking a death or a serious illness, attacking someone for their medical condition, and creating content whose purpose is to humiliate one identifiable person.

Not allowed: making a new approach to a person after they blocked you, including through a Group, a Page or a second device.

What happens: removal, a strike, and a block on contacting that person. Sustained campaigns against one person close the account.

12. Swearing and abusive language

Swearing is not automatically banned, and an angry word in a post about your own day is not a rules problem. Swearing aimed at a person is. No insults, no vulgar abuse directed at another user, no obscene language in a username, display name, Group name, Page name or bio, and no writing a slur with symbols in it to get past the filter.

Our automatic check screens text for abusive language. Where it is aimed at somebody, expect the content to be refused or removed.

What happens: the content is removed. Repeated abuse leads to a publishing limit.

13. Suicide and self harm

Not allowed: encouraging suicide or self harm, instructions or methods, naming amounts or substances, challenges and pacts, images of fresh self harm wounds, and content that presents suicide as a solution or as beautiful.

Allowed and welcome: saying that you are struggling, asking for help, recovery stories, healed scars, and prevention material. If you write about this, we may show you where to get help in your country, and we will not punish you for asking.

What happens: content that encourages or instructs is removed. Content that shows someone in danger right now is escalated, and where there is a real threat to life we contact emergency services.

14. Eating disorders

Not allowed: promoting starvation, purging, extreme restriction, or an emaciated body as a goal. No calorie targets presented as a challenge, no "thinspiration", no ranking bodies, no tips for hiding an eating disorder from other people.

Allowed: recovery, treatment, awareness and criticism of diet culture, and talking about your own experience without giving the method.

What happens: removal and a strike, plus a link to help.

15. Dangerous acts and challenges

Not allowed: stunts and challenges likely to cause serious injury when copied, dangerous acts involving children, swallowing or inhaling harmful substances, dangerous driving filmed for content, and climbing or trespassing that risks a life for a view.

Narrow exception: professional or supervised performance where the setting is visible, and safety warnings are given.

16. Drugs

Not allowed: selling, buying, trading or asking for illegal drugs, prescription medicines without a prescription, or the chemicals and equipment used to make them. No prices, no contact details, no code words, no linking to a shop. No instructions for producing or extracting drugs. No content that makes drug use look harmless to a young audience.

Narrow exception: harm reduction, addiction and recovery, medical and scientific discussion, drug policy debate, and reporting. Legal products in the country where they are legal may be discussed, but not offered for sale here.

What happens: removal and a strike. Dealing closes the account and may be reported to the police.

17. Weapons, explosives and other regulated goods

Not allowed: offers to sell or arrange firearms, ammunition, parts that convert a weapon, 3D printed weapon files, explosives, or knives sold as weapons. No instructions for making a firearm, a bomb, a silencer or a device designed to harm people.

Not allowed here either, because we cannot verify the buyer or the country: alcohol, tobacco and nicotine products including vapes, prescription medicines, gambling and betting services, live animals, and human body parts or fluids.

Allowed: hunting, sport shooting, collecting and museum content, and lawful discussion of gun policy, with no sale and no build instructions.

18. Illegal goods, services and human exploitation

Not allowed: stolen goods, counterfeit products and documents, forged IDs, hacked accounts and payment cards, pirated media, protected wildlife and their parts, and anything else the law forbids trading.

Not allowed under any circumstances: human trafficking, forced labour, arranging prostitution, smuggling people, selling or arranging an adoption, and recruitment for any of these. We remove it and report it.

19. Fraud and scams

Not allowed: phishing, fake login pages, fake giveaways and prize draws, romance scams, investment and crypto schemes with promised returns, pyramid and Ponzi schemes, fake charity appeals, advance fee requests, fake shops, and selling followers, likes or engagement. Not allowed: cloning another user's profile to reach their friends.

What happens: removal and, for organised scam activity, immediate closure of the account. Because every account is tied to a verified identity, a closed scam account cannot come back under a new name.

20. Spam and fake engagement

Not allowed: sending the same message to many people, mass following and unfollowing, bulk identical posts or comments, hidden or misleading links, automated posting, running the service through scripts or bots, scraping other people's data, selling or renting access to your account, and buying engagement.

What happens: the content is removed and the account is rate limited. Continued spam closes it.

21. Impersonation and fake accounts

Every account here belongs to one verified person, so impersonation is both a rules problem and an attack on what TheFakto is for.

Not allowed: using someone else's name, photos or identity, presenting yourself as a company, authority or public figure you are not, running an account for somebody else, using an account that was verified by a different person, and parody or fan accounts that are not clearly labelled as such.

Pages are for businesses and projects, and a Page must say who is behind it. A verified Business Page is a paid feature and does not make claims about the business true.

What happens: the account is closed, and the verification tied to it cannot be reused.

22. Other people's private data

Not allowed: publishing another person's home address, phone number, private email, identity document, bank or card details, medical records, workplace with intent to cause trouble, live location, or login details. Not allowed: publishing screenshots of private messages in order to expose or endanger somebody. Not allowed: calling on others to find or confront a person.

This also applies to photographs of other people taken in private situations. If somebody asks you to take down a photograph of them, take it down.

What happens: fast removal, because the harm keeps growing while the content stands, and a strike. Doxxing aimed at endangering someone closes the account.

23. Other people's work, and music

Not allowed: posting music, films, series, matches, photographs, illustrations or text that you have no right to publish. Not allowed: removing a watermark or a credit. Not allowed: reposting somebody else's video as your own.

Sound on TheFakto comes from FaktoBeats, our own licensed library, or from your own recordings, or from sounds another user uploaded and released for reuse. Uploading a commercial track as your own sound is not allowed, no matter how short the clip is and no matter what you write in the caption. "No copyright intended" has no legal effect.

Rights holders: write to honzastegner19@gmail.com with a link to the content, a description of the work, and a statement of the right you hold. We act on clear cases quickly, and we tell the person who posted it why their content went, so that they can reply if they do hold the right.

The animated emoji in chat come from Google's Noto Emoji project, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

24. Deepfakes and AI generated people

AI tools are fine. Pretending their output is a real person or a real event is not.

Not allowed: sexual deepfakes of anybody, ever. Not allowed: putting words or actions into the mouth of a real person who did not say or do them, fake audio of a real person, fake footage of an event that did not happen, synthetic media used to make somebody look like a criminal, and AI generated people used to run an account or a Page as if they were human.

If you publish AI generated or heavily altered content that could be taken for real, say so in the post. Labelled satire and obvious fiction are allowed. Unlabelled realism is not.

What happens: removal and a strike. Sexual deepfakes and political deepfakes close the account.

25. Misinformation that causes real harm

We are not here to decide who is right about everything. We do remove false claims that hurt people in the physical world.

Not allowed: medical advice that will injure or kill, false claims about a treatment during an outbreak, false information about where, when or how to vote or about who may vote, fabricated emergency instructions during a disaster, and false claims aimed at a group that could trigger violence against it.

Allowed: being wrong, arguing, changing your mind, criticising governments, science and us, and asking questions. Opinion is not misinformation.

What happens: the content is removed. Repeated harmful claims lead to a publishing limit.

26. Animal cruelty

Not allowed: hurting, mutilating, poisoning or killing an animal for content, staged fights between animals, animals forced into distress for entertainment, and trade in protected species or their parts.

Narrow exception: documentation of cruelty published to expose it and stop it, with that purpose stated, and veterinary, wildlife, farming and hunting content that does not dwell on suffering.

27. Attacks on TheFakto

Not allowed: trying to break into accounts or our systems, testing exploits on the live service, malware, scraping at scale, working around a suspension or a block, and creating accounts to evade enforcement. If you find a security problem, write to us instead of using it. We will thank you properly.

28. How the automatic check works, and how it gets things wrong

Every image, video and text is checked automatically when you upload it, using AI models running on Cloudflare. Images are described and screened. Text is screened for unsafe content.

What happens next depends on the result. Content that clearly breaks these rules is refused on the spot and never becomes visible. Content the check flags as severe is hidden until a human looks at it. Content that is merely unclear is published and put on a list for review.

The check is a first filter, not a judge. It can be wrong in both directions. It can refuse a sculpture, a medical photograph or a piece of reporting, and it can let something through that should not have passed. A human makes the final decision in every case where you ask for one. If your content was refused and you believe the check was wrong, appeal. We would rather read an appeal than lose a legitimate post.

We also use the check to protect you from having to see the worst material at all.

29. Reporting content

Every post, Story, Wheel, comment, message, profile, Group and Page has a report button. Anyone can use it, whether or not they have an account, and you can also write to honzastegner19@gmail.com.

A useful report says where the content is, what rule or law you think it breaks, and why. If you are reporting something as illegal rather than as a rules problem, please tell us which law you mean, give the link, and confirm that what you are telling us is accurate to the best of your knowledge. That is what the EU Digital Services Act asks a notice to contain, and it lets us act instead of guessing.

What we do with it:

• We confirm we received your report without undue delay, if we have a way to reach you.
• We look at the content ourselves, in a way that does not depend on who reported it.
• We decide, and we tell you what we decided and what you can do if you disagree.
• We tell the person who published the content what happened, why, whether a report or an automatic check triggered it, and how to appeal. That notice is called a statement of reasons and we owe it to them under Article 17 of the Digital Services Act. Section 30 lists exactly what it contains.

You can write to us in English or in Czech. Those are the languages our contact point works in.

Two independent reports marking the same content as severe hide it automatically while we review it. That is deliberate: it is better for a legitimate post to be invisible for a day than for genuinely harmful content to stay up over a weekend. If the review clears it, it comes back and the author is told.

Reporting content in bad faith, in order to silence somebody, is itself a rules breach.

30. What the notice we send you contains

If we restrict your content or your account, you get a notice at the latest at the moment the restriction starts. It is not a one line "removed for violating our rules". It tells you:

• What we did. Whether the content was removed, hidden, made harder to find, or age restricted. Whether your account was limited, suspended or closed. Whether a payment was affected.
• How wide and how long. Whether the restriction covers all of TheFakto or only certain countries, and whether it is permanent or ends on a date.
• The facts we relied on. What in the content triggered the decision, and whether it came from a report by someone else or from our own check. Where the law lets us, we say if a report was involved, without naming the person who reported it unless naming them is necessary.
• Whether a machine was involved. We say plainly whether the content was detected or the decision was taken by automated means, and whether a human reviewed it.
• The ground. If we treated the content as illegal, we name the law and explain why it applies. If we treated it as a rules breach, we name the exact rule on this page and explain how the content breaks it.
• What you can do next. How to appeal to us, how long that takes, and that you can go to court.

These are the elements Article 17 of the Digital Services Act requires, and we send them in language you can actually read. If a notice ever reaches you without them, tell us, because that is a fault on our side.

31. Orders from authorities

Courts and competent authorities in the EU can order us to remove specific illegal content, and can order us to hand over information about an account. We comply with orders that are valid and properly addressed to us, we act only within the scope of the order, and we tell the affected user what happened and which authority was behind it, unless the authority or the law forbids us to say. Our contact point for authorities is honzastegner19@gmail.com, in English or Czech.

Two things work on a special timetable. A removal order for terrorist content under Regulation (EU) 2021/784 has to be executed within one hour of us receiving it, so that address is monitored for it. When we remove content because of such an order or because we judged it to be terrorist content, we keep a copy of the content and of the related data for six months, because that regulation requires it, so that the removal can be reviewed or used in an investigation.

32. Strikes, limits and closure

We use a simple ladder for ordinary breaches:

• First strike: the content goes and you get a warning that explains which rule it broke.
• Second strike: a warning and a temporary limit on publishing.
• Third strike: the account is closed.

Strikes for minor breaches stop counting against you after six months of no further breach.

Some things skip the ladder entirely and close the account at the first offence, with no warning: child sexual abuse material, intimate images shared without consent, sextortion, terrorism, threats to kill or seriously harm, sexual deepfakes, human trafficking, and running an account that is not you.

We weigh what actually happened. A borderline post that you immediately delete is not treated like a campaign against a person. We look at severity, at whether it was repeated, at whether anybody was harmed, and at whether you were trying to break the rule or misread it.

Because each account is one verified person, a closed account cannot come back under a new name. Closure is serious for you, which is why we explain it and why you can appeal it.

33. How to appeal, and how long it takes

Every notice we send about a removal, a limit or a closure tells you how to appeal. You can also reply to the notice, or write to honzastegner19@gmail.com with what was removed and why you think the decision was wrong.

A human reviews the appeal, not the automatic check that made the original call. We aim to answer within seven days. Complicated cases take longer and we will tell you if yours is one of them. If we got it wrong, the content comes back and the strike is cancelled.

If you disagree with the outcome, you keep your legal options. You can go to court in the Czech Republic or in the country where you live, under the consumer rules described in our Terms of Service. If your complaint is about a paid feature rather than about content, you can also use the Czech consumer dispute body named in the Terms.

34. What we do not run yet, honestly

TheFakto is operated by one person and is a micro enterprise under EU law. Under Article 19 of the Digital Services Act, several duties that large platforms carry do not apply to a platform this small: a formal internal complaint handling system, certified out of court dispute settlement, a trusted flagger programme, and an annual transparency report on moderation numbers.

We also do not publish our monthly user numbers on the site. Article 24(2) of the Digital Services Act asks online platforms to publish that figure every six months, and Article 19 releases a platform of our size from it. The one duty in that part of the law that stays with us whatever our size is Article 24(3): if the Digital Services Coordinator or the European Commission asks us for the figure, we have to give it to them without delay, and we will.

We do not publish a report on terrorist content either. Regulation (EU) 2021/784 asks for one from providers that received a removal order or took specific measures during the year. If that ever happens to us, we will publish the report for that year.

We are telling you all of this instead of implying we have it. What we do have is the appeal route above, answered by a human, and the duties that do apply to us whatever our size: clear rules, a working report mechanism, a reasoned explanation for every decision, a contact point for you and for authorities, executing lawful orders, and reporting serious crime to the police.

If TheFakto grows past the micro enterprise threshold, the extra duties start to apply. We will build them and say so here. Nothing on this page is a promise that we already do more than we do.

You can complain about how we run TheFakto to the Czech Digital Services Coordinator, which is the Czech Telecommunications Office, Český telekomunikační úřad (ctu.gov.cz). Complaints about your personal data go to the Czech data protection authority, as described in the Privacy Policy.

35. The Shop

The Shop is a place where verified people list things they want to sell, give away, swap or buy, and then agree the rest between themselves in chat. These rules apply to every listing, every request, every message about a deal and every person who takes part. They add to the rules above, they do not replace them.

What we are, and what we are not. TheFakto only shows listings and puts two people in touch. Money does not pass through TheFakto, we do not hold goods, we do not ship anything, and we are not a party to the deal. The contract is between the buyer and the seller. Because both are identity verified people, you always know that the person you deal with is a real, named person, but that is not a guarantee about the goods or about how they behave. Check what you buy before you pay for it.

You answer for your listing. As everywhere on TheFakto, you tick a box before you publish, and you are responsible for what you publish. In the Shop that means:

• You own the item or you have the right to sell it, and you are allowed to sell it where you live.
• The title, description, price, condition and photos are true. Photos show the real item, not a catalogue picture or someone else's photo.
• You state faults you know about. You do not hide damage, missing parts or a repaired or stolen origin.
• The price is the price. No bait prices, no price that changes once the buyer shows interest, no hidden fees.
• You keep your agreements: the item is delivered as described, the buyer pays what was agreed, and reserved items are really held for the person you reserved them for.
• You mark an item as sold when it is sold.

Not allowed in the Shop. Everything banned in sections 16 to 18 and section 23 above (drugs, weapons and regulated goods, illegal goods and services, counterfeit and pirated goods). In addition: stolen goods, items you know are being sold without the owner's consent, counterfeit or fake branded goods, accounts, followers, likes and other engagement, gift cards and vouchers sold for resale, tickets sold at a deceptive price, living animals sold in a way that harms them, human remains, medicines, adult content and services, and any offer to move the deal outside TheFakto for a reason that looks like fraud. Listings in the category Work or Property must be genuine offers and must follow the law on advertising such offers.

What counts as cheating another person. Taking money for something you do not deliver, delivering something that is clearly not what you described, sending an empty or fake parcel, selling an item you do not own, selling a stolen or counterfeit item as genuine, using a fake payment confirmation or fake proof of payment, collecting a deposit and disappearing, paying with money you know is not yours or with a payment you intend to reverse, and any other deliberate deception to get money or goods from someone. Pressing a person to pay quickly, to pay outside a safe method, or to click a link to "confirm" a payment is a warning sign. An honest misunderstanding, a late reply or an item that turned out to have a fault the seller did not know about is not fraud.

What happens if you cheat someone. If it is clear that you deliberately cheated another person, you get a permanent ban from the Shop. There is no warning and no strike ladder for this. All your listings are removed, you cannot list, reply or buy in the Shop again, and the ban stays attached to your verified identity, so a new account does not get around it. Your other TheFakto activity is not affected by the Shop ban alone, but cheating people is also fraud under section 19, and organised or repeated fraud closes the whole account. We can pass the information we hold to the police and to the person you cheated when the law allows or requires it.

How we decide. A ban is decided by a human, not by the automatic check. We look at what both sides say, at the chat between the buyer and the seller, at the listing, and at whether other people reported the same thing. A single unproven complaint does not lead to a ban. A clear case does. For less serious breaches (a misleading listing, a prohibited item, a price that is not honest) we remove the listing and apply the strike ladder in section 32.

Reporting and appeal. Write to honzastegner19@gmail.com. Keep the chat and any proof. If you were banned from the Shop and you think we got it wrong, appeal as described in section 33. A human reviews it and we aim to answer within seven days.

Staying safe. Meet in a public place and check the item before you pay. Do not pay in advance to a person you have no way to hold to the deal, and do not send a deposit for something you have not seen. Never share a payment card code, a bank login or a one time code with anyone, including someone who claims to be from TheFakto. We never ask for them.

Your rights as a consumer. If a trader sells you goods, the consumer rights of your country apply to that deal, for example the right to goods that match their description. Those rights are against the seller, because the seller is the other side of the contract. If a private person sells you something, different rules apply. Nothing here limits any right that the law gives you and that cannot be waived.

36. Changes

When these rules change, the date at the top changes with them. We tell you about important changes before they take effect, and you confirm the current version the next time you publish.

37. Contact

Reports, appeals, rights holder notices and questions about these rules: honzastegner19@gmail.com. Our mail comes from hello@thefakto.com. See also the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy and the Cookies page.