Encouraging serious self-harm: reporting it to social media companies
In this section:
| 1. What is encouraging or assisting serious self-harm? |
| 2. What you can do: reporting it to us |
| 3. Reporting it to social media companies if it happened online |
| 4. Help and support |
Social media companies have community guidelines, a set of rules that cover how people can behave on the site.
You can tell the social media company what’s happened and ask them to remove the offensive content, whether it’s a post, image, flashing image or video, or any other way it’s been sent to you online.
You can also report a user or an account if they're posting harmful or offensive information.
Find out how to report to the most popular social media platforms and what will happen next.
The website Report Harmful Content can also help you get content removed.