Harmful False or Deceptive Information Guidelines

🔍 False Information — Our Approach

Parsafy does not maintain a list of approved truths or police disagreement with official positions. We recognize that on many important topics — health, science, history, politics, global affairs — reasonable people disagree, evidence evolves, and institutional consensus has at times been wrong. The right response to bad ideas is more speech, not suppression.

Our policies against false information are therefore narrow and targeted: they focus on specific categories of content where the potential for real-world harm is direct, serious, and not adequately addressed by Community Notes alone. Outside these categories, disputed or contested claims are addressed through Community Notes, not removal.

The three categories where Parsafy takes direct action are:

• Denial of documented tragic events — where the purpose is to incite hatred or harm victims and their communities.
• Civic and electoral process disinformation — false procedural information designed to suppress participation or undermine democratic legitimacy.
• Health claims that create direct, imminent physical danger — not health controversy, but specific instructions that could directly cause death or serious injury.

🚫 Denial of Documented Tragic Events

Parsafy prohibits content that denies the occurrence of documented historical atrocities or mass tragic events where the primary purpose and effect of such denial is to incite hatred, harass victims and their communities, or provide cover for violence.

This prohibition covers content that denies or disputes, for example:

• The Holocaust and Nazi genocide of Jewish people and other groups.
• Documented genocides and ethnic cleansing campaigns recognized by credible historical and legal authorities.
• Mass casualty events such as documented school shootings, terror attacks, and similar tragedies — where denial is used to harass survivors and victims' families.

🗳️ Civic & Electoral Process Integrity

Elections and civic processes are vital to democratic societies and can be vulnerable to deliberate information manipulation. Parsafy prohibits specific categories of false procedural information designed to interfere with participation in civic and electoral processes.

Prohibited

• Procedural disinformation: Deliberately false information about voting dates, polling locations, voter ID requirements, registration deadlines, or other procedural aspects of elections — where the false information could prevent or deter participation.
• Participation intimidation: False claims designed to intimidate or discourage specific groups from participating in elections or civic processes.
• Fraudulent participation: Content encouraging people to misrepresent themselves to participate in a civic process, cast multiple ballots, or otherwise engage in electoral fraud.
• Delegitimization based on fabricated evidence: Content designed to delegitimize election results based on demonstrably false or fabricated evidence — distinct from genuine, good-faith disputes about electoral integrity.
• Coordinated inauthentic behavior: Bot networks, fake accounts, or astroturfing campaigns designed to artificially amplify political content or manufacture the appearance of grassroots support.

🏥 Health Information

Parsafy takes a narrow approach to health-related content moderation. We do not remove content simply because it contradicts official health agency guidance, expresses skepticism about medical consensus, or presents alternative viewpoints on health topics. Health knowledge evolves, institutional guidance changes, and dissenting perspectives have historically played an important role in medical progress.

Our Community Notes feature is the primary tool for addressing health content that members believe is misleading — allowing the community to add cited sources and context without suppressing the original post.

What We Do Prohibit

The narrow category of health content Parsafy acts on directly is content that provides specific instructions that could cause direct, imminent physical harm to a person who follows them — not health controversy, not skepticism of official guidance, but literal how-to content for self-harm or harm to others in a health context:

• Specific instructions directing users to ingest, inject, or apply substances that are acutely toxic at the quantities described (e.g., "drink [toxic substance] to cure [disease]").
• Content directing users to discontinue life-critical treatment for a serious condition in favor of a described alternative, where following the advice could be directly fatal.
• Instructions for creating or deploying biological, chemical, or other agents capable of causing mass casualties.

🎭 Impersonation & Identity Deception

Parsafy prohibits pretending to be someone or something you are not for deceptive, harmful, or non-satirical purposes. Impersonation erodes trust, can cause direct harm to the person being impersonated, and deceives users about who they are engaging with.

Prohibited

• Creating accounts that falsely represent themselves as a real, named individual — including public figures, celebrities, and private individuals — without clearly indicating that the account is parody or fan content.
• Using another person's name, photo, or identifying information to deceive others about your identity.
• Creating fake accounts purporting to be official brand accounts, business accounts, or organizational accounts without authorization.
• Impersonating Parsafy AI Inc. or any Parsafy product or service — including creating fake Parsafy support accounts, fake Parsafy announcements, or content falsely attributed to Parsafy.
• Creating AI-generated content that falsely attributes statements, actions, or positions to real named individuals in a way that deceives audiences about what those individuals actually said or did.

Permitted

• Clearly labeled parody or satire accounts of public figures — provided they are obviously not the real person and do not attempt to deceive.
• Fan accounts, provided they clearly identify themselves as fan or tribute accounts.
• Fictional portrayals of real individuals in clearly creative contexts.
• Using a pseudonym or pen name that does not impersonate a real person.

🚨 Fraud, Spam & Deceptive Practices

Fraud and spam cause direct financial harm to users, expose them to cybersecurity threats, and undermine trust in the platform. Parsafy strictly prohibits deceptive commercial and behavioral practices.

Prohibited

• Get-rich-quick schemes: Promoting investment opportunities, trading systems, or income programs that make unrealistic or guaranteed return claims.
• Pyramid and multilevel marketing schemes: Promoting business models where the primary income mechanism is recruiting others rather than selling genuine products or services.
• Counterfeit promotion: Advertising, selling, or facilitating the sale of counterfeit goods, fraudulent documents, fake certificates, or unauthorized replicas of branded products. See our Counterfeit Policy.
• Undisclosed paid content: Posting commercial content without the required disclosures. See our Commercial Content Policy.
• Follower-growth fraud: Selling, buying, or promoting services that artificially inflate follower counts, likes, comments, or other engagement metrics.
• Spam applications: Promoting apps or services whose primary purpose is to spam or deceive users.
• Phishing and credential theft: Content designed to trick users into revealing passwords, financial information, or other sensitive credentials.
• State lotteries and unauthorized sweepstakes: Promotion of unauthorized lottery or sweepstakes schemes that violate applicable law.

✅ What Is Permitted — Protected Expression

Parsafy's approach is to protect expression broadly and restrict narrowly. The following are always permitted and will never be removed as "misinformation" on Parsafy:

• Dissenting opinion: Disagreement with official positions — government, scientific, medical, or institutional — on any topic.
• Alternative theories: Theories, interpretations, and hypotheses that depart from mainstream consensus, presented honestly as personal views or open questions.
• Satire and parody: Clearly satirical content about public figures, institutions, or events — including political satire that exaggerates or inverts reality for comic effect.
• Criticism of official narratives: Questioning government statements, official reports, institutional guidance, or media coverage.
• Whistleblowing and leaks: Publishing or sharing information that authorities or powerful institutions may prefer to suppress.
• Contested historical interpretation: Good-faith debate about historical events, their causes, and their significance.
• Health skepticism: Skepticism about pharmaceutical products, public health agencies, vaccines, or official medical guidance.
• Political controversy: Content on any contested political topic, regardless of how controversial or unpopular the position.

💡 Examples

⚙️ Enforcement

Parsafy enforces these guidelines through a combination of automated detection, community reporting, Community Notes, and human review. Our approach is proportionate and context-sensitive.

• Community Notes: The first-line response to contested or disputed information. Content remains visible; community members add cited context.
• Content removal: Reserved for the narrow categories of content addressed in these guidelines — tragic event denial for the purpose of inciting hatred, electoral procedural disinformation, direct-harm health instructions, impersonation, and fraud/spam.
• Account restriction: Users who repeatedly violate these guidelines may have their accounts restricted.
• Account termination: Accounts whose primary purpose is fraud, spam, or impersonation may be permanently terminated.

On high-reach surfaces — including the Discovery Feed and Parsafy TV — we are proactive in reviewing content for compliance with these guidelines. We also rely on user reports to identify content that our automated systems may miss.