• Private groups may be valuable spaces for people to get together and share their experiences with a variety of personal issues, such as identifying as LGBTQ or addressing the hardships of living with an unique health condition.
• However, just because you're in a closed group doesn't mean you shouldn't be held accountable for your conduct. Our Community Standards apply across Facebook, even in private groups, since we have a duty to keep Facebook safe.
• A specialised team has been working on the Safe Communities Initiative, which began two years ago with the purpose of preventing harm to people who use Facebook Groups. This team, which consists of product managers, engineers, machine learning experts, and content reviewers, attempts to anticipate potential ways for individuals to harm one other in groups and develops solutions to mitigate and prevent it.

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