Facebook on Sunday updated its community standards to tell users what types of posts are not allowed on the service, providing guidance on policies related to self-injury, dangerous organizations, bullying and harassment, criminal activity, sexual violence and exploitation. The company provided more guidance on policies related to self-injury, dangerous organizations, bullying and harassment, criminal activity, sexual violence and exploitation, nudity, hate speech, and violence and graphic content.

Facebook is also trying to keep the online community free from hate speech or abusive language, by regularly talking to governments, community members, academics and other experts from around the globe to ensure that it can recognize and remove such speech.

If people believe Pages, profiles or individual pieces of content violate our Community Standards, they can report it to Facebook by clicking the "Report" link at the top, right-hand corner. Facebook's reviewers look to the person reporting the content for information about why they think the content violates Facebook's standards.

Some countries have local laws that prohibit some forms of content. In some countries, for example, it is against the law to share content regarded as being blasphemous. While blasphemy is not a violation of Facebook's Community Standards, the company will still evaluate the reported content and restrict it in that country if it concludes it violates local law.

Facebook also recorded a slight increase in government requests for account data in the second half of 2014.

Requests for account data increased to 35,051 in the second half of 2014 from 34,946 in the first half, with requests from countries such as India rising and those from others including United States and Germany falling, the report by the world's largest Internet social network showed.

Facebook said it restricted 9,707 pieces of content for violating local laws, 11 percent more than in the first half, with access restricted to 5,832 pieces in India and 3,624 in Turkey.(govtrequests.facebook.com)