Charges & Financial Obligations · Restriction or exception
Paid content cannot promote deceptive or harmful real-world financial offerings
Paid content must not promote real-world financial products or services that are deceptive or harmful. This restriction does not itself say that all financial promotion is forbidden; the general Communities rules also apply. Here, paid content means branded or commercial content for which others compensate you with anything of value, including goods or services.
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Paid content must follow all the rules above, and must not:
Promote deceptive or harmful real-world financial products and services;
If you create paid branded or commercial content, which is content that you have been compensated for (i.e. received anything of value, including money, goods, and/or services) by others, you are responsible for complying with any applicable laws around disclosing your relationship with the sponsor.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Compensation includes anything of value provided by others, not only money.
Also annotated in the same passage (6)
- Sponsored-content creators must comply with applicable disclosure laws
- Paid content cannot promote real-world medical commerce
- Paid content cannot promote real-world weapons commerce
- Paid content cannot promote specified real-world regulated-goods commerce
- Paid content cannot promote real-world dating or hook-ups
- Paid content cannot promote or solicit for certain real-world causes and organizations