Creating a safe online space for all
We know how important a respectful, supportive, fun and safe online space is. And we’re commitment to providing that to Formula One fans – no matter the team or driver you support. Our goal is to take you with us every step of the way. Through the highs and lows. We want a safe and inclusive space for you to enjoy that journey. Below, we’ve outlined our Community Guidelines that we ask you to follow on all our online platforms. We have a zero-tolerance policy for discrimination, abuse or bullying of any kind, and will take appropriate action to any comments or posts that don’t meet these guidelines (from deleting comments to blocking users or reporting them to the platforms).
What We Want
Respectful debate and discussion
A positive, inclusive and supportive environment for all F1 fans to share their passion
To hear your voices and opinions, even if we don’t agree with them!
Fan-created photos and videos, when appropriate
What We Don’t Want
Discrimination of any kind, including racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism
Use of offensive, abusive or hateful language
Threatening, violent, defamatory or obscene posts or comments
Unlawful posts or comments
Spam, links to unrelated content or self-promotion
Targeted bullying or abuse towards an individual
Community Monitoring
Our Communications team closely moderate our online community across all our digital platforms. These include:
Instagram
Facebook
Threads
TikTok
X
LinkedIn
YouTube
Reddit
Weibo
We also utilise Arwen – a leading provider of community management AI tools – to help protect our online spaces, ensuring interactions and engagements on our social media platforms are in line with our Community Guidelines.
Reporting Abuse
While social media has the power to unite and connect people from all over the world, it can also be an outlet for negativity, abusive and disrespectful interactions. Discrimination of any kind has no place in our society.
Every single one of you holds the power to help stop this.
If you see something concerning, you can take action too. You can find advice below on how to do this. And if you have any other serious concerns, we regularly monitor our direct messages on social platforms like X, Instagram and TikTok. So please do message us on there.
Reporting
Keeping Our Community Safe
Swipe left or hold down on the comment (depending on the device) and press on the report icon – which is a box with an exclamation mark. A menu will appear.
Choose the option you feel best represents the comment you are reporting. Click on the option and hit ‘Submit Report’.
More information and help on how to report on Instagram.
Threads
Hit the three dots on the top left of a post or comment. To block the user from seeing your posts, select the ‘Block’ option. To stop the user’s posts from appearing in your feed, select the ‘Mute’ option.
To report the post or comment, select ‘Report’ and navigate through the menu selecting the most appropriate answers as you go.
Check this link for more information and help on and help on how to report on Threads.
Press down on the comment (or hover over it and hit the three dots, if on desktop) and the menu will appear. Hitting ‘Hide Comment’ will mean you no longer see that comment on that post.
Click on ‘Find support or report comment’ and select the options from the menu, that you feel best represents the comment. More menus appear depending on what you choose. Click ‘submit’ to send the report.
More information and help on reporting comments on Facebook.
TikTok
Hold down on the comment and hit ‘Report’. A menu will appear. Select the most relevant option and click ‘Submit’. To report a video, click the ‘share’ arrow and you can find the ‘Report’ button at the bottom.
Select the appropriate option and click ‘Submit’.
Check this link for further information and help.
X
Click the three dots on the right-hand corner. Using the username dropdown menu, hit ‘Block’ to stop the user seeing your posts, ‘Mute’ to stop seeing the user’s posts.
Hit ‘Report post’ to flag the comment or post to the platform. The detailed ‘Report an Issue’ menu will appear, navigate this menu and select what you feel is the most relevant option for the comment or post.
For more assistance and information on reporting tweets.
YouTube
On each YouTube comment and video, hitting the three dots brings up a menu. Click ‘Report’ and select the option that best fits the situation. Hit ‘Report’ to submit it to YouTube.
For more information and a helpful video.
Hit the three dots to bring up the menu and select the ‘Report’ option, which takes you to a further menu. Select the relevant option and proceed through the next menus, to submit the report.