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Prohibition on Creating Disinformation or Manipulative Content

High severity Medium confidence Explicitdocumentlanguage Common · 247 of 352 platforms
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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This prohibition covers a wide range of harmful or abusive content categories, restricting how the services may be used to produce or spread such material.

Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'unsolicited advertising or promotional', so additional prohibited content categories may exist in the full clause that are not captured in the canonical claim.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Readers are prohibited from using Perplexity AI's services to create, compile, or distribute any of the listed categories of harmful or abusive content.

How other platforms handle this

Tinder Medium

May harm the reputation of Tinder or its affiliates, meaning the uploading or sharing of content on the Tinder platform that is defamatory to Tinder or its affiliates or advocates misuse of the Service...

Afterpay Medium

Political content, including for dissemination in electoral campaigns.

Runway Medium

Gore, such as dismemberment, beheadings, mutilations, and exposed organs/bones/muscle

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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Create, compile or distribute disinformation or manipulative content; harassing, hateful or defamatory content; pornographic or exploitative content; unsolicited advertising or promotional...

— Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Acceptable Use Policy

Provision details

Document information
Document
Perplexity Acceptable Use Policy
Entity
Perplexity AI
Document last updated
May 11, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 20, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-059461
Document ID
CA-D-00760
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
ff40c6f81d11028b8c05d33a96deec177b7f699288f831af0c8d97183243c80b
Analysis generated
May 20, 2026 20:27 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Perplexity AI
Document: Perplexity Acceptable Use Policy
Record ID: CA-P-059461
Captured: 2026-05-20 20:27:56 UTC
SHA-256: ff40c6f81d11028b…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/perplexity-ai/perplexity-acceptable-use-policy/provision/CA-P-059461/prohibition-on-creating-disinformation-or-manipulative-content/
Accessed: July 12, 2026
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High
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Perplexity AI's Prohibition on Creating Disinformation or Manipulative Content clause do?

This prohibition covers a wide range of harmful or abusive content categories, restricting how the services may be used to produce or spread such material.

How does this clause affect you?

Readers are prohibited from using Perplexity AI's services to create, compile, or distribute any of the listed categories of harmful or abusive content.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 247 platforms. See the full comparison.

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