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Effective as of August 11, 2021.These terms (the “Partner Program Terms”) govern A Medium Corporation’s (“Medium”) partner program (“Partner Program”). If you apply, meet the eligibility criteria, and are accepted into Medium’s Partner Program, you can put a story from your user account behind Medium’s paywall (“locking” a story) and receive revenue based on its performance among Medium members. Additionally, you can receive additional revenue if a Medium user signs up for a paid membership from your unique referral landing page or if the user signs up for a paid Medium membership from the offer page displayed immediately after subscribing to your emails.By participating in the Partner Program, you agree to these Partner Program Terms, as well as Medium’s <a href="https://medium.com/policy/medium-terms-of-service-9db0094a1e0f">Terms of Service</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/policy/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9">Privacy Policy</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/policy/medium-rules-30e5502c4eb4">Rules</a>, and all other terms and conditions that apply to the Medium website, mobile applications, and any other Medium service or product (collectively, the “Terms”). Please read the Partner Program Terms carefully. If you don’t understand them, or don’t accept any part of them, then you can’t participate in the Partner Program. Your acceptance of Medium’s Partner Program Terms forms a binding agreement between you and Medium and shows your intent to be bound by them.<h4>Eligibility &amp; Application</h4>To participate in the Partner Program, you must meet the <a href="https://medium.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187">Eligibility Requirements</a>, apply, and be accepted into the Partner Program. Medium reserves the right to admit writers to the Partner Program at Medium’s sole discretion. Eligibility requirements are subject to change.Existing Partner Program Participants: If you are a participant in the Partner Program as of August 10, 2021, you will remain in the program. However, to continue to participate in the Partner Program, you’ll need to meet the <a href="https://medium.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187">Eligibility Requirements</a> by December 31, 2021. Medium will use reasonable efforts to contact you before removing you from the Partner Program if you no longer meet the Eligibility Requirements. If you are removed from the Partner Program, your locked stories will be removed from behind the paywall, and you will stop earning on referred members.Ongoing Eligibility for all Partner Program participants: To remain in the Partner Program, you must continue to meet the <a href="https://medium.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187">Eligibility Requirements</a> and actively participate in the Partner Program. For example, if you do not publish within a six (6) month period, we may disable your ability to receive any revenue under the Partner Program. Before disabling your ability to earn under the Partner Program, we will notify you. In the event that we disable your ability to receive any revenue under the Partner Program and we subsequently determine that you meet the requirements to remain in the Partner Program, we may re-enable your ability to receive revenue under the Partner Program without requiring a reapplication from you for the Partner Program.<h4>Earning on Locked Stories</h4>User Stories For each locked story associated with your account, you have the opportunity to receive revenue based on various performance factors, including reader engagement. Based on the performance of a story, Medium will pay you a portion of revenues received by Medium from membership fees, as determined by Medium. Medium will send you payment for any revenues accrued as described in the Payment section below. Medium reserves the right to adjust at any time the factors by which story performance and revenue are determined.User Stories &amp; Medium Publications A locked story may be included in a Medium publication. The writer chooses whether to lock a story and will receive the same amount of funds through the Partner Program regardless of whether the story is included in a publication. A publication will not receive any funds from the Partnership Program based on the performance of a locked story in that publication. As with any story, either the writer or the publication owner or editors may choose to remove a locked story from a publication at any time.The above arrangement may be modified on a case-by-case basis, such as for publications operating on Medium that commission or own their content. For any such publication planning to receive proceeds from a story’s performance, this arrangement must be made clear to any writer potentially affected and agreed upon in advance with a given story’s writer.<h4>Referral Program</h4>As a participant in the Partner Program, you will be eligible to receive monthly referral fees (“Referral Fees”) from readers who become paid members (“Members”) as part of Medium’s Referral Program (the “Referral Program”).How It Works. Every Partner Program participant has a personalized referral landing page (“Referral Page”). If a reader becomes a paid Medium Member through your Referral Page, then you will receive a portion of that Member’s fee, less payment processing fees, for as long as that reader is a Member (“Referral Earnings”). For Members paying fees monthly, you will accrue Referral Earnings each month. For Members paying an annual fee, your Referral Earnings will be spread out over the course of that year. Additionally, when a non-paying reader subscribes to your emails, they will be presented with the option to convert to being a paid Member; if that reader becomes a Member through that page, you will then receive Referral Earnings from their fees. Referral Fees may change at the discretion of Medium. The current amounts of the Referral Fees are available <a href="https://medium.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405927192215">here</a>.When sharing your Referral Page link with potential new Members, you must comply with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)<a href="https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-releases/ftc-publishes-final-guides-governing-endorsements-testimonials/091005revisedendorsementguides.pdf"> Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising</a> and related FTC materials as updated by the FTC from time to time (the “FTC Guides”). You must disclose that you are a partner in Medium’s Partner Program and that you will receive compensation if the recipient subscribes to Medium using your Referral Page. You agree not to 1) engage in fraudulent behaviors or spam to obtain referrals or 2) violate any third-party terms or policies to obtain referrals. Such behaviors may result in the disqualification from the Partner Program.<h4>Necessary Rights</h4>You may only lock a story (i.e. place it behind Medium’s paywall) if you have sufficient rights to make commercial use of the content in it, including text, video, and audio elements. Medium may require you to provide documentation proving you own sufficient rights to lock a story.The consequences of locking stories when you lack the rights to do so or failing to provide adequate documentation upon request include unlocking stories, withholding revenue, suspension, or termination from the Partner Program, and suspension or termination of your Medium account.You are not entitled to earn or receive any revenue in connection with your content if one or more third parties claim rights to any element(s) of your content.These Partner Terms are not legal advice. If you plan to lock and earn revenue on a story containing any content you did not create, you may want to talk to a lawyer first to ensure you own all rights required to do so.<h4>Termination</h4>Medium reserves the right to unlock a story at any time, which will end that story’s ability to generate revenue. 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Medium does not owe you any revenue that may be associated with your content or Referral Earnings during any period when you are not in good standing in the Partner Program, do not have a valid Medium account, or do not have an active payout method. You will not receive any revenue if you do not have a payout account in a geographic region where the Partner Program is available. The list of available geographic regions is available <a href="https://medium.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115011694187">here</a>. Medium reserves the right to require that your revenue meet a minimum payout threshold before Medium disburses payment. In the event that you quit or are removed from the Partner Program, Medium will disburse payment to you up to and through the date you are no longer in the Partner Program, regardless of the minimum payout threshold.<h4>Changes or Discontinuation of Partner Program</h4>Medium reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Partner Program. Medium will not be liable to you or any third party for any such modification, suspension, or termination. Medium may change these Partner Program Terms from time to time so we encourage you to periodically review this page for the most up-to-date version.<h4>Taxes</h4>If required by law, you are responsible for reporting and paying any applicable taxes in connection with your participation in the Partner Program. Such taxes may include duties, customs fees, or other taxes (other than income tax), along with any related penalties or interest.<h4>Governing Law &amp; Forum</h4>The governing law, mandatory forum, and dispute resolution provisions of Medium’s Terms of Service also apply to these Partner Program Terms and any dispute arising under them.<h4>Miscellaneous</h4>You participate in the Partner Program at your own risk. You agree that you are solely responsible for your actions in connection with the Partner Program, any breach of your obligations under the Partner Program Terms, and for the consequences of any such breach. By participating in the Referral Program, you agree to comply with applicable laws and regulatory standards and guidelines, including the FTC Guides.Any capitalized terms used but not defined in these Partner Program Terms have the meanings given to them in Medium’s Terms of Service. Except as modified by these Partner Program Terms, Medium’s Terms of Service remain in effect. Medium’s right to modify or revise the Terms of Service also applies to these Partner Program Terms.<h4>Contact Us</h4>If you have questions or feedback about the Partner Program, you can email at us at <a href="mailto:yourfriends@medium.com">yourfriends@medium.com</a><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=fcfe9cf777b8" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://policy.medium.com/medium-partner-program-terms-fcfe9cf777b8">Medium Partner Program Terms</a> was originally published in <a href="https://policy.medium.com">Medium Policy</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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We appreciate the feedback about the language in our updated Terms of Service that focuses on your content rights. We first responded by preparing a <a href="https://blog.medium.com/our-updated-terms-and-privacy-policy-d03bed9978d8">short blog post</a> explaining the updates.We’ve now edited the <a href="https://policy.medium.com/medium-terms-of-service-9db0094a1e0f">Terms of Service</a> to more clearly reflect what we said in that post.Here’s the passage we’ve updated:<blockquote>Rights and Ownership</blockquote><blockquote>You retain your rights to any content you submit, post or display on or through the Services.</blockquote><blockquote>Unless otherwise agreed in writing, by submitting, posting, or displaying content on or through the Services, you grant Medium a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your content in all media formats and distribution methods now known or later developed on the Services.</blockquote><blockquote>Medium needs this license because you own your content and Medium therefore can’t display it across its various surfaces (i.e., mobile, web) without your permission.</blockquote><blockquote>This type of license also is needed to distribute your content across our Services. For example, you post a story on Medium. It is reproduced as versions on both our website and app, and distributed to multiple places within Medium, such as the homepage or reading lists. A modification might be that we show a snippet of your work (and not the full post) in a preview, with attribution to you. A derivative work might be a list of top authors or quotes on Medium that uses portions of your content, again with full attribution. This license applies to our Services only, and does not grant us any permissions outside of our Services.</blockquote>This license doesn’t give Medium permission to sell your content to a third party, and we’ll never do that. You’re not granting us permission to use your content outside of Medium. You’re also not granting us copyright to, or ownership of, your content. So, for example, we’ll never claim the right to develop your content into materials such as books, films, or television shows without your knowledge and express consent.You’ll notice this license is royalty-free. This means posting to our services doesn’t involve any compensation to you (unless you’re in our Partner Program), just as you wouldn’t get compensated for posting to Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.And speaking of our Partner Program, these Terms of Service (just like the previous version of Medium’s Terms of Service) do not alter, modify, or supersede that program. All content you decide to put behind our paywall for monetization still earns you money based on subscribed Medium Member engagement. We’re not de-monetizing that content or changing the Partner Program terms.To restate:<ul><li>You own all the content you post on Medium, and we make no claims to it, nor will we ever in the future.</li><li>We do not, and will not, sell your content or information. Ever.</li></ul>If you have any further questions, the best way to contact us is by emailing <a href="mailto:yourfriends@medium.com">yourfriends@medium.com</a>.<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=bad566e3f7da" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://blog.medium.com/clarifying-mediums-new-terms-of-service-bad566e3f7da">Clarifying Medium’s new Terms of Service</a> was originally published in <a href="https://blog.medium.com">3 Min Read</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Clarifying Medium’s new Terms of Service

**Edit 8/19/20: We have updated the language in the terms for more clarification. You can read more here:<a href="https://blog.medium.com/clarifying-mediums-new-terms-of-service-bad566e3f7da">Clarifying Medium’s new Terms of Service</a>You may have noticed a banner across all of Medium notifying you of our upcoming new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. We’ve received some questions about the updates, so we’d like to give you more context and information about them.While some of the language in these policies has changed, Medium’s fundamental beliefs (and behaviors) have not. Here’s the deal:<ul><li>You own all the content you post on Medium, and we make no claims to it, nor will we ever in the future.</li><li>We do not, and will not, sell your information. Ever.</li></ul>Here are links to our latest <a href="https://policy.medium.com/medium-terms-of-service-9db0094a1e0f">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://policy.medium.com/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9">Privacy Policy</a>. These go into effect on September 1st, 2020. Until that date, our existing Terms and Privacy Policy remain in effect. The purpose of the banner you’ve seen is to give you a heads-up about upcoming changes plus an opportunity to think about them and ask questions.The following section in the new Terms of Service does have updated, but not materially new, language:<blockquote>Rights and Ownership</blockquote><blockquote>You retain your rights to any content you submit, post or display on or through the Services.</blockquote><blockquote>Unless otherwise agreed in writing, by submitting, posting, or displaying content on or through the Services, you grant Medium a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform and display your content and any name, username or likeness provided in connection with your content in all media formats and distribution methods now known or later developed without compensation to you.</blockquote>This is the same as the permissions in our Terms’ previous version. It’s just written in different language that’s more precise.What this term means is that you’re granting us a license to reproduce the content you post on Medium within the surfaces and products served by Medium only. These are the referenced “Medium Services.” These services include our website, our official apps, and any other future product or service that is powered by the Medium network.You are NOT granting us permission to use your content outside of the Medium network. You also are NOT granting us copyright to or ownership of your content. For example, we would make no claim of ownership over your copyright content for development into any other materials such as books, films, or television shows without your permission and participation.Additionally, nothing about our updated Terms changes or overrides your ability to monetize any content you choose to publish into our Partner Program. Nothing is changing with the Partner Program.<blockquote>In short, you still 100% own your content, and you remain in control of it.</blockquote>You’re just granting us permission to display it on Medium. If you don’t agree to that, you’re free to export your content at any time from your <a href="http://medium.com/me/settings">Settings Page</a>, and you retain complete ownership over it. You can also delete your account on that same page.Additionally, we have moved the language regarding sale of your information from the Terms to our <a href="https://policy.medium.com/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9">Privacy Policy</a>. But it remains the same:<blockquote>Medium does not sell your personal information.</blockquote>Ever. Full stop. We have made a commitment to be an ad-free platform and, as such, we will not sell your information.Additionally, we have clarified CCPA compliance and rights for California residents to our Privacy Policy, and added the option for all users to opt-out of binding arbitration in our Terms of Service.Medium continues to respect and promote the rights of creators and users, and we stand firm in our commitment that you alone own and control your work and your data.If you have any further questions, please send us an email to <a href="mailto:yourfriends@medium.com">yourfriends@medium.com</a>.<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=d03bed9978d8" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://blog.medium.com/our-updated-terms-and-privacy-policy-d03bed9978d8">Our Updated Terms and Privacy Policy</a> was originally published in <a href="https://blog.medium.com">3 Min Read</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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<h4>2018 Edition</h4><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*N-u0fshAxKzms88RzWfGaw.png" /></figure>We believe that having diverse perspectives and voices within our workforce is vital for us to offer diverse perspectives and voices to our readers, and the only way to have meaningful diversity at work is to foster an inclusive environment. Diversity for us includes, but is not limited to, gender, ethnicity, race, culture, socio-economic background, religion, age, physical ability, veteran status, country of origin, primary language, sexuality, political preference, education, and family makeup.<h3>The Data</h3>Every year, we send an optional survey to our staff to gather demographic information and give employees a chance to voice whether they feel our workplace is diverse and inclusive. We sent the survey to staff hired up until November 13, 2018 and the responses are valid as of November 30, 2018. A few notes on the data:<ul><li>The survey is anonymous and optional for all employees. Contractors were not included in this survey. In order to capture some of the subgroups of the survey, we cross-referenced survey data with our internal HR data.</li><li>We separate our statistics into tech — which includes engineering, product, and data science — and non-tech, which includes (but is not limited to) marketing, content, operations, human resources, and design. We do not separate the demographics for other functional groups because their small size precludes anonymity.</li><li>Senior employees are defined as individuals who are in one of the top three levels of our six-tier internal leveling system.</li></ul><h3>Who We Are</h3>As of November 13, 2018, we are comprised of 98 employees that identify mostly as introverts and ambiverts. We enjoy both outdoor and indoor activities, with a slight preference for staying indoors. Our current employees are based all over the US, with 75% of the company in San Francisco, 15% in New York and the rest working remotely. The largest team is engineering (46% of Medium) followed by Editorial (13%) and Product (11%).<h3>Gender</h3>The overall gender split for Medium is 39.6% (-0.6 percentage points from 2017) female and 60.4% male. For the tech roles, the split is 31.5% (-6.5pp from 2017) female and 68.5% male, while for non-tech roles, the ratio of female and male employees is even at 50% (+14pp for female held positions from 2017). In senior positions, we have 27.5% (+4.7pp from 2017) of the positions filled by female employees and the remaining 72.5% filled by male employees.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*IfWNVVOnUcitMyHO" /></figure><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*mRTGeQSDBjwNpeWD" /></figure><h3>Race &amp; Ethnicity</h3>The current makeup of Medium is 63% of employees that identify as White. That’s an increase of +5pp from the previous year. There are also 24% of employees identifying as Asian, which represents an increase of +2pp from 2017. We have 9% of employees that identify as Black or African American and that’s a decrease of -2pp from last year. Other groups saw a marginal increase of +1–2pp from 2017.We do not have any Black, African American, Hispanic, or Latinx employees at the senior level.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*AgFQ6X8nwHSOSWFK" /></figure><h3>Age, LGBTQ+ &amp; Origin</h3>There are other areas of diversity that we measure:<ul><li>Most of our employees are between 26–30 years old, but there was a decrease of -8pp from the previous year. The company is trending older and now more than 50% of the employees are 31 years and older.</li><li>14% of our employees identify as LGBTQ+, a jump of +4.3pp from 2017.</li><li>Most Medians were born in America but there’s a significant number (45%) of employees that are either immigrants or born of parents that are immigrants.</li></ul><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*MltblTnZpD6E4tOQ" /></figure><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*pi6trHyBDkhxCFqb" /></figure><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*wK5HLnzn_WqBlg59" /></figure><h3>Inclusion</h3>We asked employees who they felt should be better represented at Medium. Combining direct answers to this question with free-form comments, 61% of respondents expressed a desire for a more diverse leadership team. Other areas where people felt Medium lacks diverse representation include: race &amp; ethnicity, age, and political views.<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*SytbY7TWSIWk59Uk" /></figure>The free form comments also capture that as we continue to grow and become increasingly distributed as a workforce, we have an opportunity to ensure better parity around benefits and social events between remote worker and workers in our San Francisco office.<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=503dd91c2edd" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://blog.medium.com/medium-the-diversity-report-503dd91c2edd">Medium: The Diversity Report</a> was originally published in <a href="https://blog.medium.com">3 Min Read</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Medium: The Diversity Report

We’ve been putting our <a href="https://blog.medium.com/the-medium-model-3ec28c6f603a">energy at Medium</a> into improving quality — hosting more thoughtful and carefully written content, and improving the reading experience. We want to eliminate distractions that get in the way of reading flow and reduce distortions that could undermine your trust in what you read on Medium.To that end, we‘re adjusting our policies related to commercial content.<h3>Ads, Promotions, and Marketing</h3>First, we’ll be restricting some kinds of commercial activity that have been allowed in the past, such as sponsorships and links that are mainly promotional. Medium’s business has been ad-free for more than a year now. But some “ad-like” remnants that had value in the past are now less aligned with Medium’s model of using subscriptions and a metered paywall to provide the best quality user experience. This means eliminating certain features that are superficially free, but for which you pay with attention.So, as of September 1, 2018, our policies will include:<ul><li>First-party promotion is allowed. You can promote your own work or goods and services you provide, like a link to your website or your book. For posts or publications run by a company (like company blogs), you can promote goods or services provided by your company.</li><li>Third-party advertising and sponsorships are not allowed. You may not advertise or promote third-party products, services, or brands through Medium posts, publications, or letters. This includes images that indicate brand sponsorship in a post or letter, or as part of a publication name or logo.</li><li>Images functioning as third-party ads are not allowed. Inline images or embeds that link out and function as banner ads for third-party brands will no longer be allowed.</li><li>You must disclose affiliate links or payment for a post. Affiliate links, such as link out to Amazon with your code, or any other link out where you will receive a commission or other value, are allowed in posts. But, you must disclose somewhere in the post that it includes affiliate links. If you have received payment, goods or services, or something else of value in exchange for writing a post, you must still disclose this fact in writing within your post (as <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftcs-endorsement-guides-what-people-are-asking">FTC Rules and Guides</a>, and <a href="https://medium.com/policy/medium-rules-30e5502c4eb4">Medium Rules</a> require).</li></ul><h3>Embedded Content</h3>Second, in preparing to comply with GDPR (the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation), it led us to step back, take a fresh look at our privacy practices, and renew our efforts to make Medium trustworthy. It raised questions about what types of data collection we should and should not allow through Medium. And in other cases, it led us to think about how to channel third-party data collection on Medium to make sure our users understand as clearly as possible what information about them is captured, by whom, where it winds up, and how it might be used.As of September 1, 2018:<ul><li>Embeds that directly collect data through form fields will no longer be allowed.</li></ul>This includes embeds that facilitate the submission of email addresses and other personally identifying information through forms (such as Upscribe or Rabbut) and the submission of credit card information (such as Gumroad). We understand that this might make life harder for writers and publications who want to collect information directly from users. But, we believe this change is necessary to ensure that Medium readers know where their data is going and how it will be used.Going forward, if you want to collect information from your users, you will need to link out from your post on Medium to a form hosted elsewhere that makes it clear to a user that they are no longer in the Medium network. We are working with Upscribe, Rabbut, and Gumroad so that their services function in line with these Medium policies.We will continue to allow embeds that display content, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Soundcloud, GitHub, and others, as explained in our <a href="https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214981378-Embeds">Help Center</a>. Our <a href="https://medium.com/policy/medium-privacy-policy-f03bf92035c9">Privacy Policy</a> discusses in more detail how we treat this type of embed.Thank you. We’re grateful for your continued use of Medium and appreciate your working with us to make Medium a place for thoughtful, high-quality stories.<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=aeee8ef5dacf" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://blog.medium.com/ad-free-medium-aeee8ef5dacf">Ad-Free Medium</a> was originally published in <a href="https://blog.medium.com">3 Min Read</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Ad-Free Medium

Today, we are updating our rules to help strengthen our community.As the internet has evolved in the five years since we launched, so has the way people use Medium. To accommodate this, we regularly assess our rules, and adjust them accordingly.We strive to be a place where everyone is welcome to share, read, and engage with the stories that matter to them. When we see abuse of this system, we act quickly and fairly to take appropriate action. Where our policies fail, we carefully analyze and update them.Beyond Medium itself, we recognize that we are also part of the larger internet ecosystem. Just as we rely on outside technology, systems, and information to run Medium, we also consider off-platform signals when assessing potential rules violations.We have all seen an increase and evolution of online hate, abuse, harassment, and disinformation, along with ever-evolving campaigns of fraud and spam. To continue to be good citizens of the internet, and provide our users with a trusted and safe environment to read, write, and share new ideas, we have strengthened our policies around this type of behavior.One of the most critical signals we rely on in maintaining a high standard of quality is you, our community of readers, authors, and thinkers. We appreciate your many contributions to making Medium a better platform.If you find content you believe violates our rules, please flag it for our Trust and Safety team to review, or <a href="https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=160277">email us</a> with more information.You can read our updated rules <a href="https://medium.com/policy/medium-rules-30e5502c4eb4">here</a>.Thanks, Medium Trust and Safety<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=d99d594d1a0c" width="1" height="1" alt=""><hr><a href="https://blog.medium.com/updating-our-rules-d99d594d1a0c">Updating Our Rules</a> was originally published in <a href="https://blog.medium.com">3 Min Read</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Updating Our Rules

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