Published on 23 June 2025

Social media netiquette at the FOAG

We invite you to visit our social media channels and interact with us and other people. The comment sections are intended as a place for lively debate, and you can help us to create a respectful and polite atmosphere.

Factual criticism, other opinions, questions and suggestions are welcome. When handling comments, the Federal Council decision of 19 June 2024 (only in german, french or italian) applies. We have summarised the key points for you here:

• Be friendly and stick to the topic.
• Have a lively but respectful discussion.
• Respect other people’s opinions.
• Feel free to notify us of any shortcomings.

All users have the right to express their opinions in the comment sections on our social media channels. However, comments may be removed if they:

• incite offences, crimes, hatred or violence;
• contain content that is offensive,defamatory, threatening, discriminatory or pornographic, or depicts violence;
• put a person’s health or personal safety at risk;
• include commercial advertising; are obviously machine-generated (spam);
• are unrelated to the topic under discussion and have been posted multiple times;
• are obviously false, have been posted multiple times and serve to misinform;
• are not written in an official Swiss language, Swiss German or English.

Comments that are suspected of constituting an official offence may also be reported to the police. Examples of such comments include discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation and incitements to hatred and violence.

Comments may be automatically checked and removed temporarily if we receive an exceptionally high number of postings.

We reserve the right to block users on any of our social media platforms for a maximum of two years if their comments pose a particularly serious violation of the rules or if they post comments multiple times that fall under any of the above-mentioned criteria.

For questions about handling comments or blocking users, please write to: