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Social Media Guidelines

SocialMedia

Agroscope uses various social media channels in order to inform and engage in dialogue with interested parties, the general public and organisations. You can follow us on the following channels:

Agroscope is open to all comments, remarks or questions on its posts and tweets. So that our information is shared correctly and in order to ensure a high-quality, courteous exchange on our social media platforms, we adhere to the following rules:

Netiquette

We invite you to use our social media channels to keep informed and interact with us and others. The Comments sections are meant to be a forum for lively debate. You can do your part to ensure a pleasant atmosphere in them by taking note of the following key points:

  • Stay polite and stick to the topic of the post.
  • Keep the tone of discussions positive and respectful.
  • Be tolerant of differing opinions.
  • Feel free to point out any errors you notice to us.

All users are entitled to express their opinion in the Comments sections of our social media channels; however, comments may be removed if they:

  • Incite misdemeanours, crime, hatred or violence;
  • Contain personal attacks, or defamatory, threatening, discriminatory or pornographic content or depictions of violence;
  • Endanger the health or personal safety of others;
  • Contain advertising;
  • Are obviously machine-generated (spam);
  • Are off-topic and have been posted repeatedly;
  • Are patently false, have been posted repeatedly and are intended to spread disinformation
  • Are not written in an official language of Switzerland, Swiss German or English.

Furthermore, comments presumed to constitute a publicly prosecutable criminal offence may be reported to the police. Examples of such comments are those that discriminate on grounds of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, as well as those inciting to hatred and violence.

Comments may temporarily be automatically moderated and deleted if an exceptionally large number are posted at once.
We reserve the right to block users on the relevant social media platform for a maximum of two years in the event of comments constituting a particularly serious breach of the rules, or in the case of multiple comments that can be removed.
 

Contact

For questions on comment moderation and blocking, please contact: info@agroscope.admin.ch

Image rights

The photographs and videos published by Agroscope may be downloaded, shared and reused provided that Agroscope is mentioned as the author. The images and videos may not be altered or used for commercial purposes.

Last modification 30.07.2024

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