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Social networking giant Facebook has updated its "community standards" policies, explaining its position on controversial topics such as hate speech from terrorist groups, cyber bullying, nudity and use of real names.

In a move sure to please the Australian Government, which recently warned of the dangers posed by terrorist groups using social media, the new community standards prohibit accounts related to dangerous organisations.

Pages deemed to promote bullying, self-injury, criminal activity, violence and more are also disallowed.

Those profiles used to shame individuals or post digitally altered images that degrade people also do not meet Facebook's standards.

The issue of terrorist organisations using Facebook to spread their messages has been criticised by some world leaders, and last month Prime Minister Tony Abbott was scathing of terrorist groups' use of social media.

"Every single day, the Islamist death cult and its supporters churn out up to 100,000 social media messages in a variety of languages," Mr Abbott said.

"Often, they are slick and well produced.

"That's the contagion that's infecting people, grooming them for terrorism."

Facebook said the policies and standards themselves were not changing but it felt it was necessary to provide more clarity and examples.

While many community standards detail restrictions of what can be posted on Facebook, the organisation appears to have bowed to public campaigns regarding the display of women breastfeeding and further clarified that policy.

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Facebook clarifies 'community standards' on terrorism, bullying, nudity and real names