Meta's Oversight Board published a report December 4, 2025 marking five years since it selected its first cases in October 2020. The board has issued more than 300 recommendations during that period, and Meta has implemented 75 percent of them.
The board stated its scope will expand in 2026 to pilot reviewing Meta's decisions that remove or impact user accounts. The report described this as something that has created ongoing frustration for platform users.
The report included data showing how specific recommendations changed Meta's platforms. After a 2022 board decision on Iranian protest content, Instagram posts containing the phrase marg bar Khamenei increased 29 percent when measured across the same pages, groups and accounts. Meta also began informing users in 2024 which specific policy their content allegedly violated when enforcement action is taken.
Meta introduced educational violation notices in early 2025 for users committing their first violation of what Meta considers non-severe. Between January and March, more than 7.1 million Facebook users and 730,000 Instagram users received these notices. Nearly 3 million users started the educational exercise, with more than 80 percent on Facebook and more than 85 percent on Instagram completing it to avoid account strikes.
During a 29-day period in October 2024, users viewed more than 360 million pieces of content with AI labels on Facebook and 330 million on Instagram.
The board operates through an irrevocable trust funding operations through 2027 and has 21 members. The report stated the board has had frustrations and never gets as much access or influence as it would like from Meta.
Notes: This post was drafted with the assistance of AI tools and reviewed, edited, and published by humans. Image: Oversightboard / YT
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The board stated its scope will expand in 2026 to pilot reviewing Meta's decisions that remove or impact user accounts. The report described this as something that has created ongoing frustration for platform users.
The report included data showing how specific recommendations changed Meta's platforms. After a 2022 board decision on Iranian protest content, Instagram posts containing the phrase marg bar Khamenei increased 29 percent when measured across the same pages, groups and accounts. Meta also began informing users in 2024 which specific policy their content allegedly violated when enforcement action is taken.
Meta introduced educational violation notices in early 2025 for users committing their first violation of what Meta considers non-severe. Between January and March, more than 7.1 million Facebook users and 730,000 Instagram users received these notices. Nearly 3 million users started the educational exercise, with more than 80 percent on Facebook and more than 85 percent on Instagram completing it to avoid account strikes.
During a 29-day period in October 2024, users viewed more than 360 million pieces of content with AI labels on Facebook and 330 million on Instagram.
The board operates through an irrevocable trust funding operations through 2027 and has 21 members. The report stated the board has had frustrations and never gets as much access or influence as it would like from Meta.
Notes: This post was drafted with the assistance of AI tools and reviewed, edited, and published by humans. Image: Oversightboard / YT
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