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Tracking the Oversight Board’s Impact

UPDATED OCT 30, 2025
These assessments evaluate the effectiveness of implementing the Oversight Board’s recommendations aimed at improving Meta’s content policies, product features and operational systems. We primarily deliver impact assessments through analyses of our internal data. The Board also conducts independent assessments of select implementations using our self-serve data transparency tools, such as Meta Content Library and API.
We regularly share updates on our progress towards implementing recommendations in the Biannual Reports on the Oversight Board, and aim to measure and share the impact of our efforts as often as possible. To view any of our completed impact assessments in detail, please select any of the cases listed below.
Increasing Transparency through User Notifications
Case: Support of Abdullah Ocalan, founder of the PKK
Creating Opportunities to Remove Strikes through Policy Education
Case: Policy Advisory Opinion on Sharing Private Residential Information
Allowing More Social Discourse on Sexual Harassment
Case: Video Depicting Sexual Harassment in India
Measuring Performance of Trusted Partner Escalations
Case: Haitian Police Station
Labeling AI Content
Case: Altered Video of President Biden
Expanding User Appeals to the Oversight Board
Case: Veiled Threat of Violence Based on Lyrics from a Drill Rap Song
Adding Context to User Appeals
Case: Armenian People and the Armenian Genocide (“Two Buttons Meme”)
Empowering Political Speech During Protests
Case: Iranian Protest Slogan
Notifying Users Before Posting Potential Violations
Case: January 2021 Protests in Russia (“Pro-Navalny”)
Enabling Users to Raise Awareness for Breast Cancer
Case: Breast Cancer Symptoms & Nudity
Expanding Free Expression Across Cultural and Civic Discourse
Case: PAO on the treatment of the term “shaheed” (شهيد)
Enabling Discourse on Substance Use in Traditional or Religious Contexts
Case: Discussion of a Substance with Psychoactive Properties (“Ayahuasca Praise”)

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Policies
Community Standards
Meta Advertising Standards
Other policies
How Meta improves
Age-Appropriate Content
Features
Our approach to dangerous organizations and individuals
Our approach to the opioid epidemic
Our approach to elections
Our approach to misinformation
Our approach to newsworthy content
Our approach to Facebook Feed ranking
Our approach to explaining ranking
Accessibility at Meta
Research tools
Content Library and Content Library API
Ad Library Tools
Other research tools and data catalogue
Enforcement
Detecting violations
Taking action
Governance
Governance innovation
Oversight Board overview
How to appeal to the Oversight Board
Oversight Board cases
Oversight Board recommendations
Creating the Oversight Board
Oversight Board: Further asked questions
Meta’s Bi-Annual Updates on the Oversight Board
Tracking the Oversight Board's Impact
Security
Threat disruptions
Security threats
Threat reporting
Reports
Community Standards Enforcement Report
Intellectual Property
Government Requests for User Data
Content Restrictions Based on Local Law
Internet Disruptions
Widely Viewed Content Report
Regulatory and Other Transparency Reports
Policies
Community Standards
Meta Advertising Standards
Other policies
How Meta improves
Age-Appropriate Content
Features
Our approach to dangerous organizations and individuals
Our approach to the opioid epidemic
Our approach to elections
Our approach to misinformation
Our approach to newsworthy content
Our approach to Facebook Feed ranking
Our approach to explaining ranking
Accessibility at Meta
Research tools
Content Library and Content Library API
Ad Library Tools
Other research tools and data catalogue
Security
Threat disruptions
Security threats
Threat reporting
Reports
Community Standards Enforcement Report
Intellectual Property
Government Requests for User Data
Content Restrictions Based on Local Law
Internet Disruptions
Widely Viewed Content Report
Regulatory and Other Transparency Reports
Enforcement
Detecting violations
Taking action
Governance
Governance innovation
Oversight Board overview
How to appeal to the Oversight Board
Oversight Board cases
Oversight Board recommendations
Creating the Oversight Board
Oversight Board: Further asked questions
Meta’s Bi-Annual Updates on the Oversight Board
Tracking the Oversight Board's Impact
Policies
Community Standards
Meta Advertising Standards
Other policies
How Meta improves
Age-Appropriate Content
Features
Our approach to dangerous organizations and individuals
Our approach to the opioid epidemic
Our approach to elections
Our approach to misinformation
Our approach to newsworthy content
Our approach to Facebook Feed ranking
Our approach to explaining ranking
Accessibility at Meta
Research tools
Content Library and Content Library API
Ad Library Tools
Other research tools and data catalogue
Enforcement
Detecting violations
Taking action
Governance
Governance innovation
Oversight Board overview
How to appeal to the Oversight Board
Oversight Board cases
Oversight Board recommendations
Creating the Oversight Board
Oversight Board: Further asked questions
Meta’s Bi-Annual Updates on the Oversight Board
Tracking the Oversight Board's Impact
Security
Threat disruptions
Security threats
Threat reporting
Reports
Community Standards Enforcement Report
Intellectual Property
Government Requests for User Data
Content Restrictions Based on Local Law
Internet Disruptions
Widely Viewed Content Report
Regulatory and Other Transparency Reports
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