H2 2025 Report on the Oversight Board
UPDATED MAR 19, 2026
by Louise Turner
Today, we are sharing our H2 2025 Bi-Annual Report on the Oversight Board. This report, our 15th since the Board’s inception, marks a milestone of genuine transformation. In five years, the Oversight Board has evolved from a novel experiment to an industry-leading model of independent oversight that helps Meta navigate some of the most complex content and policy decisions we face. Importantly, the Oversight Board demonstrates a model for governing content at scale that regulators, platforms and policymakers around the world are increasingly looking to.
This report reflects that evolution and tracks our implementation progress and impact of the 326 Oversight Board recommendations Meta has responded to as of December 31, 2025.
Some highlights from this past half include:
- Empowering users with additional context and account appealability: The Board accepted a Policy Advisory Opinion on the global expansion of Community Notes, a new product that allows users to add more context to public, organic content on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, and for the first time will review Meta's approach to disabling accounts. Together, these developments help Meta increase transparency and strengthen the integrity of our platforms to improve users’ online experiences.
- Addressing emerging AI-driven harms: This half saw the Board’s first decision on a case concerning an AI-manipulated celebrity endorsement. This represents a notable expansion of the Board's remit into an area of growing importance given the rapid proliferation of AI-generated content on our platforms.
- Enhancing transparency through improved user notifications: Following the Board's guidance, we improved the specificity of notifications provided to users when content is removed in response to formal government reports alleging that the content violated local laws. Over one year, notification rates on Facebook increased by 9% and on Instagram by 16%, with notification rates for content restricted for violating local laws approaching 100%.
During the half, we also continued to expand researcher access to the Meta Content Library, supporting independent study of content trends, election integrity, and platform impacts.
In H2 2025, the Board's impact extended far beyond individual case decisions and helped shape broader improvements in how we handle content moderation at scale. The Board’s PAO on Community Notes will provide guidance on what factors Meta should consider when approaching the international roll out and how to weigh those factors against one another in a scalable manner. Its first review of account-level enforcement will bring greater transparency to decisions that impact people’s presence on our platforms; and its work on AI-generated content, from manipulated media to deepfakes, shows how this governance model can adapt to the fast pace of change to address new issues relevant to emerging technologies and a rapidly evolving digital ecosystem.
As the Board enters its sixth year, it is increasingly positioned to serve as an industry-wide resource whose expertise can inform governance approaches across the technology sector.
To read the full Meta H2 2025 Bi-Annual Report and Appendix on the Oversight Board, click here: