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H1 2025 Report on the Oversight Board
ÚLTIMA ATUALIZAÇÃO 27 DE AGO DE 2025
by Louise Turner
Today, we are sharing our H1 2025 Bi-Annual Report on the Oversight Board. This marks our 14th report on the Board since its inception in 2020, reflecting upon our continued commitment to transparency and accountability in our fifth year of partnership. This report explores the impact of the Oversight Board's more than 300 recommendations on Meta and our work with the Board in greater detail, which has been felt across a number of areas—especially our work to reduce over-enforcement while protecting free expression. A few highlights from this past half include:
- A white paper on protecting freedom of expression in EU tech regulation: The Board published a paper that provides industry guidance on balancing regulatory compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA) in the EU with fundamental speech rights and emphasized platform governance approaches centered on free expression.
- Influencing Meta’s product teams on changes to cross-check: In March the teams driving Meta’s cross-check program sought input from the Oversight Board on ways to expand coverage to more users, with the goal of improving accuracy and reducing over-enforcement. The Board steered these teams toward a sustainable method for expanding the program. The result included further investment in our Dynamic-Multi Review system—reducing over-enforcement at scale while ensuring highly sensitive content related to activism, journalism and various forms of nuanced discourse, remains by Meta’s most specialized reviewers.
- Reducing the number of strikes through policy education—in a three month period during H1 2025, over 7.1 million Facebook users and over 730K Instagram users were eligible to have strikes removed from their account for first-time, non-severe violations. 80% of Facebook users and 85% of Instagram users who started the exercise completed the module and had account restrictions removed.
In H1 2025 the Board's focus on reducing over-enforcement has yielded significant results across our platforms. Through ongoing engagements on policy changes, the Board has helped us ensure that legitimate discourse is upheld, even in challenging contexts. The Board's guidance has been particularly valuable in crisis situations, election periods, and when addressing sensitive social issues where the balance between safety and expression is most critical.
This approach demonstrates that third-party accountability mechanisms can drive meaningful innovation in platform governance while enhancing user rights. As the Board continues to mature as an institution, its impact ensures that the values of voice and free expression remain central to how we operate. Its influence continues to extend far beyond individual case decisions, driving systematic improvements in how we approach content moderation at scale and shaping industry standards on platform governance.
To read the full Meta H1 2025 Bi-Annual Report and Appendix on the Oversight Board, click here: