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Oversight Board

Oversight Board

Technology, Information and Internet

Ensuring respect for free expression and human rights on Facebook and Instagram through binding decisions on content.

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Ensuring respect for free expression and human rights on Facebook, Instagram and Threads through binding decisions on content and policy recommendations.

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https://linktr.ee/oversightboard
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Company size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
London
Type
Nonprofit
Founded
2020

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  • Oversight Board reposted this

    Meta has until early May to respond to the Oversight Board's recommendations on AI-generated content in conflict. More than three weeks have already passed. The Board's decision directly cited WITNESS' analysis, our expert submission and our research on synthetic media during the June 2025 twelve-day Iran–Israel war. The recommendations reflect frameworks we've been advancing for years: content provenance, stronger detection, and consistent labelling. But strong decisions don't automatically translate into action. Meta often fails to meaningfully implement the Board's recommendations. As I discussed with WNYC Radio's On the Media, the gap between June 2025 and March 2026 shows how fast this problem is accelerating. Meta's response deadline is weeks away. Will they invest in the infrastructure to match it, or deny responsibility? Links in comments 👇

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    🎭 Political deepfakes are working - even when people know they're fake Research from the Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL) at Purdue University has revealed a significant acceleration in AI-generated political disinformation. Since the start of 2025 alone, #GRAIL has catalogued over 1,000 English-language social media posts featuring deepfakes of political figures - compared with just 1,344 in the previous eight years combined. A new trend however is for entirely fabricated people - not just deepfakes of genuine political figures. The #AI researchers said political deepfakes like these can still be persuasive even if consumers know they aren’t real. In one viral deepfake of an entirely AI-created US female military officer - ‘Jessica Foster’. she is “walking in high heels in a military uniform, her military badge is completely wrong” Sam Gregory of WITNESS says. “None of this, if you think about it, makes much sense or bears up to scrutiny. But people aren’t necessarily looking for things that are real; they are looking for things that represent their beliefs.” The Brookings Institution fellow Valerie W. adds #deepfakes are "just another layer added on in terms of this process of reinforcing, rather than revisiting, what people believe is true." The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) has developed cryptographically signed metadata standards to verify the origin of digital content - and LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok and YouTube have all committed to labelling AI-generated material. But implementation is failing badly - even the most diligent platforms only labelled 67% of test #AI content correctly - Instagram managed just 14%. Meta’s own Oversight Board has flagged the company's "inconsistent implementation" of labelling standards - even for content generated by its own #AI tools. Researchers are clear this is not a technical failure. It is in Sam Gregory’s words “a failure of political will at the senior levels" of #bigtech. “We don’t need to give up on the ability to discern what is real from synthetic,” he adds. “But we do need to act fast.” 🐝 EthicAI’s BeehAIve® ('beehive') #AIassurance platform helps organisations manage the responsible adoption of AI - providing the #AIgovernance and #AIrisk frameworks needed to address the provenance, transparency and accountability gaps that allow synthetic disinformation to flourish unchecked. 🔗 Link to The Guardian article in comments #ResponsibleAI #AIsafety #AIrisk #Disinformation

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    "Meta confirmed to the Board that there are 'no strikes for posting content that receives a community note' and that 'the distribution or monetization of such content is not affected.' Even published notes have no effect on reach or engagement, making them inherently weaker than traditional fact-checking labels." — Tech Policy Press Great to see this deep dive from Ramsha Jahangir on the #Meta Oversight Board’s latest findings.

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    The Oversight Board flagged that a global Community Notes expansion in repressive human rights regimes, and conflict and election-sensitive countries could create significant human rights risks and tangible harms that Meta must address, reports Ramsha Jahangirhttps://lnkd.in/eBSE7bhn

    • A series of posts by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Threads social media app, outlining changes to content moderation. Meta said it would scrap its longstanding fact-checking program in the US in favor of a community notes system similar to that on Elon Musk's X. Picture date: Wednesday January 8, 2025. Press Association via AP Images.
  • Oversight Board reposted this

    Sollte Facebook seine Moderation um Community Notes erweitern? Das Meta Oversight Board gibt nun Empfehlungen... und wir haben haben konsultiert. Nach der Ankündigung von Mark Zuckerberg im Januar 2025, auf Meta Plattformen Community Notes (CN) einzuführen hatten wir uns intensiv mit CN auf X auseinandergesetzt - insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit Desinformation. Nun sollen CN auf Facebook ausgeweitet werden. Hierzu gab es einen Konsultationsprozess des Oversight Board von Meta. Unsere Empfehlungen waren: 1️⃣ Bevor Meta Community Notes weltweit einführt, muss das Unternehmen Maßnahmen umsetzen, die die Beteiligung der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer an dem Programm fördern. 2️⃣ Meta sollte den auf Brigding Algorithmus an die politischen Besonderheiten einzelner Regionen anpassen. 3️⃣ Bei der Umsetzung sollte Facebook Foren für Community-Note-Mitwirkende vorsehen, um eine unangemessene Nutzung von Community Notes zu verringern. Das Board kommt nach eigenen Untersuchungen und der Konsultation von Forschenden zu folgendem Ergebnis: 📍 Grundsätzlich können Community Notes den Online-Diskurs stärken, insbesondere in robusten und demokratischen Gesellschaften mit aktiver Zivilgesellschaft. 🛴 Der Rollout soll nur schrittweise mit Tests und laufender Überprüfung erfolgen, da mögliche Auswirkungen schwerer wiegen könnten als die bloße Frage, ob das System gegen Desinformation vielleicht unzureichend ist. ✖️ Das Board empfiehlt, Länder mit problematischer Menschenrechtslage zunächst auszuschließen. Das gilt auch für Regionen, die in der Vergangenheit Ziel von koordinierten Desinformationskampagnen geworden sind oder im Kontext von Krisen und bevorstehenden Wahlen. Da Community Notes eine breite Beteiligung erfordern, sollen auch Ländern mit Hindernissen beim Internetzugang zunächst ausgeschlossen werden. 🔎 Es wird explizit nicht bewertet, ob Community Notes besser oder schlechter sind als professionelles Fact-Checking. Beides sind unterschiedliche Instrumente, da Community Notes auch einer breiteren Kontextualisierung dienen, während sich Fact-Checking primär auf überprüfbare Behauptungen fokussiert. Daher bezweifelt das Board, dass Community Notes Fact-Checking einfach ersetzen können. 🥗 Community Notes funktionieren nur fair, wenn alle gesellschaftlichen Gruppen wie zum Beispiel Minderheiten oder Sprachgruppen ausreichend vertreten sind. Wenn Meta die sprachliche und gesellschaftliche Komplexität eines Landes nicht angemessen abbilden kann, soll der Start verschoben werden. 💿 Nun liegt es an der Plattform selbst, die Empfehlungen umzusetzen (oder auch nicht). Meta hat zumindest angekündigt, dass die Daten zu den Community Notes veröffentlicht werden, ähnlich wie es bereits X tut. Das ist eine gute Nachricht in Bezug auf Transparenz, Evaluation und für die weiterhin notwendige Forschung zu diesem Thema.

  • Oversight Board reposted this

    New piece out today in Just Security 🎉 AI accountability is broken. We can't fix it by relying on companies or governments alone. In this article, I argue for a third way: an ecosystem of independent, external accountability mechanisms, answerable only to the public interest. Oversight bodies with binding authority, diverse global composition, proactive mandates, and funded independently of the companies they oversee. I draw on lessons from my experience as a founding member of Meta's Oversight Board. In the article I draw lessons from the Board's achievements, and its honest limitations. The Board proves the concept works. We need to go further, faster, especially as AI accelerates. A few things to note: - The signals on what will go wrong with tech rarely come from North America or Europe first. - Independent oversight and innovation are not mutually exclusive. - Markets are increasingly pricing operational governance. A warm thank you to my editors Danae Askar and Clara Apt, whose sharp questions and generous engagement made this piece so much stronger. Link to the article in the comment section 👇🏾

  • Oversight Board reposted this

    "Community Notes and fact checking are not mutually exclusive," Oversight Board member Paolo Carozza tells Engadget. "One doesn't have to replace or substitute for the other, they can coexist. " Many thanks to Karissa for this insightful piece on the Oversight Board’s latest policy advisory opinion. #FactChecking #communitynotes #factchecking #Meta #InformationIntegrity #DSA #Freedomofexpression

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    I am extremely proud to see the work we did at the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas being cited by Meta’s Oversight Board to suggest their community notes program undergoes a thorough review before being implemented outside the US. I personally hope they do not repeat the mistakes seen on X (and commented in one of the coolest works I’ve done with Marcelo Soares) Here it is: https://lnkd.in/etfBME_8 https://lnkd.in/eGVXTP_R

  • 🗣️"Although promising, Meta’s move toward more advanced AI models is not without risk. It represents a significant shift that requires an increase in data gathering and assessment, transparency on the findings of those assessments, and independent oversight on how decisions are made throughout this critical period of transformation."  ✍️ Read our full response to Meta’s announcement that it will use more advanced AI technologies in its content moderation👇 #Meta #OversightBoard #AI #ContentModeration

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