How the Oversight Board is improving Meta's policies through recommedations

Beyond reviewing individual cases to remove or restore content, the Board can also accept requests from Meta for guidance on its wider content policies. After receiving the request from Meta and input from external stakeholders, the Board provides detailed recommendations on changes that Meta should make to its policies on a given topic.
Meta must send the Board's recommendations through its official policy development process and give regular updates on this, including through its newsroom. While the Board's policy advisory opinion is not binding, Meta must provide a public response and follow-on actions within 60 days of receiving our recommendations.
To date, the Board has taken on three policy advisory opinions, publishing its first in February 2022 on the sharing of private residential information on Facebook and Instagram, and its review of Meta's cross-check system in December 2022.