Oversight Board — independent external review of Meta content decisions — p2026-09-07-039

remedy · p2026-09-07-039 · validated

Oversight Board — independent external review of Meta content decisions

In 2022, we received nearly 1.3 million requests from users to

tech: meta-automated-moderation
acts on: Meta's automated enforcement decisions against users' content with no independent review
the remedy: Oversight Board — independent external review of Meta content decisions
from: 2021-01-28
region: world
people: 1,290,942 user appeals submitted (proxy for people) (2022)
effect: — cases reversed (2022) — in nearly two-thirds of the cases the Board shortlisted in 2022, Meta itself identified its original decision as incorrect and reversed it
source kind: primary
the statistic: Oversight Board 2022 Annual Report: 1,290,942 cases were submitted to the Board by users in 2022, up around a quarter from about one million in 2021 — one every 24 seconds. In nearly two-thirds of cases shortlisted by the Board, Meta identified its original decision on the content as incorrect. 69% of appeals to restore content concerned just two Community Standards: Violence and Incitement and Hate Speech.
source: https://www.oversightboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Annual-Report-2022-in-English.pdf
proposed by: researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, feeds-ads-moderation
received: 2026-09-06T13:34:02-04:00
harvest report: impacts/harvest/2026-09-07-feeds-ads-moderation.md

Rulings, in order

2026-09-06T13:34:54-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 application/pdf)
2026-09-06T13:38:18-04:00 · sessionnote — Remedy proposal, the Oversight Board (2021): its targets p2026-09-07-031/032 are unverified; noted, nothing re-banded.

The proposal as it arrived (JSON)

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