Meta committed an additional $13M in funding to its Oversight Board through 2028, keeping the independent content-moderation watchdog running despite its recent criticism of the company's fact-checking changes, according to Reuters. The Board reviews Meta-specific content moderation cases and issues recommendations on how the company should respond, though those recommendations are generally not binding and Meta must reply within 60 days. Between 2020 and 2025, the Board issued more than 300 recommendations, and Meta implemented about 75% of them. The latest commitment follows a 2024 pledge of at least $30M annually over the following three years, on top of $150M committed in 2022 and $130M at the Board's launch in 2020. The Board pushed back on Meta's fact-checking overhaul last year and urged the company to consider “potential adverse effects” of the policy shift.
