Overview
- The Oversight Board, which issued its policy advisory Thursday, warned that a worldwide rollout could cause tangible harms in repressive, conflict or election contexts, and Meta is required under its rules to publicly respond within 30 days.
- The board advised withholding Community Notes in places with high polarization, ongoing crises or protracted conflict, histories of organized disinformation networks, complex language landscapes, or imminent major elections.
- The opinion flagged that coordinated groups could game user notes and said artificial intelligence will make such manipulation faster and easier to scale.
- Before launching in any country, the board urged risk tests on anonymity and coordination, strong language coverage and contributor diversity, plus data access for outside researchers to study how the system performs.
- Fact‑checking leaders pushed a hybrid model that keeps professional fact‑checks alongside user notes, noting Meta ended third‑party fact‑checking in the United States in 2025 and pointing to data that showed 900 visible US notes in six months versus about 35 million labeled Facebook posts in the EU under professional review.