May 28 (Reuters) – Meta’s Oversight Board said on Thursday it has secured $13 million in additional funding from the social media company to secure the independent watchdog’s operations through 2028.
Social media platforms have been facing intense pressure to balance allowing free speech and curbing misinformation, while integrating AI.
The new funds will go into the board’s trust, co-chair Paolo Carozza said, adding that Meta continues to refer complex cases of content moderation to the board and respond to recommendations.
In 2024, Meta had committed to at least $30 million allocated annually over the next three years, according to a blog post from the watchdog.
The Oversight Board is a body of experts that makes binding decisions and issues recommendations on content issues across the company’s social media platforms.
In April 2025, it sharply rebuked the Instagram parent for “hastily” dismantling its U.S. fact-checking operations and easing restrictions on contentious topics such as immigration and gender identity.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg initiated those rollbacks in January 2025, arguing that previous moderation efforts had resulted in “too much censorship.”
The changes, which included shifting to a crowdsourced “community notes” system, were widely viewed as an effort to ease conservative criticism and align with the incoming Trump administration.
(Reporting by Anhata Rooprai and Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed and Vijay Kishore)
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