In July 2022 Meta asked its Oversight Board to consider its policy on COVID-19 misinformation. In turn, the Oversight Board solicited public comments around six key aspects of its pending recommendation. To solicit recommendations about the continuation of Meta’s COVID-19 policy without Meta providing more data and evidence showing how its policy has been effective and ineffective when it comes to COVID-19 misinformation amounts to a gross missed opportunity. Therefore, our recommendation focuses exclusively on the need for Meta to increase its transparency around its internal evaluations of misinformations and for it to provide greater access to its data in order for outside experts to make recommendations and build interventions that are well informed. Read our full public comment in response to the Oversight Board’s request here.
