What We’re Working on Next
February 5, 2026
By Paolo Carozza, Oversight Board Co-Chair
As we begin 2026, the technology industry and wider information ecosystem continues to go through profound and rapid changes, and so are we. The Oversight Board is expanding its work to help Meta and the wider tech industry meet new challenges, with a particular focus on AI and on youth.
Since issuing our first cases five years ago, we have built unique institutional knowledge through our work with Meta, strengthening content governance through measurable improvements in fairness, transparency and consistency. We are now ready to apply those lessons to the next generation of freedom of expression and other human rights challenges online.
We will expand our work on AI-generated content and the use of AI tools to detect, rank and enforce at scale.
In the year ahead, we will:
- Deliver more industry-wide guidance. We will build on our existing work to advance clear and workable industry standards grounded in human rights, that create more accountable governance, including baseline approaches to transparency reporting, independent evaluations, risk assessments and effective user redress mechanisms. We will also expand our focus to account-level enforcement, beginning with our review of Meta’s approach to permanently disabling accounts.
- Address new AI challenges. We will expand our work on AI-generated content and the use of AI tools to detect, rank and enforce at scale. We will continue to protect freedom of expression online by pressing for rights-respecting safeguards to build into the design of large language models, agentic services and the governance systems around them.
- Focus on the experiences of younger generations. Teenagers are among the first to experience new technologies online. We will work with experts and listen closely to young people, parents and caregivers to advance safety and wellbeing in a way that also respects the rights of youth relating to information, participation, association and the benefits of technological advancements.
- Reduce risks in high-stakes contexts. We will double down on efforts to mitigate harms in high-risk situations, including elections, conflict-affected areas and other crises, and encourage platform innovation that is accountable, responsible and attentive to the needs of users.
- Share our learnings with a broader set of stakeholders. We will expand our engagement to include more companies, investors, advertisers and others concerned with driving rights-respecting systems online.
No single organization can meet these challenges alone. We look forward to our ongoing engagement with industry, civil society, government and expert communities to foster the development of baseline standards rooted in freedom of expression and other human rights. We aim to ensure these standards can be applied across the industry, strengthening predictability and accountability for users.
We will expand our engagement to include more companies, investors, advertisers and others concerned with driving rights-respecting systems online.
Through all of this, our core mandate remains unchanged: we will continue to hold Meta accountable, and we will keep building a model of independent oversight that strengthens governance and trust across the broader tech ecosystem.
