The Oversight Board, a body created by Meta to review content moderation policies, issued guidance on March 26 about the company’s community notes program, which replaced the company’s third-party fact-checking program in the United States in 2025 with expansion planned outside the country at a later date. The board warned that Meta should use care in expanding community notes and reviewed the program’s limitations. IFCN director Angie Drobnic Holan made the following comments in response.

It’s heartening that the independent Oversight Board recognized that fact-checking plays a critical and unique role in providing accurate, high-quality information for the benefit of people using social media. We agree with the board’s insights through its recent policy advisory that Meta’s community notes program alone is simply not adequate when it comes to reducing the impact of harmful falsehoods on its platforms.…