About Meta's Oversight Board
There are two types of content decisions you can appeal to the Oversight Board: a decision about your content or a decision about content by others that you’ve reported.
If you don’t think that your content should have been taken down and you want to appeal to the Oversight Board, you must first go through the request a review process.
If you reported content from others that wasn't taken down and you want to appeal to the Oversight Board to have the content removed, you must first go through the request a review process. Learn more about how to appeal Instagram's content decision to the Oversight Board.
We know we don’t always get it right when we decide to take down or leave content up on Instagram, which is why we’ve created the Oversight Board. The Oversight Board independently reviews some of the most difficult and significant content decisions we make.
The board’s members are a diverse set of experts from all over the world who select which of our decisions to review through user appeals and cases that are referred to them by Instagram. Once reviewed, they let us know whether or not they agree with our content decisions. The board’s decisions are binding and if they don’t agree with our initial decision, we’ll reverse it, unless doing so could violate the law. The board also has the option of making policy recommendations.
Not all content decisions are eligible for appeal to the Oversight Board. If an Instagram content decision is eligible for review by the Oversight Board, you'll see an Oversight Board Reference Number within your Support Requests.
Keep in mind that the board only selects a certain number of eligible appeals, so they may not choose yours to review.
Read more about the board’s bylaws and structure, or learn about them in the Newsroom.
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