Meta continues to explore options for sharing insights with research groups on these issues, in addition to our sharing through the IO Research Archive and in our public Quarterly threat reports.
As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance the Meta Content Library tool and incorporate feedback from researchers, we've introduced several improvements. We've made searching more efficient by adding exact phrase matching, text-in-image search, and researchers can now share content producer lists with their peers, enabling quick filtering of public data from specific content producers on Instagram.
Throughout the first half of 2025, Meta has continued to release new features and improvements to the MCL, including collaborative dashboard editing, comment filtering, and filtering by account verified status. These enhancements have been designed to support our users and promote best practices in fact-checking.
We’ve also updated Meta Content Library’s product terms to enable Meta Content Library users to now publish information about organizations and specific entities. Users can now publish data about individual public posts, pages, accounts, and profiles as long as these entities are related to their approved research purpose and do not contain personally identifiable information from non-disclosed users. The updated terms can be found in Section 5C of the
product terms.
