Despite the significant benefit provided by the Oversight Board, the 22-person body appears woefully underprepared to provide the much-needed moderation of election-charged misinformation in a year when 64 countries, which collectively hold nearly 50% of the world's population, will head to the polls. In the last year and a half, like many other tech firms, Meta made the decision to significantly downsize its civic integrity and Trust and Safety teams. Following the 2020 elections, the firm dissolved its civic integrity team, and in October 2023, it terminated over 180 content moderators based in Kenya. On April 29th, chairperson of the Oversight Board Trust, Stephen Neal, shared that the board would be laying off members of its team, in order "to further optimize [] operations by prioritizing the most impactful aspects of [their] work." Most crucially, these layoffs will impact staff who support the board through administrative, research, and translation tasks.