“At times, the documents show, has protected public figures whose posts contain harassment or incitement to violence, violations that would typically lead to sanctions for regular users,” according to the Journal. In practice that means that posts that violate the company’s rules are not immediately removed or certain individuals are immune from enforcement actions. In a report published last month, the Wall Street Journal used internal company documents to show that Cross-Check protects VIPs from Facebook’s Whistleblower Frances Haugen will meet with Facebook Oversight Board (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Drew Angerer/Getty Images Haugen left Facebook in May and provided internal company documents about Facebook to journalists and others, alleging that Facebook consistently chooses profit over safety.
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 05: Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing entitled 'Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower' on Capitol Hill Octoin Washington, DC. The Oversight Board often described as a kind of Supreme Court for Facebook as it allows users to appeal content decisions on Facebook-owned platforms. They are appointed by the company but operate independently. The Facebook Oversight Board is an entity made up of experts in areas such as freedom of expression and human rights. The program had mushroomed to include 5.8 million users in 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal. “On some occasions, Facebook failed to provide relevant information to the Board, while in other instances, the information it did provide was incomplete,” it added.įacebook uses Cross-Check to review content decisions relating to high-profile users, such as politicians, celebrities and journalists. The tech giant “has not been fully forthcoming on Cross-Check,” the oversight board said in a report published on Thursday. Facebook failed to provide crucial details about its “Cross-Check” program that reportedly shielded millions of VIP users from the social media platform’s normal content moderation rules, according to the company’s oversight board.
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