Facebook Oversight Board Seeks Review System Clarity for High-Profile Users

Facebook’s unbiased Oversight Board mentioned on Tuesday it has requested the social networking large to supply readability on the system it makes use of to evaluate content material selections regarding some high-profile customers.

The board’s inquiry follows a Wall Street Journal report final week that Facebook exempts high-profile customers from some or all of its guidelines, elevating questions on its enforcement selections towards dangerous content material.

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the corporate will transient the board concerning the system recognized internally as “cross-check” over the approaching days.

The cross-check system consists of thousands and thousands of accounts, a few of that are “whitelisted,” that means they’re immune from Facebook’s enforcement selections, the Journal reported.

The Oversight Board mentioned Tuesday it beforehand requested Facebook to clarify how the cross-check system works and share its standards for including pages and accounts to the programme. The board mentioned Facebook didn’t present its standards.

Facebook created the Oversight Board final 12 months as a part of an effort to handle criticism over the way it handles problematic content material. The social media firm dedicated $130 million (roughly Rs. 960 crores) in a belief to fund the board, which is ready to make last selections on whether or not particular person items of content material can stay on the location.

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