Facebook Oversight Board seeks clarity on review system for high-profile users
A Fb emblem is displayed on a smartphone on this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Picture/File Picture
Sept 21 (Reuters) – Fb Inc’s impartial Oversight Board mentioned on Tuesday it has requested the social networking large to offer readability on the system it makes use of to evaluation content material selections referring to some high-profile customers.
The board’s inquiry follows a Wall Road Journal final week that Fb exempts high-profile customers from some or all of its guidelines, elevating questions on its enforcement selections towards dangerous content material.
A Fb 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 hundreds of thousands of accounts, a few of that are “whitelisted,” that means they’re immune from Fb’s enforcement selections, the Journal reported.
The Oversight Board mentioned Tuesday it beforehand requested Fb to elucidate how the cross-check system works and share its standards for including pages and accounts to this system. The board mentioned Fb didn’t present its standards.
Fb created the Oversight Board final yr as a part of an effort to deal with criticism over the way it handles problematic content material. The social media firm dedicated $130 million in a belief to fund the board, which is ready to make closing selections on whether or not particular person items of content material can stay on the location.
Reporting by Uday Sampath in Bengaluru and Sheila Dang in Dallas; Enhancing by Shounak Dasgupta and Nick Zieminski
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