Saturday, September 18, 2021

Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt

Mark Zuckerberg, the censor! He and his wife spent $400 million on the November 2020 presidential election for Biden!

The Chief AI Scientist and famous AI researcher Yann LeCun is a hard leftist!

"CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook allows its more than three billion users to speak on equal footing with the elites of politics, culture and journalism, and that its standards of behavior apply to everyone. In private, the company has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The program, known as “cross check” or “XCheck,” was initially intended as a quality-control measure for actions taken against high-profile accounts, including celebrities, politicians and journalists. Today, it shields millions of VIP users from the company’s normal enforcement process, the documents show. Some users are “whitelisted”—rendered immune from enforcement actions—while others are allowed to post rule-violating material pending Facebook employee reviews that often never come.

In June, Facebook told its Oversight Board that its system for high-profile users was used in “a small number of decisions.” In a written statement, Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said criticism of XCheck was fair, but he added that the system “was designed for an important reason: to create an additional step so we can accurately enforce policies on content that could require more understanding.” He said Facebook has been accurate in its communications to the board and that the company is continuing to work to phase out the practice of whitelisting. “A lot of this internal material is outdated information stitched together to create a narrative that glosses over the most important point: Facebook itself identified the issues with cross check and has been working to address them,” he said." (Source)

Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. - WSJ (behind paywall) A program known as XCheck has given millions of celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users special treatment, a privilege many abuse

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