The watchdog said that Meta’s 'cross-check' systems on Facebook and Instagram gave celebrities and businesses more leeway in posting unmoderated content.
. Cross-check, also referred to as Xcheck, was designed to shield a cultivated list of a few million celebrities, influencers, politicians, businesses and more from content moderation that its other 3.7 billion users were subjected to. The cross-check system was supposed to have real humans personally look at these special accounts to see if they were violating the platforms’ rules, but sometimes these analyses fell by the wayside for days at a time.
seemed to agree with the Journals’ article, writing “we found that the program appears more directly structured to satisfy business concerns” by essentially giving “certain users” extra protection from content moderation. The company had even failed at tracking whether cross-check was more accurate than its automated systems.
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