The Oversight Board wants answers about Facebook’s celebrity moderation program
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Oversight Board, a semi-independent body that reviews Facebook's moderation policies, announced on Tuesday that it wants more information about the cross-check" system Facebook uses to review content decisions relating to some high-profile users." Cross-check is getting called into question because of a report from The Wall Street Journal that claimed the system lets high-profile users break the rules.
In light of recent developments, we are looking into the degree to which Facebook has been fully forthcoming in its responses in relation to cross-check, including the practice of whitelisting," the board writes. We expect to receive a briefing from Facebook in the coming days and will be reporting what we hear from this as part of...