Moderation of Facebook content exempts certain personalities from its rules

(San Francisco) A facebook program allows certain celebrities, political leaders and Internet users in order to have to obey the same rules on the moderation of content as the rest of the users, said the Wall Street Journal on Monday on Monday.

Called "Crosscheck" or "Xcheck", this program does not apply the same checks to messages posted on the Facebook and Instagram accounts of these "VIPs" as on the average accounts, ensures the economic daily by citing internal documents at thecompany.

It included up to 5.8 million subscribers in 2020.Some are exempt from the rules while others can post messages theoretically breaking the instructions while waiting for a Facebook employee to examine them.

This does not mean that there are "two justice systems" within the group, retorted Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesperson, in a series of tweets.

If certain pages or accounts receive a second layer of verification, it is to ensure that the rules are implemented in an appropriate manner and "avoiding errors", he said.

"We know that the application of our rules is not perfect and that there are compromises made between speed and precision," he said.

According to the article in the Wall Street Journal, Facebook, for example, allowed football star Neymar in 2019 to show her millions of subscribers, naked, a woman who accused her of rape, before deleting them.

The group would also have let some accounts share affirmations deemed false by Facebook factcheckers, including vaccines kill, that Hillary Clinton has covered so-called pedophile networks or that ex-president Donald Trump qualified as'"Animals" all asylum seekers.

For the company's supervisory board, the implementation of special measures on content moderation is annoying.

This organization "has repeatedly expressed its concern about the lack of transparency in Facebook content moderation processes, in particular with regard to the most prominent account management by the company," said the door-Prelaole of this body, supposed to be independent but funded by the group.

In a message dating from three years ago, the company assured that checking certain content a second time did not prevent the account, page or message from being removed but made it possible to ensure that alldecision made in this sense was "made correctly".