Meta's Oversight Board comes out swinging against Facebook's VIP 'cross-check' program

Celebs, politicians, and other high-profile users get away with breaking Facebook’s rules. Cross-check is getting cross-checked by the Oversight Board. Credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Oversight Board, an independent body set up to review Facebook and Instagram content decisions and policies, slammed the company on Tuesday over its cross-check program. In its statement, the Oversight Board laid out a number of changes Facebook’s parent company Meta should make regarding content moderation across its social media platforms.Cross-check is an internal Facebook program that was portrayed as a “quality control” measure — a way to double check a content decision for potential moderation when it came to high-profile Facebook users. As Facebook reviews millions of pieces of content a day, the company is bound to make mistakes. The cross-check system was put in place to help limit faulty content takedowns from users deemed a priority to the company.However, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the program basically set up a two tier moderation system for high-profile Facebook users and everyone else.  Basically, thanks to cross-check, celebrities, politicians, and other influencers were able to routinely break Facebook and Instagram’s rules without facing penalties like the ones
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