
Facebook kept its own oversight board in the dark on program for VIP users
CNN
Facebook failed to provide crucial details about its "Cross-Check" program that reportedly shielded millions of VIP users from the social media platform's normal content moderation rules, according to the company's oversight board.
The tech giant "has not been fully forthcoming on Cross-Check," the oversight board said in a report published on Thursday. "On some occasions, Facebook failed to provide relevant information to the Board, while in other instances, the information it did provide was incomplete," it added.
Facebook uses Cross-Check to review content decisions relating to high-profile users, such as politicians, celebrities and journalists. The program had mushroomed to include 5.8 million users in 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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