Facebook shields millions of VIP users from standard moderation protocols, per report
Summary
Facebook Chief Executive Officer and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, leaving the Merrion Hotel in Dublin after meeting with Irish politicians to discuss regulation of social media, transparrency in political advertising and the safety of young people and vulnerable adults. Facebook is using a program that whitelists millions of VIP users from the companys standard content moderation practices, according to the Wall Street Journal. The program is known as "cross check" or "XCheck," and it creates special rules for content moderation when it comes to millions of VIP accounts on Facebook and Instagram, according to internal documents obtained by the Journal. Users in the XCheck program, however, may have their content stay live on Facebooks services before being routed into a separate moderation system. This type of content would have typically been removed, but XCheck protected Neymars account and blocked Facebook moderators from taking it down right away.