Facebook’s Oversight Board Calls for More Equitable Censorship

Facebook parent Meta’s Oversight Board, the quasi-independent body that advises the social media giant on content policy, has issued a report warning of flaws in the company’s “cross-check” system that gives more leeway to high-profile users to post violating content.
The advisory panel has urged Meta to modify cross-check, which it calls a “false-positive mistake-prevention” program, including making it more transparent, more universally accessible, and in some cases, more strict in its censorship.
The Oversight Board, informally dubbed Facebook’s “Supreme Court,” said in its policy advisory opinion on Meta’s cross-check, or “XCheck,” program (pdf) that the system “is flawed in key areas which the company must address.”…}