{"id":614625,"date":"2023-03-05T08:49:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T14:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/05\/facebooks-willing-to-reform-its-controversial-cross-check-program-but-only-parts-of-it\/"},"modified":"2023-03-05T08:49:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T14:49:21","slug":"facebooks-willing-to-reform-its-controversial-cross-check-program-but-only-parts-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/05\/facebooks-willing-to-reform-its-controversial-cross-check-program-but-only-parts-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s willing to reform its controversial cross-check program \u2014 but only parts of it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta has agreed to modify Facebook and Instagram\u2019s cross-check program, which exempts high-profile users from the company\u2019s automated moderation system. In an updated blog post published Friday<\/a>, the company shared its response to the Oversight Board\u2019s recommendations, stating it will make the cross-check system \u201cmore transparent through regular reporting\u201d as well as tweak the criteria it uses to add people to the program \u201cto better account for human rights interests and equity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oversight Board, or the \u201cindependent body\u201d that reviews Meta\u2019s content moderation decisions, made a total of 32 recommendations<\/a> on how Meta can improve its cross-check program last December. Meta has opted to fully implement 11 of those recommendations, while partially adopting 15. <\/p>\n

Facebook and Instagram\u2019s cross-check program came under fire after a 2021 report from The Wall Street Journal<\/em> revealed that Meta\u2019s been using it to shield politicians<\/a>, celebrities, and popular athletes from its automated moderation system. According to Meta<\/a>, the system lets the company apply \u201cadditional levels of human review\u201d to posts shared by high-profile figures in an attempt to avoid wrongly removing them.<\/p>\n

The Oversight Board criticized the program, stating it \u201cappears more directly structured to satisfy business concerns\u201d rather than as a way to further the company\u2019s \u201chuman rights commitments\u201d as it previously claimed. As part of its response, Meta agreed to implement recommendations that require it to take immediate action on cross-checked content \u201cidentified as potentially severely violating.\u201d It also committed to reducing the cross-check program\u2019s backlog, an issue the Oversight Board found could cause harmful content to stay online longer than it should.<\/p>\n

However, Meta\u2019s still \u201cassessing the feasibility\u201d of a rule that would allow figures to opt out of the cross-check program, and isn\u2019t going through with five recommendations, including a suggestion to \u201cpublicly mark\u201d some of the figures benefitting from the program. It also rejected the Oversight Board\u2019s recommendation to notify users that it might take longer for Meta to take action when they report a post from someone in the cross-check program. You can read the full list of recommendations and Meta\u2019s response to each here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the Oversight Board calls Meta\u2019s response a \u201clandmark moment\u201d in a thread on Twitter<\/a>, it isn\u2019t completely satisfied with the changes the company\u2019s willing to make. \u201cSeveral aspects of Meta\u2019s response haven\u2019t gone as far as we recommended to achieve a more transparent and equitable system,\u201d the Oversight Board writes. \u201cMeta declined the Board\u2019s suggestion that deserving users be able to apply for the protections afforded by cross-check… We will continue to react to Meta\u2019s specific responses in the days and weeks to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Emma Roth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meta has agreed to modify Facebook and Instagram\u2019s cross-check program, which exempts high-profile users from the company\u2019s automated moderation system. In an updated blog post published Friday, the company shared its response to the Oversight Board\u2019s recommendations, stating it will make the cross-check system \u201cmore transparent through regular reporting\u201d as well as tweak the criteria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,46,31143],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-614625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-facebooks","8":"category-technology","9":"category-willing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}