The Oversight Board, an independent body established to review the decisions and policies of Facebook and Instagram, to be beaten the company on Tuesday during its evaluation program. In its statement, the Supervisory Board made several changes that the parent company Facebook Meta must make in relation to the control of the content of its social networks.
Cross-check is an internal Facebook program that was introduced as “quality control” measurement – a method of double-checking the decision that can be a control when it comes to popular users of Facebook. As Facebook checks millions of things per day, the company must be wrong. instead to help reduce the download of wrong things from users who seem to be the most important to the company.
However, according to the report of Wall Street Journalthe program implemented a two-part control system for popular Facebook users and the rest.
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In fact, thanks to the investigation, celebrities, politicians, and other influencers were able to break the rules of Facebook and Instagram without facing the same penalties as those imposed on everyone else. A total of 5.8 million accounts created a whitelist at one time. These names include former President Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg himself.
The agency came out strongly in its statement, criticizing Meta for not telling them the truth about the startup’s tracking program.
“During our review, we found several flaws in the Meta program,” writes the Oversight committee. “Although Meta told the Board that the check was intended to further Meta’s commitment to human rights, we found that the program appeared to be designed specifically to meet business challenges.”
While the Board said it understood that Meta is a business, it failed to follow its principles, it failed to follow the results of the program, and it failed to be transparent about the program.
The public monitoring system first came to light when Facebook journalist Frances Haugen shared internal documents about the real harm caused by the social network. Haugen in short The Board of Directors for the discussion, among other things disclosed in the books.
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The Oversight Board made several recommendations for changes to the program, particularly related to transparency. For example, the Oversight Board said that Meta must log user accounts that are part of a monitoring program. The organization said that this will “allow the public to have an opportunity to respond to whether security agencies are following their intended compliance.”
In addition, the Oversight Board recommended that Facebook still reduce the “extremely difficult”, regardless of whether the user has a viewing area. If a user who has been approved by the check continues to violate the rules, the Management Board suggests that Meta remove their account from the program.
Although Meta works on the Oversight Board’s decisions on specific administrative decisions, such as the reinstatement of a particular service from a user, the Board’s policy-making recommendations are: recommendations. Meta does not have to obey the Oversight Board’s changes to the monitoring program.
