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Facebook parent’s oversight board criticizes ‘cross check’ program that protects VIP users

4 min read . Updated: 06 Dec 2022, 05:34 PM IST Jeff Horwitz, The Wall Street Journal

The report offers the most detailed review to date of cross check, which Meta has billed as a quality-control effort to prevent moderation errors on content of heightened public interest (Photo: Reuters) — The report offers the most detailed review to date of cross check, which Meta has billed as a quality-control effort to prevent moderation errors on content of heightened public interest **(Photo: Reuters)**

New report faults Meta Platforms for giving some users unfair deference and misleading the public

Meta Platforms Inc. has long given unfair deference to VIP users of its Facebook and Instagram services under a program called “cross check" and has misled the public about the program, the company’s oversight board concluded in a report issued Tuesday.

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