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Meta’s Oversight Board has released an in-depth report on Facebook and Instagram’s controversial cross-check system, calling on Meta to make the program “radically” extra clear and beef up its assets.
The semi-independent Oversight Board cited “several shortcomings” in cross-check, which supplies a special moderation queue for high-profile public figures, together with former president Donald Trump earlier than his suspension from Facebook. It singled out a failure to clarify when accounts are protected by particular cross-check standing, in addition to circumstances the place rule-breaking materials — significantly one case of non-consensual pornography — was left up for a chronic time period. And it criticized Meta for not retaining monitor of moderation…
