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===Whitelisting===
===Whitelisting===
[[File:XCheck.jpg|right|300px|thumb|]]
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''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' reviewed internal documents about Facebook's "XCheck" or “cross check” program. <ref>https://archive.is/3fE10#selection-257.22-257.46</ref>
''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' reviewed internal documents about Facebook's "XCheck" or “cross check” program. <ref>https://archive.is/3fE10#selection-257.22-257.46</ref> Some of the documents have been turned over to the [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] (SEX) and to Congress by a person seeking federal [[whistleblower]] protection.
XCheck shields millions of VIP users from the company’s normal enforcement process, the documents show. Some users are “whitelisted”—rendered immune from enforcement actions—while others are allowed to post rule-violating material pending Facebook employee reviews that often never come. XCheck has protected public figures whose posts contain harassment or incitement to violence, violations that would typically lead to sanctions for regular users.
A 2019 internal review of Facebook’s whitelisting practices, marked attorney-client privileged, found favoritism to those users to be both widespread and “not publicly defensible....We are not actually doing what we say we do publicly,” said the confidential review. It called the company’s actions “a breach of trust” and added: “Unlike the rest of our community, these people can violate our standards without any consequences.”
As of 2020 XCheck included at least 5.8 million users, documents show. In its struggle to accurately moderate a torrent of content and avoid negative attention, Facebook created invisible elite tiers within the social network. In describing the system Facebook misled the public and its own Oversight Board. Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said that the system “was designed for an important reason: to create an additional step so we can accurately enforce policies on content that could require more understanding.”
While the program included most government officials, it didn’t include all candidates for public office, at times effectively granting incumbents in elections an advantage over challengers. The discrepancy was most prevalent in state and local races, the documents show, and employees worried Facebook could be subject to accusations of favoritism.
[[Florida]] governor [[Ron DeSantis]] asked the Florida Department of State to open an investigation into Facebook’s alleged election interference through its whitelisting program.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/governor-desantis-orders-investigation-into-facebook-for-using-platform-to-interfere-in-elections/</ref>
===Censorship and harassment by Facebook===
===Censorship and harassment by Facebook===