The Facebook-appointed Oversight Board said its investigation found the company hid from them details of its whitelisting program, X-check, which exempted VIP users from the normal enforcement rules.

A Facebook program known as "XCheck," or Cross Check, reportedly exempts millions of high-profile users from community standards applied to less-famous and less-wealthy users. Musicians, star athletes ...

The social media giant apparently has a secret program that allows America's rich and famous to flout its rule system. Reading time 3 minutes For years, Facebook has operated a little known program ...

Facebook has for years used a little known VIP program that’s enabled millions of high-profile users to skirt its rules, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. According to the report, ...

Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said that Facebook Inc. allows its more than three billion users to speak on equal footing with the elites of politics, culture, and journalism, and that its standards of ...

The oversight board at Facebook says it will review the social media giant’s “XCheck” system following a report from The Wall Street Journal, which found it allows VIP users to use the platform exempt ...

Facebook's Oversight Board has issued a rebuke to the company in a new quarterly report, claiming it was not "fully forthcoming" about its XCheck program for VIP users. The documents shows the limits ...

A Facebook and Instagram program that gives celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users special treatment does more for parent company Meta's business interests than its stated purpose of ...

Facebook failed to provide crucial details about its “Cross-Check” program that reportedly shielded millions of VIP users from the social media platform’s normal content moderation rules, according to ...