Facebook's oversight board is reviewing the company's practice of exempting secret 'whitelisted' users from its community guidelines and allowing them to post banned content through a special XCheck program. XCheck, also known internally as cross-check, has been a long-time subject of Facebook's oversight board - a body not affiliated with the social media giant hired to critique how Facebook handles problematic content. Facebook's oversight board is reviewing the company's practice of exempting secret 'whitelisted' users from its community guidelines through a special XCheck program. Apparently the oversight board doesn't even have clarity on how the XCheck program works. Four of those instances involved posts by then-President Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr.

Source: Daily Mail September 21, 2021 21:22 UTC