Faced with criticism for the whistleblower's revelations, Facebook has also been criticized by its own supervisory board for not disclosing the truth as it is.
The Facebook supervisory board, in a report released on the 21st (local time), pointed out that the company repeatedly failed to submit or provided incomplete information about how it exempts content rules for posts from many prominent users. WSJ) reported.
According to the disclosure of the whistleblower revealed earlier, Facebook has been running a program called 'Cross Check' in secret.
The accounts of millions of celebrities, such as famous celebrities, sports stars, politicians, and journalists, were classified as 'whitelists' and their contents were sanctioned and managed according to standards different from those of ordinary people.
They say that even if they upload content that violates the rules, they are not deleted immediately or they are exempted from the content rules at all.
The supervisory board said it did not mention that it had a crosscheck program when Facebook asked the supervisory board to decide this spring on the decision to permanently suspend former President Donald Trump's account.
The supervisory board inquired if there was such a program, but only provided limited and insufficient information.
The supervisory board said it "is intolerable that Facebook has provided such a vague and lax response to a request for greater transparency."
The supervisory committee plans to receive and review documents related to cross-check practices from Facebook, hold public hearings with civic groups, and discuss improvement measures.
They are also making recommendations.
This supervisory committee is a kind of 'Social Media Supreme Court' that was proposed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg after Facebook was found to have neglected Russian intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.
We reviewed Facebook's decision to delete content and made independent decisions such as invalidating it if it was unreasonable, or prepared content monitoring guidelines.
The supervisory committee is composed of 20 external experts including professors, lawyers, and activists in fields such as human rights and freedom of expression.