{"id":420235,"date":"2022-12-06T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=420235"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T11:22:22","slug":"facebook-s-own-oversight-board-slams-its-special-program-for-vips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/facebook-s-own-oversight-board-slams-its-special-program-for-vips","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s own oversight board slams its special program for VIPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Facebook and Instagram program that gives celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users special treatment does more for parent company Meta&#8217;s business interests than its stated purpose of protecting users&#8217; free expression rights, according to Meta&#8217;s oversight board. &#8220;Meta&#8217;s cross-check program prioritizes influential and powerful users of commercial value to Meta and as structured does not meet Meta&#8217;s human rights responsibilities and company values, with profound implications for users and global civil society,&#8221; Thomas Hughes, oversight board director, said in a statement. The board said Meta appeared to be more concerned with avoiding &#8220;provoking&#8221; VIPs and evading accusations of censorship than balancing tricky questions of free speech and safety. It called for the overhaul of the &#8220;flawed&#8221; program in a report on Tuesday that included wide-ranging recommendations to bring the program in line with international principles and Meta&#8217;s own stated values. Meta said in a statement it would review and respond to the board&#8217;s recommendations &#8211; which are not binding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oversight board says Facebook parent Meta appears to be more concerned with avoiding &#8220;provoking&#8221; VIPs and evading accusations of censorship than balancing tricky questions of free speech and safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}