Facebook questioned by Oversight Board over XCheck celebrity rules

Facebook’s de facto Supreme Court of content is calling on the social media giant to release more information about how it moderates posts by famous people.

The Facebook Oversight Board said in a statement Tuesday that it has asked Facebook to provide more clarity about a program designed to protect high-profile figures from having their posts mistakenly taken down.

The review by the Oversight Board follows a Wall Street Journal report revealing details about a system Facebook built to exempt high-profile users in politics, popular culture and journalism from enforcement action over posts that break their rules. The program, known as “cross check,” was designed to avoid public relations backlash over famous people who mistaken have their posts taken down, the newspaper reported.