> Those included in the XCheck program, according to Facebook documents, include, in top row: Neymar, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr. and Mark Zuckerberg, and in bottom row, Elizabeth Warren, Dan Scavino, Candace Owens and Doug the Pug.
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#12Unfortunately Facebook has no choice. If you do not make your platform appealing for popular people you will have a hard time attracting their followers there.
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#13The elite use facebook?
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#14"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" Animal Farm - George Orwell
Facebook is the most explicitly duplicitious sociopathic company in the tech sector. Many companies are sociopathic, especially as you get into pure finance companies like PE firms, but few are as duplicitous as Facebook.
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#15Unfortunately Facebook has no choice. If you do not make your platform appealing for popular people you will have a hard time attracting their followers there.
That is a textbook example of a choice.
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#16Elite in the title might make you think they mean a politician or celebrity. It’s really Facebook outsourcing to “XCheck” who has 5.8 million memebers and somehow avoids Facebook’s “moderation”.
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#17Paywalled unfortunately. found this summary one: https://seekingalpha.com/news/3739118-facebook-exempted-secr...
Somewhat ironically, changing the domain to fullwsj.com will redirect you to wsj.com stories via Facebook's redirector and that's currently not paywalled.
Tried it, got paywalled anyway. I was not logged into Facebook at the time, if that matters.
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#18I don't understand the way their enforcement works. I've reported videos of people literally setting live animals on fire and been told there was no violation, but my wife called someone a "loser" and got a week long ban.
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#19> In a written statement, Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said criticism of XCheck was fair, but added that the system “was designed for an important reason: to create an additional step so we can accurately enforce policies on content that could require more understanding.”
Would be great if us plebs could get the privilege of accurately enforced policies.
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#20Well of course. Why wouldn't they? Money and friends aside, they have to do it for people who wield power like China's upper echelon or the NSA. If they say no, they will be shut down in those markets.