Shocker! He lied!-----Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt.

Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt.

• A program known as XCheck has given millions of celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users special treatment, a privilege many abuse

"Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said Facebook Inc. allows its more than three billion users to speak on equal footing with the elites of politics, culture and journalism, and that its standards of behavior apply to everyone, no matter their status or fame.

In private, the company has built a system that has exempted high-profile users from some or all of its rules, according to company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

...Today, it shields millions of VIP users from the company’s normal enforcement process, the documents show. 

Some users are “whitelisted”—rendered immune from enforcement actions—while others are allowed to post rule-violating material pending Facebook employee reviews that often never come.

At times, the documents show, XCheck has protected public figures whose posts contain harassment or incitement to violence, violations that would typically lead to sanctions for regular users. 

In 2019, it allowed international soccer star Neymar to show nude photos of a woman...Read all.