Facebook: The revelations that led to various allegations against the social networking site

Leading social media platform Facebook has been facing a series of allegations about its internal affairs since this week, based on revelations made by the Wall Street Journal and other media outlets.

Much of the information comes from Facebook's own internal documents, which indicate that there are people in the company's ranks who are raising their voices against the issues by leaking information.

The documents will provide governments and regulators with much to consider in their next move, but Facebook has defended itself against all allegations.

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According to documents reported by the Wall Street Journal, Facebook had different rules for celebrities, politicians and high-profile users about what content they could post and was known as 'X-check' (or cross-check). Is.

Facebook has acknowledged criticism of its cross-check system as "legitimate" but said it was "an extra step" to better understand the content posted.

"This could include activists raising awareness of violence or journalists reporting from war-torn areas," he said.

He said many of the documents cited by the Wall Street Journal were "outdated" and had been used in a way that sheds light on the most important point: Fees. The book itself has identified these issues and is working to address cross-check flaws.

Despite the allegations, Facebook's own monitoring board, set up to make decisions on difficult content, has called for more transparency.

In a blog post this week, he said the revelations "re-focused the company's approach to seemingly contradictory decisions."

He asked for a detailed explanation of how the cross check system works.

It warns that the lack of clarity on cross-checks could promote the idea that Facebook is "unnecessarily affected by political and commercial interests."

Since it began its work on how Facebook moderates content, Facebook's financially-supervised board has made 70 recommendations on how the company should improve its policies. It has now formed a team to evaluate how the social network implements these recommendations.

Its response to employees' concerns about human trafficking has often been "weak."

Documents reported by the Wall Street Journal also suggest that Facebook employees regularly exposed information about drug cartels and human traffickers on the platform, but the company's response was "weak." ۔

In November 2019, BBC Arabic News aired a report on Instagram highlighting the issue of domestic workers for sale.

According to internal documents, Facebook was already well aware of this issue. The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook took limited action until technology company Apple threatened to remove its products from its App Store.

In its defense, Facebook said it has a "comprehensive strategy" to keep people safe, with global teams of indigenous experts in more than 50 languages ​​and partnerships with educational resources and third-party fact-checkers. Also included.

Critics warn that Facebook has no means to moderate all content on its platform and protect its 2.8 billion users.

David Kirk Patrick, author of The Facebook Effects, told the BBC's Tech Tent podcast that he thought Facebook had "no motive" to mediate damages outside the United States.

He added: "They have a lot of things they've done, including hiring tens of thousands of people to review the content.

But a statistic for me from the Wall Street Journal showed that in 2020, only 13% of the work done to investigate all their false news and misinformation was done outside the United States.

According to him, for a service that is more than 90% for countries outside the United States and which has had a very negative impact on the politics of countries like the Philippines, Poland, Brazil, Hungary, Turkey, then there is improvement. Facebook people are not doing anything for.

Kirk Patrick has suggested that Facebook is only "operating under PR pressure" in the United States because not doing so could lead to financial losses.

Facebook is still facing several lawsuits from shareholders. In addition, Facebook is currently facing a complex lawsuit from a group of its shareholders.

The group has accused, among other things, of paying the US Federal Trade Commission a whopping 5 billion to settle Facebook's Cambridge Analytica data scandal because it sued Mark Zuckerberg. This was done to prevent me from getting involved.

Facebook declined to comment on the lawsuit.

According to the New York Times, Facebook has begun incorporating positive Facebook content into people's news feeds to improve its image.

According to the newspaper, 'Project Amplify' was designed to show people positive stories about social networks.

Facebook management has said that there has been no change in its newsfeed ranking system.

In a series of messages on Twitter, spokesman Joe Osborne said what is called "an information unit on Facebook" had been tested on a limited scale in three cities, apparently by the firm. Incoming messages were labeled.

"It's like what people see in other technology and consumer products," he said.