CALABASAS: Facebook exempts certain celebrities, politicians and other high-profile users from its own rules for posts as part of a program launched as a quality-control mechanism, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (Tuesday in Manila).

The program, referred to as "cross check" or "XCheck," shields millions of elite users from rules that Facebook claims to apply equally at the social network, according to a report citing internal documents.

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