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GOP senator’s new bill would force Facebook to publish Nazis
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), a Christian nationalist and the youngest member of the United States Senate, proposed legislation on Wednesday that would effectively appoint a panel of government central...
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Area tech monopolist worth $70 billion thinks fixing his platform is someone...
Mark Zuckerberg can’t decide what he wants. At the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Tuesday, the Facebook CEO said that while his platform was doing its utmost to combat election meddling and...
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Civil rights groups demand action after Facebook audit reveals problems with...
Facebook published its Civil Rights Audit on Sunday, a document designed to track its progress in tackling hate speech, abusive content, and disinformation that has festered on its platform. The audit...
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Facebook hate speech guidelines in the spotlight following Border Patrol...
Revelations that thousands of federal law enforcement officers were part of a Facebook group that mocked the very people they are sworn to help has turned the spotlight on glaring flaws in Facebook’s...
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Members of 4chan-like Border Patrol web group minted a coin in sarcastic...
The once-secret Facebook group where Border Patrol agents share hateful views and racist jokes about migrants has reached the stage for which all niche online communities strive. It’s selling merch to...
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Facebook profited off of its latest scandal
The Federal Trade Commission last week decided to impose a roughly $5 billion fine on Facebook as part of a settlement in a long-running probe into whether or not the social media giant’s infamous...
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FTC’s $5 billion deal with Facebook is a paper tiger with a partisan tail
The Federal Trade Commission’s Republican majority wants you to believe they’ve just dunked all over Mark Zuckerberg. But the $5 billion Facebook fine and related settlement conditions the commission...
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You probably missed it, but Facebook just had a very bad week
In any other week, Big Tech might have faced harsh public scrutiny. But this week, with former special counsel Robert Mueller testifying before Congress, any bad news that should have hampered tech...
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Facebook cares about its users’ privacy*
Facebook cares about privacy. Or at least it says it does. After two-and-a-half years bouncing from one scandal and misstep to another (most notably with Cambridge Analytica, where Facebook’s lax...
View ArticleFacebook and Twitter crack down on accounts spreading disinformation about...
Twitter and Facebook announced on Monday the suspension of hundreds of thousands of accounts believed to be part of a massive disinformation campaign by the Chinese government to sow discord among...
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