Tag: Facebook
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Trump launches TRUTH Social, a social media network to ‘fight back against Big Tech’
Former President Donald Trump has announced that he will launch TRUTH Social, his own social media network, in early 2022. The new Trump Media & Technology Group promises to build a social network that will compete with the current ‘liberal media consortium’ and ‘fight back against Silicon Valley’s ‘Big Tech’ companies, which have used their…
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How ‘Zuckerbucks’ helped swing the 2020 election for Joe Biden
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife gave nearly $420million to nonprofits that aided in the administration and infrastructure of the 2020 election, and heavily favored Democrat counties, according to a new report. Zuckerberg, 37, and his wife Priscilla Chan, 36, donated $419.5million to The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and The Center…
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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen calls on U.S. lawmakers to ‘take action’
Facebook whistleblower hearing was conducted today (Sept 6) before the Senate, and Frances Haugen called for more regulation of tech giant. Haugen’s opening statements Frances Haugen repeatedly said that Facebook is not inherently evil and social media could be moderated to be less toxic to its users, but that Congressional action is needed to do…
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Data of over 1.5 billion Facebook users sold on hacker forum: Report
Data of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum, according to Privacy Affairs. Private data contains users’ names, emails, phone numbers, locations, gender, and user ID. This is the largest and most significant Facebook data dump to date and seemingly unrelated to an earlier 2021 Facebook data dump. If…
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Florida Governor DeSantis orders to probe Facebook over election laws
Florida Governor DeSantis on Monday directs the Secretary of State to investigate Facebook for alleged violations of election laws. It follows reporting that Facebook has allowed selected high-profile individuals to violate its rules against spreading medical misinformation, harassment, incitements to violence, and other abusive posts. DeSantis asked Secretary of State Laurel Lee to investigate whether Facebook’s policies…
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Trump to sue Twitter CEO Dorsey and Facebook CEO Zuckerberg: report
Former President Trump will reportedly announce class-action lawsuit today against Twitter CEO Dorsey and Facebook CEO Zuckerberg on behalf of people who have been canceled by social media. Trump is completely banned from Twitter and is banned from Facebook for another two years. Facebook announced last month that the ban will last at least until…
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Justice Thomas suggests Facebook, Twitter could be regulated like utilities
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appeared to signal that Big Tech firms could be regulated after Facebook and Twitter suspended President Donald Trump earlier this year. Thomas, considered a conservative on the high court, made the point during a 12-page submission as the Supreme Court issued an order that rejected a lawsuit over Trump’s blocking of certain…
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40 States reportedly plan to file antitrust lawsuit against Facebook
The complaint would be the second major lawsuit filed against a Big Tech company this year. The Justice Department sued Alphabet Inc’s Google in October.
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