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Local authorities want to sue Facebook for Alienstock Area 51 event
The Lincoln County Sheriff expressed his frustration at the fact that people had already started arriving at the inn and that his county has to spend a quarter of a million dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg agrees there “clearly was bias” in Facebook “fact-check” of pro-life non-profit Live Action
Facebook’s “independent fact-checkers” are being investigated for alleged motive-driven fact-checking on Live Action’s page.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to meet with Google and Facebook to crack down on violent content
Ardern highlighted the fact that tech and social media companies never worked with their competitors and that they must do so to prevent online terrorism.
Instagram takes down photo of gun range users, says it’s “violent” and “dangerous”
The photo was posted in June 2018 and appears to have been taken down more than a year after it was originally posted. Instagram issued the following message when taking down the photo:
New Instagram rules could affect diet and health Instagrammers
Instagram will ban posts that make what it deems to be “miraculous” claims about certain diet or weight loss products which are linked to a commercial offer.
Antitrust scrutiny is leading to Google and Facebook building bridges with legacy media
No one knows for sure if the new policies are a way to mitigate the regulations imposed by governments to end the monopoly of Google and Facebook, who reported having 60% control of digital marketing over the past year.
Facebook stores Portal voice recordings by default
Facebook enables voice data storage by default wherein consumers are responsible for disabling the option, if they wish to.
Hillary Clinton is still blaming Facebook for helping Trump spread “outright lies about Democrats”
Clinton added that, “even though these posts violate Facebook’s stated terms of service, they’re still up.”
Facebook says it’s a publisher, invokes First Amendment rights to call Laura Loomer a “dangerous individual”
Facebook’s mind-boggling claim that its First Amendment rights allow it to ban users for exercising their own First Amendment rights – and that’s not even the only puzzling and contradictory point from the filing.
Facebook wants to equip police with body cams in exchange for the footage
Facebook will provide free body cameras to the UK’s Metropolitan Police force in exchange for the video footage.
Tech giants tried but failed to prevent California Consumer Privacy Act
Only five amendments went through and none of them managed to compromise its goal or introduce loopholes that could be exploited in a future by tech giants.
Chinese state media accuses Facebook of “suppressing voices of justice” by supporting Hong Kong protestors
According to the commentary, Facebook is jumping to the front of the state and mobilizing violence in the Hong Kong protests.