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Mexican election candidate SHOT DEAD shortly after going LIVE on Facebook to ask locals to join her at rally

Electoral candidate Alma Barragán was shot to death on Tuesday afternoon in the Mexican town of Moroleón in the central…

3 years ago

‘Like Big Tobacco selling ‘child-friendly’ cigarettes’: Facebook’s ‘Instagram for kids’ idea faces backlash from advocacy groups

More than 180,000 people signed three declarations penned by a coalition of advocacy and grassroots organizations, including Campaign for a…

3 years ago

Facebook is suppressing ‘facts’ that are flagged as promoting ‘vaccine hesitancy’, whistleblowers claim

The conservative media watchdog organization published a purported internal Facebook memo concerning “Vaccine Hesitancy Comment Demotion.” The policy aims to…

3 years ago

RT’s Boom Bust looks at how Facebook is forcing WhatsApp users to accept new data-sharing rules

RT Boom Bust co-host and Investigative journalist Ben Swann breaks down what happens if users refuse to agree to the…

3 years ago

Boom Bust looks at to how Facebook’s abuse of user data created market opportunities for Signal

Earlier this week, Signal tried to use Facebook’s own tools against it when it attempted to launch ads on the…

3 years ago

Nightmare on Zuckerberg Street? Facebook wants to make sure you have the right friends with hyperlocal ‘Neighborhoods’ feature

Rather than simply alerting friends halfway around the world to what their internet pen pals are doing, Facebook has vowed…

3 years ago

Trump rips Facebook, Twitter, Google for taking ‘free speech’ away from him to appease ‘radical left lunatics’

“What Facebook, Twitter, Google have done is a total disgrace and embarrassment to our country,” Trump wrote. “Free Speech has…

3 years ago

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump ban, but says it was ‘inappropriate’ for site to make suspension indefinite

In a statement on Wednesday, the board announced that it “upholds Facebook's decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-president…

3 years ago

Whether it finds Trump innocent or guilty, Facebook’s risible kangaroo court is not fit for purpose

Donald Trump has been impeached twice, but arguably his most far-reaching trial is about to deliver its verdict. On May…

3 years ago

RT editor-in-chief says she will seek Facebook ban if RT’s Redfish page, removed after anti-fascist post, is not restored

Redfish Media's account was suspended on Friday, after its recent post marking the death of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini…

3 years ago