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After being accused of ‘buying’ the 2020 election, Facebook announces it’s getting even more involved in US state elections

The social media giant plans to remind users in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas,…

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Facebook attacks media over not-yet-published reports and accuses it of orchestrated ‘gotcha’ campaign

Facebook has been in hot water in recent weeks, after former employee Frances Haugen blew the whistle and lambasted the…

3 years ago

Isn’t it odd that ‘whistleblowers’ keep popping up just after Facebook announced it wanted to ‘reduce the presence of politics’?

Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, who claims she was fired after highlighting the tech giant’s failure to tackle…

3 years ago

You might like this! Facebook & Twitter recommendation algorithms could be deactivated under new plans from Russian lawmakers

On Friday, sources within the State Duma told Moscow daily, Kommersant, that a new bill to be introduced later this…

3 years ago

George Galloway: Facebook is fighting to the death to stop those with the ‘wrong’ opinions from being heard

If you had told me during the years I sat with Nick Clegg in the British Parliament that the achingly…

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Hypocrisy at its finest: Facebook whistleblowers are feted, while Julian Assange is jailed

All whistleblowers are equal, but some are more equal than others. Or, we could more specifically say, whistleblowers whose revelations…

3 years ago

Facebook’s new ‘smart glasses’ could be American spying tool, Russian security agency says, warning of potential ban in country

In a statement published on Monday, officials said that the American-designed ‘smart glasses’ “have design features that mean they can…

3 years ago

Target Facebook: Second ‘whistleblower’ and blacklist leak ramp up pressure on Zuckerberg

I don’t really want to defend Zuckerberg, or the machine for surveillance and monetization of private information he has built…

3 years ago

Hitler, Hamas and… Hillbilly Militia Squad? Facebook’s secret blacklist EXPOSED

The 100-page document was somehow obtained and published on Tuesday by the Intercept, which noted that “nearly everyone and everything…

3 years ago

Facebook ‘fixing’ Instagram after Haugen leak: Nudging teens away from bad content & making Section 230 conditional on censorship

Facebook has been subjected to an onslaught of criticism after its former employee Frances Haugen leaked internal company documents to…

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