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NEW YORK — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says while he finds Holocaust denial “deeply offensive,” he doesn’t believe that such content should be banned from Facebook.

During a hearing relating to censorship on social media platforms, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee repeatedly denied the existence of any social media censorship and attempted to turn the hearing towards talk of Russian election interference.

Executives from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube testified Tuesday in Washington, D.C. before a House Judiciary Committee hearing that their companies support free speech and expression. They further denied their companies’ use of political censorship of their users’ conduct.

“Freedom From Facebook,” a left-wing anti-Facebook group, protested the social media hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, with anti-Facebook signs.

Democrats attempted to a derail a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday on social media censorship to discuss alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

A reporter went undercover as a Facebook moderator and discovered that the company fails to remove examples of child abuse and violence.

Lawmakers hold a second hearing into social media censorship Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

Israel’s chief military liaison to the Palestinians released an Arabic-language Facebook video Sunday accusing the Hamas terror of spreading “fake news” and challenging reports that Israel had hit a playground in Gaza in its airstrikes Saturday.

Representatives from major tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Twitter are set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on July 17.

The House Judiciary Committee announced Friday that it will hold a hearing on July 17 regarding Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s censorship practices.

Facebook thinks it can preserve its “commitment to free speech” by just censoring 80 percent of your post’s reach.

Actor and director Tyler Perry warned his fans to ignore fake Facebook messages asking for personal information in his name.

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) allegedly failed to disclose her husband’s ownership of more than $100,000 worth of Facebook stock before Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress.

Facebook reportedly gave Russian Internet company Mail.ru a two-week extension to disable features on its messaging apps which gave the foreign firm access to Facebook users’ friend lists.

Facebook is being fined £500,000, or around $662,000, in the United Kingdom by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the 1998 Data Protection Act.

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith confessed that she has coped with “several” addictions in her life, among them, an addiction to sex.

YouTube plans to “prominently surface authoritative sources” for its users.

Just because your handle is “LibPwner2016” doesn’t mean you’re really anonymous.

The leading U.S. communications union is joining a coalition calling for the Federal Trade Commission to break up and regulate Facebook.

The CEO of cloud storage company Box has stated that the mistrust and possible regulation of major tech companies such as Facebook and Google is a ‘contagion’ that could spread to other Silicon Valley tech companies.

A former Facebook content censor claims she became “desensitized” to graphic content on the platform, which included child porn featuring children between the ages of nine and twelve.

CAIRO — An Egyptian court sentenced on Saturday a Lebanese woman to eight years in prison over insulting Egyptians in a video she posted online, and set July 29 as the date for her appeal, state media reported.

Facebook has apologized to a Texas newspaper after flagging a post containing text from the Declaration of Independence as “hate speech.”

Vietnamese users of Facebook were outraged last week to discover a map on the social media platform that depicted the Paracel and Spratly islands in the South China Sea as Chinese territory, even though Vietnam also has territorial claims in both island chains.

The latest Subsidy Tracker reveals that some of the most prominent Silicon Valley tech corporations enjoy $840 billion in government subsidies.

Facebook removed an excerpt from the U.S. Declaration of Independence, claiming the text violated the social network’s policies on “hate speech.”

A country band is crying foul after Facebook approved, then abruptly denied them the ability to use their paid Facebook advertising tools to push out their new song, “I Stand for the Flag,” because Facebook does not like the song’s patriotic message.

A Facebook bug allowed blocked users to send messages to accounts which had blocked them for eight days, before the bug was fixed.

The FBI, SEC, and Justice Department have joined a federal probe into Facebook’s user data scandal which saw the personal info of 87 million users allegedly shared without their explicit consent.

Facebook has acquired London-based Bloomsbury AI in an attempt to use the company’s technology to fight “fake news” on their platform.

Facebook has admitted to sharing the personal data of its users with 61 different companies.

Facebook shut down a support page for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming the page breached “community guidelines.”

The #Walkaway movement that began with a popular Facebook video featuring a gay hairdresser in New York City explaining why he was leaving the Democratic Party has quickly morphed into a major force on social media and beyond.

A group of determined volunteers in Alabama spent 30 hours successfully rescuing a seven-week-old deaf puppy from a 50-foot hole Friday, according to video footage of the rescue.

Social media Master of the Universe Facebook has once again been accused of leaking users personal information via a quiz app over a period of at least two years.

Facebook announced this week that it is reversing its cryptocurrency advertisement ban.