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Following weeks of scandals, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues to remain relatively quiet while the company’s VP of Global Affairs and Communications, Nick Clegg, continues to downplay the social media giant’s issues as the focus of a media onslaught.

As part of the company’s new anti-harassment policy update, social media giant Facebook plans to begin removing “sexualized attacks” on celebrities from its platform. A Facebook executive explained the company’s reasoning: “We made these changes because attacks like these can weaponize a public figure’s appearance, which is unnecessary and often not related to the work these public figures represent.”

Former Facebook employee Sophie Zhang has stated that she is willing to testify before Congress following the recent testimony of far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen. Zhang claims she has provided a “U.S. law enforcement agency” with “detailed documentation regarding potential criminal violations.”

Far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haug stated this week that she will be meeting with the social media giant’s Oversight Board in the coming weeks. She is also scheduled to appear before the UK Parliament later this month.

According to a recent report, many patents filed by Google featuring the inventions of far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen during her time working at the company could imply that Haugen was well aware of Facebook’s actions to drive toxic engagement amongst teens for some time before stepping forward.

A Facebook executive recently stated that the social media giant plans to introduce new measures in its apps to “nudge” teen users away from harmful content. The social media giant has been under fire for its business practices around teen users after leaked internal research demonstrated that its Instagram platform is toxic for teen girls.

As Facebook grapples with a number of major scandals in recent weeks, the company has announced plans for a new $10 million fund for creators to develop games for its new “metaverse” project.

According to a privacy research firm, the personal data of more than 1.5 billion Facebook users has been found for sale on a hacker forum.

Roger McNamee, a previous mentor to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, recently commented on the testimony of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen earlier this week. McNamee has been critical of Facebook and Zuckerberg in recent years, and now calls Zuckerberg’s business model of surveillance capitalism “as immoral as child labor.”

Jen Psaki noted that Joe Biden was a “strong supporter” of reforming tech platforms, and would put Section 230 reforms, privacy reforms, transparency, and antitrust laws “on the table” for action.

Far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen, who has advised lawmakers to pass legislation that would empower the establishment media at the expense of independent creators, worked for a unit at Facebook tasked with preventing “misinformation” around the 2020 election — the same group that would have been involved in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Mark Zuckerberg has hit back after far-left “whistleblower” Frances Haugen testified on Capitol Hill, charging a “false narrative.”

The far-left Facebook whistleblower who recently testified before Congress reportedly spent her final days at the company openly sifting through Mark Zuckerberg’s internal social network collecting sensitive documents, and no one at the firm appeared to notice.

Following the testimony of far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen before Congress, the social media giant has called for lawmakers to impose “standard rules” across the internet.

Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the Senate about whistleblower Frances Haugen’s recent testimony about the social media giant.

If there was a common theme to the Senate testimony of Frances Haugen, the far-left Facebook “whistleblower,” it was this: social media’s habit of using algorithms to “amplify preferences” is bad, wrong, evil, and should be regulated out of existence — by people like her.

During her testimony before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Tuesday, Democratic senators from Amy Klobuchar to Ed Markey heaped scores of praise upon far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen, extolling her for her courage and willingness to come forward.

Far left Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee today that the platform should be regulated to stop “disinformation” and “hate,” but there was also a buried lede in her testimony — that Facebook wound down its “civic integrity” censorship immediately after the 2020 election.

Far-left Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says she left the company because it chose to wind down its “civic integrity unit,” which had been accused by Trump supporters of interfering in the 2020 Presidential election.

Establishment media-backed Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before the Senate Commerce Committee today, telling lawmakers that they should set up a new regulatory agency to protect against the “harms” of Big Tech (including so-called disinformation and hate speech), and that people like her should get to run it.

Frances Haugen, the former Facebook employee who testified before the Senate commerce committee today, has a history of left-wing activism and is working with the same lawyer who represented the alleged Ukraine whistleblower who sparked the second bogus Trump impeachment.

In a recent article, the New York Times outlines why the recently leaked internal Facebook documents indicate that the company is in more trouble than previously believed. The Times forecasts a storm brewing in Facebook’s future, and that was before the Masters of the Universe suffered a catastrophic outage of services that lasted about seven hours on Monday.

Following the catastrophic outage of Facebook services including WhatsApp and Instagram that lasted about seven hours, users took to Twitter to mock the social media giant.

Facebook services have come back online following an outage lasting about seven hours, the longest downtime that the site has seen since 2008. The catastrophic outage also impacted the company’s Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, bringing the Masters of the Universe to a grinding halt for most of Monday. The company has blamed “configuration changes” for bringing its entire empire to its knees.

A Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, is set to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee tomorrow. She’s far from the first Big Tech whistleblower to expose Silicon Valley’s inner workings — but she is one of the first to call for more censorship, not less. That’s probably why the establishment media has embraced her with open arms.

Cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs says Facebook, as well as its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, are all suffering from ongoing global outages due to someone from inside Facebook updating the company’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) records, which took away the map telling the world’s computers how to find its online properties. According to a New York Times reporter, employees cannot even open doors with their security cards due to the catastrophic outage.

Facebook’s entire network is down as well as social media applications owned by the company including Instagram and WhatsApp.

Jeff Horwitz, a technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal, claimed in a recent interview that tech giant Facebook is blaming its own researchers for recent negative press relating to internal company studies.

The Wall Street Journal has revealed the identity of the Facebook whistleblower who provided many of the documents that made up the publication’s Facebook Files series.

Internal Facebook documents published by the Wall Street Journal show that researchers studying Instagram claim that followers of certain celebrities experience more negative feelings on the platform than followers of other celebrities.

The Democrats’s draft spending bill still includes huge changes to the nation’s immigration laws, even after the Senate’s parliamentarian removed the much-touted amnesties from the multi-trillion dollar spending bill.

According to a recent report from VICE News, despite recent backlash over the effect of Instagram on the mental health of teen users, the Facebook-owned platform continues to promote eating disorders and diet pills to its users.

Ahead of a Senate hearing on the effect of social media on the mental health of younger users scheduled for next Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal has published in full the “Facebook Files,” internal documents showing just how much the company knew about its platforms’ impact.

President Joe Biden’s poll rating on immigration has slipped down to 35 percent, according to a survey by the Associated Press.

A new report from the Wall Street Journal claims that Facebook’s attempts to attract younger users to its platforms go beyond the company’s recently abandoned “Instagram for Kids” project. Leaked documents reportedly show that the company formed a team to study preteens and set a three-year goal to develop more products for them.

Following a series of damning reports from the Wall Street Journal called the “Facebook Files,” members of the tech press are calling on Facebook to fully release the internal documents that the company claims are being taken out of context.