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Facebook has “reduced” the reach of feminist satire site Reductress, citing concerns about the “repeated sharing of clickbait,” according to a message posted by the website’s co-founder, Sarah Pappalardo.

A massive server with databases containing the phone numbers of 419 million Facebook users has been found online, exposing the contact details of people around the world, including 133 million Americans. The database was available on the Internet without any password or other protection.

Social media giant Facebook is now opening up its facial recognition technology to all users and will be discontinuing the “tag suggestions” feature on pictures, despite a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s company over intrusive use of facial recognition without user consent.

Following Facebook’s removal of like counts on Instagram photos, the company is considering removing likes from posts on its main social media platform, to protect the feelings of its userbase.

Researchers working with Facebook to study the social media platform’s effect on democracy have threatened to quit, stating that Mark Zuckerberg’s company has failed to make promised data available.

Facebook is reportedly clamping down with rules relating to political ads in the United States ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

Facebook has blacklisted ads from the Epoch Times, a global multi-language newspaper known for its critical coverage of the communist regime in China.

Instagram recently censored a post by an artist critical of the Chinese government. The anti-Beijing post was removed by the Facebook-owned social media platform, but death threats made against the artist remained uncensored. Instagram later restored the artwork, while Facebook claimed that the censorship had occurred Due to due to “a mistake” by the company.

A Facebook tool rolling out in the coming months will allow users to see which apps and websites have tracked them and shared their personal data with Facebook while they were not using the social media platform.

Facebook continues to face challenges with viewpoint diversity among its employees and board of directors, impacting the creation and implementation of content policies and algorithms, according to an interim Facebook study released Tuesday by former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ).

Facebook has tapped former Arizona senator John Kyl to conduct a review of political bias on its platform, according to a report from Axios.

Facebook recently spoke with Axios, revealing a number of plans to promote news outlets on its platform including the creation of a “News Tab” featuring outlets handpicked by Facebook, changing how millions of people receive news.

Alabama candidate for the U.S. Senate Tommy Tuberville, former Auburn University football coach, has hired the chief Republican aide for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s organization dedicated to lobbying Congress to import more foreign workers to take American jobs.

Mark Zuckerberg’s group of West Coast investors is lobbying the GOP to keep illegal cheap labor flowing into Georgia.

Tech giant Facebook failed to warn users about the risks attached to its single sign-on tool despite taking steps to protect employees from dangers, according to a lawsuit. According to the suit, Facebook knew about the vulnerability but failed to fix it for years.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently published a column in the Washington Post in which he outlines how he believes the government should regulate the Internet, including censoring speech that his platforms finds “harmful.”

Tech giant Facebook is reportedly facing billions of dollars in potential damages as a federal appeals court rejected the firm’s argument to halt a class action lawsuit relating to the storing of biometric data of millions of users.

Facebook has offered millions of dollars to mainstream news outlets in order to license their content, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal. 

A startup marketing firm based in San Francisco, California, appears to have been secretly saving millions of Instagram users’ “stories,” as well as tracking their locations. The Facebook-owned app has since issued a cease and desist letter to its trusted “marketing partner,” but the incident has revived concerns over Facebook’s apparent inability to protect its users’ data.

Sens. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) wrote a letter Wednesday to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, charging that the social media giant has a “worrying pattern” of poor protections for children using the Facebook Messenger Kids app.

Despite its frequent denials that it practices “shadowbanning” — the covert censorship of content without notifying the censored — Facebok applied for and received a U.S. patent for shadowbanning technology last month, according to a report in the New American.

More than two-thirds of American voters back an antitrust review of America’s largest technology companies, according to a poll released Monday. 

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reportedly started investigating Facebook’s acquisitions, including Facebook and WhatsApp, as part of a practice to take out its competition.

According to a recent report, Facebook has dismantled a covert influence campaign on its network operated by the government of Saudi Arabia.

Facebook’s embattled project to build its own cryptocurrency, dubbed “Libra” by the social network, may not happen at all, according to an SEC filing by the company.

According to a recent report, Facebook has become one step closer to developing a working brain-computer interface, capable of reading users’ thoughts.

A privacy-centric advocacy group sued the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Friday in an attempt to force the federal agency to charge the terms of its reportedly lax deal with social media giant Facebook.

A recent report from the New York Times alleges that Facebook’s ad library, designed to increase transparency and fight disinformation, is so flawed, it has become effectively useless as a method by which to track political messaging.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wednesday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has “utterly” failed to penalize Facebook “in any effective way” for violating Americans’ privacy.

Silicon Valley tech giant Facebook will reportedly pay a fine of $5 billion to the FTC to settle allegations of mishandling of user data. FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra called the settlement a “Terrible precedent,” arguing “Breaking the law shouldn’t be profitable.”

A design flaw in Facebook’s “Messenger Kids” app allowed children to chat with strangers not approved by their parents.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wanted to levy a fine against Facebook in the “tens of billions;” however, the consumer protection agency relented against the social media giant, according to a report.

Professor Robert Epstein told Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) that Google is manipulating voters “on a massive scale,” using tools that it has at its disposal exclusively, and that “no one can counteract them.” Epstein warned the Senator of big tech election meddling that he called “invisible,” “subliminal,” and more powerful than anything he’s seen in 40 years of behavioral sciences.

An Australian cyber researcher alleges that social media giant Facebook embeds tracking codes in monitor who sees and shares your photos.

A handful of tech billionaires, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Indian outsourcing lobby are financing a green card giveaway plan that has already passed the House with support from 140 House Republicans and 224 House Democrats. 

H.R.1044 will “displace Americans” in the labor market in favor of “cheap foreign labor,” said Hilarie Gamm, author of Billions Lost: The American Tech Crisis and The Road Map to Change and co-founder of the American Workers Coalition.