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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg revealed in a recent interview with CBS This Morning that the social media giant is working with the FBI and Homeland Security ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections.

Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on Wednesday that he supports calls to break up Facebook. The comment is reportedly the first time the senator has addressed the matter since entering the 2020 Democrat presidential campaign.

A major security flaw in Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging program allowed hackers to remotely install surveillance software on both Apple and Google Android devices has been discovered.

A recent report claims that ISIS terrorists are utilizing Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram to promote jihad and gain support for terror attacks across the West.

Buttigieg endorsed a New York Times op-ed written by former Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who criticized Zuckerberg’s power and called for Facebook’s “monopoly” on online social media and communication to be broken up and regulated.

Conservative author, media entrepreneur and CPAC 2019 star Michelle Malkin has been censored by Facebook for posting supportive messages about recently-banned conservative figures Laura Loomer and Gavin McInnes.

Mike Cernovich described the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe expanding censorship of conservatives as a political measure to assist Democrats in 2020’s upcoming presidential elections and beyond, offering his remarks in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has called for the empire he helped Mark Zuckerberg to assemble to be broken up by the government. Taking it a step further, Hughes argues that the government should regulate big tech and control “acceptable speech” on social media.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg is planning five fundraisers across Silicon Vally on Friday, in an effort to bring more tech donors to his campaign, according to Recode.

Social media giant Facebook will soon give the site’s third-party fact-checkers access to Instagram to flag allegedly misleading posts and photos on the app.

Facebook received a lot of attention for overt censorship last week. But the social network is engaging in covert suppression of independent media too — most recently with its introduction of “Click-Gap,” a way of favoring established websites and suppressing non-established ones.

A new report alleges that Facebook has thousands of foreign contract workers to manually read status updates and other content posted to the social media platform raising concerns over user privacy yet again.

Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called for “forceful accountability measures” against Facebook in the wake of their various abuses of Americans’ private data.

Facebook’s process for monitoring its users’ posts in an effort to predicting suicides has some healthcare experts worried that it can backfire and escalate mental-health crises.

Politico recently profiled Facebook’s new “European election war room” ahead of upcoming E.U. elections.

With the bans of Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer and others from Facebook and Instagram yesterday, for being what Mark Zuckerberg considers “dangerous,” those who promote non-establishment narratives online are wondering: who’s next, and where?

Conservatives took to social media to defend several prominent personalities who were labeled “dangerous” and permanently banned on Facebook and Instagram. The recent blacklisting signified what many conservatives described as an advancing normality of censorship perpetrated by Silicon Valley overlords.

Although Facebook has begun labeling prominent conservative figures as “dangerous” and removing them from its platform along with Instagram, the company still commonly allows leftist calls to violence to remain online.

Following Facebook’s recent blacklisting of a number of conservative figures, alternative social media sites have condemned the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe.

Following the recent ban of multiple conservative figures across Facebook and its photo-sharing platform Instagram, the company told Breitbart News that it has concluded that even non-violent individuals are too”dangerous” to allow on the platform.

Never Trumpers, journalists, and leftists took to Twitter yesterday to praise Facebook’s decision to blacklist prominent conservative accounts.

The banning of multiple political commentators from Facebook and Instagram, including conservatives Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer, is an outrage against the ideals of an open Internet on its own. But beyond the bans on individuals, Facebook has deployed an even more terrifying tool of censorship — link-banning.

The Masters of the Universe at Facebook have banned multiple conservative personalities from its platform, including the personal account of Infowars host Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos.

According to Politico, Facebook’s new settlement with the FTC may include the formation of an independent privacy oversight organization.

Facebook recently hosted its F8 developer conference where the issue of user privacy continued to be an overarching theme throughout the event. At the same time, the company seeks to learn even more about its users, like who their “secret crush” is.

Leftist Facebook Page “Occupy Democrats” recently shared a meme celebrating the hypothetical death of President Trump without any repercussions from Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe at Facebook.

Facebook previously suspended the editor-in-chief of Politicalite for linking to a Yellow Vest activist’s article.

Facebook-owned site Instagram removed a post by wounded Army veteran Omar Avila featuring a picture of Avila with Donald Trump Jr. for allegedly violating the social media platform’s guidelines.

A recent report from the Oxford Internet Institute states that the number of accounts on Facebook for people that have died may outweigh the living within 50 years.

The release of Facebook’s first quarter financials has shown that the company’s smart speaker Portal and Oculus VR headset sales are tanking.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated during a recent earnings call that the company plans to split in two to create both a public forum and a more private encrypted space over the next five years.

Facebook warned investors that an FTC investigation of its privacy practices would likely cost the company between $3 billion and $5 billion.

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is attracting support from across the political establishment — the mainstream media, NeverTrump pundits like Bill Kristol, and Silicon Valley CEOs have all rallied to the South Bend mayor’s campaign. But why?2020

Ron Wyden told the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) they should hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally “liable” for the company’s many privacy violations. 

Facebook is now blaming multiple languages on the platform for the company’s failure to effectively monitor content.

Power has always attracted lobbyists. Before the age of democracy, courtiers petitioned kings. As politicians took their place, lobbying firms set up camp in capital cities around the west. But as revelations of the inner workings of Facebook reveal, the digital era has brought about a new kind of king, and a new kind of courtier.