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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to a massive leak of internal Facebook documents earlier today, warning against coverage that “misrepresent[s] our actions or motives.”

Internal Facebook emails published by U.K. MP’s reveal some of Facebook’s most cutthroat business practices, including cutting off competitors’ access to their tools and in other cases, shutting down any possible competition altogether.

“Internal tensions” at Facebook are reportedly reaching a “boiling point,” with the company divided into three factions.

According to recently published internal documents, Facebook executives predicted a public backlash over an update to the company’s Android app which would send call and text data to Facebook.

A group of British MP’s, seemingly upset at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to appear before the U.K. Parliament, have released a cache of seized Facebook documents. The documents outline many of Facebook’s practices around advertising. 

280,000 protesters known as “Yellow Vests” took to the streets of France this week to protest the government’s increased carbon tax, and they used social media to organize these protests.

Indian-born Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal says the U.S. economy needs millions of wage-cutting visa workers for lower-skill jobs.

A new report claims that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg directly ordered opposition research on billionaire philanthropist George Soros, a claim which she previously denied.

According to internal Facebook emails revealed by the Wall Street Journal, the social media giant considered cutting deals with third party companies in order to provide them with access to Facebook user data.

San Francisco supervisor Aaron Peskin wants Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s name removed from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, because he believes Zuckerberg’s company no longer serves the “public interest.”

Lawmakers from nine countries, including Britain, Canada, and France, were reportedly “furious” after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to not show up at an international committee hearing. A Canadian MP described Facebook as “a high school company collecting adult paychecks.”

Lawmakers from nine countries condemned Mark Zuckerberg for his absence at a recent committee hearing on Facebook, posting a picture of his empty chair to social media.

Despite long claiming to be a platform and not a media publisher — including in front of the Senate — Facebook is now claiming to be a media publisher in a lawsuit filed against the social media giant by an app company, which described the claim as “a complete 180.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s lobbyist in D.C. is declaring that Steve Jobs’ wife is publishing “veritably false garbage” about the political impact of cheap-labor immigration.

In an attempt to hold Facebook accountable for the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal, the U.K. Parliament has seized a cache of internal Facebook documents from an American software executive visiting the country for business.

In a recent interview, CNN reporter Laurie Segall questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over a recent report from the New York Times which made a number of stunning claims about the social media firm, and asked, “Shouldn’t your power be checked?”

Facebook hired Department of Justice antitrust chief Kate Patchen, consider the top antitrust lawyer in Silicon Valley, in a move which Business Insider claims could be a sign Facebook is “preparing for war with Donald Trump’s administration.”

“I know that Schumer’s daughter works for Facebook, which I just found out about today,” Trump said. “I was surprised and disappointed to learn that because nobody knew that.”

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Former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos wrote an article for the Washington Post, Saturday, titled “Yes, Facebook made mistakes in 2016. But we weren’t the only ones.”

In a lengthy post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed common concerns and detailed his plans for Facebook in the near future, which included penalizing “borderline” provocative content and stopping users from engaging with it.

Facebook has announced the formation of an independent body designed to review and make decisions on content which could affect Facebook’s policies in the future.

In a lengthy post, Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the problems with “algorithmic bias” and how to create a better appeals process.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg called a recent report from the New York Times which made a number of shocking claims about the company “simply untrue.”

A lengthy blog post from Mark Zuckerberg explains how Facebook plans to replace its users’ preferences.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denied having anything to do with his company’s alleged commissioning of an opposition research company to discredit anti-Facebook activists by linking them to socialist billionaire George Soros.

According to a report from the New York Times, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was so “appalled” by President Trump’s comments on immigration, he quizzed executives to determine if the President broke Facebook’s rules.

According to a report from the New York Times, Facebook backed a bill that would make Internet giants responsible for sex trafficking occurring on their platforms simply to make Google look bad.

Kanye West published a tweet Wednesday that showed him enjoying some karaoke with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.

The New York Times published an article Wednesday which alleges that Facebook engaged in a number of practices designed to hurt competitors and direct media and government attention anywhere else they could — including George Soros.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reportedly lobbied senators on behalf of Facebook, which employs his daughter, convincing senators to stop criticizing the social network.

According to a Wednesday report from the New York Times, Facebook hired an opposition research company led by Romney 2012 and Jeb Bush alumni to link activists opposing the Silicon Valley giant to socialist billionaire George Soros.

Actor Jim Carrey shredded Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a social media post on Wednesday, sending him a “f*ck you” message written in binary code over a report detailing how the tech giant hired lobbyists to attack its critics.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff claimed Facebook is the “new cigarettes” and should be regulated as such in an interview on Wednesday, doubling down on similar comments he made earlier this year.

The former President of Facebook, Sean Parker, stated in a recent interview that the social media giant is “going through an internal existential crisis.” Parker observed, “you shouldn’t try to design your product to be used less because that’s a weird thing for a company to do.”

Facebook-owned WhatsApp is reportedly spending $1 million on academic research in an effort to understand and combat “fake news” and misinformation.