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Facebook VP Carolyn Everson stated during a recent panel that Facebook’s latest user data leak was “sophisticated” and hackers would have had to know about three different Facebook bugs to pull it off.

Facebook has blocked users from posting articles from the Guardian the AP about the social media platform’s latest user data breach, marking them as “spam.”

The European Union has reportedly warned Facebook that it could face sanctions over its “misleading” terms and conditions.

Facebook has once again suffered a major user data breach which left the accounts of 50 million users vulnerable until it was fixed.

A recent experiment by Gizmodo appears to show that Facebook users can be targeted through contact information that they never even shared with the website, sometimes referred to as “shadow contact information.”

Selena Scola, a former content moderator for Facebook, is suing the Big Tech company for allegedly giving her psychological trauma and PTSD as a result of regularly seeing graphic images.

The co-founders of Instagram have resigned from the company and plan to leave within the coming weeks according to recent reports.

United Nations (U.N.) Ambassador Nikki Haley had to be excluded from a White House meeting on the number of refugees the United States will admit next year due to her pro-immigration views. 

Facebook will release a smart display device later this month with a camera capable of recognizing users and following them around the room, according to the gadget website Cheddar. 

Facebook recently announced that it will no longer be sending employees to assist political campaigns ahead of elections as it did in 2016.

Apple is claiming that it only tracks its device owners’ calls and emails in order to “prevent fraud” by assigning a “value score” to each iPhone and iPad user.

The New York Times published an article recently which gives an insight into Facebook’s election “war room” where the company will attempt to monitor political disinformation on their platform.

Facebook has been accused of allowing gender bias in job advertisements on its platform by enabling companies to specifically seek out male candidates for particular roles.

A man who uploaded the 2016 movie Deadpool to Facebook could face six months in prison, according to a report.

Social media firm Facebook has advertised a job opening for the role of human rights policy director, listing “conflict prevention” and “peace-building” as key areas of responsibility.

Social media website Facebook will soon begin fact-checking photos and videos as well as news articles, according to a recent report.

Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls for greater coordination between his company and governments to combat “election interference,” “division,” and “disinformation,” “misinformation,” and “viral hoaxes” in a Thursday-published essay.

Brad Parscale, the 2020 campaign manager for President Trump, recently called for an investigation into tech giant Google following a leaked video of an all-hands internal meeting posted by Breitbart News.

Facebook has labeled an article published by the left-wing publication ThinkProgress as fake news, prompting the outlet to complain after the story was buried by Facebook’s algorithm.

Canadian columnist and host of the Glazov Gang, Jamie Glazov, was suspended from Facebook on September 11 — a day dedicated to remembering the 9/11 terrorist attacks — after he posted an article he wrote about how to counter Jihad.

According to a recent report, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has an affinity for Roman emperors — in particular, Augustus Caesar — which gives an insight into how he runs his social media firm.

According to a report from the Pew Research Center, many Americans are changing how they interact with Facebook, with 44 percent of users aged 18 to 29 claiming to have deleted the Facebook app from their phone.

During a recent speech, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin stated that Facebook and other social media platforms will face regulation in the future — claiming it is a question of “what type” of regulation, not “if” the Masters of the Universe will be regulated.

Analysis firm MoffettNathanson has downgraded Facebook’s stock following what they call a “toxic brew” of slowing sales and increased risk of regulation.

Small businesses are fleeing Facebook after sweeping changes made to its news feed showing “more posts from friends and family” and “less public content,” from commercial entities.

A United Nations expert is calling on Facebook to limit the scope of its “sweeping,” definition of terrorism over concerns it facilitates the suppression of legitimate dissenting voices.

A White House petition demanding legislation for the First Amendment to be extended to digital public squares has reached 100,000 signatures.

Two out of every three conservatives do not trust Facebook and believe that prominent social media companies purposely discriminate against conservatives, according to a recent poll.

Facebook is expanding its Watch video platform, which currently funds news shows from CNN’s Anderson Cooper and far-left outlet Mic, at the same time that Mark Zuckerberg’s social media powerhouse continues to crack down on conservatives.

A recent report alleges that Facebook fact checkers in Brazil are being targeted and threatened by angry users.

Conservative employees at Facebook are reportedly banding together to stand up to the company’s “intolerant” liberal culture.

Numerous mainstream news media outlets came together Tuesday to defend big tech giants including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, in response to warnings made by President Donald Trump earlier in the day about the left-wing bias the Masters of the Universe display on their platforms.

Rachel Whetstone, a leading communications executive at Facebook, is departing the social networking company for Netflix amid an exodus of high-ranking managers from the embattled silicon valley giant.

President Trump’s recent comments on social media censorship suggest he doesn’t think social media platforms should be allowed to ban anyone for any reason. Some would call this a radical proposal, but they’re wrong. Social media companies could easily move to a “no bans” policy, with little disruption to their users.

Project War Path, a clothing company owned by Navy SEAL and Army Special Forces combat veterans, has been permanently suspended from Instagram for criticizing NFL players who kneel during the national anthem.

Members of the Silicon Valley elite are celebrating the Burning Man festival this week, which has been described as a “networking event” for Big Tech billionaires.