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U.S. 04/06/21, 19:10

An upstate New York 15-year-old teen was blackmailed over intimate images he uploaded on social media. It pushed him into a suicidal state, and he passed away on March 30. Riley K. Basford, a Potsdam High School sophomore, was found dead in his father's home, his family announced on Monday, April ...

U.S. 04/04/21, 19:15

A bipartisan group of senators is questioning eight big U.S. companies over the sharing of American consumer data to international bidders, which is often used for digital ads. “We write to seek information about your company’s sharing of Americans’ personal data in order to understand how that information may be obtained ...

U.S. 04/04/21, 16:07

More than 500 million Facebook users' personal information has been leaked online, with the compromised data including phone numbers, full names, location, email address, and biographical information. Alon Gal, CTO of cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, uploaded the shocking findings on its Twitter account @UnderTheBreach, a cybercrime investigations forum, saying that the ...

U.S. 03/28/21, 21:43

In the Biden White House, a former Vice President of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which funneled $350 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life, currently acts as Special Assistant and Director of Technology The Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) used hundreds of millions of dollars from Mark ...

U.S. 03/24/21, 07:57

A Texas woman sued Facebook for not taking enough steps to prevent sex traffickers from using the platform to lure women by offering them jobs and then kidnapping them and forcing them into prostitution. A report by the Daily Mail tells the story of a woman who when she was 15 ...

U.S. 03/22/21, 17:58

On Monday, the Supreme Court denied Facebook's request to intervene in a $15 billion class-action lawsuit alleging that the company illegally monitored its users' online activities when they were not using the platform, in violation of the federal Wiretap Act. “Facebook's user profiles would allegedly reveal an individual's likes, dislikes, interests, ...

United Kingdom 03/20/21, 15:29

The British press reported on Friday, March 19, that UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is preparing an antitrust investigation against social networking giant Facebook. The government agency had also recently announced an investigation into Apple's app store fees and Google's privacy settings. This way, another power joins against Big ...

U.S. 03/16/21, 12:35

During the pandemic, politicians and privacy advocates slammed Facebook for a barrage of false statements and conspiracies about vaccinations on its platforms. Facebook Inc. is facing criticism for enabling vaccine misinformation to propagate on its digital platforms, while other technology companies have stepped in to help with vaccine dissemination and administration. But in ...

U.S. 02/24/21, 12:38

The Facebook Oversight Board, is the group that will decide whether to lift Donald Trump's indefinite suspension on the social network. It received an appeal on behalf of the former president seeking to reinstate his Facebook and Instagram accounts. "We can confirm that a user statement has been received in the ...

Australia & Oceania 02/23/21, 09:34

In an unexpected move by the social networking giant, Facebook, it announced on Tuesday, Feb. 23, that it will reverse its block on Australian users sharing news on its site and would even be willing to accept the government's proposed media regulations requiring it to pay for published content. Following announcements ...

World 02/18/21, 17:17

Facebook allegedly allowed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to buy paid advertisements on its platform to sow doubt about the genocide committed against the Uighur Muslim ethnic minority, according to a publication of the British magazine Press Gazette. The publication highlights the widespread condemnation that the CCP has received in the ...

U.S. 02/01/21, 15:06

A leaked video recently released by Project Veritas shows Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg downplaying the violence of left-wing rioters and falsely claiming that they were "treated less leniently" compared to protesters on Capitol Hill. Project Veritas posted a controversial video on its Twitter account on Sunday night, Jan. 31, showing Facebook ...

U.S. 01/12/21, 06:22

Mark Zuckerberg lost $3.95 billion in a single day on Monday, Jan. 11, as investors continued to flee from Facebook Inc. after it suspended President Donald Trump from its social network. Facebook shares ended Monday down 4 percent at $256.84, eliminating $31 billion from the social media company’s market value. The selloff ...

2020 Campaign 01/12/21, 05:39

As part of a massive purge targeting President Donald Trump's supporters and conservatives, the big tech companies took another step to suppress free speech by targetting the QAnon movement. Twitter on Monday, Jan. 11, said that it had removed more than 70,000 accounts that shared "QAnon-associated content" following the protest at ...

2020 Campaign 01/12/21, 04:49

In a new move to silence the president and his faithful followers, Facebook has announced they are removing any posts that mention “Stop the Steal.” Although Facebook has always taken the stance that they are not a publisher; they are now warning us they will control our views on social media; ...

U.S. 01/04/21, 09:53

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stated that Google is the “most dangerous company on the face of the planet.” During an interview with Breitbart News, he described the problems he experienced with Alphabet Inc. and with the social networks Twitter and Facebook regarding the interference they created during the elections. Cruz described Google ...

U.S. 12/22/20, 18:02

Ten states have accused Google and Facebook of organizing themselves and creating a "secret pact" to divide and conquer the advertising market. The pact, it was reported, also included a promise to cooperate if the other would face an antitrust suit. According to the complaint, the firms maintained a secret agreement ...

U.S. 12/20/20, 23:08

Facebook has a business arrangement with an app company that has connections with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the app is utilized to check facts, something very controversial in recent weeks. Lead Stories is a company that has been contracted to Facebook as a fact-checker since February 2019, and it ...

U.S. 12/17/20, 08:46

One NGO documented that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated millions before the election to Democratic county public-private partnerships in battleground states where there were subsequently a huge number of cases of election irregularities and fraud. At a press conference on Wednesday, the Amistad Project, an initiative of the Thomas More Society ...

U.S. 11/29/20, 06:03

Political commentator Candace Owens challenged a third-party Facebook fact-checker over a "false" rating and she won. On Nov. 12, Owen post a video on social media with caption, "Joe Biden is literally and legally not the President-elect. So why is the media pretending he is." Facebook censored the video and said it ...