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Trump Facebook ban upheld by Oversight Board – for now
Does it feel like social media has all gone a bit quiet in recent months?
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Exclusive: ‘We are going to take this Trump case’ says co-chair of Facebook Oversight Board
We spoke to Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former Danish prime minister and co-chair of Facebook’s Independent Oversight Board
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Facebook faces questions over regulation and how platform is used
Facebook has reversed its ban on news in Australia.
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Canada vows to follow Australia in making Facebook pay for news content
Canada is following Australia in trying to rein in the power of tech giant Facebook.
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Shoshana Zuboff: Australia Facebook news ban ‘wake-up call’ for governments over tech giants control
We spoke to Shoshana Zuboff, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
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‘Facebook have browbeaten Australia. We’re next’ – Tory MP Julian Knight
We spoke to the Conservative MP, Julian Knight who chairs the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee
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Facebook faces international criticism after tech giant blocks users from seeing news in Australia
First, the Australian government proposed bringing in a law to make tech giants pay for content from news organisations. Then Facebook and Google fought back claiming it was unfair and “fundamentally misunderstands” how social media platforms publish news. But while Google backed down and signed a multi-year deal with News Corp, Facebook last night blocked…
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Some small businesses claim Facebook technology glitches cost them revenue
When you can’t open your shop, you can take it online. And that’s how many small businesses have managed to keep going during the pandemic.
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Facebook QAnon pledge is ‘public relations manoeuvre’ – Imran Ahmed, Center for Countering Digital Hate
Today, Facebook has pledged to remove all QAnon-themed groups, pages and accounts.
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Facebook’s ban on political ads before US election ‘will prevent people from speaking legitimately about issues’ – Matt Perault
Matt Perault is a former public policy director for Facebook and testified before Congress last year as part of an antitrust investigation into the world’s largest tech companies.
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‘Company felt it tried to do its best to improve its privacy practices’ – former Facebook public policy director, Matt Perault, on response to Cambridge Analytica scandal
Matt Perault is a former public policy director for Facebook and he testified before the same House committee last year.
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Facebook to label ‘harmful’ posts as advertisers boycott platform
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would change its policies on hate speech and voter suppression.
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‘We don’t censor political speech, we allow it to take place’ – Facebook’s Steve Hatch
Facebook says it will create a thousand new jobs in the UK this year, increasing its staff numbers here by a third.
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Sacha Baron Cohen: ‘Facebook would have allowed Hitler to post ads’
The actor Sacha Baron Cohen has accused social media companies of spreading ‘hate, conspiracies and lies’ – claiming if Facebook had existed in the 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler to post Nazi propaganda ads. In a speech to the Anti Defamation League in New York – Cohen called for a fundamental rethink. In response…
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Target Voter: As Facebook tighten rules on election ads – are the parties targeting you?
Facebook has come under fire after its social media platforms were used to spread fake news amid allegations of foreign interference. Today the company announced it was tightening its rules for the UK General Election.