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FTC to announce $5 billion settlement with Facebook as early as this week
The settlement is expected to include government restrictions and oversight on how Facebook treats user privacy
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Facebook, Amazon and Alphabet take center stage on Wall Street
Companies reporting this week account for about 30 per cent of the S&P 500’s value
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Facebook’s Messenger Kids failed to do its only job
Users of the app could still join adult group chats or accept chat requests without their guardians’ knowledge
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US lawmakers challenge Facebook over Libra cryptocurrency plan
Facebook is fighting to get Washington on its side after it shocked regulators and lawmakers with its plans for Libra
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US lawmakers take jabs at Amazon, Big Tech in antitrust hearing
The questioning served largely to convey the panel’s displeasure over many of the companies’ business practices
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US senators warn of 'trust' gap over Facebook digital currency
The lawmakers were the latest to criticize Facebook's digital coin plan unveiled last month with two dozen partners
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US regulators approve $5b Facebook settlement
Social media company was accused of sharing user information with British firm
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$5bn fine set for Facebook on privacy probe: report
The Federal Trade Commission has approved the settlement in a 3-2 vote, according to the report
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Social media increasing outreach of home-based enterprises
Women startups include food, clothing and other home-made items
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US Fed chief calls for Facebook to halt Libra project
“Libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, consumer protection and financial stability"
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Facebook not invited to White House social media summit
Trump tweeted that “Facebook, Google and Twitter are sooo on the side of the Radical Left Democrats"
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US lawmakers tell Facebook to halt Libra
Libra could lead to an entirely new global financial system intended to rival the dollar
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Facebook, WhatsApp back online after global outage
After an outage on all of its services affected users in various parts of the world
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Facebook,Whatsapp, Instagram suffer global outage
Users unable to load images and videos on the applications
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Facebook campus given all-clear after sarin scare
Four of the social media company's buildings were evacuated on Monday
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Bitcoin price falls below $10,000
On Wednesday, the cryptocurrency rose up to $13,879
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Facebook to broaden effort to root out white nationalist content
They will identify hate slogans and symbols connected to white nationalism to better enforce their policy
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Facebook will ban ads that tell people in US not to vote
The company pledged to put its new “don’t vote” policy prohibition into effect in the fall
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Zuckerberg says US govt inaction allowed fake news to spread
2016 US election helped pave the way for a subsequent avalanche of online disinformation
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Facebook's Libra coin likely to run a regulatory gauntlet
The company will face unprecedented regulatory scrutiny over a new digital currency
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Italy fines Facebook over Cambridge Analytica case
Same consultancy worked on both in the UK's Brexit referendum and Donald Trump's election campaign
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Facebook starting nominations 'soon' for content oversight panel
Initiative comes amid intense pressure to root out abusive content, manipulation and hoaxes
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Bitcoin soars past $13,000 as Facebook's Libra fuels demand
Investors cheered prospects that Facebook Libra token could push cryptocurrencies into the mainstream
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'Deepfakes' pose conundrum for Facebook, Zuckerberg says
Videos which have the potential to deceive and manipulate users on a massive scale
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Facebook to help France fight hateful content
The company will share with French judicial officials the IP addresses of users who post hateful content
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Virtual Facebook currency faces real-world resistance
If Facebook's new cryptocurrency should resonate anywhere it should be India
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Facebook's cryptocurrency ambitions face privacy concerns, political backlash
An effort to expand into digital payments that immediately raised privacy concerns
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Republican senator criticises potential dual US antitrust tech probes
The decision to divide the work would cause a wealth of problems
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Facebook to unveil new versions of Portal video chat devices
The launch came amid concerns over Facebook’s privacy and content moderation practices
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Facebook suspends app pre-installs on Huawei phones
The social media giant said it took the step after Trump’s order barring Huawei from US technology exports
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Facebook keeps three-yearly 'say on pay' vote
Amid outside investor doubts
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US gears up for antitrust battles with Big Tech
As investigations to set the stage for reviews of the dominance of the largest of the Silicon Valley firms
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Facebook in talks with US derivatives regulator over digital currency plans
In an effort to understand whether the company’s plans for the digital coin would fall under the CFTC’s scope
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Facebook ordered by US judge to turn over data privacy records
After data for 87 million users was accessed by the British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica
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Inflatable angry emoji looms over Facebook annual meeting as users vent frustrations
The latest sign of its struggle to shake off privacy scandals and rein in fake news and hate speech
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Canadian lawmakers fume after Facebook's Zuckerberg snubs invitation
It was the second time in six months Zuckerberg failed to show up when invited
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Facebook used as a platform to promote dog fighting: report
Dog fighting content is found in abundance on Facebook due to the company’s failure to enforce policies against it
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Snap looking to add more music to its app
It could add more musical features like TikTok and Instagram
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Facebook figures 5% of accounts are fake
Action was taken against the creation of more during the first three months of this year
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Database exposes millions of Instagram account information
Which contained more than 49 million records of email addresses, phone numbers and locations too
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Facebook breakup would be solution of last resort: EU's Vestager
That would probably generate long judicial procedures
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Facebook to make News Feed more personal by conducting surveys
The app will now deduce the posts users want to see more of and which friends they are closer to
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Hungary blasts Facebook for 'censorship' of pro-government media group
After it complained its advertising accounts with the social media giant had been closed down
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Oops! Canadian fugitive caught after Facebook location reveal
Jessie Dean Kowalchuk was wanted for violating his probation related to three separate crimes in 2015
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Facebook restricts Live feature
Ahead of a meeting of world leaders aimed at curbing online violence in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacre
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Facebook facing 20-year consent agreement after privacy lapses
The agreement would resolve a probe of whether the company violated a similar consent pact reached in 2011
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Facebook plans pay boost for content moderators
The changes come as part of a move by the leading social network to increase wages above the level it set in 2015
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#CockroachChallenge takes the internet by storm
This new one has to be by far a disgusting one by many standards
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Turkish watchdog says it fines Facebook $271,000 for data breach
Around 300,000 application users may have been affected, says official
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Whistleblower says Facebook generating terror content
It carried out a five-month study of the pages of 3,000 members proscribed as terrorist by the US government