#Europe, UK hit Facebook with formal antitrust investigations

#Europe, UK hit Facebook with formal antitrust investigations

“#Europe, UK hit Facebook with formal antitrust investigations” Regulators in Europe and the United Kingdom on Friday announced they have launched formal competition investigations into Facebook in a two-front offensive on the social media giant’s use of data to dominate markets. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority said it’s investigating whether Facebook is “abusing a…

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#Free speech under attack: Goodwin

#Free speech under attack: Goodwin

“#Free speech under attack: Goodwin” It has been said that “everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power.”  An intriguing notion, but incomplete. Speech, especially the fight to control the speech of others, is also about power.  How else to describe Facebook’s ban on users sharing the claim the COVID-19 virus came from…

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#Big tech sues Florida over social media law

#Big tech sues Florida over social media law

“#Big tech sues Florida over social media law” Trade groups representing Facebook, Twitter and Google have sued Florida over a new state law governing social media that Gov. Ron DeSantis claims will protect free speech. The legislation, which DeSantis signed on Monday and is slated to take effect July 1, would allow the Florida Election…

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#Facebook and its censorious ‘fact-checkers’ have utterly discredited themselves

#Facebook and its censorious ‘fact-checkers’ have utterly discredited themselves

“#Facebook and its censorious ‘fact-checkers’ have utterly discredited themselves” Is there something in the California water that makes Silicon Valley’s censorious dweebs so damned shameless? On Wednesday, Facebook ­revised its policy of banning posts suggesting the coronavirus was man-made — because the COVID situation is, er, “evolving,” as a spokesman told Politico. Gee, thanks. The…

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#Facebook reverses ban on posts claiming COVID was man-made

#Facebook reverses ban on posts claiming COVID was man-made

“#Facebook reverses ban on posts claiming COVID was man-made” Facebook will no longer remove posts on its platform asserting COVID-19 was man-made, a new report said, as President Biden on Wednesday ordered US intelligence agencies to investigate if the virus came from a Chinese lab. “In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19…

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#Facebook and Instagram will let users hide likes on posts

#Facebook and Instagram will let users hide likes on posts

“#Facebook and Instagram will let users hide likes on posts” Facebook’s photo-sharing app Instagram is launching the option for users globally to hide like counts on posts and the change will soon roll out on Facebook, after years of tests focused on lessening the pressure of using their services. Instagram users will be able to hide like counts on…

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#EU reportedly set to open formal antitrust probe into Facebook

#EU reportedly set to open formal antitrust probe into Facebook

“#EU reportedly set to open formal antitrust probe into Facebook” European regulators are reportedly set to open a formal probe into whether Facebook has violated antitrust laws by undermining rivals in the classified advertising market. The European Commission has already sent questionnaires to Facebook and its rivals asking whether the tech giant is warping the…

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