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Facebook Tracker: Squeezed Out In Russia, China
Facebook // October 04, 2017

With a now-total ban on WhatsApp, China has finally ousted Facebook for good, and Russia is threatening to do the same if the social media platform does not abide by its government’s rules (ironic, as Russia reached at least 10 million American Facebook users with...

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U.S. Senators Grill Facebook Over Election Ads

November 01, 2017
U.S. senators grilled Facebook’s chief lawyer this week on why the company did not catch 2016 election ads bought using Russian money, and why its investigation took so long. According to a Reuters news report, Democrats and Republicans at the Senate crime subcommittee hearing questioned Colin Stretch, Facebook’s vice president and general counsel, for almost […]