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Trump Banned from Facebook Indefinitely, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday the social media giant is banning President Trump indefinitely, marking a dramatic escalation of the conflict between Silicon Valley and the White House after Trump weaponized the web to help stoke a riot at the U.S. Capitol. “We believe the risks of allowing ...

2 weeks ago

World

Twitter, Other Social Media Platforms Suspend Trump Accounts in Wake of US Capitol Riots

Twitter moved on Wednesday to restrict social media engagement with tweets authored by US President Donald Trump and others after pro-Trump demonstrators protesting the results of the 2020 US presidential election breached the Senate and House of Representatives in Washington, DC. The Twitter Safety team announced Wednesday evening that it ...

2 weeks ago

World

Facebook Says to Block Foreign State Media Ads for US Election

Facebook says it will block ads from foreign state media during the US election, as well as allowing users to hide all paid-for political messages. The move comes with the social media giant under growing pressure over its hands-off approach to misinformation and inflammatory posts — including from Donald Trump ...

June 17, 2020

World

Zuckerberg: Trump Rhetoric ‘Divisive, Incendiary’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan reportedly said that they were “deeply shaken and disgusted” by Donald Trump’s rhetoric, which they called “divisive and incendiary.” “This is an extraordinarily painful inflection point in our nation’s story, particularly for the Black community and our Black colleagues, who have ...

June 12, 2020

World

Facebook Bans Saudi Fake Accounts

Facebook says it has discovered that people linked to the Saudi regime have been using its platforms to spread propaganda through fake accounts. The Saudi operation mainly targeted the Middle East and North Africa, and most content was in Arabic, the American social networking service said. It added that more ...

August 2, 2019

World

Pompeo Warns France against New Tax on Facebook and Google

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned France against plans for a tax on digital giants such as Facebook and Google as he met Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. “Secretary Pompeo urged France not to approve a digital services tax, which would negatively impact large US technology firms ...

April 4, 2019

World

Facebook Says Hackers Accessed Data of 29 mn Users

Facebook said Friday that hackers accessed personal data of 29 million users in a breach disclosed late last month. The leading social network had originally said up to 50 million accounts were affected in a cyber-attack that exploited a trio of software flaws to steal “access tokens” that enable people ...

October 12, 2018

World

EU Parliament Approves Copyright Law in Blow to Big Tech

The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial EU copyright law that hands more power to news and record companies against Internet giants like Google and Facebook. Backing the draft were traditional media, in urgent search of revenue at a time when web users no longer turn to TV or ...

September 12, 2018

Lebanon

Twitter, Facebook Shut Hezbollah’s War Media Accounts

Facebook and Twitter closed accounts of Hezbollah’s War Media on Friday without notice. In a post on the Telegram messaging application, Hezbollah’s Central War Media accused the US-based websites of running an anti-media campaign against the Lebanese resistance movement. Facebook and Twitter closed the accounts as part of their efforts to ...

June 23, 2018