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FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2016, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, smile as they prepare for a speech in San Francisco. Supervisors in San Francisco are voting on a nonbinding resolution Tuesday, Dec. 15 to condemn the naming of the city's public hospital for Zuckerberg and his wife in 2015 after the couple gave $75 million toward the building of a new acute and trauma center. The resolution does not have the force of law and would not require the hospital to do anything if approved. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

San Francisco board rebukes naming hospital for Facebook CEO

By JANIE HAR - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 25, 2020, file photo shows the icon for TikTok in New York. The social media app shared its list of top 100 videos, creators and trends in America in 2020. In action announced Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, federal regulators are ordering Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok’s parent and five other social media companies to provide detailed information on how they collect and use consumers’ personal data and how their practices affect children and teens. (AP Photo/File)

Agency homing in on social media companies’ data collection

By MARCY GORDON - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 29, 2020, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks via video conference during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on antitrust on Capitol Hill in Washington. Federal regulators asked Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, for Facebook to be ordered to divest its Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services as the U.S. government and 48 states and districts accused the company of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors. The antitrust lawsuits were announced by the Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General Letitia James. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner via AP, Pool, File)

US antitrust siege of tech widens with lawsuits vs Facebook

By MARCY GORDON and MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 29, 2020, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks via video conference during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on antitrust on Capitol Hill in Washington. Federal regulators asked Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, for Facebook to be ordered to divest its Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services as the U.S. government and 48 states and districts accused the company of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors. The antitrust lawsuits were announced by the Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General Letitia James. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner via AP, Pool, File)

Q&A: What’s next for Facebook in the antitrust case?

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

Facebook blasts FTC antitrust lawsuit: ‘A chilling warning to American business’

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Tulsa mayor criticizes nearby cities without mask mandate

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US government files separate Facebook lawsuit seeking divestment of Instagram, WhatsApp

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FILE- In this Aug. 6, 2020 file photo, New York State Attorney General Letitia James takes a question at a news conference in New York. Federal regulators and a group of states launched a landmark antitrust offensive against Facebook, accusing the social network of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors. “It’s really critically important that we block this predatory acquisition of companies and that we restore confidence to the market,” said James during a press conference announcing the lawsuit. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

US govt, states sue Facebook for ‘predatory’ conduct

By MARCY GORDON and MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Facebook and Twitter's actions around the closely contested election on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, in Washington. (Hannah McKay/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

FTC files antitrust lawsuit against Facebook

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Former governor weds campaign staffer 41 years his junior

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely during a House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, July 29, 2020, in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

DOJ says Facebook gave preference to foreigners over American workers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Govt accuses Facebook of discriminating against US workers

By MARCY GORDON - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 27, 2020, file photo, Nurse Kathe Olmstead, right, gives volunteer Melissa Harting, of Harpersville, N.Y., an injection as a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway in Binghamton, N.Y. Moderna said Monday, Nov. 16, its COVID-19 vaccine is proving to be highly effective in a major trial. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

Facebook to remove COVID-19 vaccine-related misinformation

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Police: Miss. councilwoman fired shot in Walmart parking lot

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Facebook paid multimillion-ruble fine after violating Russian data law: Moscow court

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to the White House in Washington as he returns from Bedminster, N.J. For the past four years, Trump has enjoyed special status not given to regular users on Twitter and Facebook even as he used his perch atop the social media pyramid to peddle misinformation and hurl abuse at his critics. Could his loose leash on the platforms come to an end on Jan. 20, 2021, when his successor is inaugurated? (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Q&A: Will Twitter, Facebook crack down on Trump?

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

This Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, photo shows the Instagram app icon on the screen of a mobile device in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Facebook says number of Instagram posts removed for hate speech doubled last quarter to 6.5 million

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo a sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. The European Court of Auditors, which has examined the EU's enforcement of competition rules over the past decade, says antitrust investigations have taken too long, dulling their effectiveness. Google is currently appealing a 2.4 billion euro ($2.9 billion) antitrust fine levied in 2017 that stems from an investigation into its shopping search results that began a decade ago.(AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, FILE)

EU auditors: Antitrust probes too slow to curb tech giants

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Facebook contractor to pay $595K over racial discrimination

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Illustration on Putin by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

CROSSTALK: Trump-Biden-Putin trading places

By Julia Gorin