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The Facebook app is shown in the app store on a smart phone in Surfside, Fla., on April 23, 2021. According to a new report from the nonprofit groups Global Witness and Foxglove, Facebook is letting violent hate speech slip through its controls in Kenya as it has in other countries. It is the third such test of Facebook's ability to detect hateful language — either via artificial intelligence or human moderators — that the groups have run, and that the company has failed. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

In a 3rd test, Facebook still fails to block hate speech

By Barbara Ortutay - Associated Press

In this April 17, 2019, file photo online customer reviews for a product are displayed on a computer in New York. Amazon has filed a lawsuit against administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake reviews in exchange for money or free products. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant said in a statement Tuesday, July 19, 2022, the Facebook groups were set up to recruit people “willing to post incentivized and misleading reviews” across its stores in the U.S. the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Amazon sues admins of 10K Facebook groups over fake reviews

By Haleluya Hadero

LGBTQ harassment, slurs abound on social media, report says

By Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, photo, economist Arthur Laffer, known as the &quot;father of supply-side economics&quot; and who was an economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan, speaks to an executive committee meeting of the California Republican Party at their convention in Anaheim, Calif. President Donald Trump is set to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Laffer. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) **FILE**

Laffer gets off sidelines to fight antitrust bill aimed at reining in Big Tech

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Abortion ruling thrusts companies into divisive arena

By Anne D'Innocenzio and Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

Meta’s Facebook settling DOJ lawsuit alleging discriminatory housing ads

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

The Facebook app is shown on a smartphone, in Surfside, Fla., on April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) **FILE**

Ad-tracking tool sent patients’ health information to Facebook: Report

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

The bulletin issued by the Department of Homeland Security, outlining the current terrorism threat to the United States, is photographed Thursday, June 9, 2022. DHS warned June 7 that skewed framing of the subjects like abortion, guns, immigration and LGTBQ rights, could drive extremists to violently attack pubic places across the U.S. in the coming months. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

White supremacists are riling up thousands on social media

By Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

This photo shows the Instagram app icon on the screen of a mobile device on Aug. 23, 2019. Russian regulators said Friday, March 11, 2022, that internet users in the country will be blocked from accessing Instagram because it's being used to call for violence against Russian soldiers, in Moscow's latest move to tighten up access to foreign social platforms. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Instagram to issue Amber Alerts after mounting criticism that the platform is dangerous to kids

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This combination of Sept. 29, 2020, file photos shows President Donald Trump, left, and former Vice President Joe Biden during the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

10th Circuit Court upholds dismissal of 2020 election fraud case

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Paley Center in New York, Oct. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

State AGs target tech as lawmakers’ efforts to hammer companies lack momentum

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 26, 2018, file photo, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, attends a news conference near the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

D.C. AG Racine sues Facebook’s Zuckerberg for abusing consumers in Cambridge Analytics data breach

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Facebook slower than Twitch, other sites to yank Buffalo shooting videos

By Haleuya Hadero - Associated Press

Law enforcement officers work at the scene of a deadly crash in Holtville, Calif., on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Authorities say a semi-truck crashed into an SUV carrying 25 people on a Southern California highway, killing at least 13 people. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Arizona governor urges social media to block cartel ads seeking drivers to smuggle illegals

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Meta experience expert Askia Luna demonstrates the Ray Ban Stories smart glasses during a preview of the Meta Store in Burlingame, Calif., Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Meta opens first physical store

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Meta to open brick-and-mortar store

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times

Facebook unveiled their new Meta sign outside the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar) ** FILE **

Inside Meta’s Oversight Board: Complaints that review blocked for some Facebook censorship decisions

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, listens to Lebedinsky GOK Managing Director Oleg Mikhailov, left, as businessman and founder of USM Holdings, Alisher Usmanov, right, and Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov stand behind him while visiting the Lebedinsky GOK JSC, in Gubkin, Belgorod Region, Russia, Friday, July 14, 2017. Usmanov is not on the sanctions list implemented in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The metals tycoon was an early investor in Facebook. His fortune is estimated at more than $14 billion. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia slams Meta as ‘extremist’ after Facebook lifts rules on anti-Russian speech

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Facebook unveiled their new Meta sign at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on Oct. 28, 2021. Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. has settled a decade-old class-action lawsuit, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, over the company’s use of “cookies” in 2010 and 2011 that tracked people online even after they logged off the Facebook platform. As part of the proposed settlement, which must still be approved by a judge, Meta has agreed to delete all the data it wrongfully collected during the period. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar) **FILE**

Facebook to pay $90 million to settle data privacy lawsuit

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo dated Nov. 18, 2019, Google employees walks out of Google France building in Paris. France. French regulators on Thursday fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros ($226 million) for not making it as easy for users to opt out of tracking as it is for them to accept it. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

France fines Google, Facebook millions over tracking consent

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press