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On Friday, Selena Gomez shared on Instagram Stories a direct message to Facebook leaders Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, calling them out for their lack of accountability. The influential Gomez has 193 million followers on Instagram (owned by Facebook) and tops 77 million on Facebook itself. She asked Zuckerberg…

UPDATE: Facebook said that it will remove videos in which President Donald Trump recommends that voters in North Carolina cast ballots twice. "This video violates our policies prohibiting voter fraud and we will remove it unless it is shared to correct the record,” a company spokesperson said. On Wednesday, in a visit…

Facebook on Tuesday said it’s tightening requirements for publishers on its platform that are affiliated with political entities – defined as organizations, companies or other groups whose primary purpose is to influence politics, public policy or elections. Affiliated publishers will no longer be exempt from Facebook…

Facebook has extended its work-from-home policy for employees through July 2021, and has said they will give workers $1,000 for home office supplies. A Facebook spokeperson dropped the news to Business Insider on Thursday. “Based on guidance from health and government experts, as well as decisions drawn from our…

UPDATE, SATURDAY P.M.: The WSJ has reported that Microsoft has paused the purchase of the U.S. operation of social media, video-sharing app TikTok following Trump’s threat to ban the app on Friday. The situation seems dicey as the two companies are trying to gather more information on Trump’s course of action. "The…

Updated with stock price and comments from conference call: Facebook shares popped 6.5% in late trading Thursday after the company added users and beat ad revenue forecasts in the midst of a global pandemic, an ad boycott and intense regulatory scrutiny. On a conference call to discuss the numbers, executives cited a…

Disappearing journalism jobs were among the many ills laid at the feet of top tech execs Wednesday as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) at an antitrust hearing lamented the decline of local news and recalled a massive mess up by Facebook five years ago that accelerated the contraction in the…

Anthony Fauci may have been sidelined from TV interviews but he’s still doing online conversations along with print pieces, such as an online cover story for InStyle. On Thursday, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has become the star expert during the coronavirus pandemic…

A two-year independent civil rights audit of Facebook worred that any advances by the platform that reaches more than 2 billion people "could be obscured by the vexing and heartbreaking decisions Facebook has made that represent significant setbacks for civil rights." The highly-anticipated third and last update to an…

Civil rights activists called a Tuesday meeting with Facebook a wash and said they're unconvinced the social media giant is doing enough to combat hate speech. “Today we saw little and heard just about nothing,” said Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt during a press conference after a coalition of groups…

Starbucks, Coca-Cola and UK-based beer and spirits giant Diageo have joined a growing advertiser boycott of Facebook, but Wall Street analysts are split on its ultimate impact on the tech giant. About 170 companies of varying sizes have paused ads on Facebook in an organized response to the social networking company’s…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the platform will start to label posts from politicians and other public figures that may violate its policies, while removing posts that incite violence or suppress voting. “Even if a politician or government official says it, if we determine that content may lead to violence or…