Facebook Reverses Zero Hedge Ban, Admits to Making a “Mistake”
By Tyler Durden (ZH) — It has been a strange 24 hours. On Monday, we first learned that for the previous two days, Facebook had banned all Zero Hedge…
Facebook Now Automatically Blocks ZeroHedge.com Articles
By Joe Jarvis As creepy as Facebook’s algorithms are, they can also be useful. I go on Facebook mainly to see what news articles my…
A Privacy-Focused Facebook? We’ll Believe It When We See It
By Gennie Gebhart In his latest announcement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg embraces privacy and security fundamentals like end-to-end encrypted messaging. But announcing a plan is…
Facebook Leak Reveals Global Bribery Scheme to Soften Data Privacy Laws
By Tyler Durden (ZH) — A leak of internal Facebook documents reveals that the company has conducted a global lobbying campaign to against data privacy legislation, targeting politicians…
How a Small Team of Journalists Overcame Facebook Censorship
By Alexander Rubenstein (MPN) — Facebook seemed to have outdone itself again in its ongoing suppression of independent media when, earlier this month in coordination with CNN,…
Facebook Doubles Down On Misusing Your Phone Number
By Gennie Gebhart When we publicly demanded that Facebook stop messing with users’ phone numbers last week, we weren’t expecting the social network to double…
Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains “Deboosting” “Troll Report” & Political Targeting in Interview
By Project Veritas Project Veritas has obtained and published documents and presentation materials from a former Facebook insider. This information describes how Facebook engineers plan…
Facebook, Robot Vacuum Cleaner and Pro-Surveillance Politician Voted Worst Privacy Intruders in Czech Republic
By Filip Stojanovski What do two Czech state entities, one Silicon Valley giant and one vacuum cleaner have in common? They were all winners in…
Facebook Censors News Outlets Critical of US Foreign Policy and Corporate Media
By Jessica Corbett (CD) — Journalists and advocates of press freedoms are once more directing outrage and criticism at Facebook for selectively censoring pages on its platform…
Deep Dive: FTC Negotiating Multi-Billion Dollar Fine For Facebook’s Privacy Scandals; Violating 2011 Accord
By Aaron Kesel Facebook is being accused by the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) of privacy violations and is in the midst of negotiating over a…
Facebook “Exploring Additional Measures” to Fight Anti-Vaccine Information: Report
By Jason Erickson As the “fake news” phenomenon continues to sweep across the Web, and the purge of independent media accelerates, lawmakers are calling on…
Government to Facebook Pipeline Reveals a Corrupt Mix of Social Media and the State
By Matt Agorist As the Free Thought Project has previously reported, the phrase “Facebook is a private company” is not accurate as they have formed…
Journalist Given Six Months in Prison for Organizing Yellow Vests Protest on Facebook
By Elias Marat As the Yellow Vests gear up for their tenth consecutive week of protests, dubbed “Act X” by the grassroots social movement, President…
Does Facebook Lie To Users & Congress, Too?
Op-Ed By Catherine J. Frompovich Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate and…