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Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast.

Facebook's employees have consistently pushed to suppress or de-platform right-wing outlets such as Breitbart, despite objections from managers trying to avoid political blowback, a scathing report by the Wall Street Journal revealed.

Facebook adopted earlier this year to stop what it calls "harmful communities" from gaining traction on its platform.

A new whistleblower has come forward with allegations that Facebook officials prioritized profit over their efforts to contain the spread of hate speech and misinformation on the social media platform, according to a report Friday.

Facebook spent more than $5 million lobbying the U.S. government in the third quarter of 2021 as the social media platform comes under fire for various issues, federal filings show.

The District of Columbia’s attorney general is seeking to hold Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg personally liable in a lawsuit stemming from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, in what the district said was a novel legal action against the social-media giant.

The U.S. consumer watchdog is expected this week to query tech giants including Facebook, Amazon and Google on how they handle consumer financial data as part of a broader effort to boost consumer protections and financial sector competition, according to two people briefed on the matter.

Social media users reacted on Tuesday to a report that Facebook plans to rename its parent company as early as next week.

Facebook admits that it allows users to freely share information on how to enter other countries illegally, and to inquire about being smuggled

The group argues that Facebook "cannot be trusted to manage a payment system or digital currency when its existing ability to manage risks and keep consumers safe has proven wholly insufficient."

Under the DOJ settlement, Facebook will pay $4.75 million in civil penalties and set up a fund to make up to $9.5 million available to "eligible victims", the largest fine and monetary award ever recovered in the 35-year history of the Immigration and Nationality Act’s anti-discrimination provision. 

Details of alleged collusion between Google and Facebook to squash competition in the online ad space are set to be made public this week, a federal judge has ordered.

Facebook says it has made huge strides in recent years to combat hate speech, thanks to improvements in artificial intelligence.

AI has only minimal success in removing hate speech, violent images and other problem content, according to internal company reports