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Former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen said Monday that she plans to brief the embattled social media giant’s Oversight Board in the coming days regarding her findings on harm caused by the company’s platforms.

A new report claims that Facebook permanently banned a developer who designed a tool that allowed people to essentially delete their Facebook news feeds.

Facebook took down, then reinstated a page run by parents critical of school COVID policies but never explained its actions to the administrators, Jonathan Zacherson, founder of “Reopen California Schools” told Fox Business.

Facebook’s controversial algorithms protect its users from being exposed to extreme content, hate speech, and misinformation, the beleaguered company’s vice president for policy and global affairs claimed in interviews on Sunday.

Facebook, in the aftermath of damning testimony that its platforms harm children, will be introducing several features including prompting teens to take a break using its photo sharing app Instagram.

Facebook has several ideas in mind for how to better serve teens and protect them from known harms of social media, after a former employee disclosed documents showing that the company had been aware of how a significant percentage of young users face negative effects from using Instagram, which Facebook owns.

Forbes has released its 40th annual list of the 400 wealthiest people across the world and the majority are Americans.

Facebook acknowledged that some users were unable to access its platforms on Friday afternoon, days after an outage knocked the social media company’s services offline for several hours.

Jason Miller reacts to Facebook's downfall and the latest Time Magazine cover which spotlights the company's reckoning.

Facebook has faced mounting pressure from Congressional lawmakers due to a series of scandals regarding its business practices in recent years, but the negative publicity hasn’t prevented the social media giant from generating massive revenue.

For many parents, revelations this week from whistleblower Frances Haugen showing internal Facebook studies of the harms of Instagram for teenagers only intensified concerns about the popular photo-sharing app.

Jonathan Kanter, the third of three progressives named to top U.S. antitrust posts by President Joe Biden, pledged on Wednesday to enforce antitrust law in agriculture, pharmaceutical prices and the labor market, as well as in Big Tech.

An attorney for Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said Wednesday there was still “more to come” regarding her revelations about the company’s purported failure to address the harmful effects of its platforms.

Facebook Inc. FB +0.13% has slowed the rollout of new products in recent days, people familiar with the matter said, amid media reports and congressional hearings related to a trove of internal documents showing harms from its platforms.