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Social media companies are on "high alert" both before and following November's presidential election. 

Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said some capitalists "are going to be the first" to be "shot in the revolution" in a tweet Wednesday.

The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday voted to subpoena Facebook, Google and Twitter ahead of Nov. 3 to discuss bias and disinformation.

Viewers, many of whom have relied on the video conferencing service themselves in a world where live conversations have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, were tickled. 

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has made a $10 million donation to Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research, just six weeks after it was launched by leading scholar Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, according to an official announcement by the university.

The CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter could face subpoenas from the Senate Commerce Committee unless they commit to testifying before Congress on Oct. 1.

Facebook Inc’s independent Oversight Board is set to launch in October, just ahead of the November presidential election.

Twitter is facing backlash after users complained that posts about Breonna Taylor were removed while posts calling to "burn down" Louisville were not.

Facebook has started removing false claims that the deadly wildfires in Oregon were started by various left-wing and right-wing groups, a spokesman for the social media company said on Saturday, after the rumors left state officials inundated with queries for information.

The regulator said in its complaint that T.I. -- whose real name is Clifford Joseph Harris -- sold cryptocurrency tokens using his Twitter account and encouraged his followers to invest in the 2017 FLiK initial coin offering.

As voting rights organizations have warned of poll worker shortages -- largely due to the coronavirus pandemic -- companies have banded together to bolster the recruiting process and make voting easier for employees across the country.

VMware, Facebook and Twitter have pay adjustment policies based on cost of living.

Fake news related to COVID-19 has accelerated calls for social media to be more proactive in combating the issue

"Our focus on prioritizing decentralization has allowed us to flex our active leased spaces as needed," a spokesperson for the company told FOX Business in a statement. "San Francisco is where a majority of our employees will be based for the foreseeable future, and we will continue to maintain our footprint here.”

PayPal has joined Facebook and Twitter in shuttering accounts linked to a Russian network that has been accused of using internet accounts to sow political discord in the U.S. since the 2016 presidential election.

Twitter said that it has expanded its "manipulated media" label policy, and the changes should be deployed to all users by the end of Tuesday.

Twitter flagged a Sunday tweet from President Trump for "misleading health claims" and limited users' ability to interact with the post.

European Union privacy regulators are clashing over how much Ireland's data privacy watchdog will fine Twitter for a data breach disclosed last year, delaying a long-awaited decision in the first case involving a U.S. tech company under the bloc's tough new data privacy rules.

Facebook announced the removal of 790 QAnon-related groups from its platform and said it will restrict an additional 1,950 groups and 440 pages, along with over 10,000 Instagram accounts associated with the right-wing social media movement. 

Oracle Corp. has expressed an interest in acquiring the popular Chinese social video app TikTok, a new report said Tuesday.