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On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) commented on former President Trump’s reinstatement to Facebook and Instagram by stating that while he thinks Trump “is a pathological liar,” he is the former President of the United States

During a portion of an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Meta President for Global Affairs Nick Clegg responded to a question on if Facebook manipulated or censored the Hunter Biden laptop story and stories

During a portion of an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Meta President for Global Affairs Nick Clegg said that Congress should investigate government attempts to censor content on social media and that “most of

Facebook (now known as Meta) has removed Ukraine’s Azov Regiment — members of which regularly display Nazi symbols and signs on their uniforms — from its list of dangerous individuals and organizations. With this change, Mark Zuckerberg is welcoming members of the Azov Regiment who were once blacklisted to utilize his massive platform.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed WhatsApp, owned by Facebook (now known as Meta), to pursue a lawsuit against the NSO Group, the Israeli cyberintelligence company responsible for the “Pegasus” spyware exploit that enabled the surveillance of thousands of journalists and activists around the world.

Facebook (now known as Meta) is facing a $414 million fine from European regulators, who ruled that the company’s services illegally deployed targeted ads using data that tracks users around the internet.

E-commerce giant Amazon has revealed that it will be laying off more than 18,000 employees in the coming months, the largest headcount reduction at a tech firm in the past year. The layoffs will impact about five percent of the company’s corporate workforce.

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse may be facing a troubling future after worldwide shipments of VR headsets and augmented reality (AR) devices dropped more than 12 percent to 9.6 million in 2022.

Facebook (now known as Meta) and Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube, are set to lose their long-held dominance over the advertising market this year, dropping below 50 percent of the market for the first time in nearly a decade.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Tuesday on his show “The Lead” that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) were protecting “anti-American” big tech monopolies.

The EU accused Facebook parent Meta of breaching the bloc’s antitrust rules by distorting competition in the online classified ads business.

Incoming House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to big tech companies demanding documents relating to their censorship practices.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is ending a policy that allowed illegal immigrants to use the platform to seek people smugglers to ferry them across the U.S. border, admitting that much of the activity is tantamount to “human exploitation” and “overlaps” with human trafficking.

Records obtained by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) show that Nina Jankowicz – the executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) now-terminated Disinformation Governance Board – and other DHS officials planned to meet with Facebook (now known as Meta) Head of Security Nathaniel Gleicher, who served under that title when the company suppressed the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” in the lead-up to the 2020 election.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) sobbed on Tuesday as the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), which she has led, might get cut from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The Facebook Oversight Board, popularly known as the platform’s “Supreme Court,” said on Tuesday that the company’s controversial system that applies a different moderation process for posts from VIPs is set up to “satisfy business concerns” and risks doing harm to normal users. The board, stacked with leftists, believes the answer is more censorship.

Despite the “Twitter Files” not providing any revelations on the issue of the federal government guiding censorship of the “laptop from hell” so far, there are multiple indications that this occurred in the lead-up to the election.

Facebook (now known as Meta) CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned that his platform, the largest social media platform in the world, may have to remove news content altogether if Congress passes the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill that will create a cartel of media conglomerates capable of forcing Big Tech to transfer wealth to them.

A party hosted by the EU Foreign Aid department on its own proprietary “metaverse” that cost around ~$400,000 to build reportedly flopped on Tuesday, with almost no one attending.

Facebook will remove the option for users to share their religious views, political views, and sexual preferences in their profile, a change that will go into effect at the start of December.

Facebook has reportedly terminated or reprimanded more than two dozen employees and contractors over the last year for allegedly accepting bribes in return for improperly accessing user accounts.

Being one of Facebook’s anointed “fact checkers,” with the ability to suppress the reach publications at will, liberal “fact checker” PolitiFact has now resorted to posting links to articles from rival publications in Facebook comments underneath Breitbart News posts.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook (now known as Meta) is reportedly laying off 13 percent of its staff, which accounts for more than 11,000 employees.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook will begin massive layoffs affecting thousands of workers this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.

An outage on Facebook’s Instagram on Monday caused the social media platform to inform millions of users that their accounts were suspended. When Instagram users tried to access their accounts, they were presented with the message: “We suspended your account on October 31, 2022.”

The much-derided Facebook Oversight Board, which upheld the politically-motivated blacklisting of Donald Trump last year, has offered to “help” Twitter decide on new content moderation rules. The so-called Supreme Court of Facebook is packed with leftists that hate free speech.

Facebook (now known as Meta) has suffered a $700 billion drop in market value since its peak high of more than $1 trillion in September 2021. One analyst labeled the company’s dismal earnings and future strategy a “train wreck.”

Facebook (now known as Meta) was fined almost $25 million on Wednesday for intentionally and repeatedly violating Washington State’s campaign finance laws. Attorney General Bob Ferguson claims it is the largest campaign finance penalty ever issued in the United States, but the fine is less than a rounding error for Mark Zuckerberg’s giant, which enjoyed annual profits of $46.7 billion in 2021.

Facebook (now known as Meta) reported a second straight quarterly revenue decline, with its stock plummeting an astonishing 22 percent in morning trading after already losing two-thirds of its value this year so far.

Brad Gerstner, the founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital, critiqued Facebook (now known as Meta) CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s depth of focus on building its metaverse in an open letter published this week.

Mark Zuckerberg’s private jet emits 17 times more carbon emissions in two months than the average American does in a year, according to flight tracking data.

Contracting firms that employ shuttle bus drivers and other service workers that support Facebook (now known as Meta) say they will need to slash a significant number of workers in the wake of Mark Zuckerberg implementing relaxed policies that allow his employees to work from home.

With only 18 days left until the 2022 midterm elections, the top five news stories that Facebook is pushing to its users include Diwali becoming an official holiday in New York City schools and landscapers finding a car buried in a yard. Meanwhile, the issues that matter to voters are not chosen by Mark Zuckerberg’s algorithm to trend on the platform.

With only 19 days left until the 2022 midterm elections, the top five news stories that Facebook is pushing to its users include environmental protesters gluing themselves to a floor and alleged UFOs. Meanwhile, the issues that matter to voters are not chosen by Mark Zuckerberg’s algorithm to trend on the platform.

With only 20 days left until the 2022 midterm elections, the top five news stories that Facebook is pushing to its users include Wawa launching a new hoagie and Tom Brady comparing the labor of NFL season to military deployment. Meanwhile, the issues that matter to voters are not chosen by Mark Zuckerberg’s algorithm to trend on the platform.

Britain’s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, has successfully forced Facebook (now known as Meta) to sell a part of its business, as global scrutiny of alleged anticompetitive practices in the tech industry continues.