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America 'on fire': Facebook watched as Trump ignited hate

By AMANDA SEITZ Associated Press
Oct 27, 2021 1:00 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio - The reports of hateful and violent posts on Facebook started pouring in on the night of May 28 last year, soon after then-President Donald Trump sent a ...
Senators put YouTube, TikTok, Snap on defensive on kids' use

By MARCY GORDON and MATT O'BRIEN AP Business Writers
Oct 26, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Senators put executives from YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat on the defensive Tuesday, questioning them about what they're doing to ensure young users' safety ...
Facebook's language gaps weaken screening of hate, terrorism

By ISABEL DEBRE and FARES AKRAM Associated Press
Oct 25, 2021 1:00 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - As the Gaza war raged and tensions surged across the Middle East last May, Instagram briefly banned the hashtag #AlAqsa, a reference to the...
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram back online after worldwide outage

By FRANK BAJAK and BARBARA ORTUTAY Associated Press
Oct 04, 2021 1:00 am - Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into ...
Global glitch: Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage

KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer
Jun 08, 2021 1:00 am - LONDON - Dozens of websites went down briefly around the globe Tuesday, including CNN, The New York Times and Britain's government home page, after an outage at the clou...
Facebook board upholds Trump ban, just not an indefinite one

By MATT O'BRIEN and BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer
May 05, 2021 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been corrected to note that the board has not upheld a permanent ban of Trump. Former President Donald Trump won't return to Facebook...
Among others but still feeling alone? A Naperville man has an app for that

By Burt Constable
Apr 29, 2021 5:30 am - Now that we're well into Year Two of the coronavirus pandemic, much of the attention is focused on younger people. The direct observation is that more young adults are b...
Social platforms flex their power, lock down Trump accounts

By DAVID KLEPPER and MATT O'BRIEN Associated Press
Jan 07, 2021 12:00 am - After years of treating President Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram are silencing his social media accounts for the rest of...
Q&A: Will Twitter, Facebook crack down on Trump?

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer
Nov 25, 2020 12:00 am - OAKLAND, Calif. - For the past four years, President Donald Trump has enjoyed the special status of a world leader on Twitter and Facebook, even as he used his perch ato...
Twitter, Facebook CEOs defend election actions, promise more

By MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer
Nov 17, 2020 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - The CEOs of Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday defended their safeguards against disinformation in the presidential election, and promised Congress they would ...

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