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October 27, 2020
Facebook has removed 3 small networks for using fake accounts to spread misinformation about the presidential election.
Joe Biden Dementia billboard thegrio.com
October 21, 2020
A billboard on display in Pennsylvania accused former Vice President Joe Biden of having dementia but misspelled the term.
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October 13, 2020
Twitter suspended an account for digital Blackface and is investigating others that are pretending to be Black Trump supporters.
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October 12, 2020
Facebook will ban content that 'denies the Holocaust,' and the move comes after Mark Zuckerberg said users are allowed to…
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October 8, 2020
Facebook announced all political and issue based ads will be temporarily suspended beginning directly after Election Night is over.
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October 1, 2020
Trump's false ad alleged that Joe Biden would increase the number of refugees arriving from Syria, Somalia and Yemen by…
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September 24, 2020
Facebook allowed political advertisers to repeatedly create hundreds of misleading ads about Joe Biden and the US Postal Service.
President Trump Holds News Conference At The White House
September 18, 2020
A heartwarming video of two kids running to each other in New York City was doctored and Trump shared it,…
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September 9, 2020
Red Table Talk, the online series created by Jada Pinkett Smith is renewed through 2022, it was announced today.
September 6, 2020
Jaime Harrison has spent over $2 million on Facebook ads that paint incumbent challenger Lindsay Graham as a flip-flopper.
September 5, 2020
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded the alarm during an Axios interview on HBO about the "heightened risk" of "violence or…
Republican congressman Louisiana Clay Higgins thegrio.com
September 3, 2020
Congressman Clay Higgins says that his rights were violated after Facebook removed his posts threatening to kill armed Black protesters.
August 27, 2020
Calls for armed vigilantes to travel to Kenosha, to protect businesses spread on social media in the hours before two…
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August 6, 2020
Facebook has taken action against a foreign troll farm posing as pro-Trump Black Americans via hundreds of accounts and pages.
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August 6, 2020
Facebook censored a video post on the personal page of President Donald Trump on Wednesday. The video said that children…
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July 24, 2020
Facebook annouces a $650M settlement in a class-action suit brought by Illinois plantiffs for misuse of its facial recognition technology.
July 20, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg has slammed accusations that he and President Donald Trump have a secret Facebook deal related to political speech.
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July 20, 2020
A photo of Mark Zuckerberg recently went viral as the billionaire was photographed surfboarding while his face was covered in…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg And News Corp CEO Robert Thomson Debut Facebook News
July 7, 2020
Civil rights groups say Facebook is all talk and no action when it comes to removing racist, hateful and misleading…
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July 3, 2020
A Black man, Oscar Veneszee, Jr. has filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint against social media giant, Facebook.