At $5 billion, the fine the FTC is about to levy on Facebook is by far the largest it's given to a technology company, easily eclipsing the second largest, $22 million for Google in 2012.
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Jul 12, 2019
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President Donald Trump on Thursday night warned Facebook Inc. over its plan to create a digital currency, the Libra.
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Jul 12, 2019
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When Facebook announced its intention last month to get into the money business with its own digital currency, we were left wondering what would be next. Its own court system? Its own standing army?
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Jul 5, 2019
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Facebook said it was "back at 100 percent" Wednesday evening after an outage on all of its services affected users in various parts of the world.
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Jul 4, 2019
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Facebook acknowledged Wednesday an outage affecting users in various parts of the world and said it was working on a fix.
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Jul 3, 2019
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Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the center of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, said he is dropping a defamation lawsuit against the social network rather than engage in an expensive, drawn-out legal ...
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Jul 2, 2019
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Facebook and YouTube said Tuesday they were moving to reduce the spread of misleading health care claims after a media report showed the proliferation of bogus cancer cures on social media.
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Jul 2, 2019
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German authorities said Tuesday that they have imposed a 2 million-euro ($2.3 million) fine on Facebook under a law designed to combat hate speech.
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Jul 2, 2019
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Facebook says it will make advertisements for jobs, loans and credit card offers searchable for all U.S. users following a legal settlement designed to eliminate discrimination on its platform.
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Jul 1, 2019
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Italy's data protection watchdog slammed Facebook Friday with a fine of one million euros ($1.1 million) for violating privacy laws over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Jun 28, 2019
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