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Summary List Placement Donald Trump is trying to replace an FCC member who displeased him by questioning his executive order on social media. The president on Wednesday nominated White House official Nathan Simington to join the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Simington is currently an adviser to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The Verge reported last week that Simington was in the running...

Disney has slashed its advertising budget on Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reports. The news comes after more than 500 advertisers suspended ads on Facebook as part of an industry boycott of the platform over its stance on hate speech. Disney was the single biggest advertiser on Facebook in the first half of this year, according to analysis by research firm Pathmatics Inc. Visit Business...

Facebook announced new features surrounding political and social issue ads on its platforms. A new feature will allow people to reduce the amount of political ads they see on Facebook and Instagram. Facebook came under heavy fire for its decision to allow political ads to run on its platform without fact-checks ahead of the 2020 Presidential election. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories....

TikTok released an updated set of community guidelines on Wednesday. Its rules now explicitly ban "content that denies well-documented and violent events have taken place." This includes Holocaust denial, and other similar conspiracy theories. TikTok appears to be trying to sidestep moderation problems that have plagued large social media companies like Facebook and YouTube. Last year internal documents leaked by The Guardian showed that...

While presenting at the Golden Globes, actor Sacha Baron Cohen made a jab at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Baron Cohen called Zuckerberg a "naive, misguided child who spreads Nazi propaganda and only has imaginary friends" In November Baron Cohen made a speech at the Anti-Defamation League sharply criticizing Zuckerberg for the hate speech that proliferates on Facebook. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories....