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The chief executive officers of Twitter and Facebook appear before a US Senate hearing to testify about allegations of anti-conservative bias and their handling of the 2020 election. Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg  face questioning for the second time in as many months, with Republican lawmakers alleging – without evidence – censorship of conservative viewsTwitter and Facebook CEOs testify on alleged anti-conservative bias Continue...

Firm that said privacy no longer a ‘social norm’ rolls out tool to delete or archive Facebook users no longer need to worry about their teenage posts coming back to haunt them in later life, thanks to a new tool for deleting hundreds or thousands of posts at once.The “manage activity” feature, available now on Facebook’s mobile apps, lets users search for and remove...

Activists say Facebook boss’s decision to leave ‘shooting threat’ up sets dangerous precedentCivil rights leaders have criticised Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to take no action against a Facebook post from Donald Trump appearing to threaten to start shooting “looters”, after a Monday night meeting with the company’s executives ended in acrimony.“We are disappointed and stunned by Mark’s incomprehensible explanations for allowing the Trump posts to...

President announced plan to strip social media companies of liability protections after Twitter factchecked his tweetsTwo years after admitting under political pressure that Facebook must do more to prevent disinformation campaigns on its platform, founder Mark Zuckerberg told Fox News on Thursday that the company should step away from regulating online speech. Related: Trump expected to sign executive order in bid to target Twitter...

In wide-ranging speech, actor accuses tech giants of running the ‘greatest propaganda machine in history’Read Sacha Baron Cohen’s scathing attack on Facebook in fullSacha Baron Cohen has denounced tech giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google as “the greatest propaganda machine in history” and culpable for a surge in “murderous attacks on religious and ethnic minorities”.Baron Cohen was speaking on Thursday at Never Is Now,...