Once again, lawmakers demonstrate profound lack of understanding of how the internet works

Berlin lawmakers warn of tough new regime to crack down as Facebook steps up search for a head of news

OTT messaging services could soon fall under the same privacy regulations as telephone calls and SMS text messages

Facebook makes freely available an internal tool used to monitor CT logs for new TLS certificates issued for a domain. Users can monitor and audit this information for malicious or mistakenly issued certs.

The latest fake-news wrinkle: Insiders say it will hand-pick news from favored media partners, including Snapchat, in an upcoming feature called Collections.

A story about users mistaking it for a Facebook extension was flagged as fake news: ‘Meta’, said the developer

Facebook employees have already reportedly pushed to have his posts about banning Muslims from entering the country deemed hate speech.

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