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Some further interior emails Facebook if truth be told doesn’t want you to look: Turns out in 2017 COO Sheryl Sandberg had already recognized for years there have been problems with a loose advert making plans device the company provides to marketeers to turn estimates of ways many people campaigns operating on its platform may just …
Some more internal emails Facebook really doesn’t want you to see: Turns out in 2017 COO Sheryl Sandberg had already known for years there were problems with a free ad planning tool the company offers to marketeers to display estimates of how many people campaigns running on its platform may …Original article
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  1. "The European Union may investigate Facebooks $1BN acquisition of customer service platform Kustomer after concerns were referred to it under EU merger rules". (April 6, 2021)
  2. "Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australias Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial purposes". (December 16, 2020)
  3. "Facebook is considering expanding the types of data its users are able to port directly to alternative platforms". (August 21, 2020)
  4. "Reset yer counters: Facebook has had to fess up to yet another major ad reporting fail. This one looks like it could be costly for the tech giant to put right not least because its another dent in its reputation for self reporting". (November 26, 2020)
  5. "Round of applause for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism which fought for two years to obtain details of a closed door meeting between Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and the UK secretary of state in charge of digital issues at the time, Matt Hancock (now health secretary)". (December 8, 2020)
  6. "Potential threats to the free flow of GIFs continue to trouble the U.K.s competition watchdog". (April 1, 2021)
  7. "Facebooks self-regulatory Oversight Board (FOB) has delivered its first batch of decisions on contested content moderation decisions almost two months after picking its first cases". (January 28, 2021)
  8. "Facebooks head of global policy has denied the tech giant could close its service to Europeans if local regulators order it to suspend data transfers to the US following a landmark Court of Justice ruling in July that has cemented the schism between US surveillance laws and EU privacy rights". (September 23, 2020)
  9. "A Facebook -funded body that the tech giant set up to distance itself from tricky and potentially reputation-damaging content moderation decisions has announced the first bundle of cases it will consider". (December 1, 2020)
  10. "Remember the app audit Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised to carry out a little under three years ago at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Actually the tech giant is very keen that you dont". (January 26, 2021)
  11. "A week after Facebook grabbed eyeballs globally by blocking news publishers and turning off news-sharing on its platform in Australia, the countrys parliament has approved legislation that makes it mandatory for platform giants like Facebook and Google to negotiate to remunerate local news p". (February 25, 2021)
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