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A closer look at the day's most notable stories with The National's Jonathon Gatehouse: Facebook has some big-money backers for its new cryptocurrency; Canada faces big challenges in closing the gap between its emissions and its climate change targets.Original article
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  1. "In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Mark Zuckerberg said governments and regulators, rather than private companies like Facebook, should be more active in policing the Internet". (April 1, 2019)
  2. "Employment Minister Patty Hajdu is calling on the Canadian Human Rights Commission to examine the way Facebook allows employers to microtarget job ads to particular age ranges, something experts say could violate Canadian human rights laws". (April 9, 2019)
  3. "NDP MP Charlie Angus is calling on Canada's lobbying commissioner to investigate social media giant Facebook after leaked internal company e-mails revealed the company met with Conservative cabinet ministers but didn't report those meetings to the lobbying commissioner's office". (March 5, 2019)
  4. "Facebook knew as early as 2018 that its platform was being used to incite division and violence, a company official told MPs in Ottawa on Thursday". (June 6, 2019)
  5. "Parliament's ethics committee voted Tuesday to subpoena Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg and its CEO Sheryl Sandberg to testify before an international committee of parliamentarians meeting later this month to probe the Cambridge Analytica scandal". (May 8, 2019)
  6. "The Liberals have removed a promotional video from leader Justin Trudeau's Facebook page that featured behind-the-scenes footage from the first day of the election campaign, including video of Gov. Gen. Julie Payette inside Rideau Hall". (October 4, 2019)
  7. "Facebook's lead regulator in the European Union is seeking information over how it handled data during the manual transcription of users' audio recordings, Ireland's Data Protection Commision said on Wednesday". (August 14, 2019)
  8. "A report from U.K. non-profit Full Fact finds that Facebook's new fact-checking program is a useful tool — but doesn't got far enough in combating disinformation". (July 30, 2019)
  9. "Advertisers are able to write their own copy, when sharing a link as an advertisement on Facebook, potentially opening the door for misleading ads to spread". (September 16, 2019)
  10. "A London, Ont., homicide case could help determine how far into your Facebook inbox the arm of the law could reach for investigative purposes". (May 27, 2019)
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