Facebook bug causes legitimate coronavirus posts to be marked as junk mail: executive

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  3. "Social media posts praising Wisconsin shooter Kyle Rittenhouse were being widely shared on Wednesday, a week after Facebook and Twitter said such content violated policies and would be taken off their platforms". (September 3, 2020)
  4. "Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc have suspended processing government requests for user data in Hong Kong, they said on Monday, following China's establishment of a new national security law for the semi-autonomous city". (July 6, 2020)
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  6. "Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the U.S. presidential election in November, bowing to concern that its loose approach to free speech could once again be exploited to interfere with the vote". (September 3, 2020)
  7. "Facebook Inc on Thursday told Reuters that Apple Inc rejected its attempt to tell users the iPhone maker would take a 30% cut of sales in a new online events feature, forcing Facebook to remove the message to get the tool to users". (August 28, 2020)
  8. "Facebook Inc's chief of advertising integrity, who handled the company's ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics and coronavirus misinformation, departed this week, according to an internal company post viewed by Reuters on Friday". (January 1, 2021)
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