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October 7, 2021

Why Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is drawing flak from the right

What she’s been talking about is how Facebook spreads hateful content and damages teenage girls, among other things, in the name of maximizing profit. She says the buck stops with Mark Zuckerberg and is urging Congress to regulate the company. She hasn’t been mounting an ideological attack.

October 7, 2021

Babylon Bee CEO Dillon rips online censors: There's nothing tyrants hate more than humor

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that Facebook was censoring his satire site for political reasons.

October 6, 2021

Babylon Bee CEO: 'We're being fact-checked to death'

Seth Dillon, CEO of the satire site, said Big Tech is coming after the traction on his site with censorship cudgels.

October 6, 2021

Sean Duffy: As a parent of 9 here's my take on Facebook whistleblower's testimony

As a father of nine children between the ages of 22 and 2, I am all too familiar with the gravitational pull social media has on young people.

October 6, 2021

‘Social Dilemma’ star says Facebook outage proves need for regulation after blackout hurt small businesses

Facebook suffered a massive global outage on Monday that shut down its main site, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms for roughly six hours, and a prominent social media critic said the incident proves how controlling the company truly is. 

October 6, 2021

Michael Goodwin: Facebook is too big to regulate, too popular and too important for Congress to tackle

Despite Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s bold move there is no universal confidence that Congress will take big action.

October 6, 2021

AG Garland faces scrutiny over ties to Zuckerberg-backed ed consultancy amid critical race theory battles

Attorney General Merrick Garland is facing fresh scrutiny for his ties to a company that promotes the type of content parents are opposing in their ongoing battle with local school boards – a hot-button issue that Garland has recently targeted for investigation at the national level. 

October 6, 2021

Facebook VP pushes back on whistleblower's claims on 'America's Newsroom': 'She's not an expert'

Facebook's vice president of content policy, Monika Bickert, blasted the platform's whistleblower, Frances Haugen, saying she is "not an expert" and did not work on child safety issues after she testified on Capitol Hill alleging the platform is more concerned about making money than protecting its users.

October 6, 2021

Victor Davis Hanson: Dems using Facebook scandal to weaponize government against free speech

Historian Victor Davis Hanson accused Democrats Tuesday of attempting to capitalize on the ongoing Facebook scandal by weaponizing the federal government to police free speech.

October 6, 2021

Facebook content policy VP slams whistleblower: 'She's not an expert'

Monika Bickert argued Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen did not work on child safety issues, suggesting she 'mischaracterized' the information she revealed from the platform.