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Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle a privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica (12/23/2022)

Frances Haugen Opening Statement to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation CSPAN (10/5/2022)

Short ban on extremist just latest sign of Facebook’s folly (1/2022)

Facebook Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Leading Up to Jan. 6 Attack, Records Show (1/18/2022)

Facebook became Meta – and the company’s dangerous behavior came into sharp focus in 2021: 4 essential reads (12/20/2021)

Facebook whistleblower exposes a dark reality: Right wing disinformation is popular — and profitable (10/4/2021)

Frances Haugen’s Whistleblower Aid legal team indicates she was cultivated to complete Facebook’s transformation into a vehicle for the US national security state. (10/21/2021)

Mark Zuckerberg Knows Exactly How Bad Facebook Is (10/18/2021)

Facebook’s policing of vitriol is even more lackluster outside the US, critics say (10/17/2021)

Whistleblower's SEC complaint: Facebook knew platform was used to "promote human trafficking and domestic servitude" (10/4/2021)

What Facebook Did to American Democracy (10/12/2017) the Atlantic

NEVER NEVER NEVER USE @META FOR ANYTHING PRIVATE OR PERSONAL. THEY ARE THE RATS FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND BACKWARDS ASS @GOP !!!! pic.twitter.com/i9U7eIAIDk

— RWLatstetter #BERNIE2024 (@latstetter) March 6, 2023

!!! Friday Night Surprise. Plaintiffs just filed their response to Facebook in my favorite case - what I call the mother of all lawsuits - in Delaware where it's incorporated. It's a tight but absolutely delicious 120 pages so I'll break down the allegations here for you. /1 pic.twitter.com/dghSKEqPOO

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) April 9, 2022

A second Facebook whistleblower says she's willing to testify before Congress and that she's shared documents with a US law agency https://t.co/OQdqeg0jC7 via @businessinsider

— MadAboutFascistsInAmerica (@FascistsMad) October 13, 2021

Facebook Failed To Respond to Dire Emails Ahead of Capitol Riot (2/12/2021) Snopes

Facebook has played a “crucial role in advancing the cause of authoritarianism in America and around the world. Authoritarianism predates the rise of Facebook, of course. But Facebook makes it much easier for authoritarians to win.”https://t.co/eQWNhl49Ax

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 25, 2021

"That Facebook is a tool of autocracy is not surprising, when we consider that the company is run by an autocratic tool—a megalomaniac who fancies himself a Roman emperor of old."https://t.co/Vi5pGl8VmA

— Greg Olear (@gregolear) October 1, 2021

Facebook has donated $190,000 to the campaigns and political committees to 11 out of 12 of those questioning Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen. Haugen will testify Tuesday.

Facebook put profits ahead of security and slowing disinformation.

— Johnathan Ford⬅️ (@FordJohnathan5) October 4, 2021

“The version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing ethnic violence around the world,” says former Facebook employee France Haugen. She points to Myanmar, where the military used Facebook to launch a genocide. https://t.co/WU4IumjHkO pic.twitter.com/cy9Ed9MgbH

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 3, 2021

Who Needs the KGB when we have Facebook? An Interview with Eben Moglen (4/8/2015) pdf

Reminder that Peter Thiel ensured that Mark Zuckerberg would be invincible and implacable by design. https://t.co/uRAD5xzmNW pic.twitter.com/byaJlA91YX

— David Carroll (@profcarroll) October 5, 2021