Facebook Headlines Provide Glimpse Into Company’s Internal Workings

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🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Facebook cannot keep itself out of the headlines. On Monday, the social media company reached a deal to restore the news content it had banned from its Australian domain last week. This removal was in response to a proposed Australian law which would require social media sites and search engines to pay publishers for their content. And back in the U.S., in an ongoing 2018 class action lawsuit that alleges Facebook misrepresented its advertising data, documents were unsealed last week that plaintiffs claim demonstrate internal knowledge of this alleged misrepresentation. We’ll review all this news and analyze what’s ahead for Facebook as Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify next month before Congress — his fourth appearance since last July. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.1	Facebook is inviting domestic and international regulatory blowback again.
1:21.7	To start, even if the social media giant is no longer blocking news posts in Australia to get politicians there to back down.
1:29.2	Bullying a democracy is a bad look. Recently unsealed court documents revealed top brass
1:34.7	new for years the company was faking ad data. And there's that steady stream of news about content
1:41.2	mismoderation, especially when it comes to politics and the pandemic.
1:46.0	We'll talk to two top tech reporters about the troubles at Facebook next on Forum right after this news.
1:52.0	Welcome to Forum. I'm Rachel Myro in today for Mina Kim. Some might say we've grown
2:06.5	accustomed to monopoly power in Silicon Valley that we've come to accept that Amazon owns
2:12.8	retail, Google owns search, and Facebook owns social media. But recent events at Facebook in particular
2:20.3	demonstrate a tin-eared public opinion that may or may not lead federal regulators and lawmakers
2:27.4	to step in, at the very least to take advantage of widespread dissatisfaction with the company's
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