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<p>President Trump's campaign manager wants to know how Facebook and Twitter are preventing political bias.&nbsp;</p>

Trump campaign wants answers on Facebook and Twitter 'political bias'

The Trump 2020 campaign manager sent the letter out on Twitter. It received hundreds of retweets in minutes.

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<p>Facebook is among the first companies to be hit with a complaint under EU privacy laws.</p>

GDPR: Google and Facebook face up to $9.3B in fines on first day of new privacy law

An Austrian privacy group is wasting no time.

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<p>A banner anti KKK is seen during march Against Hate Held In Philadelphia In Wake Of Charlottesville, on August 16, 2017. Demonstrations are being held following clashes between white supremacists and counter-protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed in Charlottesville when a car allegedly driven by James Alex Fields Jr. barreled into a crowd of counter-protesters following violence at the Unite the Right rally. (Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)</p>

Leaked Facebook training docs tackle white supremacy, racism

The documents were reportedly part of a push to train moderators on white supremacy in the US following the death of a protester in Charlottesville.

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Criminal defendants could get access to Facebook user content, court rules

The California Supreme Court kicks the case back to trial court to determine whether info was public when it was subpoenaed.

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Facebook accused of collecting user data from texts, photos

A lawsuit alleges Facebook used its apps to gather info on users and their friends.

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<p>Mark Zuckerberg has said his mission this year is to fix Facebook.</p>

Facebook and Twitter have new rules for political ads. Here's how they work

Now you'll see who paid for an ad, how much they paid and how many people saw it.

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Mark Zuckerberg's next personal project? A 'supreme court' for Facebook

Concluding the Europe leg of his apology tour, the Facebook CEO talks about his plans for governance.

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Facebook fixer-upper: Can artificial intelligence clean up your feed?

Mark Zuckerberg wants to use AI to tidy up Facebook. Those machines are going to see a lot of garbage...

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GDPR: Here's what you need to know

The EU's new privacy law takes effect Friday. Here are the basics.

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<p>Global activists of Avaaz, set up cardboard cutouts of Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, on which is written "Fix Fakebook", in front of the European Union headquarters in Brussels, on May 22, 2018, as they call attention to what the groups says are hundreds of millions of fake accounts still spreading disinformation on Facebook. - Advocacy group Avaaz is calling attention to what the groups says are hundreds of millions of fake accounts still spreading disinformation on Facebook. Facebook chief will say sorry to the European Parliament on May 22, 2018, pledging that the social media giant has learned hard lessons from a massive breach of users' personal data. Facebook admitted that up to 87 million users may have had their data hijacked by British consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which worked for US President Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images)</p>

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has a tough road ahead in Europe on data privacy

Turns out "sorry" doesn’t seem to work as much for the social network’s chief anymore.

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Facebook will fight fake news with real newspaper ads (and more)

The social-networking company will also enlist the help of researchers, who'll study misinformation on the platform.

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Zuckerberg gives empty answers to EU Parliament

Maybe that's because Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat through an hour of questions and only had 25 minutes to answer them all, CNET's 3:59 podcast team concludes.

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