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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced that the company will no longer recommend civic and political groups to its users.

The updates related specifically to features that allow users to message and interact with businesses on WhatsApp. Last year, Facebook announced that businesses using WhatsApp could store and manage their chats with customers using Facebook’s “secure hosting infrastructure.”

Facebook and other U.S. tech giants could face new data privacy cases in Europe after the ECJ said any regulator in the region can bring about new proceedings.

Amazon said it “notified Parler repeatedly” over the past few months that the social media app was hosting violent content in violation of its terms of service.

Facebook’s WhatsApp changes its privacy policy on Feb. 8, when it will begin to share some user information with Facebook. Lots of people are moving to Signal.

It comes after the Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit on grounds that it would limit competition in the payments industry.

For Jeff Bezos, growing a little online bookseller into e-commerce giant Amazon took hard work and ingenuity, but it also took something else: luck. “Amazon is one of the lotteries I won,” Bezos said.

Social media platforms are continuing to crack down on fringe groups and conspiracy theories following last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.

More layoffs are expected as companies start downsizing due to the coronavirus pandemic. That means the job market will only get more competitive. The good news? Revitalizing your network is essential to boosting your chances of getting hired, and if there was ever a perfect time to do it, this is it.

Former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, now a co-owner of the Golden State Warriors NBA team, shares his favorite question after conducting hundreds of job interviews.

Amazon will be the leading share gainer among the major digital ads businesses this year, according to a new ad buyer survey from Cowen.

Social media and internet stocks are being watched after Twitter and Facebook suspended President Trump’s accounts.

WhatsApp updated its terms of service agreement that appears to give users little choice to opt out of sharing data with parent company Facebook.

Facebook will remove content containing the phrase “stop the steal” from its services in the lead-up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

Twitter has suspended more than 70,000 accounts associated with the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory.

Facebook, Google and Microsoft will pause contributions from their PACs in the wake of the invasion of the Capitol last week.

Signal Advance the component maker and Signal the encrypted messaging app are not related, despite their names.

The law should allow social media networks to be held financially liable for libelous false information and damage caused by incitements to violence.

It’s not just Twitter and Facebook cracking down on President Trump. In the wake of the Capitol riots, Amazon has forced Parlor offline. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Monday said that the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week was largely organized on other internet services.