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Facebook Intensifies Censorship Ahead of Congressional Testimony by Zuckerberg

posted by martyb on Wednesday April 11 2018, @01:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the One-for-TMB dept.

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/09/cens-a09.html

Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company will "require people who manage large pages to be verified," meaning they will have to provide the company, and by extension the US government, with their real names and locations.

[...] Zuckerberg added that the move would involve the hiring of thousands of additional censors and "security" personnel. "In order to require verification for all of these pages and advertisers, we will hire thousands of more people," he wrote.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday April 11 2018, @01:00PM

    by Freeman (732) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @01:00PM (#665341) Journal

    Which still amounts to him owning the majority of the shares.

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