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Facebook under fire: Is it time to regulate the social media giant?

By France24
28 October 2021   |   12:16 pm
Facebook began this week by announcing more than $9 billion in quarterly profits, an increase of about 17 percent. The social media giant also announced that it now has close to three billion users. But all is not well on the Facebook front as Mark Zuckerberg’s platform has been facing a deluge of scathing reports.

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