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A Facebook whistleblower will give evidence to a committee of British MPs ahead of major new laws to tackle online abuse. Follow Newsweek's liveblog for all the latest.

The parliamentary committee is charged with examing the British government's"Online Harms Bill" which aims to shift more responsibility onto social media firms for harmful content on their platforms - and punishing them if they fail to tackle it.British civil servants 'leaking new regulations' to former colleague who work at Facebook - reports

Parts of the British government's plans to regulate social media giants is being leaked by civil servants to former colleagues who now work at Facebook, according to aA senior Facebook employee recently raised an issue about possible new laws in a meeting - divulging details that only a few officials knew about at the time.

Whitehall civil servants are allegedly giving information to Facebook workers about potential regulation of social media platforms'Facebook fails to act': Indian political party accuses platform of failing to tackle misinformation The Congress party said the ruling BJP party in the country was using"fake news and hate speech" to"manipulate voters and incite violence".Facebook has become a tool to spread BJP's fake news & hate speech. The platform is being used to manipulate voters & incite violence, our democracy is being put at risk.

 

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'whistleblower' When you're fellating the regime, you're not blowing a whistle.

Where is your inclusion of the Billionaire behind her, EBAY funds her, along with SOROS group among other Lefty groups. Just to be both fair, and accurate.

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