'Brick wall': Deadlocked efforts to regulate Facebook

US senators on Tuesday again promised to curb Facebook's power, driven this time by damning whistleblower revelations underpinned by the company's own research.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 23, 2019 Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before the House Financial Services Committee on "An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors" in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC. - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hit back October 5, 2021, at claims the social media giant fuels division, harms children and needs to be regulated, saying the claim the company puts profits over safety is "just not true." -- Photo: Mandel Ngan/ AFP

2021-10-06 10:12:26

US senators on Tuesday again promised to curb Facebook's power, driven this time by damning whistleblower revelations underpinned by the company's own research.

Efforts to better regulate the tech behemoth's platforms, which see billions of users, have so far been slow and ineffective.

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