Facebook has come under criticism for its failure to enforce its own rules to curb an oil and gas industry misinformation campaign over the climate crisis during the 2020 US presidential election, according to a new analysis.

Yemen's Foreign Minister has blasted western censorship in response to YouTube shutting down the ministry's official account without providing just cause.

The social network, called GETTR, features extremist material, including graphic videos of beheadings and viral memes that promote violence against the West.

The White House has blamed Facebook and YouTube for spreading misinformation about COVID vaccines.

US President Joe Biden has walked back an attack on Facebook after saying the social media giant is killing people by allowing lies to be spread about the coronavirus vaccination.

Facebook reportedly fired 52 employees for abusing their access to the social network’s user data, including male engineers who spied on female users, a new report shows.

"The US is in fact the biggest threat to global cybersecurity," says Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

The social media giant has been under pressure to rein in radical content and misinformation on its platform.

Senior Democrat lawmakers are pushing back against efforts by members of their own party to regulate Big Tech firms.

US lawmakers debated into the early hours Thursday over details of legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech firms with a sweeping reform of antitrust laws.