State senator comments on GOP chairman’s post

State Senator Jessica Garvin, R-Duncan, urged voters to ignore the “disgusting” Facebook post written by Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman John Bennett as he compared the COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates to the Holocaust.

Facebook sees slow growth in quarter

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Facebook on Tuesday reported its slowest quarterly growth as a public company, pressured by the coronavirus pandemic and a resulting global slow down in digital advertising.

Facebook says it still won’t ban political ads, even false ones

SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook is reaffirming its freewheeling policy on political ads, saying it won’t ban them, won’t fact-check them and won’t limit how they can be targeted to specific groups of people.

Facebook rebuffs US AG over access to encrypted messages

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) - Facebook is rebuffing efforts to give authorities a way to read encrypted messages. The company says it’s moving forward with plans to enable end-to-end encryption on all of its messaging services. That locks up messages so that not even Facebook can read their contents.