Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went dark in what website monitoring group Downdetector said was the largest such failure it had ever seen.
The social media giant will buy invoices from small businesses owned by women and minorities, sparing them the usual wait to be paid by customers.
In an amended complaint, the commission seeks to bolster its allegations that Facebook has abused a monopoly position in social networking.
Lina Khan “cannot meet any standard for neutrality that would permit her to participate in any decision-making" regarding the litigation.
Khan is one of the most renowned American scholars to criticize large technology companies for market power abuse.
The complaint says the social media giant refused to recruit, consider, or hire qualified and available U.S. workers for over 2,600 positions.
The deal “could provide businesses and customers with more support for interactions that occur on Facebook and its other apps."
Mark Zuckerberg told Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican, that the company occasionally made "mistakes."
The heads of Facebook, Twitter, and Google said changes to Section 230 could change how they moderate content.
Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple "have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons."
Hong Kong’s controversial new security laws require internet companies to provide user data and can order content deletion.
The company is concerned over the content that runs next to its ads.
