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What do newly published internal Facebook documents reveal about the company?
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    Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’s antitrust war.
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    Previously unpublished reports collected by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen show in granular detail how the world’s largest social network views its power in the market. The documents portray Facebook employees touting its dominance in their internal presentations — contradicting the company’s own public assertions.
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    "Social apps often stop growing but rarely shrink," the research concluded based on data from nearly a dozen apps. “Once you get a user on your app, it’s hard to lose them.” Several of Facebook’s reports home in on the teen and young adult market because advertisers often target those age groups for campaigns.
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    The Federal Trade Commission launched [a lawsuit] against the company last year, which seeks to force it to split off Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC has struggled in court to define key elements of the case, including what a social network is and how Facebook dominates that market. The new documents could help fill in those blanks.
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    The mainstream media's fear of Mark Zuckerberg is not supported by the Facebook Papers.
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    In the ocean’s worth of new Facebook revelations out today, here are some of the most important drops.
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Why is Florida offering bonuses for out-of-state police officers that relocate?


    "In Florida, not only are we going to want to protect the law enforcement and all the jobs, we are actively working to recruit out-of-state law enforcement because we do have...

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Who has seized control of Sudan following its military coup?


    Over two years ago, a popular uprising ousted Sudan’s longtime dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir and ushered in a new era of change and possibility for the African nation of some 45 million people. But th...

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