{"id":80718,"date":"2019-02-18T01:01:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/18\/facebook-labelled-digital-gangsters-by-report-on-fake-news\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T01:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T00:01:13","slug":"facebook-labelled-digital-gangsters-by-report-on-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=80718","title":{"rendered":"Facebook labelled &#039;digital gangsters&#039; by report on fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company broke privacy and competition law and should be regulated urgently, say MPsFacebook deliberately broke privacy and competition law and should urgently be subject to statutory regulation, according to a devastating parliamentary report denouncing the company and its executives as \u201cdigital gangsters\u201d.The final report of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee\u2019s 18-month investigation into disinformation and fake news accused Facebook of purposefully obstructing its inquiry and failing to tackle attempts by Russia to manipulate elections. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/feb\/18\/facebook-fake-news-investigation-report-regulation-privacy-law-dcms\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook labelled &#039;digital gangsters&#039; by report on fake news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company broke privacy and competition law and should be regulated urgently, say MPsFacebook deliberately broke privacy and competition law and should urgently be subject to statutory regulation, according to a devastating parliamentary report denouncing the company and its executives as \u201cdigital gangsters\u201d.The final report of the Digital, Culture, Media and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}