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Facebook Labelled 'Digital Gangsters' In Report On Fake News

News and issues making the headlines each day.

Facebook deliberately broke privacy and competition law and should urgently be subject to statutory regulation, according to a report from the UK's parliament, denouncing the company and its executives as 鈥渄igital gangsters鈥.

Facebook has welcomed the digital select committee's report and said it would be open to "meaningful regulation".

Also on the programme: Australia's Prime Minister has said a "sophisticated state actor" has carried out a cyber-attack on all the country's political parties; and we find out why female surgeons are being driven out of the industry.

(Photo: Silhouettes of Facebook users, Credit: Reuters)

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Mon 18 Feb 2019 10:06GMT

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  • Mon 18 Feb 2019 10:06GMT

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