This happened after the ACCC, Australia’s competition watchdog, was asked to produce a code of conduct that would be imposed on tech companies in order to balance out the playing field.
They said the company has shown a complete lack of initiative when it comes to dealing with the President’s most recent Facebook posts in response to the protests.
Notable names in Silicon Valley express their support for the protests, including Elon Musk, Melinda Gates, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and others.
The author was the latest high-profile name to leave the social media giant, claiming he’s no longer confident the company has the “ability to protect its users’ privacy.”
Hundreds of ads for Trump’s reelection campaign were removed from Youtube in recent months for violating the company’s policy, but there’s no information about why or how they violated it.
The company shut down four separate networks of accounts which reached around 250,000 users in the United States, Latin America, and North Africa.
