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The City of Dublin recently recognized local volunteer service from both individuals and groups in a ceremony at the Shannon Community Center earlier in the month.

House Democrats included a boatload of tech and telecom cash in the original version of their spending package.

Facebook Inc.’s independent Oversight Board is set to announce on Wednesday whether former President Donald Trump can rejoin the world’s largest social network, a decision with deep consequences for Trump, the company and the U.S. political conversation. The decision comes as social media platforms are under pressure to police false or inflammatory content on their sites while being accused of favoring liberal views and punishing conservatives.

Facebook is reportedly paying its Oversight Board 6-figure salaries only for it to tell the company to solve its own problems insider@insider.com (Allana Akhtar) © Andrew Harnik/AP Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Washington D.C. on Oct. 23, 2019 Andrew Harnik/AP Facebook pays Oversight Board members six-figure salaries, The New Yorker reported. The Oversight Board recently criticized Facebook for skirting responsibility in banning Trump. The Board requested Facebook review it...

Facebook ban on Trump upheld by Facebook Oversight Board, but decision opens door to his possible return Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT But the company-funded tribunal of outside experts ruled that it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose an "indeterminate and standardless penalty" of indefinite suspension and instructed the company to review the matter within six months, possibly opening the door to Trumps return. Facebook can decide to impose a limited ...

Trump called Facebook, Twitter and Googles YouTube, all of which suspended him following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, "a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our country." "Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before," he said in a statement. "These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price, and must never again ...

Who’s who on the Facebook Oversight Board — Anxiety over the end of 3G

Politico May 04, 2021 5:00 PM ET The cast of Americans includes two prominent conservative figures — former federal judge Michael McConnell and John Samples, vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute. Alongside them are two other lawyers steeped in debates around online speech, Columbia Law professor Jamal Greene and University of Oklahoma law professor Evelyn Aswad. Greene has been critical of Trump as a person and politician, calling him "a serial liar, a sexual predator ... a white ...

In addition, the survey pays careful attention to the beliefs, attitudes, and experiences among foreign‐​born first‐​generation immigrants, immigrants’ American‐​born children identified in this report as second‐​generation immigrants, the grandchildren of immigrants identified as third‐​generation immigrants, and other native‐​born Americans for whom all grandparents were born in the United States. The survey included additional oversamples of Latino (N=300) and Asian...

By Patrick Goodenough | February 24, 2021 | 4:27am EST President Trump uses his cellphone at the White House in June 2020. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) - Former President Donald Trump has appealed the suspension of his Facebook account, according to an oversight body that examines content-moderation verdicts by the social media giant. Thirty-three million Facebook followers have been denied access to Trumps views for more than six w...