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Facebook vs. New York Times

As of Wednesday the New York Times published and investigation about the Russian interference on Facebook. The investigation stated that Facebook had not fully released all their known information about the Russian interference. The investigation also stated that Facebook hired a private company to dig up extra inside information on their competitors. Mark Zucerberg, the CEO of Facebook, responded to these claims in a rather defensive way. He responded to the claims saying that he ensures everyone that they ended their relationship with this company ( CLICK HERE  to read a CNN article about Facebook’s response to the investigation). This recent incident raises the question on the governmental regulations with social media’s. As of now, social media is a very new thing to the government. There are regulations in place with social media and the internet in general, but there are still gray areas when it comes to speech and advertising on the internet. The US government honestly doe...