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The regulator is taking another swing at Facebook after a judge tossed out its initial effort in June. It accused the social media giant of illegally maintaining a monopoly.

Facebook disabled the academics' accounts and blocked their access to its platform, saying they had violated its terms of service by collecting data about political ads.

In a new book, Cecilia Kang and Sheera Frenkel say Facebook failed in its effort to combat disinformation. "Facebook knew the potential for explosive violence was very real [on Jan 6]," Kang says.

The former president filed suit against three of the nation's biggest tech giants, alleging they wrongfully kicked him off their platforms after a mob of his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol.

The first big test of Facebook's Oversight Board reveals the challenges of checking the power and scale of the social media giant.

The independent Oversight Board on Wednesday is expected to say whether Facebook should uphold or reverse a ban on the former president put in place after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Facebook said that "malicious actors" scraped the data through a vulnerability that it fixed in 2019. But the publicly available data still leaves millions of users vulnerable, security experts say.

The social network says it will focus on groups, pages and accounts repeatedly sharing false claims about vaccines.

When Twitter and Facebook cracked down on those spreading baseless QAnon conspiracies, adherents went looking for other apps to communicate, including platforms where they may be further radicalized.

Texas Public Radio's Jerry Clayton recently spoke with social media expert Dr. Samuel Woolley about the aftermath of the President being banned from Twitter and the big tech takedown of right-wing media site Parler.