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Journalist fact-checkers who signed up for a controversial partnership with social media giant Facebook to combat fake news are abandoning ship citing ethical concerns and shady practices.

A bomb threat has forced the evacuation of at least one building at Facebook’s Menlo Park office campus.

Regulators in Australia are proposing 11 measures to fight Facebook and Google’s market-stranglehold, transparency issues and controversial social impact.

The French foreign minister demanded that Donald Trump doesn’t meddle into the country’s affairs. Earlier the US leader blamed the Paris climate change agreement for sparking anti-fuel tax protests that swept France.

Facebook has opted to purge its platform of all sex-related content with a new policy banning everything from nude pictures to “sexualized slang,” up to and including “vague suggestive statements” – without informing its users.

Social media behemoth Facebook appears to be suffering from technical difficulties, with hundreds of users reporting the site down across the US Eastern seaboard.