It’s not very surprising that Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg’s state-visit-style trip to Brussels got a pretty chilly reception from EU officials.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg will meet the EU’s digital and industry commissioners next week, days before the EU presents proposals to rein in US tech giants and Chinese rivals.

Last Thursday, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was unflinching on Facebook. She described Mark Zuckerberg’s behemoth as “accomplices for misleading the American people with money from God knows where”.

The digital discourse must be curated by the private companies that host it, but such power can not be exercised unless it is dispersed in a competitive marketplace, writes Francis Fukuyama.

Stopping Facebook’s Libra in its tracks was a god thing, but authorities should now do something useful and visionary with the cryptocurrency, writes Yanis Varoufakis.

The data wars have intensified, and will again.

The social media giant has unveiled Libra, a cryptocurrency payment system that, if it fails, could take down the global economy. Governments must intervene, says Katharina Pistor.

Deep Fake, that’s the latest thing we have to worry about now.

Transparency matters. It matters in personal and business relationships.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that there is a lot more the social network can do to regulate social media content that is harmful to children.

So that’s nearly Tuesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Fianna Fáil TD James Lawless wants Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to “put his money where his mouth is” and reveal his intentions for Facebook in relation to the adoption of GDPR rules worldwide.

Politicians will question Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on online safety and regulation when they meet him tomorrow in Dublin.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has set out how he believes the social network and the internet should be regulated.

In 2019 and beyond, we should support companies that hold themselves to the highest ethical standards, writes Dave Troy. Anything else is just a recipe for disaster.

The dark side of internet technology in general and Facebook — which now owns WhatsApp and Instagram — in particular have been among the many problems governments have wrestled with throughout 2018. They remain unresolved as we welcome the new year. Like the hydrogen bomb, the technology cannot be uninvented, yet legislatures around the free world struggle to find ways to curtail its destructive power.

Facebook’s marketing messages are slick and simple and, of course, slickly simple, with a message that’s entirely and deliberately without context and meaning. “Be Connected. Be Discovered. Be on Facebook” is one of them.

Kim Kardashian’s younger sister is said by ‘Forbes’ to be worth $900m, writes Joyce Fegan.

Facebook has yet to explain why users were not informed about the Cambridge Analytica data leak when Facebook learned about it, writes Leonid Bershidsky

The Department of Homeland Security’s ‘media monitoring’ database could have a more sinister purpose — especially in the ever evolving era of social media, says Matt Laslo

One hundred cardboard cutouts of Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg were erected this week on the lawn outside the Capitol building in Washington.

Facebook will investigate "tens of thousands" of apps to discover if any other companies have accessed data in a similar way to Cambridge Analytica (CA), Mark Zuckerberg has told US politicians.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has turned down an invitation to give evidence to a UK House of Commons committee investigating allegations of misuse of the data of the social media giant's users.

A watchdog told Facebook that relying on developers to follow information rules in some cases was not good enough two years before a "data grab" on millions of users is said to have taken place.

What did you expect? You tell the world about your lifestyle, your habits, your likes and dislikes, your hopes, dreams and fears. And then you discover that the world is not offering a sympathetic ear, but instead milking you for all you’re worth?

Latest: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned to give evidence before the parliamentary inquiry into fake news after revelations about users' personal data held by British firm Cambridge Analytica (CA).

Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at Donald Trump after the US president accused Facebook of being "anti-Trump".

IT giants have had it pretty much their own way up to now, writes Kyran Fitzgerald, but finally

Facebook will provide the contents of 3,000 ads bought by a Russian agency to congressional investigators.

Snap’s earnings are out late this evening, and investors are already anticipating bad news, thanks to a “never-ending doomsday narrative around Facebook’s perceived impact on Snapchat,” according to analyst Brian White of Drexel Hamilton.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg yesterday revealed that the social media platform now has 2 billion users.

IT is possible to argue that Facebook is more influential and has a greater reach than history’s most successful empires. 

Mark Zuckerberg now acknowledges the dangerous side of the social revolution he helped create. But is the most powerful tool for connection in human history capable of adapting to the world it created, asks Farhad Manjoo.

Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant has an agenda that goes way beyond allowing users share a few pictures. Leonid Bershidsky explains why we should be worried.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg is, at 32, a billionaire and one of the most powerful men in the world.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has described his worry over the spread of fake news on the network and how social media risks "fragmenting" users' sense of reality.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify in a Dallas court this week as part of an on-going lawsuit between the Facebook owned VR company Oculus and American media company ZeniMax.

WHEN The Irish Press was first published in 1931 — Pádraig Pearse’s mother pressed the button to start the printing press — the paper’s founder Éamon de Valera said the paper’s purpose was: “To give the truth in the news ...” 

It may be ingracious to raise an eyebrow at the news that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will donate €2.7bn to biomedical research over the next decade. 

I could have been inventing the internet. Or a Dyson, (or an O’Regan as it would be called), writes Colm O’Regan

INTERNET security has become one of the issues of our time and various people have taken various positions on how to protect resources or vulnerable people.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Instagram had reason to celebrate as it surpassed 500 million users as of yesterday, but its celebratory post has garnered attention for other reasons.

Co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams, had his account hacked by a group called OurMine.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg briefly found his Twitter account had been hacked, as were at least two of his other social media accounts.

Donald Trump has once again made his income and wealth objects of fascination and confusion in the US 2016 presidential race, this time, by filing an updated personal financial disclosure form with the Federal Election Commission.

Facebook has emphasised that it does not permit employees to block news stories from its ‘Trending Topics’ list based on political bias, amid controversy over how the social media site selects what news it displays.