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Oct 2021
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Tech News: Facebook Tries to Save Face

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Facebook held its quarterly earnings call and while the company is under criticism its revenue is through the roof. Also, Congress is asking social networking companies to think of the children and Jeff Bezos plans to build a station that's out of this world.

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