'Brick wall': deadlocked efforts to regulate Facebook

Efforts to regulate Facebook have made little progress despite various authorities launching anti-trust suits and attempting to change laws to curb its influence. — REUTERS

US senators on Tuesday again promised to curb Facebook's power, driven this time by damning whistleblower revelations underpinned by the company's own research.

Efforts to better regulate the tech behemoth's platforms, which see billions of users, have so far been slow and ineffective.