Facebook Inc said on Thursday it has filed lawsuits against individuals in Europe and the United States for abusing its platforms to offer automated tools for scraping users’ personal data and gathering likes.

Facebook sues individuals for offering to extract data, gather likes

Online content should be regulated with a system somewhere between the existing rules used for the telecoms and media industries, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told global leaders and security chiefs on Saturday.

Zuckerberg asks Facebook to be treated "'like something between a telco and a newspaper"

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Facebook sues individuals for offering to extract data, gather likes

Zuckerberg asks Facebook to be treated "'like something between a telco and a newspaper"