Asset Management

Social media shares hold their ground as companies face heat over content

Facebook and Twitter are among those targeted by civil-rights groups, US lawmakers, and the Justice Department

Civil-rights groups, US lawmakers, and the Justice Department targeted large-cap social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter on 17 June, for a group of unrelated concerns related to how the companies deal with user-generated content on their platforms.

But, investors largely shrugged off the news.

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