Upon opening its new London headquarters next year, Facebook plans to expand its UK presence by 50%. “It will hire 500 additional employees, including engineers, marketers, project managers and sales staff,” BBC News reports. “Facebook's new headquarters will be in Fitzrovia at a site that is currently undergoing redevelopment.”

At least for the moment, LinkedIn is no longer welcome in Russia. “Amid a tense stand-off and attempt at negotiations, Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor has started to enforce a proposed block of LinkedIn in the country,” TechCrunch reports. The move follows the social network’s failure to transfer Russian user data to servers located in the country, “violating a law instituted in Russia requiring all online sites to store personal data on national servers,” TC notes.

Of the $250 million that Donald Trump’s election campaign raised in online fundraising, most of it came through Facebook. That’s according to Brad Parscale, Trump’s digital director. “Our biggest incubator that allowed us to generate that money was Facebook,” Parscale tells Wired. And, Trump’s campaign apparently funneled much of that money right back into Facebook. “Trump’s campaign funneled $90 million to Parscale’s San Antonio-based firm, most of which went toward digital advertising … And Parscale says more of that ad money went to Facebook than to any other platform.”

Twitter just suspended the accounts of several “alt-right” users for tweeting hate speech. The group includes Richard Spencer, the head of an alt-right think tank who has said he wants blacks, Asians, Hispanics and Jews removed from the country. “Twitter on Tuesday removed Spencer's verified account, @RichardBSpencer, that of his think tank, the National Policy Institute @npiamerica, and his online magazine @radixjournal,” USA Today reports.

Facebook is more concerned about the fake news circulating on its platform than the social giant is publically admitting. “The company is, in fact, concerned about the issue, and has been having a high-level internal debate since May about how the network approaches its role as the largest news distributor in the US,” Gizmodo reports, citing sources. “The debate includes questions over whether the social network has a duty to prevent misinformation from spreading to the 44 percent of Americans who get their news from the social network.”

A federal judge just ordered Amazon to reimburse parents whose children made in-app purchases without permission, Reuters reports. “U.S. District Judge John Coughenour … issued his order more than six months after finding the online retailer liable, in a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission,” it writes. The judge rejected a U.S. regulator’s request for a $26.5 million lump-sum payout, however.

Seemingly succeeding where Google Glass failed, the video-capturing glasses aren’t hard on the eyes, according to Mashable. “Not only are the glasses a cool tech gadget, they actually look cool when you're wearing them,” it writes. Yet, “ The device is not a fashion statement (though it looks normal on), nor is it really a gadget,” Mashable adds. “Instead, it kind of feels like an extension of Snapchat culture.”

Mark Zuckerberg is dismissing criticism that Facebook contributed to Donald Trump’s election. “Zuckerberg rejected the idea that the News Feed had tilted the election in favor of Donald Trump,” The Verge reports. As Zuckerberg said at a conference, this week: “Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, which is a very small amount of the content, influenced the election in any way -- I think is a pretty crazy idea.”

Snapchat parent Snap plans to sell its forthcoming glasses in physical vending machines. “Snap … says it plans to sell Spectacles, the video-capturing glasses it announced back in September, through Snapbots, which look like giant vending machines,” Recode reports. “In true Snapchat fashion, the machines are ephemeral -- they will only be available for about one day at each location before they’re removed.”

Facebook is being blamed for aiding Donald Trump’s rise by facilitating the spread of fake and misleading news stories. In response, the social giant says its handling of news (both real and not real) remains a work in progress. “We understand there’s so much more we need to do,” Adam Mosseri, VP of product management at Facebook, said in a statement given to TechCrunch. As TC notes: “Facebook has previously been criticized for firing the human editors it used to employ to curate its trending news section.”