As the social-distancing situation continues and lockdowns are in place in a lot of countries, tech giants continue to try to help governments with the crisis. Now, Facebook is taking another measure - that it is going to ban event listings on its platform that violate social-distancing policies in the US.

The social media platform effectively removed event listings for anti-lockdown protests in California, New Jersey and Nebraska. Reportedly, Facebook removed those events after confirming with local governments that they were violating the prevention policies against the spread of the ...