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Democrat White House hopeful Joe Biden’s campaign attempted this week to push the New York Times (NYT), Twitter, and Facebook into extinguishing stories and presidential campaign ads about the Ukraine corruption scandal linked to the former vice president, to no avail.

A majority of Americans believe that social media platforms are politically biased in the way they deliver news stories to their users, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

Ivanka Trump thanked Google for signing a pledge to create 250,000 new job training opportunities in the tech sector for America’s workers.

A recent report alleges that Google targeted homeless people with “darker skin tones” to capture their biometric data to improve the tech giant’s facial unlock system.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave an interview to the Daily Telegraph in which he revived the company’s infamous motto, “don’t be evil,” which was removed from the preface to Google’s code of conduct in 2018.

Technology companies’s political censorship is “the greatest threat to free speech and our democracy today,” wrote Donald Trump Jr.

A recent report states that congressional antitrust investigators are looking into Google’s plans to use a new internet protocol which they worry could give the firm a competitive advantage by making it harder for others to access consumer data.

Google has hired Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-OH) chief of staff Friday to serve as its chief lobbyist in Washington, DC.

Sections of a so-called whistleblower’s complaint alleging President Donald Trump was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country” in the 2020 presidential race relies upon a self-described investigative journalism organization bankrolled massively by billionaire activist George Soros.

According to a recent report, the Justice Department is opening an antitrust investigation into the Masters of the Universe at Facebook.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) slammed Google-owned YouTube amid the platform’s contradictory statements on its censorship policies, calling on the platform to allow users to filter lawful content as they see fit instead of imposing top-down bans.

Oracle, considered one of Google’s biggest enemies in Silicon Valley, has reportedly received requests for information on its rival from congressional and state investigators looking into possible antitrust violations by the Masters of the Universe.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter on Tuesday to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging its five commissioners to release the agency’s 2012 report which detailed Google’s anticompetitive policies. 

Tech giant Google will not have to apply Europe’s “right to be forgotten” law globally following a ruling by an E.U. court.

Google pledged to do more to protect the privacy of users of its voice-activated Google Assistant devices, following reports that company contractors listened in on parts of private conversations.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently warned against the dangers of “rushing” into the regulation of AI, a key area for the future growth of his company.

Rachel Bovard, a top conservative leader, told Breitbart News in an interview Sunday that her new organization, the Internet Accountability Project (IAP) will be dedicated to reining in big tech.

Stop Child Predators, an organization that works to protect children from sexual predators, has sent a letter to the  Judiciary and Commerce Committees of both the House and the Senate asking lawmakers to investigate alleged violations of children’s privacy by the Masters of the Universe.

Donald Trump met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the White House. Trump revealed the meeting on Twitter and Facebook after it happened, despite it not being on his public schedule.

Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) green card giveaway for the nation’s biggest tech corporations has been at least temporarily blocked in the U.S. Senate by Sen. David Perdue (R-GA). 

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday that big tech has an “army of swamp creatures” fighting any calls for antitrust investigations and regulation of America’s largest technology companies.

“Corporate America [is] right at the center of Open Borders Inc.,” said Michelle Malkin, referring to a network of interests — financial, ideological, and political — invested in perpetuating the status quo of both legal and illegal immigration.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an antitrust hearing Tuesday featuring witnesses from the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.

Employees from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have announced plans to walk out of their offices as part of a protest over global warming on September 20.

Breitbart Entertainment Editor Jerome Hudson appeared on Fox & Friends Tuesday and revealed that Silicon Valley tech giants like Google are at the heart of election meddling, a fact Hudson reports in his new book, 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know, which Harper Collins released nationwide on September 17.

Breitbart Entertainment Editor Jerome Hudson appeared on Fox & Friends Tuesday to discuss the most explosive facts in his new book, 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know, which Harper Collins released nationwide on September 17. 

TikTok, a mobile app developed in China for sharing short videos, offers an avenue through which the Chinese Communist Party can push propaganda to audiences in America and the broader West. The app is suspected of censoring videos from the ongoing Hong Kong protests based on a complete lack of protests videos when compared to other social media platforms.

Video-hosting platform Vimeo removed three videos from conservative author Dr. Michael Brown, according to a post on Brown’s website.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wrote in an op-ed Sunday that for Americans to protect their privacy, they must “hold big tech accountable.”

The remains of a Florida man who went missing two decades ago have been found in a submerged car that was visible on Google Maps.

CNBC published an article recently taking issue with Google’s argument that the tech giant competes with “lots of companies” in the advertising industry.

A new report claims that Android flashlight apps are requesting a large number of permissions on every install, giving them access to huge amounts of device information. For example, 180 different flashlight apps request access to your contacts list.

Google, Facebook, and Twitter have all reportedly rejected a proposal from Australia’s media regulator to implement an industry code of conduct on fake news. An association representing the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe argue that the rules would make the government “a truth verification body.”

As antitrust investigations into Google heat up, business owners are speaking out against one of the company’s ad practices, known as “conquesting.” Edible Arrangements CEO Tariq Farid says the practice is “killing” business for his franchisees, and Basecamp CEO Jason Fried called the tactic “a shakedown” and “ransom.”

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered Google to allow its employees to speak their minds on political and workplace issue, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. 

Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight this week that Google is largely unaffected by the recent $170 million fine they received from the Federal Trade Commission over charges that they illegally collected and shared data from children on YouTube. According to Paxton, “The FTC fine was pocket change for part of the day for Google.”