Former U.S. President Barack Obama lost over 2 million followers on Twitter during the platform’s purge of “suspicious” accounts this week, while other celebrities lost hundreds of thousands.
Billionaires from Silicon Valley and the media industry are heading to Idaho for Allen & Co.’s annual “summer camp” get-together this week.
Sensitive U.S. military drone documents are being sold on the dark web for just $150, according to a report.
A Business Insider writer resigned from the company after the site removed her article which argued it is okay for actresses, including Scarlett Johansson, to play transgender characters in movies.
Twitter will purge “tens of millions” of “suspicious” accounts on Thursday, according to a report.
Facebook is being fined £500,000, or around $662,000, in the United Kingdom by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the 1998 Data Protection Act.
Some iPhones crashed after Apple attempted to filter out “Taiwan” and the Taiwanese flag in an attempt to appease the Chinese government, before the bug was fixed.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to Google and Apple on Monday, expressing concern over the treatment of user privacy at both companies.
The Washington Post corrected an article which sourced a post from satirical website ClickHole following mockery online.
Lime, an electric scooter company aimed at adults, has received $335 million in investments from Google and Uber, and the ride-sharing giant will the scooter’s rental into its app.
British anti-Trump activists launched a campaign to push Green Day’s hit 2004 rock song “American Idiot” to the top of the charts, despite the fact that the song was inspired by former president George W. Bush and the Iraq War.
Twitter’s stock dropped more than eight percent on Monday following reports that the social network has been deleting over 1 million fake accounts per day.
The iPhone is the most common “status symbol of wealth,” according to a new research paper.
A former Facebook content censor claims she became “desensitized” to graphic content on the platform, which included child porn featuring children between the ages of nine and twelve.
China Mobile has reportedly been censoring content banned by the Chinese government’s “great firewall,” even when Chinese citizens are in the United States — prompting the FCC to debate its license.
Three YouTube vloggers were killed after they fell over a waterfall in British Columbia, Canada.
A new California law forces companies to let their customers cancel subscriptions online.
EU MEPs Vote Against ‘Meme Censor’ Internet Copyright Law
Facebook removed an excerpt from the U.S. Declaration of Independence, claiming the text violated the social network’s policies on “hate speech.”
A Facebook bug allowed blocked users to send messages to accounts which had blocked them for eight days, before the bug was fixed.
Best Buy has finally stopped selling CDs in its stores due to their declining popularity in the digital age.
People are putting shirts which simulate hugs on their dogs during Fourth of July fireworks displays in an attempt to calm them down.
Samantha Markle, the sister of Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, claimed she would rather slit her own wrists than write a tabloid tell-all book about her sister, during an interview with Breitbart News.
British police are set to expand their facial recognition program, which was recorded as being 98 percent inaccurate in London.
AT&T has been hit with a $5.25 million fine from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over several 911 emergency line outages in 2017.
Facebook shut down a support page for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, claiming the page breached “community guidelines.”
Samantha Markle, the half-sister of Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, compared the media of today to the Salem Witch Trials and claimed journalists had repeatedly put her in danger since the announcement of her sister’s engagement to Prince Harry.
Samantha Markle, the half-sister of the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, called for a British constitution and described the imprisonment of journalist and activist Tommy Robinson as “extreme,” during an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.
Over 20 Silicon Valley venture capital firms have “close ties” to the Chinese government, according to a report.
The Baltimore Police Department’s technology is currently in “chaos,” with police officers using technology that’s over twenty-years-old, with no plans to replace aging equipment, according to a report.
44 employees have accepted a buyout from Gizmodo Media, formerly known as Gawker Media, to avoid layoffs following budget cuts at the company.
An “off-the-record” private discussion group for left-wing journalists, similar to the controversial “JournoList” cabal, has been discovered.
Japanese cybercrime expert and blogger Kenichiro Okamoto was reportedly stabbed and killed after giving a seminar on “how to resolve Internet disputes,” by a man he had argued with online.
Public DNA profiles are being used to lead police investigators to suspected murderers from “cold cases,” with at least four men arrested since April, according to a report.
Orlando, Florida, is currently debating whether to resume testing Amazon’s “Rekognition” facial recognition system in the city, following complaints and an expired contract with the tech company.
Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized the “appalling silence” of people who don’t speak out against the policies of the Trump administration.
Twitter censored a call for bipartisan civility from former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, labeling it as “sensitive content.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) has been criticized for adding “gaming disorder” to their “disease classification manual.”
David Simon, the creator of The Wire, told Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to “die of boils,” for the second time, following his suspension and reinstatement on Twitter for graphically wishing death upon a Trump supporter.
Google engineers refused to make a tool which would win the company military contracts, according to a report.
