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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.