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Amazon employees complained to CEO Jeff Bezos about the company’s facial recognition contracts with the U.S. government and police, accusing Bezos of aiding “immoral U.S. policy” and providing a list of demands.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced he was in the communist island of Cuba, Thursday, prompting him to come under fire from users of the platform.

A revenge porn bill in New York State, which would have made the distribution of revenge porn punishable by up to a year in prison, was reportedly defeated by Google.

Twitter has remained silent over recent posts from Hollywood actor Peter Fonda which called for President Trump’s son Barron to be put in a cage with pedophiles, the children of ICE agents to be harassed, and United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen to be placed “naked” in a public cage where people can whip her.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly shared nearly 20 tweets from “Russian trolls,” retweeting posts from an account which posed as an African-American woman multiple times.

At least 60 organizations are considering lawsuits against the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), following anti-extremist activist Maajid Nawaz’s victory against the group, which concluded with the SPLC apologizing and paying out over $3 million.

Amazon’s controversial virtual assistant Alexa is being brought to Marriott hotel rooms as part of the company’s “Alexa for Hospitality” program, prompting concerns over guest privacy.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the technology industry’s problems “are out of control,” before warning that no company is too big to regulate, in an article for Fox News, Tuesday.

The 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, which alleged to show the dangerous results of putting individuals into positions of power over others, is reported to have been fake and acted out by participants.

British anti-extremist Muslim Maajid Nawaz celebrated his successful lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after the organization agreed to pay Nawaz $3.3 million for including him on a list of “anti-Muslim extremists.”

Those with an iPhone will soon have their location shared with 911 Dispatchers during an emergency call, according to a report.

Over 400 Washington Post employees signed an open letter asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who also owns the newspaper, for better pay and benefits.

Elliot Schrage, the vice president of communications and public policy at Facebook, apologized for calling a woman “not nice,” which she claimed was an act of sexism, and announced his departure from the company.

Drag queen icon and reality television star RuPaul described drag queens as “the Marines of reality TV” in an opinion piece published by the Hollywood Reporter.

Uber is attempting to patent A.I. technology which would determine whether potential passengers are drunk, to “reduce undesired consequences.”

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown left Twitter this week following a series of memes created by members of the LGBT community which attempted to paint Brown as homophobic.

The alleged killers of a woman who they met on a Tinder date bought tools used for her murder and dismemberment while she was still alive, according to a report.

After patenting eye-tracking technology, Facebook did not rule out user eye-tracking in the future when providing responses to Congress — it instead explained that eye-tracking can “reduce consumer friction.”

Facebook now lets users file complaints against businesses if they had a bad experience after purchasing a product through an advertisement on the platform.

Adam Ford, the creator of Christian satire website the Babylon Bee, published an article warning against the power of Big Tech, explaining how a “small group” of anti-conservatives who control social media nearly destroyed his business.

Sir Elton John called for a social media boycott last week, claiming companies “haven’t done anything” to combat “hate,” and declaring, “Sod your freedom of speech.”

Facebook finally responded to follow-up questions from senators following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s hearing in front of Congress in April, however, the company opted to avoid answering dozens of questions.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai claimed on Sunday that his agency’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order would make the Internet free, open, and fast following the repeal of net neutrality.

Rap superstar Kanye West earned his eighth consecutive number one album on the Billboard 200 chart with his latest best-selling effort “Ye,” after he openly embraced President Donald Trump.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was attacked by a large number of users, including Soledad O’Brien, after he decided to eat at Chick-fil-A during “Pride Month.”

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hosted a flamethrower party on Saturday for customers who had purchased his Boring Company flamethrower for upwards of $500 — as Tesla remains mired in production problems. Those who had purchased the flamethrowers were

David Simon, the television writer and producer who created The Wire and The Deuce, was locked out of his Twitter account after he graphically told a Trump supporter to die — prompting him to tell Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to die too.

Dominant PC gaming platform Steam received mass criticism from social justice news outlets after it announced the platform would end curation and censorship, and become an open market.

Google promised that their artificial intelligence would not be used for weaponry, following criticism over their contract with the Pentagon.

Google has removed the image of an egg from their salad emoji in an effort to make it vegan and promote “inclusion and diversity.”

Amazon has given in to demands from Muslim employees who requested various perks and work changes during Ramadan, which also coincides with Amazon’s biggest sale of the year.

Budweiser will not be sponsoring rapper Jay-Z’s “Made In America” music festival this year, despite previously being a major sponsor, instead opting to spend money sponsoring country music events.

Congress is currently looking into Google’s partnership with Chinese company Huawei, which has been identified as a security risk by six intelligence agencies, according to a report.

Facebook will launch a set of “fully funded” news shows on their platform, including a twice-weekly show from far-left news outlet Mic, and a “nightly show hosted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper,” in an effort to crackdown on “fake news.”

Google will not renew their artificial intelligence contract with the Pentagon, following both internal and external complaints, according to a report.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt met with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the successor to Raul Castro, on Monday to discuss Internet infrastructure on the communist island.