Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Regret’ Thinking that Facebook Changing the Election Was ‘Crazy’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret at previously thinking that claims misinformation on his platform changed the election were “crazy.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret at previously thinking that claims misinformation on his platform changed the election were “crazy.”

A display model version of Samantha, a popular high-tech sex robot, was damaged and “heavily soiled” by various men during a tech conference in Barcelona, Spain, this month, according to a report.

An Australian author who falsely claimed to have beaten cancer through healthy eating has been fined over 400,000 Australian dollars ($300,000) for “misleading” customers about charitable donations, according to a report.

Russia has threatened to ban Facebook in 2018 if they fail “to comply with local data storage laws,” according to a report.

NASA and Russia’s space agency Roscosmos announced their collaboration on a moon-orbiting spaceport project on Wednesday.

Twitter has doubled the allowed amount of characters in posts from 140 to 280, rolling out the new update to select accounts.

Websites owned by CBS subsidiary Showtime secretly used viewers’ web browsers to mine cryptocurrency over the weekend, according to a report.

After a journalist asked Tinder to send her all the personal data that the company had stored on her, she received 800 pages of information, according to a report.

An executive editor at the Huffington Post attacked singer and actress Demi Lovato last week for refusing to talk about her sexuality in public.

Theryn Meyer, a popular transgender commentator and anti-SJW activist, has been permanently suspended from Twitter.

GoFundMe has reportedly removed the account of the Glazov Gang, who were raising funds for an anti-Sharia law tour and their conservative web show.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit against the state of Michigan for giving adoption agencies the right to deny adoption to same-sex couples, according to a report.

Equifax accidentally encouraged people to use the wrong website to check if their personal information was included in a massive security breach on numerous occasions.

Google’s head of artificial intelligence indirectly shot back at Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk this week over his claims that A.I. will cause World War 3.

Despite the fact that search engines such as Google keep user search data for long periods of time, the data retention does not improve search result quality, according to a report.

Twitter suspended nearly 300,000 terrorist-linked accounts in the first half of 2017, according to a report.

A founding member of Google’s security team claimed no one is safe from cyber attacks this week during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2017 conference.

Four million British private sector jobs could be replaced by robots within ten years, according to a report.

A Florida college student has been arrested for making bomb threats against Stetson University on Snapchat, according to a report.

FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly “now in possession of Russian-linked ads run on Facebook during the presidential election,” which he obtained with a search warrant. According to CNN, “Facebook gave Mueller and his team copies of ads and

The UK Electoral Commission has suggested banning internet trolls from being able to vote in elections, according to a report.

Twitter has suspended the account of right-libertarian trans commentator Michelle Catlin.

Gab, a free speech-orientated social network, has been given five days to change domain services from its provider Asia Registry, who claimed their domain will otherwise be terminated.

A terrorist plan to attack gay nightclubs in Paris, France, was foiled by French police this year, according to a report.

Instagram removed a picture of a young boy with a facial deformity for violating the platform’s “guidelines,” according to a report.

Facebook has been allowing advertisers to target advertisements towards anti-Semitic users, according to a report.

Gab, the free speech social network, has filed a lawsuit against Google after they were suspended without warning from Google’s Play Store last month.

The full lineup of former Breitbart News Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ Free Speech Week at UC Berkeley has been revealed.

A professor and the director of InHealth Associates have claimed that Google’s depression diagnosis tool “is driving people quicker down the path to big pharma.”

Pharmaceutical entrepreneur and troll icon Martin Shkreli was jailed on Wednesday for making a post on Facebook offering $5,000 to anyone who could get him a lock of Hillary Clinton’s hair.

Popular dating service OkCupid has partnered with Planned Parenthood to “enable daters to find folks who support” the abortion provider.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared to misinterpret the message behind George Orwell’s 1984 in her new book What Happened.

UC Berkeley has threatened former Breitbart Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ Free Speech Week, which is due to take place at the college later this month, claiming organizers haven’t “completed the critical steps” to host the event.

Maureen Ohlhausen, the current chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, dismissed concerns over Silicon Valley monopolies, Tuesday, citing the rise and fall of AOL.

Popular LGBT groups GLAAD and The Human Rights Campaign are attacking the scientific researchers who created A.I. that can detect whether a person is gay or straight from photos.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on Tuesday that a staffer using his Twitter account “liked” a clip from a hardcore porn video on the social media platform by accident.

Samantha, a high-tech sex robot available to the public, appeared on Australian network ITV’s This Morning on Tuesday, with her owner.

An online chatbot which was originally created to help users overturn parking tickets could be used by those affected by the Equifax data breach to help sue the company for up to $25,000.

Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan has claimed that a “big number” of his employees will be replaced by robots eventually.

YouTube’s algorithms, which are used to censor and demonetize videos on the platform, are killing its creators, according to a report.
