Breitbart News previously reported that Facebook had set up a “war room” to prepare for the upcoming midterm elections, now the mainstream media has been given an inside look at the company’s command center for controlling information ahead of the election.
Facebook’s recently announced home assistant, Portal, can collect video call data to use for targeted advertisements — despite being marketed as “private by design” — according to a spokesman.
A new lawsuit filing alleges that Facebook purposefully inflated the time spent watching videos on its platform by 150 percent to 900 percent to mislead advertisers and inflate advertising rates.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” former Facebook engineer Brian Amerige said he left the company because “there is a vocal minority inside Facebook that is belligerent beyond belief in a quest, I think, to implement social justice policies.” Amerige
Facebook blacklisted the conservative news page run by disabled Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage with no warning or explanation — after he reportedly spent more than $300,000 on Facebook advertising.
Four Indonesians were arrested for selling babies on the Facebook-owned social media network Instagram, where a baby-selling account managed to gain hundreds of followers.
Facebook will ban election “misinformation” ahead of the midterms this year, including satirical posts which claim people can vote via text message.
Democrats and leftists are being mocked by a new series of memes depicting them as unthinking and reflexive automatons. The revent memetic trend frames its targets as non-player characters (NPCs) who reflexively express neo-Marxist axioms in response to varying stimuli. NPCs are fictional characters in video games with limited scripted responses given the parameters of any game(s) in which they appear.
Facebook has started blocking links to free speech-based competitor Minds, claiming the website is “unsecure” and advising users not to promote it.
Brian Amerige, a Facebook engineer who made headlines after he and more than one hundred other employees stood up to the company’s “intolerant” left-wing culture, has left Facebook.
In an effort to fight “fake news” before the November midterm elections, Facebook has shut down over 800 accounts and pages accused of spreading “misinformation,” including many conservative pages, some with millions of followers.
Christie-Lee McNally, executive director of Free Our Internet, warned of large technology companies’ procurement of political influence via lobbying efforts in Washington, DC.
Following multiple hearings related to Facebook’s user data breach scandal involving the data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica, E.U. MEPs have called for an audit of the social media company and an overhaul of E.U. competition law.
Israel staged 9/11, the London bombings and the Paris terrorist attacks, according to social media posts attributed to a rising Labour party star who is personally endorsed by leader Jeremy Corbyn.
‘The Good Censor’ is the name of an internal briefing leaked by Google employees which admits a ‘shift towards censorship.’
The briefing acknowledged that concerns about free speech on the internet, initially conveyed at Breitbart News, have gone mainstream.
Following a report that Google failed to notify hundreds of thousands of users that their personal information may have been exposed by a data breach, the tech giant has shut down its Google+ social media platform.
Facebook has announced a new smart speaker and camera product in an attempt to compete with Amazon’s Alexa device and Google Home in observing its owner’s every move.
Free Speech Platform Gab.com has reportedly had its payment processing services shut off by Stripe — but will be switching to a new payment processor very soon.
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, issued a company memo about its future which was leaked this week.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has come under fire recently due to a top Facebook global policy executive’s decision to support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and appear at his hearing. One prominent executive claims Facebook is an “apolitical” company.
A Facebook “bug” last month made it impossible for some users to delete their accounts until it was fixed this week.
Facebook has been blocking gay-themed advertisements from running on its platform, categorizing them as “political,” according to a report.
Facebook is forcing users to wait twice as long to delete their accounts following a recent update.
Facebook has restored a comedy sketch video about how the mainstream media sacrifices facts for narratives, following a Breitbart Tech report on the video’s blacklisting. The social media claims the removal was an error, telling comedy group DWECK “We’re sorry we got this wrong.”
Protesters at the University of Texas surrounded students supporting Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday, shouting obscenities and destroying signs expressing support of the judge.
A woman is suing Facebook for allegedly enabling underage sex trafficking after she was raped and trafficked at age 15 by a man who added her as a “friend” on the social network.
Tech giant Google and social media giant Facebook are reportedly teaming up to develop new artificial intelligence technology.
The Irish Data Protection Commission announced Wednesday the launch of an investigation into Facebook over a recent data breach that allowed access to 90 million accounts worldwide.
A Wikipedia discussion has been opened on having Breitbart News formally “deprecated” as a source, meaning it could not be treated as a “reliable” source. The discussion has seen overwhelming numbers of left-wing editors showing up to support the ban, citing the example of a similar ban on The Daily Mail imposed early last year.
The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, suggested consumers “don’t believe” tech companies that claim they need access to users’ data. He called the claim made by other Silicon Valley companies that they need data to improve services is “a bunch of bunk.”
Facebook VP Carolyn Everson stated during a recent panel that Facebook’s latest user data leak was “sophisticated” and hackers would have had to know about three different Facebook bugs to pull it off.
Chris Britt, a Creators Syndicate editorial cartoonist, published a cartoon during the weekend that mocked Brett Kavanaugh’s young daughter for praying.
President Donald Trump may meet with top executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter in October, according to the White House.
Facebook has blacklisted a comedy sketch video about how the mainstream media twists stories to fit their own narrative, claiming the video is “hate speech.”
