Just hours before Thursday’s Democratic debate in Brooklyn, Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign suspended its Jewish outreach coordinator, Simone Zimmerman, over an expletive-laden Facebook post accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of mass murder.
The New York Times reports it was able to persuade Facebook to shut down six web pages used as “sprawling online arms bazaars” for terrorists and militants, “offering weapons ranging from handguns and grenades to heavy machine guns and guided missiles.”
Numerous complaints have been made by Facebook users after it was discovered that the social network has been hiding people’s messages in a tucked-away “spam” folder, despite some of the messages coming from friends and family.
Some unsettling details have been discovered within the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for virtual headset the Oculus Rift, including points about questionable data collection and creator copyrights.
Cybersecurity leader SecureWorks Corp. may be the first tech IPO filing that actually completes an initial public offering (IPO) in 2016.
Changes to the order in which content will appear in Instagram’s photo feed have sparked a negative reaction from some users, including notable celebrities, who fear it will detract attention and lead to less interaction to their profiles.
There’s a new social network on the block for Muslims who want to use the web and isolate themselves from western values. Muslimface, which models itself after Facebook and Twitter, aims to cocoon its users from “blasphemous” content.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has spoken out against the “fear and distrust” caused by recent Islamist terror attacks and has called for more “love” as a means of stopping them.
Facebook’s Safety Check tool malfunctioned after it was activated to allow people to confirm their safety following the deadly terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday.
Facebook has denied racially profiling its users, insisting that it’s simply collecting and using data “about ethnic activities and interests.”
In the wake of the tragic Brussels terrorist attacks, Facebook has activated their “Safety Check” feature.
Twitter celebrated its 10-year anniversary on March 21 with a perfect record of losing money every quarter. The company has rung-up over $2 billion in losses for the decade.
After a spectacular failure in India, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg landed a rare meeting with China’s propaganda czar Liu Yunshan while in Beijing to attend the China Development Forum.
A Muslim pizzeria owner in upstate New York, who admitted to law enforcement that he tried to recruit jihadists for the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison and 27 years of supervised release, U.S. officials have announced.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a rare meeting with China’s propaganda chief, at a time when Chinese authorities are tightening control over their cyberspace.
As of late I have been repeatedly warned and blocked on Facebook for my reportage about violent and stealthy jihad activity, sharia oppression of women and non-Muslims, and my other activity for human rights. Whether it is a concerted effort
Social media analytics firm NewsWhip reports Breitbart News was the 14th largest Facebook publisher in the world for January 2016, ahead of Yahoo, The Hill, and MTV.
A Turkish court has issued a gag order, banning Facebook, Twitter, and other social media outlets following a bombing in the capital, Ankara, which killed 37 people and injured dozens others.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a coalition of tech and business leaders are joining the administration’s call for the Supreme Court to “unfreeze” President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive-amnesty programs.
A meme meant to demonstrate socialism’s flawed philosophy is going mega viral online. The pictured posted on Robert Mcclary’s Facebook page shows a Bernie Sanders for president yard sign that has been cut in half with a message attached.
On hate speech, social media companies are enthusiastically liking, retweeting, and faving national governments. In December, the German government announced that they had secured the co-operation of Facebook, Google and Twitter in removing “hate speech” from their platforms. A wave
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Facebook’s “Like” button violates German and European privacy laws in a case brought by a consumer group against an online shopping site which relied on the user recommendation feature, a Dusseldorf regional court said on Wednesday.
The latest billionaire buffoon is Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook. Having noticed that Jack Dorsey is out-doing him in the realm of leftist political whackery, the social media kingpin has begun to wear his progressivism on his sleeves. Facebook’s users — far more numerous than Twitter’s — are sure to suffer.
The big websites, just like the big networks, engage in a bidding war over broadcast rights to NFL games.
Facebook is planning to award up to £280 million ($369 million) in UK staff bonuses to reduce the amount of tax they are forced to pay to the British Treasury, a Sunday Times investigation has revealed.
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump has vowed to use social media to fight against entrenched elites in politics and the media. In a series of tweets that appeared to respond to news that establishment Republican donors were planning to launch a barrage
SYRACUSE, N.Y., March 4 (UPI) — A New York man who says he was conceived at a local radio station’s music festival is seeking his biological father through Facebook.
This afternoon, I had the opportunity to attend a press briefing at Donald Trump’s future residence, the White House. There, if I’m not mistaken, the current Press Secretary advised me to sue Twitter. I wanted to find out if the
In Friday afternoon’s White House Press Briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos that President Obama “would be the first one to observe that the success of … social media and some of those social media tools is in fact predicated on the idea of freedom of expression.”
Dilma Rousseff’s government arrested the top Latin America Facebook executive for not surreptitiously archiving messages on WhatsApp.
Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos was at the White House on Friday, where he asked Press Secretary Josh Earnest a range of questions on topics from free speech to the political bias of social media companies.
LONDON (AP) — Social media giant Facebook, which has been under fire in Britain for its tax arrangements, says it will stop routing its British sales through Ireland – a practice that had kept its U.K. tax bill extremely low.
Despite grovelling efforts by Facebook to appease Germany over “online hate speech” against migrants, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being taken to court in the country. A €150m lawsuit recently filed by two German lawyers accuses Zuckerberg and Facebook of violating the country’s anti-Nazi and anti-hate speech laws.
(Associated Press) — A Facebook executive detained for refusing to give law enforcement information about users of the WhatsApp message service was released from jail on Wednesday, part of a tussle between authorities and technology companies that recalls the U.S. dispute between Apple and the FBI.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is deeply, deeply troubled by the fact that people are writing “All Lives Matter” on Facebook’s headquarters wall.
With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others.
An absurd conspiracy theory regarding the fate of child beauty pageant star JonBenét Ramsey is making its way around the web this week.
Mark Zuckerberg praised Germany for their “inspiring” refugee policies during a visit to the country and reiterated his commitment to combating “hate speech” on Facebook.
This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg scolded “malicious” employees for crossing out and replacing the phrase “Black Lives Matter” with “All Lives Matter” on a wall at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters.