Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reprimanded employees for replacing “Black Lives Matter” slogans with “All Lives Matter” on the walls of the company’s headquarters in San Francisco.
Foreign Desk News reported on Wednesday that Syrian jihadis have been using Facebook as a marketplace to “buy, sell and barter a wide variety of American-made weapons and munitions ranging from rocket launchers to machine guns.” Shortly after this report was posted, Facebook administrators took the page down.
Facebook has unveiled a new form of post interaction, as new “Reaction” buttons have been added alongside the traditional “Like” button.
Want to know what you spirit animal is? So do hackers, apparently. WFLA.com reports that hackers have been using seemingly harmless Facebook questionnaires to harvest data about you and your preferences.
TEL AVIV – Hamas police on Tuesday arrested a government official who openly criticized the Islamist movement’s decision to buy new vehicles for its leaders. As Breitbart Jerusalem reported last week, the decision to buy 36 new cars for Hamas’ top officials during
The Times of Israel reports: A billboard in Chicago calling for a boycott of Israel will be removed following a public outcry. Lamar Advertising, which leases billboards throughout the country, announced in a Facebook post on Friday that it would
Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos appeared on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM Patriot Ch. 125 this morning and discussed authoritarian action by progressives at social media companies like Facebook and Twitter.
JAFFA, Israel – The administrator of a popular Facebook page has been arrested by Egyptian police after claiming that a third of the country’s women are ready to cheat on their husbands. Taymur Alsabqi, administrator of the very popular page
Sweden’s second largest newspaper – Dagens Nyheter – has claimed that Facebook must address concerns about sexist, homophobic and xenophobic content, and that the social media site must actively work to censor comments from users that fall under the broad
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai warned about the erosion of free speech in an interview with the Washington Examiner on Tuesday, making a crucial point about how a generation comfortable with thuggish intimidation on campuses and the Internet will have a weak immune system against the virus of official censorship. Liberty is a habit, which Pai perceptively warned we are losing.
Police have arrested a 40-year old man in Scotland over a number of allegedly “offensive” Facebook posts about refugees.
TEL AVIV – The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Monday called on governments around the world to compel social media giants like Facebook and Google to combat anti-Semitism by blocking content that contains incitement to violence. Speaking at the annual gathering
A big chunk of the world is cheering the fact that India was gutsy enough to shut down Facebook’s “Free Basics,” because even the poor can recognize corporate digital colonialism.
Breitbart Tech’s Milo Yiannopoulos blasted social media giants Twitter and Facebook for “Orwellian” censorship of their users–the latter in concert with governments, like in Germany–on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Saturday hosted by Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow.
Speaking with host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily, Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos discussed the suppression of conservative voices by Twitter on the social media platform.
A British Airbnb host refused to rent an apartment to an Israeli traveller on the basis that Israelis don’t respect “basic human rights.” Tel Aviv photographer Ben Kelmer reserved a £60-a-night apartment for a week in March through the online company,
Legendary Bay Area guitarist Carlos Santana addressed an open letter to the NFL on his Facebook page Tuesday, criticizing the organization for its decision to forgo local bands for the Super Bowl 50 halftime show, and opting to go with the British band Coldplay instead.
Yelp! stock became the latest Silicon Valley darling in the week before Valentine’s Day to tank by double-digits, as big investors retaliated for the 50 percent stock drop since December by forcing the company’s CFO to resign.
Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla have produced a video in celebration of the Lunar New Year, announcing their baby’s Chinese name and cozying up to a market that isn’t India.
As Twitter’s users threatened a mass revolt, CEO Jack Dorsey said the company will not be making any changes to the site’s timeline feature. At least not this week, anyway.
Moazzam Begg, the former Guantanamo Bay detainee and chairman of the ex-Gitmo detainees group CAGE, has advised British Muslims to train themselves in martial arts and “self defence” in preparation for inter-religious conflict in Britain. He told his followers on Facebook: “My
A Chicago teenager has been arrested and accused of torturing an animal after he posted a video on Facebook showing him allegedly pouring boiling water on a cat. After the video went viral on Tuesday, February 2, Chicago Police arrested
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and Iran’s mullahs have taken to Twitter and Instagram, respectively, for recruitment.
Free speech is under assault — not only in repressive dictatorships suddenly able to influence global conversations through the Internet, but across the Western world, and even in the American bastion of free expression. Absolute protection for speech as an inalienable right has given way to bitter squabbling over how much free expression should be sacrificed for various, ostensibly noble goals, and who the censors will be.
From the Gatestone Institute: It was only a few weeks ago that Facebook was forced to back down when caught permitting anti-Israel postings, but censoring equivalent anti-Palestinian postings. Now one of the most sinister stories of the past year was
German Klimenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “Internet adviser,” is considering a “technology tax” on Internet giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook to create “more equal working conditions” with Russian tech companies.
California’s Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is buying Facebook ads to promote his campaign for governor–nearly three years before the 2018 general election.
Breitbart News reported on January 30 that Facebook and Instagram were tightening their anti-gun policies by barring private citizens from advertising gun sales on the social media platforms.
On January 29 Facebook announced a broadening of its anti-gun policies to include prohibiting private citizens from advertising gun sales.
Facebook’s stock jumped by 15.5 percent, or $35.3 billion, after the company announced it now has over 1 billion daily users on average, and control half of all social media accounts on the planet.
The desperation plays keep coming from Twitter, including a new marketing executive, while also promising to hide her marketing efforts from “elite” users of the platform.
Russian MP Oleg Nilov of the Fair Russia Party wants the government to have the ability to shut off the internet in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) regions across Syria and Iraq.
GOP presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, the winner of the 2012 Iowa caucus, blasted the media because of a USA Today article that suggested he was thinking about exiting the 2016 race. Santorum said that from the start of the campaign “[the media] decided that we’re not worthy of them.”
We’ve all heard the phrase “kill them with kindness,” but Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg honestly believes that users of the social media site can “like” terrorism out of existence.
Islamic State supporters have explored a variety of social media tools for distributing propaganda and coordinating their efforts, most recently the Telegram app — whose owners originally refused to take action against ISIS accounts because they wanted their platform totally free of government interference but changed their stance after the Paris massacre and began blocking ISIS-related channels.
Pakistan has unblocked popular social media site YouTube after three years, but only because the site provided the government with a version it can censor.
A few weeks ago I accidentally found myself surrounded by millennial college students. I was walking by the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. after the Georgetown vs. UNC-Wilmington basketball game when I overheard a group of millennials talking.
A friend of mine whose parents grew up in East Germany once told me that the Stasi would have loved Facebook.
(Reuters) — Facebook Inc (FB.O) began a Europe-wide campaign on Monday to thwart extremist posts on social media, after German politicians in particular raised concerns about a rise in xenophobic comments linked to an influx of refugees.
An Israeli NGO launched a crowdfunding campaign on Sunday asking for donations toward posting billboards near the home of Mark Zuckerberg in protest of the policy of allowing Palestinian incitement on Facebook. In a YouTube video, Shurat Hadin-Israel Law Center blasted Zuckerberg
