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When Osseo Gun Club & Pro Shop reached out to Comcast to run commercials for “family night” at their gun range, they were told they could only run the commercials if they did not use the word “gun” and if they removed the phrase “family night.” At the same time, Facebook informed Chris Williamson—owner of Osseo Gun Club & Pro Shop—that they would not let him put up posts on the “family night” event because his business sells guns.

On the whole, the candidates’ websites seemed surprisingly timid, even backward, as if the designers were primarily afraid of (a) soaking up too much bandwidth from visitors, and (b) leaving some important scrap of text off the main screen, for fear that visitors would explore no further. These are both very last-generation concerns. Seriously, folks, it’s 2015. A dash of animation, such as Fiorina and Chris Christie offer, will not cause anyone’s computer to chug.

Facebook has blocked a Christian-themed advertisement for violating its speech rules

A 7th grade Texas middle school assignment that went viral on social media this week was determined to be fake. The storyline generated about students taking an allegedly invasive student survey was not true — it did not happen.

Saying he was “sick of political correctness gone amuck,” an Oklahoma state representative posted the words “anchor baby” to his Facebook page 32 times in a row in order to make a statement.

As much as global financial concerns are going to hit tech companies harder than other sorts of enterprise, so too will their own lack of ambition. The ugly truth is that Silicon Valley has largely given up trying to fix big problems and has retreated into photo-sharing apps and productivity tools.

Detectives allegedly discovered more than 26,000 pages of conversations and texts between a 19-year-0ld Pico Rivera man and 21 underage Hispanic girls in multiple states.

Amazon views its work environments as a tough response to slack conditions elsewhere in the labor force, encouraging excellence and superior effort from its workers by setting standards it proudly describes as “unreasonably high.” Many horrified readers thought the NYT article described brutally exploitative conditions covered by corporate happy-talk about achievement.

Social networking website Facebook has apologised to the nationalist Britain First group after removing a critical post about ISIS involving a roll of toilet paper made up of the black flag used by the terrorist group. Earlier this week, Britain

In the immigration plan he released Sunday, Donald Trump slammed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for making the path easier for immigrants to land jobs at high-tech firms.

The New York Times caused a stir in Silicon Valley with a viral article claiming that Amazon.com brutally exploits its white collar workers with unforgiving management practices. The investigation caused such an outcry that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos personally responded with an email to employees assuring them that “callous” management practices wouldn’t be tolerated.

On Friday, a black woman from East Point, Georgia who used a Facebook pseudonym to post threats of killing “at least 15” white policemen was indicted on charges of making terroristic threats and inciting a riot.

Silicon Valley often gets knocked for a lack of diversity, but historically excluded groups are making an impressive showing at the top spot of the most valuable companies. Just looking at the top ten companies based in Silicon Valley by NASDAQ market cap, 40% are run by someone who is a woman, an immigrant, or non-white. By individual demographics, 20% are women, and 30% are foreign-born.

One young mother near Philadelphia decided to pose online breastfeeding two boys, but only one of them was her son.

The top social media moment during the first GOP primary debate was between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on their disagreement over the NSA and the Patriot Act, according to Facebook.

CLEVELAND, Ohio: The first GOP presidential primary debate hosted by Fox News and Facebook takes place on Thursday, but ahead of the debate Facebook broke down the key political and policy issues voters are talking about on the social media website.

CLEVELAND, Ohio: Several of the GOP presidential candidates have posted on Facebook a question they would like to hear fellow candidates answer during Thursday’s Fox News debate.

The FBI on Monday announced terrorism charges against 23-year-old Harlem Suarez of Key West, Florida, who portrayed himself online as a member of ISIS and allegedly wanted to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil. Toward this end, law

On Thursday, Facebook Inc., unsatisfied with its global access, announced it has built a full-scale drone to fly between 60,000 feet above ground at night and 90,000 feet during the day to allow the entire world to use Facebook.

“Gay” emojis may be banned in Russia if the government finds that they violate the country’s infamous “gay propaganda” law.

Users on social networking site Facebook can now proclaim themselves “allosexuelle”, “transkvinde” and “lesboflexible” as the site rolls out a vast array of alternative ‘genders’ across eight different languages, with more likely to follow. Breitbart London has already reported that

Facebook has announced a new gender-neutral pronoun for its Swedish language version to coincide with the start of the biggest gay pride festival in Scandinavia. English-language users can already select a “custom” gender, giving them up to 71 options including

Hours before they were scheduled to be put down, two dogs at an animal shelter in Georgia were spared after an image of them hugging made its rounds online.

Intel, one of the nations largest technology corporations, has delivered a stern message to their workers: You’re not good enough.

An Australian woman living in Abu Dhabi has been imprisoned, fined and deported, all for posting a picture of a badly parked car on Facebook. Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has said that this is not the first time Australian

“I believe that at its heart, America is a nation of second chances, and I believe these folks deserve their second chance,” he said, suggesting that a life sentence for non-violent drug offenders were “not hardened criminals” and didn’t deserve overly harsh prison sentences.

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina posted a video on Facebook reacting to Hillary Clinton’s speech on her economy proposals – saying Clinton’s speech was filled with “a bundle of contradictions.”

A 17-year-old Connecticut girl has been found safe in Morocco after jetting off to the country to meet her Facebook boyfriend, police announced Friday.

A group of Evangelical Christians have created a “sin free” social network that filters out swearing and erotic content. Faceglória has attracted 100,000 members since it was launched last month and its creators have big plans for the future. Based

Early Facebook investor and Paypal billionaire Peter Thiel revealed two key pieces of advice he gives aspiring entrepreneurs and investors this week at the Atlantic Aspen Ideas Festival.

Star Trek star George Takei apologized Friday for calling Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas a “clown in blackface” in remarks he made after the Court’s ruling to legalize same-sex marriage last week.

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education (USED), under Secretary Arne Duncan, posted an image of its logo that incorporated a rainbow to show its support for the contentious ruling.

The Internet’s biggest companies celebrated Saturday after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling Friday making same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states.

Followers of Barack Obama’s White House social media accounts got an extra treat Friday after the Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

The world’s biggest online social network knocked the world’s largest retailer out of the top 10 list of the highest-valued companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index on Monday and the gap widened on Tuesday.

Pope Francis tackles more than just dirty air and polluted rivers in his new encyclical on the environment. He also warns that a society dominated by media and Internet can stifle human relationships and dull the mind, a syndrome he refers to as “mental pollution.”