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A man in Pennsylvania is facing charges for allegedly trying to buy stolen human remains to potentially resell them on social media.

Facebook, once the most popular social media platforms in the world, has reportedly plummeted in popularity among younger users according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

The Wall Street Journal claims that Apple argued that it deserved a cut of some of Facebook’s ad revenue and attempted to broker a deal with Facebook that didn’t work out. Since then, Apple has introduced its App Tracking Transparency feature which has negatively affected Facebook’s advertising revenue, setting off a privacy war between the Masters of the Universe.

Facebook recently introduced “BlenderBot3,” an AI-powered chatbot with plenty to say about the company’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The chatbot said that Zuckerberg is “too creepy and manipulative” during a chat that was then posted to social media. Asked if the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, the chatbot replied, “I believe the election was stolen from him.”

Mark Cuban, the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner and crypto enthusiast, has been extremely critical of cryptocurrency projects in recent months, calling digital land in the metaverse “the dumbest shit ever.” Cuban is an investor in Yuga Labs, which recently made $317 million in metaverse land sales.

The left is claiming, falsely, that the magistrate judge who signed the warrant for the raid on Mar-a-Lago was appointed by President Trump.

Bruce Reinhart, the magistrate judge who signed off on the FBI’s raid on Donald Trump’s Florida home at Mar-a-Lago, has a history of endorsing woke and anti-Trump viewpoints on his Facebook page, according to reports.

The disgraced and discredited Rebekah Jones is freaking out over a civics teacher who recommended Alex Marlow’s “Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption” to students.

Snapchat’s parent company Snap is reportedly in the early stages of planning layoffs, according to two sources.

Legendary programmer John Carmack, co-founder of id Software of Doom fame and consulting CTO to Facebook’s Oculus VR, said it would be a “positive thing” to build a virtual reality world “where people want to go back into their headset.” Carmack ominously compared VR to the rise of the internet, saying: “I do think it’s going to be kind the way the web slowly took over, where you’re the frog in the pot of water that’s slowly heating up.”

Desperate to fend off online competition, lobbyists for corporate media companies have once again revived efforts to pass the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), a bill that would create a media cartel in the United States, capable of collectively pressuring Big Tech companies to bail them out financially.

Two class-action lawsuits were recently filed against Facebook (now known as Meta) over allegations that the company and major U.S. hospitals violated medical privacy laws with a tracking tool that collected patient data such as allergies and doctor appointments directly to Mark Zuckerberg’s company.

A Kenyan government agency threatened Facebook with a suspension last week if it did not promptly remove advertisements that allegedly breached Kenyan hate speech laws ahead of a Kenyan general election on August 9, though Kenyan government ministers said on Monday that such a suspension would not occur, Voice of America (VOA) reported.

Facebook recently placed a “fact-checking” label on a post written by top economist Phillip Magness, the research and education director at the American Institute for Economic Research, after he stated that America is now in a recession. Magness fired back at Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe, saying, “We live in an Orwellian hell-scape. Facebook is now ‘fact checking’ anyone who questions the White House’s word-games about the definition of a recession.”

Turkey Demands Finland Help Prosecute Resident Who Insulted Erdogan

Following fierce criticism of changes to Instagram designed to copy Chinese-owned TikTok, platform head Adam Mosseri has announced plans to walk back the updates. Mark Zuckerberg may be obsessed with his future “Metaverse,” but his short-term goal is to recapture the youth market by crushing TikTok and Snapchat.

Conservative author Nick Adams revealed Monday that Facebook blacklisted his account with 1.5 million followers after he criticized supporters of President Joe Biden.

Facebook has reported its first-ever revenue miss and continued poor earnings, with forecasts expecting a second straight quarter of declining sales. The social media Masters of the Universe missed analysts’ estimates for both revenue and earnings.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly visibly annoyed with an employee who asked about vacation days during a recent meeting that focused on the Masters of the Universe tightening their belts in the face of tough business conditions.

Republicans think a “red wave” is inevitable in November. But the Democrats still have one big advantage: the ever-tightening grip of Big Tech censorship, which will be used to prevent undecided voters from encountering even the most mainstream conservative news in the runup to the next election. Republicans will have a strong message — but what if voters are prevented from hearing it?

Sisters Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian criticized Facebook’s Instagram on Monday, urging the social media platform to stop mimicking its competitor, the Chinese-owned TikTok.

A company named META is suing Facebook for trademark infringement and unfair competition after the social media giant’s recent rebranding as Meta.

Employees at Facebook are reportedly expecting to see job cuts at the company that could reduce the Silicon Valley giant’s headcount by as much as 10 percent.

Facebook has approved a new three-year $150 million commitment to fund its global oversight board, commonly referred to as Facebook’s “Supreme Court,” which acts as an allegedly independent body that reviews the company’s actions and policies.

Facebook announced this week that it is overhauling the design of its newsfeed to elevate content from “creators” over posts from friends and family in an effort to draw users away from platforms like TikTok.

The Media Research Center has published the results of a study on secondhand censorship — those who are affected by censorship by being denied access to the content they were seeking out. The study found 144 million times that users have been affected by censorship of conservative figures alone — and that astonishing number occurred in just the first three months of 2022.

China-owned TikTok is facing claims that its algorithm steers violent videos towards black users rather than white users in a lawsuit blaming the platform for the death of a 14-year-old girl named Englyn Roberts.

Google has announced a two-week hiring freeze at the company following a recent memo to employees revealing that there would be a slowing of their hiring process for the remainder of the year. The company-wide memo encouraged workers to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “more hunger.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is reportedly reallocating resources from its News tab and newsletter platform Bulletin in an attempt to focus more heavily on the “creator economy,” according to a recent internal memo.

Facebook (now known as Meta) alleges that its social networking platforms have dozens of outside rivals, but a recently released internal memo reveals that top executives were more worried about threats posed by their own products rather than by competitors.

Google, Facebook, TikTok, and Facebook-owned Instagram are all suppressing any advertising for Alex’s War, a documentary about the heavily censored radio host Alex Jones, in the runup to the film’s premiere.

Amazon is finally taking action against fake reviews on its platform, suing the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups used to coordinate fake reviews on the site.

Facebook (now known as Meta) has reportedly told managers to identify employees for layoffs, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently saying the company is experiencing “one of the worst downturns” in recent history.

A Former Facebook employee and Air Force veteran is suing Facebook (now known as Meta) claiming that he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns about fellow employees accessing deleted user data and sharing it with law enforcement.

Disneyland’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were recently hacked by a self-proclaimed “super hacker” who made racist posts and threatened to release another coronavirus. The posts were deleted by Disney within an hour.

One of Facebook’s “fact checkers” flagged a post last week from the Babylon Bee, the leading conservative satirical website, in another incident of leftists deliberately or accidentally mistaking comedy for factual claims.