China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday relayed a mocking “warm welcome” from Chinese social media users to former U.S. President Donald Trump, inviting him to join China’s heavily-censored Weibo microblogging platform now that he has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and Twitter.
Tech giant Facebook has recently unveiled plans to develop its own city. Mark Zuckerberg’s company town will include more than 1,700 apartments, a hotel, restaurants, and other businesses not far from the company’s Silicon Valley campus.
A Maine Democrat is facing a call for her resignation after posting a comment on Facebook that specifically tore into “straight white men.”
Appearing Thursday on Newsmax’s Wake up America, Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance expressed support for former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Big Tech giants, stating the time has come for conservatives to “push back against the censorship regime.”
Facebook failed to transfer a key exception to its rules on censoring discussion about “dangerous individuals” to an new system, leading to the guidelines effectively being “lost” for two years, according to an investigation from the company’s quasi-independent “oversight board.”
A coalition of privacy-focused tech companies including DuckDuckGo, Vivaldi, and the company behind Protonmail have called for a ban on targeted “surveillance-based” advertising.
A recent report from the New York Times claims that the relationship between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg has become tense over the past few years. As the relationship has deteriorated, Zuckerberg has reportedly taken power away from Sandberg, who he once trusted with greater authority.
MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade said on Wednesday on “Katy Tur Reports” that former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit challenging his Twitter and Facebook bans were “dead on arrival.”
The government of Hong Kong on Wednesday objected to U.S. media reports that several large tech companies are threatening to pull out of Hong Kong over new laws that would criminalize “doxxing,” the malicious exposure of private data, and hold platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google liable for allowing the activity.
Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “National Report,” Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz reacted to former President Donald Trump announcing a class action lawsuit against Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
An elite annual invite-only conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, organized by the investment bank Allen & Company is taking place this week, with the guest list including billionaires and powerbrokers from the Big Tech Masters of the Universe and the media such as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Disney CEO Bob Iger, CNN host Anderson Cooper, Patriots Owner Robert Kraft, and possibly Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The estimated wealth of attendees tops $588 billion this year.
Former President Donald Trump is expected to announce a class action lawsuit against Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, will sue Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook founder at CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a class-action lawsuit, according to a report in Axios.
Facebook, Twitter, and Google have reportedly warned the Hong Kong government that they may stop offering their services in the city if Hong Kong authorities proceed with implementing data-protection laws seeking to combat doxing.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg chose a hovering electric hydrofoil, the U.S. flag and a John Denver “Take Me Home, Country Roads” soundtrack to underline his everyday, all American boy self-regard on July 4. As you do.
After a federal judge overturned a Florida law that attempted to rein in the Big Tech Masters of the Universe, State Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R) says Big Tech companies should be regulated like common carriers in the Sunshine State, a categorization that would be difficult to shoot down in court.
With their brands in tatters and public trust declining, the Big Tech Masters of the Universe are using small businesses to push their agenda in Washington DC, according to a new report from a left-wing think tank.
Facebook is reportedly altering its popular photo-sharing service Instagram to more closely resemble the megapopular Chinese app TikTok.
Facebook has reportedly begun serving a prompt to some users, seemingly primarily conservatives, asking them if they are worried that they — or someone they know — might be becoming an “extremist.”
Continuing its ongoing efforts to clone every single other digital service available, Facebook announced on Tuesday that it would be rolling out its own version of a newsletter subscription service called Bulletin. The new Facebook offering is an attempt to crush the popular newsletter service Substack.
A ban for discussing propaganda could only be down to either “very thick people” or an algorithm at Facebook, says a UK professor.
Axios is blaming a drop in traffic for publishers — particularly news publishers that are open about their partisan slant — on a “boring news cycle,” but the decline also follows Facebook’s decision to reduce the amount of political content in users’ news feeds.
J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, joined Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow for a wide-ranging interview Monday addressing the leftist frameworks of “critical race theory” and “white privilege,” growing consolidation of power within multinational corporations, and the political establishment’s neglect of working-class Americans.
A D.C. federal court dismissed two antitrust cases brought against Facebook last year in a huge setback for federal and state regulators. The company’s total stock value soared past $1 trillion after the ruling.
The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Facebook is not a “lawless no-man’s-land,” and can be held liable for sex traffickers using its platform to prey on children.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday night released a “framework” he argued to House Republicans would help rein in Big Tech companies from engaging in censorship and silencing of conservatives.
A number of emails seen by CNN — which uses them to make the case that the platform isn’t censoring enough — show that the Biden campaign repeatedly pressured Facebook to censor posts from the Trump campaign and its supporters about election integrity.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Friday called on Dr. Anthony Fauci to “step aside” as more Americans grow to believe the Chinese coronavirus originated in a lab.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher blasted Google and Facebook for suppressing the theory that COVID-19 came from a lab, and criticized Google for admitting it tries to steer users to the CDC and World Health
Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple, and Google are waging a massive lobbying offensive in Washington DC to halt the passage of major antitrust legislation.
Australia’s competition watchdog is reportedly investigating a claim that Facebook has refused a publisher’s request to negotiate a licensing deal, the first major test of the country’s recently passed that that forces the Masters of the Universe to negotiate payment deals with news publishers.
Conservative filmmaker Margaret VandenBerghe, who was banned from Instagram last week, has been reinstated on the Facebook-owned platform following coverage from Breitbart News.
The first VR game developer to agree to take part in Facebook’s new VR ads integration has reportedly back out of the deal based on intense consumer backlash.
The social media website Minds, which focuses on free expression and privacy, has raised $10 million from tech freedom organization Futo to develop a decentralized and encrypted app.
Facebook is launching a podcast and live audio streaming service on its platform in the U.S. this week as it aims to compete with Twitter’s new Spaces feature and the popular app Clubhouse.
Amazon has blamed social media companies for its own failure to remove rampant fake reviews from its website, claiming that “bad actors” turn to social networks to buy and sell fake product reviews.
The antitrust subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee recently released five highly anticipated bills aimed at curbing the power of the Big Tech companies. The House is currently under the control of the Democrats, but these bills have been pitched as a bipartisan effort, led by subcommittee chairman Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) and ranking member Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO).
Social media and online advertising giant Facebook is constantly inventing new ways to deliver ads to users, this time placing them inside its Oculus Quest virtual reality system.
A push poll released Wednesday, paid for by an establishment media-funded nonprofit designed to hype a Big Media cartel protection bill given the misleading name of the Journalism Competition and Protection Act (JCPA) by its sponsors, purports to show a majority of Republican voters back the legislation.
Facebook has announced a new AI research project that can mimic and alter the text style in a photo just by looking at one example word. The technology is reminiscent of “deep fake” AI used to create fake videos.