The Wall Street Journal reports that Google’s 200,000 employees will continue to work from home another full year to prevent the spread of the Chinese virus. Other Silicon Valley companies, such as Twitter and Facebook, have already begun to explore remote working options.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Bill Hagerty, former U.S. ambassador to Japan and current GOP frontrunner for U.S. Senate in Tennessee, told Breitbart News exclusively that they believe Google’s “monopoly power” is a threat to Americans.
A 37-year-old man in southern India livestreamed his suicide on Facebook, the Times of India (TOI) reported Friday.
A House Judiciary Committee antitrust hearing with Big Tech CEOs is likely postponed to the week of August 3, according to a report on Thursday.
A recent study published by the Pew Research Center states that the majority of Americans surveyed believe that social media firms wield too much power in the world of politics. 72 percent of Americans believe companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter are too powerful, including 63 percent of Democrats.
A bizarre hostage standoff in Ukraine ended after 11 hours on Tuesday night when the “unstable” and heavily-armed suspect surrendered, in part because one of his demands was met: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to post a video message recommending viewers watch a 2005 movie about animal rights narrated by Joker star Joaquin Phoenix.
Facebook has added “voting information” labels to multiple posts from President Donald Trump this week, and the same label to a single post from Joe Biden.
Social media giant Facebook is reportedly forming new internal teams to study the algorithms that power both its social network and Instagram to determine if they are racially biased.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos added $13 billion to his net worth on Monday marking the biggest single-day jump for an individual since the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was launched in 2012.
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile temporarily shut down President Donald Trump’s campaign texting program, which serves as a cornerstone of the president’s digital platform.
In a recent report, NBC News detailed how the Child Protection System helps police to track down suspects in child pornography cases. The Internet tool is provided to law enforcement agencies in all 50 states at no cost thanks to a non-profit organization named the Child Rescue Coalition.
Publicly shaming tech companies, Pence said, is a key weapon in the fight against censorship.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg blasted the Trump administration while vigorously defending Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Centers for Disease Control during an interview with Fauci himself in which the Silicon Valley billionaire also promoted the use of masks.
A recent report from the New York Times alleges that when promoting video clips on its platform, Google gives a secret advantage to its own video streaming service, YouTube.
Lawyers representing GOP congressional candidate Laura Loomer and the conservative nonprofit Freedom Watch have asked the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals to take up a case that alleges big tech companies like Facebook and Google discriminate against conservative content.
California, the home state of Silicon Valley, reportedly opened an antitrust investigation against Internet giant Google on Tuesday. Until today, California joined Alabama as the only states not investigating Google’s business practices.
A purported news outlet funded by a Democrat-aligned nonprofit is flooding Facebook with millions of dollars in ad spending ahead of the 2020 election, without disclosing any of its political donors, according to a report in Politico.
Two officials in Endicott, New York, apologized Friday for “White Lives Matter” Facebook posts that resulted in calls for their resignation.
The Labour Party is launching a “complete boycott” of Facebook advertising to support Black Lives Matter and “show that we stand against hate online”.
A number of popular iPhone apps such as Spotify, Pinterest, Waze and Tinder all crashed today with analysis appearing to show that Facebook is to blame.
China’s state-run Global Times reported approvingly on Thursday that Hong Kong has been forced to suppress countless movies, television shows, books, and online posts that could violate the new security law imposed by Beijing because the material could be judged to “threaten” Communist China, and those who display or sell the “threatening” material could be held legally liable.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan demanded Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey disclose documents and information relating to the social media giants’ censorship practices, the decision to fact-check President Donald Trump, and flagging the president’s tweets as abusive behavior, according to a document obtained by Breitbart News.
Leaders of the civil rights groups that recently launched an advertising boycott of Facebook reportedly stated that they were “disappointed” after a recent meeting with Facebook executives including CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Despite the advertising boycott, Facebook’s stock price hit a record high this week.
A Vietnamese court sentenced a man to eight years in prison on Tuesday after finding him guilty of posting material to his Facebook account “opposing” Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party, Reuters reported.
Universities and migration advocates are denouncing the administration’s decision to revive a rule that denies student visas and work permits to migrants who enroll in online-only U.S. colleges.
In a recent blog post, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg promised that the company would get “better and faster” at censoring what it considers hate speech across its platforms.
The encrypted messaging service Telegram said on Sunday that it will temporarily refuse user data requests from Hong Kong courts due to the turmoil from the national security law imposed by Beijing.
Facebook has reportedly banned all ads on behalf of Laura Loomer, the frontrunner in the GOP primary race for House candidate in Florida’s 21st district.
Social media giant Facebook had admitted to once again improperly sharing user data with third-party developers, after repeatedly promising users that it would not do so.
The CEOs of major tech giants including Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook have reportedly agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee as part of an investigation into anticompetitive conduct in the internet economy that will be scheduled in late July.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly has told employees not to worry, assuring them that advertisers that have boycotted the social media giant will return “soon enough.”
Even as it faces a boycott from major brands spurred on by far-left activists who allege that the platform isn’t censoring enough content, Facebook has rolled out another change to its News Feed algorithm that seems to benefit corporate publishers at the expense of conservatives.
A second incumbent Republican has lost his primary race after backing a plan that would have allowed India to monopolize the nation’s employment-based green card system while rewarding Big Tech for outsourcing American STEM jobs.
CNN is naming and shaming corporate brands that have yet to join the ad boycott against Facebook, spurred by an agitated political left that wants the platform to do more to crack down on constitutionally protected speech — especially that of President Donald Trump.
Social media giant Facebook recently announced that it would be removing anti-government “Boogaloo” groups and pages from its platform. Mark Zuckerberg’s platform has already removed 220 such groups on Facebook and 95 Instagram accounts that it says violate its policies against organized violence.
Wednesday on his MSNBC show “Morning Joe,” Joe Scarborough voiced his frustration with social media giant Facebook as advertisers are either pausing or threatening to pause their advertising with the company over how it handles what is deemed as “hate speech.”
Joe Biden’s campaign wrote a letter to social media giant Facebook on Monday demanding the platform censor posts of his political rival, President Donald Trump.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is advancing the idea that Facebook is in the business of removing “fake news” from social media.
Corporate elites, spurred on by far-left activists, are punishing Facebook for not doing enough to censor its platform, and have deployed a massive advertising boycott against the platform to force its cooperation.
Amazon-owned streaming service Twitch has temporarily banned the official account of President Donald Trump over “hateful conduct,” cutting the campaign off from a major platform that it uses to stream rallies and other events.
