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Silicon Valley giants including Google, Facebook, and Apple lost more than $200 billion in market capitalization on Monday as the major stock indices plummeted on growing global fears surrounding the coronavirus.

A former Facebook executive has launched a climate change advocacy group designed to pressure corporations into taking strong stances on climate policy. The new arm-twisting tactic? Mobilizing regular employees to agitate against management from within company walls.

President Donald Trump’s economic advisers are skeptical about rewriting antitrust rules to tackle the growing power of tech giants, according to the latest annual Economic Report of the President. The Council of Economic Advisers argue that the monopolistic power wielded by the Masters of the Universe are signs of “competitive success.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly has members of his communications staff blow-dry his armpits ahead of big speeches and other appearances that might cause the tech billionaire to experience flop sweat.

Attorney General William Barr attacked Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act on Wednesday, suggesting that online platforms have not done enough to tackle sex trafficking and other problems that plague the Internet.

Multibillionaire Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign is bankrolling hundreds of Californians to post positive endorsements of him on social media, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.

A recent report from the Wall Street Journal alleges that Democrat presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg has been hiring hundreds of workers in California to push his messages across social media.

A small group of left-wing protesters gathered outside of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s home in Mission District to protest the company’s use of personal data and its decision not to regulate certain political advertisements.

Payment provider Mastercard announced this week that it is developing various technologies that will allow it to identify customers by their strides, heartbeat, and vein patterns.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called for more regulation surrounding online content, saying that it’s not up to social media companies to determine free speech.

There are no confirmed coronavirus cases in San Francisco but Facebook just canceled a big event anyway.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to state in an upcoming speech that he is ready for Facebook to pay more tax in certain countries if it means that global tax laws are reformed.

Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg has reportedly contracted internet meme-makers and marketers with more than 60 million followers in total to post sponsored content on Instagram promoting his campaign. According to one of the marketers involved, the memes’ engagement “came from people being confused whether or not it was real.”

Social media giant Facebook will reportedly soon be paying news wire Reuters to fact-check and verify news headlines, user-generated videos and photos, and other content in English and Spanish.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) unveiled a proposal on Monday to overhaul the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to better rein in big tech companies.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken a swipe at social media giant Facebook, calling it “lame” and encouraging users to delete their accounts.

Facebook recently banned links to censored.tv, a conservative streaming site featuring former Fox contributor and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes.

Facebook has reportedly flagged the Canadian news site he Post Millennial for hate speech against “white women.”

In a recent interview, Hoan Ton-That, the CEO of controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI, stated that he has a First Amendment right to scrape billions of online photos to add to his firm’s giant database.

A new report claims that teenagers have discovered how to use group accounts to flood Facebook’s Instagram platform with user data that can’t be linked to any one person. 

Google-owned video giant YouTube blacklisted a Breitbart News video of a recent speech on the Senate floor by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in which Paul names the alleged “whistleblower” as Eric Ciaramella.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is reportedly engaged to Tom Bernthal, a former NBC News producer and founder and CEO of consulting firm Kelton.

In an op-ed published in the New York Times, billionaire investor George Soros criticized social media platform Facebook and company CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who he believes should not be in control of the company.

Leftists and journalists erupted in rage last week after news broke that Facebook hired a former Fox News producer to help curate news on the platform. One Facebook employee, who spoke exclusively to Breitbart News, thinks they’re a bunch of hypocrites.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated during a recent speech that the company is going to “piss off a lot of people” as Facebook focuses on free expression over censorship. According to Zuckerberg, it “feels like the list of things that you’re not allowed to say socially keeps on growing.”

Facebook recently stated that it will begin removing “misinformation” relating to the coronavirus after the WHO declared the outbreak in China a global health emergency. The misinformation will be identified not only by “leading global health organizations” as well as China’s “local health authorities.”

In a recent post to his own platform, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that his goal for the next decade is not to be liked, but to be “understood.”

Social media giant Facebook has reportedly reached a $550 million settlement over a lawsuit that claimed the company illegally collected and stored biometric data for millions of users via facial recognition technology without their consent.

Actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen condemned Facebook over the social media giant’s continued willingness to place political ads on its platform, warning that such actions will eventually “destroy democracy.”

Left-wing journalists and activists had a social media meltdown earlier today, after news broke that social media giant Facebook has hired a former Fox News executive producer, Jennifer Williams, to work on Facebook News.

A recent report claims that Facebook executives have requested that employees with plans to travel to mainland China cancel any non-essential trips over fear of the spread of the coronavirus.

In a recent article, Wired outlines how the once-popular comedy website CollegeHumor rose to prominence, and how it was “decimated” by Facebook, shows how cutthroat the world of digital media can be.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has alluded to Mark Zuckerberg possessing what she calls “Trumpian” qualities matched with “authoritarian” views displayed via his stewardship of Facebook, an interview in the Atlantic magazine reveals.

A Kentucky woman was able to reunite with her canine companion after spending more than two years apart, according to a heartwarming video of the reunion.

Facebook is helping to re-elect President Trump in 2020 in exchange for protection, billionaire George Soros claimed Thursday in Davos, Switzerland. 

Italy’s competition watchdog has reportedly launched proceedings against social media giant Facebook for non-compliance with previous requests relating to improper commercial practices in the site’s treatment of user data.