Fast Company has caught on to what Breitbart News has been highlighting for some time: that the Big Tech Masters of the Universe are developing systems to monitor and regulate personal behavior that closely resemble China’s totalitarian “social credit” system.
The New York Times published a 5,000-plus-word hitpiece about conservative news website Western Journal. The piece accuses WJ of “sensationalist and misleading stories,” of being overly pro-Trump, and makes excuses for Google and Facebook arbitrarily throttling its traffic.
Tech giant Google’s close relationship with China is being called into question once again after the firm failed to join Twitter and Facebook in criticizing the country’s communist government even after being forced to crack down on a disinformation campaign aiming to discredit the current protests in Hong Kong.
Country music superstar Taylor Swift promoted her father’s personal Facebook page to fans, prompting him to delete it after “Swifties” discovered that his page featured conservative-leaning memes, including a Blue Lives Matter meme honoring a deceased police officer.
Louisiana Attorney General (AG) Jeff Landry told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday that many state attorneys general have “had enough” of big tech, and they will “take action” after significant investigations.
A recent report states that EU antitrust regulators are beginning to question if Facebook’s Libra digital currency could cause antitrust issues.
Instagram recently censored a post by an artist critical of the Chinese government. The anti-Beijing post was removed by the Facebook-owned social media platform, but death threats made against the artist remained uncensored. Instagram later restored the artwork, while Facebook claimed that the censorship had occurred Due to due to “a mistake” by the company.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) slammed Facebook’s “audit” of its potential political bias, believing that the investigation will not unearth any significant details about its censorship practices against conservatives and other alternatives voices.
A Facebook tool rolling out in the coming months will allow users to see which apps and websites have tracked them and shared their personal data with Facebook while they were not using the social media platform.
Facebook continues to face challenges with viewpoint diversity among its employees and board of directors, impacting the creation and implementation of content policies and algorithms, according to an interim Facebook study released Tuesday by former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ).
Facebook has tapped former Arizona senator John Kyl to conduct a review of political bias on its platform, according to a report from Axios.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joe Simons said Monday that Facebook’s plan to integrate Instagram and WhatApp with its Facebook platform could complicate any attempts to break up the social media giant.
Facebook recently spoke with Axios, revealing a number of plans to promote news outlets on its platform including the creation of a “News Tab” featuring outlets handpicked by Facebook, changing how millions of people receive news.
State attorneys general could launch an antitrust investigation into America’s largest technology companies as soon as next month, according to a report released Monday.
Twitter and Facebook announced on Monday that the platforms are removing “inauthentic” accounts discovered to be operated from within the Chinese government. The social media platforms say that the “state-backed” fake accounts are attempting to undermine “the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement” in Hong Kong.
A supposed news site geared toward young Muslims in the U.K. is actually an undercover counter-terrorism program funded by the British government, according to reports. The Facebook page, “Woke,” describes itself as a “diverse social news platform” focusing on “what it means to be Muslim today.”
A recent report claims that popular AI models are 1.5 times more likely to flag tweets by black users as “offensive” compared to tweets from other users.
Tech giant Facebook failed to warn users about the risks attached to its single sign-on tool despite taking steps to protect employees from dangers, according to a lawsuit. According to the suit, Facebook knew about the vulnerability but failed to fix it for years.
Former Johns Hopkins Professor Daniel Povey argued in a blog post this week that many American colleges demonize white men. Povey may not find his future career to be more welcoming to ideological diversity — he has accepted a position at Facebook.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said Wednesday that Congress needs to pass data privacy legislation to encourage more competition in the technology markets.
The once-mighty Tumblr — a social media site that hosts blogs, photos and videos and was favored by young people — is being sold by Verizon at what some reports are saying is a 98 percent discount from its $1.1 billion purchase price just a few years ago.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joe Simons said Tuesday he remains prepared to break up America’s largest technology companies, even by reversing past mergers, as part of the regulator antitrust investigation into big tech.
A New Mexico cop got an unwelcome side with his burger meal Thursday after he noticed a picture of a pig drawn on his fast-food order.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently published a column in the Washington Post in which he outlines how he believes the government should regulate the Internet, including censoring speech that his platforms finds “harmful.”
Tech giant Facebook is reportedly facing billions of dollars in potential damages as a federal appeals court rejected the firm’s argument to halt a class action lawsuit relating to the storing of biometric data of millions of users.
The White House is reportedly planning an executive order that would give the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a role in determining what gets censored on big tech platforms.
Facebook has offered millions of dollars to mainstream news outlets in order to license their content, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal.
Social media companies and Internet service providers must censor “hate speech,” said Democrat presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke on Wednesday while speaking with MSNBC. He linked President Donald Trump to “hate speech” — including descriptions of the president as a “racist” and “white supremacist” — in the same interview and subsequent statements.
Georgia sheriff’s deputies accompanied the son of a fallen deputy killed in the line of duty to his first day of fourth grade on Wednesday.
A startup marketing firm based in San Francisco, California, appears to have been secretly saving millions of Instagram users’ “stories,” as well as tracking their locations. The Facebook-owned app has since issued a cease and desist letter to its trusted “marketing partner,” but the incident has revived concerns over Facebook’s apparent inability to protect its users’ data.
The White House is preparing executive action to tackle big tech bias against conservatives and non-progressives, according to a report by Politico.
In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, radio host and founder of PragerU, Dennis Prager, explains why it’s important to hold tech companies accountable for censorship.
Facebook recently removed an event page for a “raid” on Area 51 started to advertise a real-life festival capitalizing on the recent memes surrounding Area 51.
Despite its frequent denials that it practices “shadowbanning” — the covert censorship of content without notifying the censored — Facebok applied for and received a U.S. patent for shadowbanning technology last month, according to a report in the New American.
More than two-thirds of American voters back an antitrust review of America’s largest technology companies, according to a poll released Monday.
The CEO of web infrastructure giant Cloudflare has announced that the firm will blacklist anonymous online forum 8Chan following the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas. Cloudflare’s service offerings protect websites from cyberattacks such as DDOS attacks, designed to prevent sites from operating normally.
The owner of the Christian satirical site The Babylon Bee has come out swinging against Snopes, saying in an interview with Breitbart News that the fact-checking site is “misleading people to get people to believe we’re misleading people.”
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reportedly started investigating Facebook’s acquisitions, including Facebook and WhatsApp, as part of a practice to take out its competition.
According to a recent report, Facebook has dismantled a covert influence campaign on its network operated by the government of Saudi Arabia.
Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow warned students about the growing power of the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe during a speech at the Young America’s Foundation’s National Conservative Student Conference.