Facebook plans to launch its own currency named Libra in 2020. The Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe have unveiled more details about how the currency will operate, including a promise of privacy for its user, and the fact that the currency will be “governed” by the “Libra Association,” a group of Mark Zuckerberg’s fellow elites based in Switzerland.
Both Apple CEO Tim Cook and early Facebook investor Roger McNamee attacked the social media network recently, calling it a “chaos factory” trying to turn users into “data voodoo dolls.”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai cautioned against the “unintended consequences” of regulating large tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
Social media giant Facebook is expected to reveal its new digital cryptocurrency next week, backed by Visa, Mastercard, Uber, and others.
Facebook said it has boosted its advertising spending to increase its reputation amidst privacy controversies, censorship of conservatives and alternative voices, and antitrust investigations, according to a report released Friday.
Breitbart News senior tech reporter Allum Bokhari, who recently uncovered Facebook’s process of labeling its users “hate agents,” elaborated on his exclusive report and how he expects it to evolve in a Friday interview with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow. Bokhari pointed out the striking similarity between the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe and the Chinese government, which has implemented a “social credit system” in an effort to train its citizens to behave in a manner that pleases the communist regime.
The Great Shunning tends to target those on the right (or insufficiently left) because of the near-monopoly the left has on popular culture, the mainstream media, and the tech sector — the primary influences on public opinion.
For the passive conservatives — those who prefer losing but remaining “principled” while the left does everything it takes to win, those who believe no hill is worth dying on — the battle for social media is over.
Facebook monitors the offline behavior of its users to determine if they should be categorized as a “Hate Agent,” according to a document provided exclusively to Breitbart News by a source within the social media giant.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook is worried that internal emails could show that CEO Mark Zuckerberg was aware of the company’s questionable privacy practices.
Facebook reportedly collected the personal information of 187,000 users, including 4,300 teenagers, using a research app which has since been banned from Apple’s app store.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai said during a hearing Wednesday that the “greatest threat” to a free Internet is the “unregulated Silicon Valley tech giants.”
Blexit founder Candace Owens told Breitbart News on Saturday that big tech companies are trying to “make sure that conservative voices are suspended ahead of the 2020 election cycle” under the guise of protecting the “safety” of social media users.
Forty-three state attorneys general sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), urging it to take action on big tech privacy and competition.
The National Review has a new plan for social media users to fight back against censorship — deleting your account.
Mike Cernovich said a review of Google’s internal emails in an ongoing lawsuit will reveal hatred of Christians and conservatives.
Facebook has deleted the popular “Natural News” Facebook page according to recent reports.
Santa Clara County’s Superior Court judge said, “Sorry Google, you’re going to have to face these charges in court,” recalled Harmeet Dhillon.
Many top 2020 Democrat presidential candidates have railed against America’s largest technology companies to garner populist support, but most of these top Democrats have also solicited donations from the very tech companies they have critizsed.
A recent report from MarketWatch claims that ahead of suspected antitrust investigations into Silicon Valley, tech giants may have to reveal to users how much their data is worth. User Data is the lifeblood of the Masters of the Universe, providing them with billions in profits based on targeted advertising.
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google have reportedly amassed a “lobbying army” as they prepare to deal with an increasing amount of antitrust investigations and calls to break up America’s largest and most influential tech companies.
A recent report from Business Insider outlines how Apple is attempting to battle Facebook and Google by focusing on user privacy — but this could create problems for many developers.
According to votes from Facebook’s annual shareholder meeting last week, 68 percent of outside investors want to see an independent chairman appointed in place of Mark Zuckerberg. Due to Zuckerberg’s chokehold on voting shares of the company, the investors’ vote will have no bearing on his role at the top of the Silicon Valley giant.
The Masters of the Universe are in for a higher level of scrutiny than they are used to as the DOJ and the FTC prepare to investigate major Silicon Valley tech giants. The FTC has announced oversight of possible investigations of Facebook and Amazon.
The House Judiciary Committee said Monday that it will launch a “top-to-bottom” antitrust investigation of America’s largest tech companies, including Amazon, Facebook, and Google, making antitrust behavior of big tech a bipartisan issue.
Apple shares fell Monday following a report that the DOJ is considering an antitrust investigation of the Silicon Valley giant.
The Daily Beast reportedly worked with Facebook to dox a black forklift driver and supposed Trump supporter for allegedly creating a parody video of Democrat speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — now he’s planning to take them to court.
Activists took to the streets of New York outside Facebook’s offices, fully nude, to protest the company’s ban on nudity across its platforms.
Fears of probes by antitrust authorities hit the stocks of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple on Monday.
The far-left Daily Beast doxed a man for spreading fake news, a new standard of journalism that could very easily haunt everyone in the establishment media.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called out Facebook, Google, and Amazon’s monopolistic control over the Internet, noting that they often engage in anticompetitive practices to detriment of their competitors.
The Daily Beast revealed the identity a black working-class Trump supporter because he made a parody video of Nancy Pelosi.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security chief has been accused of sexual harassment and making racist remarks about Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan.
According to a recent report, social media accounts linked to a network in Iran posed as GOP midterm candidates on social media.
A student at First Coast Technical College in St. Augustine, Florida, was suspended after she posted a photo of herself with a firearm on social media. She has filed a lawsuit against the school.
Cryptocurrency analysts have made poor predictions for the performance of Facebook’s new GlobalCoin cryptocurrency set to launch in 2020.
Workout and fitness company CrossFit has quit Facebook and Instagram and called the social media giant “utopian socialists,” after a CrossFit diet plan group was summarily suspended without explanation this month.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to ignore the Canadian Parliament’s subpoena to appear before its ethics committee, a move that could see Zuckerberg held in contempt of Parliament.
Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said Sunday that she does not poll-test her policy proposals.
The LA Times recently interviewed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin about his new take on To Kill a Mockingbird and the criticism he received for adapting the work of a female author as a white man. As part of the interview, Sorkin said that if he wrote a sequel to the movie The Social Network, it would focus on Mark Zuckerberg’s inability to deal with “bad actors” on Facebook, and how the company has “helped damage democracy.”
