According to a recent report, Facebook recently confirmed that it mistakenly stored “hundreds of millions” of users passwords in plaintext without any form of encryption, leaving them vulnerable to hackers, and visible to 20,000 company employees.
The New York Times published an article recently in which one of its writers describes his experience after deleting Facebook last year.
A student who never played soccer was added to the UCLA’s roster after her parents bribed the school with $250,000 in Facebook stock.
Facebook has settled with a number of civil rights groups after being accused of discrimination with targeted housing, employment, and credit advertisements on the platform.
Tech giant Facebook has apologized for mistakenly labeling the White House Social Media Director, Dan Scavino Jr., as a “bot,” or automated account, on its platform.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) might not be your favorite politician, but somebody likes her, that’s for sure. Or maybe she’s just lucky.
“It’s a very, very dangerous situation so I think I agree,” Trump said when asked about a proposal by Sen. Josh Hawley to investigate left-leaning tech companies.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry told Breitbart News that attorneys general across America — both Democrat and Republican — are considering “all actions,” including the use of existing antitrust law, to curb the growing power held by technology firms such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
Jeff Landry, the Attorney General of Louisiana and a former congressman, encouraged government action against Big Tech companies during an appearance on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Tuesday.
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), the chairman of the House Juduciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, on Tuesday, called for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether Facebook violated American antitrust laws.
White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino Jr., was recently blocked from commenting by Facebook which has yet to provide an explanation for the action.
President Donald Trump warned supporters that both the establishment media and social media were biased against them as he faced re-election in 2020.
Facebook, NBC, and Axios all reportedly paid for flattering Wikipedia pages — managing to get negative sections removed, and positive sections added in. Google currently prioritizes information from Wikipedia at the top of search results.
Facebook wants to boost local news articles, but claims there isn’t enough being produced, with one-third of Americans living in areas called “news deserts,” which the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe have contributed to.
According to recent reports, a New Zealand man is set to appear in court to defend himself against charges that he shared the livestream footage of the recent Christchurch shooting, which could have penalties as severe as ten years in prison.
National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry wrote a searing attack on the “right-left pincer” attacking big tech for Politico. The piece fails to mention Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s recent acknowledgment that the National Review Institute received money from his company.
Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube have reportedly struggled to stop an alleged video of the New Zealand mosque massacre on Friday.
Three underage Algerian migrants have been arrested in Spain after being implicated in the torture and murder of a man which was live-streamed on social media.
In a Scientific American article, titled “The Internet Knows You Better Than Your Spouse Does,” author Frank Luerweg revealed that an online test, which tracks users’ digital footprints to provide a detailed personality analysis, knew many of those tested better than their spouses.
Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard issued a statement in favor of free speech earlier today, calling on Americans to “stand united” against attempts by Facebook and others to “censor,” “stifle,” and “influence” public debate.
Tech giant Facebook suffered a service outage yesterday which resulted in its Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp services all crashing.
According to a recent report from the New York Times, tech giant Facebook is under criminal investigation for a number of data deals with other major tech firms. The New York Times recently reported that federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton repeated his call to “delete Facebook” during an appearance at a Stanford University computer science class.
Ukrainian hackers reportedly used online quizzes to gain access to private Facebook user data and “inject unauthorized advertisements.”
Facebook was recently forced to restore Senator Elizabeth Warren’s campaigns ads which called for the breakup of Big Tech.
Facebook temporarily blocked users from posting articles from finance and politics blog Zero Hedge this week, calling the blacklisting a “mistake.”
“Actually it’s incredible that I won the election because you know it was so rigged against me,” President Trump said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.
Tommy Robinson has announced that he wants to stand for parliament — either in Brussels, as an MEP, if Brexit fails, or in Westminster.
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti claimed Big Tech companies are having a “huge problem” controlling content on their platforms, and declared, “We can’t just police bad content, we have to produce good content,” during a speech at SXSW, Friday.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) defended her plan to break up large technology companies, noting it would not end the world if these “monopolies” would make less in profits.
Following Mark Zuckerberg’s promises to make Facebook more privacy oriented, CNBC has published a scathing article pointing out why users have “no reason” to trust Zuckerberg with their data.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced Friday that she will propose to break up some of America’s largest tech companies, which includes Facebook, Google, and Amazon, as a means to separate herself from the large 2020 presidential Democrat primary candidates.
There are 15 million less U.S. Facebook users today than in 2017, with those between the ages of 12 to 34 constituting the biggest drop in users, according to a new study.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he wants to shift the social media giant from “open and connected” to privacy-based, with a focus on keeping private messages secure. Not everyone is convinced, however.
The New York Times recently published an article highlighting the dramatic change in the attitude about Big Tech at CPAC, from being heavy sponsors of the conference last year to being attendees’ “boogeyman.”
Facebook has banned Tommy Robinson, along with a wide range of prominent UKIP members and anti-establishment media, just days after he released a documentary alleging cooperation between the purportedly neutral, state-funded BBC and the far-left organization Hope not Hate.
Major apps on Google’s Android smartphones are still reportedly sending data to Facebook, even if the user doesn’t have a Facebook account.
Facebook has opened its users up to security risk, and potential theft, by allowing anyone on the platform to search for others using their phone numbers, which were only given to the social network for two-factor authentication security.
Northwestern University neuroscientist and business professor Dr. Moran Cerf is studying ways in which brain implants could push humanity toward new intellectual frontiers.
Facebook reportedly lobbied George Osborne, the U.K.’s former Chancellor of the Exchequer, to influence the European Union’s data protection laws in the social network’s favor. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg also reportedly used her feminist memoir Lean In to win over female E.U. legislators.
