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Former Facebook employees compared the company to a “cult,” in interviews with CNBC, with one declaring, “Even if you are fucking miserable, you need to act like you love this place.”

The New York Times has revealed more details about a disinformation campaign led by Democrat strategists during the 2017 Alabama Senate election, which may have contributed to a narrow victory by Democrat candidate Doug Jones.

What we have here is a major news organization openly lobbying Facebook and other social media groups to blacklist POPSquad and other groups like it.

Guy Kawasaki, one of Apple’s former marketing chiefs, claims in a recent book that Hillary Clinton’s campaign refused help from the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe during the 2016 election.

The Rev. Franklin Graham called Facebook’s decision to place a temporary ban on his account a “personal attack” on him in a Sunday interview with Fox News.

Open Secrets’ listicle of 2018’s biggest lobbying stories makes no mention of technology companies’ spending on lobbying.

A Louisiana police department issued a tongue-in-cheek warning to methamphetamine users on Saturday, offering to inspect their meth supply for traces of the Zika virus.

Yet another trove of internal Facebook documents has been leaked, this time the New York Times gained access to 1,400 pages of Facebook’s guidelines for global political speech.x

Peter Schweizer said 2018 was a “watershed year” for revealing technology companies’ use of left-wing political censorship.

New York Magazine claimed this week that most Internet traffic is “fake.”

TechCrunch discovered apps available on Google Play which led to child porn groups on the Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp, all of which reportedly made money through Google and Facebook’s advertising networks.

The left’s insistence that Silicon Valley censorship is just a ‘conspiracy theory’ ring hollow.

Facebook’s Instagram platform dominated social media discussions following an unpopular update, Thursday, which led to the rise of Twitter trends such as “RIP Instagram.”

Billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has apologized for funding a campaign that influenced the 2017 Alabama Senate election using disinformation tactics against Republican Roy Moore.

Facebook has suspended five accounts belong to Democrat strategists who were involved in a 2017 Alabama Senate election disinformation campaign against Republican candidate Roy Moore. The social media giant called the effort “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”

2018 was not an easy year for Facebook due to a number of data hacks and company scandals. As the year draws to an end, Breitbart News would like to highlight some of the company’s biggest mistakes.

Jordan Peterson told Breitbart News that social media censorship is a problematic “can of worms” without a “straightforward” solution.

Facebook is reportedly developing a new cryptocurrency to be used for transferring money via the popular messaging app WhatsApp.

Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has a child pornography problem, according to several reports.

Democrat activists, funded by LinkedIn co-founder and left-wing financier Reid Hoffman, imitated “Russian tactics” to push the 2017 Alabama Senate election in favor of the Democratic Party, including the creation of fake conservative Facebook pages to divide Republicans, according to the New York Times.

Amazon may have used data from Facebook users, which was given to the company as part of a secret data-sharing partnership, to better enforce its rules, according to a report.

Social media giant Facebook gave multiple tech companies including Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft access to far more user data than Cambridge Analytica ever dreamed of accessing.

A new report from the New York Times about the social media giant Facebook has called into question whether the company adhered to a 2011 consent decree with the FTC. One expert said that Mark Zuckerberg’s company operates “without any apparent sense that they have to follow the law, even while on parole.”

Alternative social network Minds announced a boycott against Facebook and Google products, as well as payment processing platforms Stripe and PayPal, over their censorship and “unethical” business models, Wednesday.

Massive strategic partnerships might prevent Facebook from upholding their promise to audit all third-party applications for user data leakage.

Social media firm Facebook reportedly used data obtained from the Chinese company Huawei, which has been referred to as a “security threat” by U.S. intelligence, for the platform’s “People You May Know” feature.

Early Facebook investor Roger McNamee warned “no one should trust Facebook” until the company changes its data-harvesting and information selling business model, according to a report.

Embattled social giant Facebook granted its business partners Spotify and Netflix the ability to read users’ private messages, according to information obtained by the New York Times. 

The NAACP organized a boycott of Facebook and Facebook-owned platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, Tuesday, receiving support from Amy Schumer and ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s.

Veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg has quit Facebook, stating that the social media giant’s actions have diverged with his own values and that he is no longer “comfortable” on the platform.

Facebook recently refused to run Christ buying guide advertisements from Christian gaming review website “Christ Centered Gamer,” a decision the social media giant told Breitbart News was an “error,” but the company has made no move to reverse the decision and has not contacted Chris Centered Gamer since.

Mark Zuckerberg has lost more money in 2018 than any of the top billionaires in the world, after Facebook suffered a devastating year. His losses for the year are estimated at $19 billion.

Cher announced she would stop using Google services and delete her Facebook account, arguing that both companies are only interested in money and “might as well be conspiring with Russia to destroy our democracy.”

President Donald Trump accused top Silicon Vally tech companies of bias toward Democrats on Tuesday.

Tech giant Facebook has failed to introduce a new privacy feature promised in May that would let users clear their browsing history.

Facebook has blocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair for 24 hours after he wrote a post criticizing the social media platform as “thought police” and sharing previously banned content.