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Snap, the company behind Snapchat, issued a company memo about its future which was leaked this week.

A Facebook “bug” last month made it impossible for some users to delete their accounts until it was fixed this week.

Facebook has been blocking gay-themed advertisements from running on its platform, categorizing them as “political,” according to a report.

Facebook is forcing users to wait twice as long to delete their accounts following a recent update.

Protesters at the University of Texas surrounded students supporting Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday, shouting obscenities and destroying signs expressing support of the judge.

A woman is suing Facebook for allegedly enabling underage sex trafficking after she was raped and trafficked at age 15 by a man who added her as a “friend” on the social network.

Tech giant Google and social media giant Facebook are reportedly teaming up to develop new artificial intelligence technology.

A Wikipedia discussion has been opened on having Breitbart News formally “deprecated” as a source, meaning it could not be treated as a “reliable” source. The discussion has seen overwhelming numbers of left-wing editors showing up to support the ban, citing the example of a similar ban on The Daily Mail imposed early last year.

The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, suggested consumers “don’t believe” tech companies that claim they need access to users’ data. He called the claim made by other Silicon Valley companies that they need data to improve services is “a bunch of bunk.”

Facebook VP Carolyn Everson stated during a recent panel that Facebook’s latest user data leak was “sophisticated” and hackers would have had to know about three different Facebook bugs to pull it off.

Chris Britt, a Creators Syndicate editorial cartoonist, published a cartoon during the weekend that mocked Brett Kavanaugh’s young daughter for praying.

President Donald Trump may meet with top executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter in October, according to the White House.

Facebook has blacklisted a comedy sketch video about how the mainstream media twists stories to fit their own narrative, claiming the video is “hate speech.”

A new report claims that Facebook’s latest hack, which affected up to 50 million users, could also impact Facebook-linked apps such as Instagram, Airbnb, and Tinder.

Facebook has blocked users from posting articles from the Guardian the AP about the social media platform’s latest user data breach, marking them as “spam.”

A hacker from Taiwan has announced plans to livestream himself hacking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Facebook page and deleting it this weekend.

During a hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, lawyer Harmeet Dhillon got into a heated exchange with Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), in which Dhillon argued that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides special protections for social media platforms, should be revised to “strip that immunity from those companies, because they do not deserve it.”

A recent experiment by Gizmodo appears to show that Facebook users can be targeted through contact information that they never even shared with the website, sometimes referred to as “shadow contact information.”

Sweden’s advertising watchdog has ruled that a Stockholm internet company’s use of the ‘distracted boyfriend meme’ in a recruitment ad was sexist.

Facebook is seeking entry into China’s digital market — which will require compliance with dictates from China’s ruling Communist Party, as Google is doing in a censored search project with China — according to a Wednesday-published Bloomberg report.

Dating app Tinder has joined a growing list of Big Tech companies attempting to get users interested in the upcoming November Midterm elections.

Brain Acton, one of the co-founders of the Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp, has broken his silence about his contentious relationship with Mark Zuckerberg and his departure from WhatsApp.

Google plans to emulate the often copied “Stories” feature popularized by Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook as the Masters of the Universe battle for users’ attention.

Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Tuesday that given Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s rampant censorship practices, “something has to change,” and they are “going to look at this monopoly situation.”

Selena Scola, a former content moderator for Facebook, is suing the Big Tech company for allegedly giving her psychological trauma and PTSD as a result of regularly seeing graphic images.

Big Tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are encouraging their users to register to vote before the United States midterm elections in November.

The co-founders of Instagram have resigned from the company and plan to leave within the coming weeks according to recent reports.

The Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) plans to lobby D.C. lawmakers to take action against online censorship within the next month.

Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) urged social media giants to acknowledge their political biases in an op-ed for USA Today this week.

The White House has reportedly drafted an executive order that would open an antitrust investigation into the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe.

Facebook will release a smart display device later this month with a camera capable of recognizing users and following them around the room, according to the gadget website Cheddar. 

Internet payment services giant PayPal has blacklisted Infowars from its platform for allegedly promoting “hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions.”

Facebook recently announced that it will no longer be sending employees to assist political campaigns ahead of elections as it did in 2016.

Apple is claiming that it only tracks its device owners’ calls and emails in order to “prevent fraud” by assigning a “value score” to each iPhone and iPad user.

Nigel Farage has called for a Bill of Rights for social media users after tech giants were exposed for their bias against conservatives.

Free speech social media platform Gab.ai has rebranded as Gab.com and aims to become a tech hub for “liberty-minded tech startups” that wish to avoid connections to leftist Silicon Valley groups.