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A parliamentary committee in Singapore recommended on Thursday that their government hold technology firms such as Facebook and Twitter accountable for the spread of fake news on their platforms.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) joined SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Thursday, to discuss what needs to be done about the bias of Big Tech companies.

Theresa May has said Facebook is “allowing people-smuggling adverts”, revealing the UK government is aware of more than 500 pages and posts allegedly advertising and facilitating illegal crossing.

French police in the city of Toulouse are on the hunt for four suspects involved in the gang rape of a 19-year-old girl that was filmed and broadcast on Snapchat.

Facebook has been accused of allowing gender bias in job advertisements on its platform by enabling companies to specifically seek out male candidates for particular roles.

Google, Facebook, and Amazon are the three biggest online advertisement companies in 2018, with Amazon quickly gaining on the other two companies but still representing just 4 percent of the market, according to a report.

A man who uploaded the 2016 movie Deadpool to Facebook could face six months in prison, according to a report.

Social media website Facebook will soon begin fact-checking photos and videos as well as news articles, according to a recent report.

Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls for greater coordination between his company and governments to combat “election interference,” “division,” and “disinformation,” “misinformation,” and “viral hoaxes” in a Thursday-published essay.

Dozens of people who used to work for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and a number of Clinton initiatives went on to work at Google, and vice-versa.

A bald eagle joined a memorial ceremony in Minnesota on Tuesday commemorating the 17th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to a viral Facebook video capturing the moment.

Brad Parscale, the 2020 campaign manager for President Trump, recently called for an investigation into tech giant Google following a leaked video of an all-hands internal meeting posted by Breitbart News.

Facebook has labeled an article published by the left-wing publication ThinkProgress as fake news, prompting the outlet to complain after the story was buried by Facebook’s algorithm.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated in a recent tweet that tech firm Google must answer some questions and that an “invite will be on its way.”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly “exploring a potential investigation” of Big Tech social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

Canadian columnist and host of the Glazov Gang, Jamie Glazov, was suspended from Facebook on September 11 — a day dedicated to remembering the 9/11 terrorist attacks — after he posted an article he wrote about how to counter Jihad.

Jonathan Taplin, director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California, warned in a recent interview that tech monopolies are going to become an increasingly big problem in the future.

It has been seventeen years since the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington D.C., and flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on 9/11 — while technology has advanced rapidly in that time, tech giants still struggle to block terrorist content on their platforms.

According to a recent report, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has an affinity for Roman emperors — in particular, Augustus Caesar — which gives an insight into how he runs his social media firm.

Just ahead of the anniversary of the terror attacks on Sept. 11, Dirty Jobs star Mike Rowe noted that the heroes we saw that terrible day are more worthy of praise than former NFL player Colin Kaepernick ever could be.

President Donald Trump’s 2020 Campaign Manager, Brad Parscale, stated in a recent op-ed that the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe pose a real threat to democracy and online freedom.

The owner of Rocky’s Road Brew food truck is making clear that she will not be serving any police officers.

Facebook has become a hotbed for illegal animal trading, which includes endangered species banned from trade internationally, according to a report.

According to a report from the Pew Research Center, many Americans are changing how they interact with Facebook, with 44 percent of users aged 18 to 29 claiming to have deleted the Facebook app from their phone.

A fast-food workers’ union is demanding that employees of a Pacific Northwest-based burger chain be allowed to wear pins with phrases such as “Abolish ICE” and “No one is illegal.”

The president of Rutgers University said this week that he wants to take a second look at professor James Livingston, who wrote “I hate white people” on Facebook.

Tim Wu, the former FTC senior adviser who coined the term “net neutrality,” has expressed support for the breaking up of Big Tech monopolies.

An article from the Intercept states that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s claims that Facebook only operates within countries that can uphold Facebook’s values are false.

Popular pro-Trump commentators Diamond and Silk claimed during an exclusive interview with Breitbart News that discrimination is now based on the color of your politics instead of your skin.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) sat down with Breitbart News this week to talk about censorship of conservatives on social media.

During a recent speech, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin stated that Facebook and other social media platforms will face regulation in the future — claiming it is a question of “what type” of regulation, not “if” the Masters of the Universe will be regulated.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is meeting with state attorneys general to discuss whether the Big Tech social media platforms are stifling competition and the free exchange of ideas.

Sen. Rubio also said that Twitter shouldn’t censor when non-western governments complain about “misinformation.”

Facebook Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg said her company would present “alternative facts” to combat what she described as “misinformation” spread on Facebook’s digital platform. She offered her remarks during a Wednesday Senate Intelligence Committee hearing ostensibly examining “Russian interference in U.S. elections” in Washington, DC.

Attorney General Jeff Session will meet with various state attorneys general this month to discuss growing concern that social networking giants are “intentionally stifling,” freedom of expression, according to the Department of Justice. 

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) questioned Facebook and Twitter over the possibility of user data leaks posing a national security threat at a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee today.