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Facebook’s head of global news partnerships, Campbell Brown told Australian media executives that Mark Zuckerberg “doesn’t care about publishers,” according to a report in Murdoch-owned newspaper the Australian.

While Facebook and Google are attempting to break into the Chinese market with agreements to abide by Chinese Internet laws and attempts to develop new China-centric apps, some aren’t convinced that the tech giants will be successful in developing a strong presence in China.

Elizabeth Heng, the Republican nominee running to represent California’s 16th Congressional District, said Facebook is “censoring the voices of Americans” with non-leftist views.

When an ordinary account gets banned on Facebook, it’s possible that no human was ever involved in the decision. Not so for Alex Jones and Infowars. According to the New York Times, the order to ban the radio host came from the very top.

CNN is continuing its effort to pressure Twitter into banning InfoWars, following the mass purge pushed by the news outlet this week.

An internal note from Facebook shows the company using a viral polling app as a “psychological trick” to attract teenagers to the platform.

An article was published in the Weekly Standard this week titled “The Case for Banning Alex Jones” aims to defend the Masters of the Universe almost unanimously blacklisting Alex Jones and Infowars from social media.

And so it begins: YouTube is now adding “fact checks” to videos which question the man-made global warming scare narrative.

Following months of scandals and bad news, Facebook could soon lose its spot as the second largest website in the U.S. to YouTube, in what analysts describe as a “paradigm shift.”

Facebook is apologizing after the site’s Indonesian users reported seeing confetti and balloon animations when posting about Sunday’s deadly earthquake which killed more than 345 people.

A man who is a registered Democrat allegedly shot a man at his Florida home after getting into a political dispute with him over Facebook.

Despite the fact that most large technology services banned InfoWars from their platforms this week, they still refuse to cite what caused the bans.

Disqus, the popular user comments system, has banned InfoWars from using its service amid the Big Tech purge which has seen Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Apple podcasts, Spotify, Microsoft’s LinkedIn, and more ban Infowars and Alex Jones from their platforms.

At least 16,000 new users so far have followed Alex Jones to free speech social media platform Gab after Jones was banned from most other major social media platforms this week.

InfoWars has become the number one trending app on the Google Play Store, following the mass purge of Infowars and Alex Jones from Big Tech platforms including Google’s YouTube, Facebook, and many others.

Last year, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai warned that it was Big Tech “edge providers,” such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook, are the real censorship threat, and not Internet Service Providers (ISPs) previously targeted under net neutrality.

Facebook has removed a video from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in which he advocates against interracial marriage.

Dr. Robert Epstein, the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and a veteran of Breitbart News’ “Masters of the Universe” town hall on Internet freedom, joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Monday’s Breitbart News Tonight to discuss the simultaneous banning of Infowars host Alex Jones by most major social media platforms.

Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget dismissed concerns of Silicon Valley trampling on free speech by deplatforming Infowars.

Leftist website Slate recently published an article titled “Alex Jones Gets to Declare a Real Info War Now” in which the publication described the actual censorship that Jones suffered while claiming that he has not really been prevented from airing his ideas.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has urged citizens to defend free speech in the West after big tech firms allegedly coordinated to remove right wing voices, including Infowars and Tommy Robinson, from social media in a 12-hour period.

Donald Trump Jr. warned conservatives on Tuesday that Democrat activists together with Silicon Vally tech companies would move against news websites like Breitbart News.

During a hearing before the Senate, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg refused to define what constituted “hate speech” on Facebook. Nevertheless, his company used hate speech as a reason to ban InfoWars this week, betraying a complete lack of transparency.

Alex Jones and InfoWars were caught in a 24-hour censorship spiral that Silicon Valley refuses to explain.

The mainstream media is attempting to pressure Twitter into banning InfoWars and Alex Jones after it successfully lobbied Facebook, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify into doing so.

Anti-grooming gang activist and independent journalist Tommy Robinson says he has been purged from Instagram, and fears parent company Facebook Inc. will erase his presence next.

After the InfoWars app overtook CNN on Apple’s charts, ranking as the fourth most popular free app, the cable network lobbied Apple to remove the app from its platform.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is calling on social media monopolies to “do more than take down one website,” meaning take down more websites on top of InfoWars.

Former FCC Wireless Bureau Chief Fred Campbell told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Monday that “We the people should decide” whether Google, Facebook, and Twitter can censor and block content.

The backlash to a coordinated burst of censorship against InfoWars includes non-conservative commentators who warn that Apple, Google, Facebook, and other tech companies have set a precedent to suppress marginalized groups.

The web application company Pinterest has removed Alex Jones and his channel Infowars from their platform in response to a press request by the media website Mashable.

A handful of Hollywood personalities took to Twitter on Monday to celebrate tech giants Apple, Facebook, and YouTube’s decision to purge radio host Alex Jones and his Infowars properties from their platforms.

The far-left network played a central role in the campaign to get Alex Jones kicked off social media.

Gary Cohn says Facebook poses a larger threat to Americans than financial institutions before the Great Recession.

Radio host Alex Jones blasted Republicans Monday for their handling of congressional hearings on Internet censorship after Silicon Valley corporations banned Infowars from their platforms in a coordinated burst.

Internet provocateur and InfoWars proprietor Alex Jones is being systematically excluded from social media platforms. This is, plainly, an attack on free speech.