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WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has announced plans to leave the company following multiple clashes with parent company Facebook.

Facebook apologized Saturday evening to the administrators of an event page for a protest in San Diego against the migrant caravan, and restored the page — hours after the protest was scheduled to have begun.

Conservative Review’s Michelle Malkin joined SiriusXM host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Sam Sorbo for a Friday interview on Breitbart News Tonight to discuss political censorship via technology companies. She dismissed “purist anti-regulation tendencies” while describing companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter as “quasi-monopolies” and “trusts that need to be busted.”

Facebook has deleted an event page hosted by San Diegans for Secure Borders (SDSB), citing a violation of their community standards. The event was a protest against the caravan of illegal aliens aiming to enter the U.S. from Mexico.

Facebook has reportedly begun warning investors that “intense media coverage” of the company’s latest user data scandal could lead to lower user numbers and overall revenue.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) warned on Thursday that Americans who post critical comments about illegal immigration on Facebook could be censored for publishing “hate speech.” Smith made his remarks at a House Judiciary Committee  hearing examining “social media filtering and policing practices.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration lobbying group is again pushing for amnesty for all of the country’s illegal immigrants. Zuckerberg’s FWD.us group released a report this week that calls on lawmakers to “create a path to citizenship for Dreamers” and “provide permanent protections” for “all 11 million” illegal immigrants.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee who claimed allegations of social media censorship against conservatives were “baseless” and a “hoax,” on Thursday, received over $20,000 from Google parent company Alphabet between 2017 and 2018 alone, and received thousands more in previous years.

Fred Campbell stated that the “Safe Harbor” protection for Facebook and Google allows social media giants to censor at will.

The New York Times made what some observers are calling the “correction of the year” in admitting the Palestinian Authority does, in fact, pay terrorists’ families.

Congressional Democrats launched an all-out war against conservative concerns about censorship on social media today, calling the concerns a “conspiracy theory”, even as they defended tech giants’ right to censor content on the basis of political viewpoint.

Diamond and Silk clashed with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) over social media censorship during their congressional hearing on Thursday, with Johnson opting to mock and belittle the pair.

Diamond and Silk testified before Congress over social media censorship against conservatives, Thursday, with Diamond declaring during their testimony that “censorship is no hoax.”

Facebook, Google, and Twitter all declined to attend a hearing being held by the House Judiciary Committee on online censorship

What Facebook say they ban is far less revealing than what they actually ban.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, arguing that thanks to Facebook and Google’s censorship practices, free speech “is endangered even here in America.”

The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Thursday on online censorship “to examine social media filtering and policing practices,” a press release states.

Despite running headlong into a huge scandal, Facebook raked in far more money than anyone expected in the first quarter.

Amazon, the multinational online retail conglomerate, is importing more foreign workers to the United States to take coveted tech industry jobs than Facebook and Google combined.

User losses and a drop-off in advertiser spending will be the focus for investors as Facebook gets ready to release their first-quarter results this week.

UK Consumer Advice personality Martin Lewis is reportedly suing Facebook over fake ads on their platform featuring his face and name.

Facebook has published a 27-page document outlining how the company moderates content on their platform and a new appeals process for users who believe their content was unfairly deleted.

Facebook reportedly spent more on lobbyists in the first quarter of 2018 than it has ever before as the company faces increased scrutiny over data breaches and censorship

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) discussed social media censorship and privacy, most notably regarding Facebook, on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Saturday.

The ties between big tech and “digital rights” groups run deep.

Ordinary Americans don’t want to trade internet freedom for protection from “fake news.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has long represented San Francisco, has tapped freshman Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) of Silicon Valley to draft an “Internet Bill of Rights.”

Popular pro-Trump internet duo Diamond and Silk will testify before the House Judiciary Committee over growing concerns that social media companies such as Facebook are routinely censoring and suppressing conservative content.

Facebook has made moves to shrink their legal responsibilities under new EU data laws by storing as much international user data as possible in the United State instead of Ireland

Facebook has suspended conservative comedian Terrence K. Williams for posting screenshots of hate mail he received from liberals.

Facebook has admitted to tracking the personal details of people without Facebook accounts across the web using Facebook “Like” buttons.

Facebook’s shares fell on Wednesday after the company’s stock received its first downgrade since January, according to a report.

The profiles of 48 million social network users were leaked from data firm Localblox, who left the data including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter user information on a public server without a password.

If Mark Zuckerberg really wants Facebook to be a “platform for all ideas,” as he repeatedly told lawmakers last week, all he needs to do is add a single, radical new feature to the social network.

Facebook could reportedly face billions of dollars in fines over their facial recognition features due to an Illinois law relating to the collection of biometric data.

Companies like Facebook and Google continue to block and censor conservatives under the guise of preventing “hate speech.”