Silicon Valley Billionaire and Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff recently compared the crisis in trust experienced by large tech companies like Facebook with the financial crisis of 2008.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently stated his belief that Facebook should pay publishers on their platform, “similar to the model adopted by cable companies,” while at the same time attacking both Facebook and Google for the rise of “scurrilous news sources.”
A Facebook manager has stated that the company “can’t guarantee” that social media is good for democracy but claims that they are working on improving their platform.
Facebook is making it harder for users to see content from pages they follow — here’s how to ensure you see posts from Breitbart on your newsfeed.
Facebook has announced plans to rank the visibility of news sources based on whether they are “broadly trusted.”
Facebook will reportedly begin to rank news outlets based on the level of trust users have in them as determined by surveys conducted by the social media platform.
Facebook and Google are countering “extremist” content on their platforms with counter-propaganda, according to a report.
Police in Canada arrested a woman in a murder case after discovering that their suspect made a fatal error: three years ago she posted a photo on Facebook showing her wearing the murder weapon.
The State of California is leading 20 other states — and defending Silicon Valley’s interests — by suing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to stop its decision to repeal Net Neutrality rules.
Partner and Chief Strategy Officer of GEM Advertising Peter Kozodoy published an op-ed recently outlining why he’s rethinking his investment in Facebook.
The recent exposé published by Project Veritas included Twitter engineers allegedly detailing the ways they spy on their users, but these engineers claimed they still weren’t as “creepy as Facebook or Google,” — so exactly how creepy are these other Silicon Valley tech tit
Roger McNamee, one of Facebook’s early investors and a mentor of Mark Zuckerberg, has criticised the company for prioritizing profits over user safety.
Facebook has announced another change to its news feed, one that will hurt small publishers and content creators, and strengthen the establishment.
According to the Iranian judiciary, around 456 people remain in jail after the crackdown against the recent popular uprising, following the release of 440 “arrested rioters” over the past few days. The judiciary counted 25 deaths during the uprising, blaming them entirely on demonstrators while laughably claiming that government security forces fired no shots because they were “ordered not to use their weapons.”
Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., joined Breitbart News Sunday on the eve of her uncle’s namesake holiday, hitting back at racism accusations against President Donald Trump and levying her own complaints against ultra-liberal Facebook.
Facebook has informed Breitbart News it will unblock the crowdfunding site for a new movie on the story behind the 1973 controversial Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.
A Nigerian man identifying himself as Alhaji Adebayo prompted outrage in Nigeria and beyond by posting graphic images of female genital mutilation on Facebook on January 3.
Facebook has announced an update to users newsfeeds which aims to make posts and content from their friends and family more visible on their timelines.
Breitbart News Hits Top 10 Most Engaged Facebook Sites in December
Senior Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean fired back at a viewer who posted several rude comments on her Facebook page saying that the skirts she wears on air make her legs look “huge.”
Actor and producer Nick Loeb is joining with pro-life leaders in the production of Roe v. Wade, which is described as “the first movie ever about the true story” of the controversial Supreme Court case.
Israel’s anti-trust regulator said it will look at the business practices of internet giants such as Facebook and Google to make sure they are not stifling competition.
Facebook has announced that a system bug may have revealed users’ personal phone numbers to advertisers.
The Matawan Police Department has removed a light-hearted post from their Facebook feed, featuring the “OK” hand sign.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of social media giant Facebook, has vowed to explore the growing world of cryptocurrencies in 2018 according to his most recent Facebook post.
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it will use Facebook and Twitter to communicate directly with Iranians who are protesting against the Islamic regime in favor of democracy and freedom, hours after Iran’s repressive government shut off access to Instagram and Telegram in an attempt to stifle the uprising.
Germany has announced that social media websites that don’t remove “obviously illegal” posts could now face up to €50 million in fines.
A prominent figure in the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has run afoul of Germany’s draconian new censorship law, as officials crack down on whatever they deem to be “hate speech.”
Purportedly in a bid to fight online radicalization, the UK government has issued tech companies like Facebook and Google an ultimatum to hand over user data or face higher taxes.
As protests over Iran’s faltering economy rapidly spread across the country, a channel on a mobile messaging app run by an exiled journalist helped fan the passions of some of those who took to the street.
Free speech remained in a perilous state in 2017, as Big Tech became increasingly comfortable with censorship, applying inscrutable rules through enigmatic algorithms that looked an awful lot like old-fashioned political bias to outside observers.
It has been a year of setbacks for big tech, with Google, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, among other tech companies, all finding themselves facing new political threats from without and within. Tech companies’ favorite candidate lost the election, they were hauled before congress, and both left and right-wing media are out to get them.
Amazon plans to challenge the online advertising duopoly of Facebook and Google by stepping into the market themselves in 2018.
A New Jersey woman is coming forward with her story after she discovered a creep posted fake nude photos of herself online.
The president of Guatemala said Sunday that the Central American country will move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Fatah movement continues to call for violence in response to US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Elon Musk tweeted his personal cell phone number this week to 16.7 million followers with the message, “Hey, give me a call.”
Facebook has apologised for censoring a viral video of an anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish restaurant owner in which he and a 60-year-old German man argued about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the latter telling the business owner he deserved to be put in a “gas chamber”.
Dozens of companies have been accused of using targeted Facebook advertisements to exclude older users from job applications.
Social media giant Facebook will no longer be marking news stories as “disputed” as the company says people are more likely to believe possibly inaccurate news stories with the associated tag.
