Bokhari: The Week Silicon Valley Killed Free Speech
From establishment conservatives to the the EFF, everyone is now aware of Silicon Valley’s terrifying control over speech. Is it too late?

From establishment conservatives to the the EFF, everyone is now aware of Silicon Valley’s terrifying control over speech. Is it too late?

Calls for Democratic Missouri State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal to resign are rolling in following her now-deleted Facebook post about hoping for President Donald Trump’s assassination, and the Secret Service confirms it is investigating.

Facebook reportedly shut down an internal chat room which evolved into a forum for anonymous Facebook employees to discuss their support of President Donald Trump.

New York Times Magazine writer Wil S. Hylton acknowledges in a lengthy article that Breitbart News’ comment section surpasses the Times’ by “a factor of 10.”

Missouri State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a Democrat, posted on her Facebook on Thursday, “I hope Trump is assassinated!” in response to a post by someone who said their cousin is on President Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” conservative commentator Mark Steyn made the case that some tech giants that have the ability to regulate the flow of information on the Internet may have grown to be too big. Steyn indicated he

Facebook has been monitoring the mobile phone habits of Facebook users via Onavo Protect’s free VPN even when they’re not using the social media platform.

Support for free speech is starting to dwindle in Silicon Valley, according to Wired, who claim that major tech companies are starting to doubt the concept.

Facebook’s Messenger application will now monitor users conversations and suggest music to listen to based on artists and bands that they mention while talking to other users.

Street artist Sabo has had his Facebook page suspended after he placed anti-Mark Zuckerberg posters around California.

Silicon Valley tech companies may have to raise wages and salaries in order to attract high-skilled American workers in the age of President Donald Trump.

James Warren, Chief Media Writer for Poynter, pointed a finger Thursday morning at Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson after the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) — of which Adelson is a “prime backer” — recommended that President Donald Trump reassign his National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster.

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield has joined Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in endorsing a universal basic income proposal, which would guarantee a minimum cash handout to all Americans.

No one has made more money than Mark Zuckerberg in 2017, even Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos, who was briefly named the richest man in the world last month, according to a report.

“F*ck Zuck 2020” posters have started to appear in California, following news that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has hired a top Hillary Clinton presidential campaign strategist.

Silicon Valley’s tech elites are spoiling for a fight against a legal immigration overhaul backed by President Donald Trump.

Three days after hackers locked Dinesh D’Souza out of his own Facebook page, the prolific filmmaker and author of The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left and other books has finally regained access to his profile.

Facebook is rolling out a “related articles” section that will appear below popular stories and those that are deemed to be “fake news,” according to a report.

CNN has published a critical article on Facebook’s slight minority workforce gain, which saw the number of Hispanic and Black employees increase by 1 percent each.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hired pollster Joel Benenson, who was Hillary Clinton’s top strategist on her 2016 presidential campaign, on Wednesday, increasing speculation about whether Zuckerberg will make a run for the White House.

Despite massive competition, Breitbart News was ranked #13 in the world amongst Publishers on Facebook in the latest rankings from NewsWhip, beating The Guardian, CBS, and The Hill.

Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Netflix have ignored the chance to testify in front of congress on the future of net neutrality, despite their protests of the Trump administration’s proposed reversal of existing Internet rules.

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s interior minister is traveling to California to press Internet firms including Facebook, Twitter and Google to stem the flow of extremist content online.

A Facebook contractor is living out of her car because she says she cannot afford the high rents in Silicon Valley, where Facebook’s headquarters is located.

A judge has ruled that a Virginia politician violated the First Amendment when she blocked a vocal critic on Facebook.

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon reportedly is calling for regulation on tech giants such as Google and Facebook.

38-year-old Traci Lorraine Aragon from San Antonio, Texas, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly posting revenge porn of her boyfriend following a breakup.

The success of Unite Here Local 19 in organizing Facebook’s 500 contracted cafeteria workers has paved the way for the union to push ahead to start organizing professionals at Silicon Valley’s leading tech corporations.

Executives from major tech companies have attacked President Donald Trump over his decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military. Fox News reports tech executives across Silicon Valley have voiced their opposition to President Trump’s decision to not allow

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday asked chief executives from companies representing the two sides of the net neutrality debate, including Alphabet, Facebook, AT&T and Verizon, to testify at a Sept. 7 hearing.

Right wing, male MPs are far more likely to receive abuse online than left wing females, despite claims of feminist activists that women are most vulnerable.

Jonathan Taplin, the author of Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, claims that tech companies have become too big and must be broken up if they cannot be stopped.

The Chinese government has cracked down on the popular instant messaging service WhatsApp, blocking pictures, videos, and even some texts.

Campbell Brown, Facebook’s head of news partnership, announced this week that the company would be launching a paywalled news subscription service in efforts to appease publishers that are unhappy with the Facebook and Google duopoly on advertising.

The social media giant Facebook has restored the more than two dozen conservative Catholic pages it had mysteriously blocked on Tuesday, blaming the incident on “a spam detection mechanism on the platform.”

Social media giant Facebook blocked more than two dozen conservative Catholic pages in a 24-hour period, some with millions of followers, saying only they were “suspected of suspicious activities.”

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Facebook’s plans for New Mexico now call for a half-billion-dollar investment and a data center that will span an area equal to 17 football fields.

Artifical Intelligence being developed by Facebook has invented its own language system to convey detailed information with greater efficiency; however, to human eyes, the messages are completely nonsensical.

TEL AVIV – Following the Temple Mount terror attack, a longstanding ban on members of Knesset visiting the holy site is likely to be extended, an MK said Sunday.

Jeff Bezos is less than $4 billion shy of passing Bill Gates as the richest man in the history of planet Earth.
