Sir Nick Clegg, the left-wing former Deputy Prime Minister hired as vice-president of global affairs and communications by Facebook, has a long history public controversy, and has previously had harsh words for his new paymasters.
Facebook has apologized to a woman after she accused them of “taunting” her with baby-related advertisements following a stillbirth. She was reportedly unable to turn off the ads despite repeated efforts.
In contrast to the 2016 election, Democrats are surging on Facebook ahead of the midterms.
Left-wing alternative media outlet Reverb Press was blacklisted from Facebook and Twitter last week, just months after celebrating Infowars’ mass purge from the same platforms. Reverb Press now complains, “It’s absurd that Facebook thinks it can define what is ‘legitimate’ news.”
Facebook has hired former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister and prominent anti-Brexit spokesman Nick Clegg as Head of Global Affairs and Communications.
Elon Musk’s Tesla has purchased a plot of land worth $140 million in Shanghai for the company’s planned Chinese factory.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan faced no punishment from Twitter for his comments comparing Jewish people to termites — because he didn’t single out a particular Jewish person — but conservatives in similar circumstances have been banned.
Breitbart News previously reported that Facebook had set up a “war room” to prepare for the upcoming midterm elections, now the mainstream media has been given an inside look at the company’s command center for controlling information ahead of the election.
Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos accounts for 42 percent of all the top CEOs’ Midterm political contributions, having donated over $10 million.
Facebook’s recently announced home assistant, Portal, can collect video call data to use for targeted advertisements — despite being marketed as “private by design” — according to a spokesman.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed in an interview this week that it was a “joke” when the social network described itself as the “free-speech wing of the free-speech party.”
Twitter said their policy on “dehumanizing language” has yet to come into effect.
Twitter released account and tweet data on Wednesday it claims to believe are “associated with potential information operations found on our service since 2016.” It further describes its motive in censoring content across its digital platforms as serving the best interest of “the public conversation.”
A new lawsuit filing alleges that Facebook purposefully inflated the time spent watching videos on its platform by 150 percent to 900 percent to mislead advertisers and inflate advertising rates.
PayPal co-founder and prominent big tech supporter of President Trump Peter Thiel was reportedly the biggest donor to the Trump Victory Committee in the last quarter, donating $250,000.
Entertainment streaming platform Hulu reminded its customers to wear “culturally appropriate” Halloween costumes this year in order to be “respectful to others,” in a tweet that has since been deleted.
Google-owned video streaming giant YouTube crashed on Tuesday worldwide, marking one of the first times in recent history that the site has gone down.
Facebook blacklisted the conservative news page run by disabled Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage with no warning or explanation — after he reportedly spent more than $300,000 on Facebook advertising.
A former designer for Google+ posted over one hundred tweets detailing his time at the company, which he claimed was “mismanaged,” wasted resources, and made him “very depressed.”
Speaking publicly for the first time about Google’s censored “Project Dragonfly” Chinese search engine project, Google CEO Sundar Pichai stated that the company has a “longer-term view” on their operations in China.
Four Indonesians were arrested for selling babies on the Facebook-owned social media network Instagram, where a baby-selling account managed to gain hundreds of followers.
Facebook will ban election “misinformation” ahead of the midterms this year, including satirical posts which claim people can vote via text message.
Gay Patriot, a popular conservative Twitter user, has been permanently blacklisted from the social network for undefined “hateful conduct.”
Employees of Microsoft have issued an open letter requesting that the company not bid on the U.S Military’s JEDI program, joining Google employees who have also refused to bid on the project.
Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow recently interviewed Breitbart Tech Senior Reporter Allum Bokhari about the recently leaked internal Google documents known as “The Good Censor.”
A new report claims that Chinese authorities have laid out plans to Google to involve the tech titan in suppressing the speech and increasing surveillance on the country’s Uighur ethnic minority.
Twitter is reportedly being investigated in Ireland over alleged tracking of users through its special shortened links.
Privacy-based Google Search competitor DuckDuckGo has reached 30 million searches on its engine per day.
Brian Amerige, a Facebook engineer who made headlines after he and more than one hundred other employees stood up to the company’s “intolerant” left-wing culture, has left Facebook.
In an effort to fight “fake news” before the November midterm elections, Facebook has shut down over 800 accounts and pages accused of spreading “misinformation,” including many conservative pages, some with millions of followers.
Christie-Lee McNally, executive director of Free Our Internet, warned of large technology companies’ procurement of political influence via lobbying efforts in Washington, DC.
Psychologist Dr. Robert Epstein argued that Google is the “most powerful mind-control engine ever created” in an interview with Breitbart News Tonight.
Following multiple hearings related to Facebook’s user data breach scandal involving the data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica, E.U. MEPs have called for an audit of the social media company and an overhaul of E.U. competition law.
Despite trying to reassure the public and the United States government otherwise, Google’s pact with the Chinese government is becoming increasingly strong.
In an 85-page document recently leaked to Breitbart News, Google refers to President Trump’s claims that Google search results are biased as a “conspiracy theory,” however, there is a large amount of evidence to show that the search engine was biased towards Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
