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The world’s largest technology companies, known as the “Silicon Six,” have paid nearly $278 billion less in corporate income tax over the past ten years than would be expected based on the average statutory tax rate for U.S. companies, according to a new report by the Fair Tax Foundation (FTF).

The Iran ties of MTN, the telecommunications firm chaired by South Africa’s new envoy to the U.S., Mcebisi Jonas, could have damaging reputational effects on Meta and other firms as MTN comes under scrutiny.

During the ongoing antitrust trial against Meta, an email revealed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg contemplated separating Instagram from the company in 2018 due to the “non-trivial” risk the government would move to break up his social media empire.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in federal court on Monday to defend his company against the FTC’s allegations that it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to create a social media monopoly. 

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the tech giant formerly known as Facebook, is gearing up for a historic antitrust fight with the FTC set to begin on Monday. The lawsuit, filed during Donald Trump’s first term in office, will determine if Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp were designed to put a stranglehold on the social media market.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a whistleblower at Facebook, testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism about alleged dealings between Meta and the Chinese Communist Party on Wednesday, April 9.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook executive, is set to testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee today, claiming that Meta executives undermined U.S. national security and briefed Chinese officials on emerging technologies like AI.

Meta on Friday announced it will officially end its fact-checking program in favor of community notes on its Facebook, Instagram, and Threads platforms on Monday.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pressing U.S. trade officials and the Trump administration to push back against an expected EU antitrust ruling that could undermine the company’s ad-based business model.

Meta continues to roll out its community notes program, as some have vented frustration with the tech platform’s still active fact-checking program.

The president of Signal defended the messaging app’s security after top Trump administration officials mistakenly included a journalist in an encrypted chatroom they used to discuss looming U.S. military action against Yemen’s Houthis.

The EU is poised to hit Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, with a massive fine of $1 billion or more for allegedly violating its strict antitrust regulations, according to sources close to the situation.

Amazon, Google, and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta have joined a growing list of energy-intensive companies calling for governments and utilities to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050, signaling a significant boost for the nuclear industry’s revival.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will launch its Community Notes feature on it Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the United States next week. The community-driven feature replaced the company’s biased left-wing “fact checking” system that was used to censor conservatives over the past 10 years.

Google has quietly updated the webpage for its Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology (RAI-HCT) team, removing language related to DEI. It is yet another sign that the ultra-woke tech giant is extending an olive branch to the Trump administration. 

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta went to great lengths, including developing a censorship system and potentially sharing user data, in an unsuccessful bid to bring Facebook to China, according to a whistleblower complaint.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is investing heavily in AI technology as it attempts to catch up to industry players like OpenAI. Now, the social media giant hopes that “hundreds of millions” of small businesses will embrace its agentic AI to reach new customers.

A recent report by content licensing platform TollBit has exposed a significant disparity in referral traffic sent to publishers by AI search engines like those from OpenAI and Perplexity compared to traditional search engines like Google.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg tore off his suit and revealed a sparkling blue jumpsuit during a performance he gave at his wife’s 40th birthday party on Friday.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has terminated approximately 20 employees for sharing internal confidential information outside the organization, according to a company spokesperson. Meta’s ultra-woke employee base is not adjusting well to the Trump-friendly “Zuck 2.0” era of their employer.

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of leftist echo chamber Reddit, has expressed his support for Mark Zuckerberg’s recent decision to terminate Meta’s biased third-party “fact-checking” program, calling it a “very pragmatic change.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Instagram, has issued an apology after users reported a flood of violent and sexual content appearing in their Instagram Reels feed. Some of horrific content suggested by the company’s algorithm should never have been allowed on the platform, let alone recommended to unsuspecting users.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has announced that social media users can now sign up for the Community Notes system on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The company scrapped its third-party “fact checking” system due to its overwhelming leftist bias after the election of Donald Trump.

Elon Musk’s X and Google are leading a pack of tech giants expressing concerns that the cost of funding the UK’s Online Safety Act could drive businesses out of the country.

Andrew Bosworth, the notoriously progressive CTO for Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, has told the company’s workforce of crybaby leftists to either adapt to the company’s new policies or consider working elsewhere. When faced with whining by employees saying Meta cutting DEI programs and removing tampons from men’s restrooms are a “slap in the face,” Bosworth retorted, “You should quit if you feel that way, I mean it.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is laying off five percent of its workforce, but also expediting the recruitment of machine learning engineers to fill AI roles.

Google, the wokest company in all of Silicon Valley, is eliminating its racial hiring quotas and reviewing its DEI programs, joining other tech giants rethinking their approach to “diversity.”

A coalition of teen and adult activists against “digital abuse” targeting youth took to Washington, DC, on Tuesday with Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) standing with them to support the creation of legislation and a nationwide movement.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is offering TikTok creators up to $50,000 a month to post exclusive content on Instagram Reels. Zuckerberg views the uncertain future of China’s TikTok as the perfect opportunity to tighten his grip on the social media landscape.

According to a leaked conversation, during a recent all-hands meeting at Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed his frustration with internal leaks, stating that “everything I say leaks. And it sucks, right?” The social media titan may be facing a hostile workforce based on his “Zuck 2.0” makeover as a masculine leader extending an olive branch to President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

President Trump has signed settlement papers that will require Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to pay roughly $25 million to resolve a 2021 lawsuit Trump filed after the company suspended his accounts on Facebook and Instagram.

Some employees of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, are so discouraged by the removal of tampons from the men’s bathroom that they are engaging in their own form of protest by bringing their own.

Recent data from multiple analytics firms suggests that calls for a boycott of Meta’s platforms have had little impact on user engagement, despite Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to cut biased left-wing “fact checking” programs and the Silicon Valley giant’s DEI initiatives.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has responded to leftists claiming that Facebook and Instagram are forcing them to follow the accounts of Donald Trump, JD Vance, and First Lady Melania Trump. According to the company, these users are confused as the official White House accounts are transitioned to the new administration.

In an opinion piece, former Facebook diversity executive Bärí A. Williams criticizes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to disband the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, signaling a shift in priorities as he aligns with the incoming Trump administration.

The most influential tech platforms have are attending President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration after donating millions of dollars to his inauguration committee.