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Former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Wireless Bureau Chief Fred Campbell told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Tuesday that America’s largest technology companies have “abused” Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to censor conservatives.

Students at San Mateo High School — in the heart of Silicon Valley — must now lock up their phones at the start of every school day this year. The school is using a device, developed by a start-up company specifically for locking up phones so that students can be more engaged with their surroundings rather than with their phones.

According to a report by Motherboard, a flawed electronic essay scoring algorithm has been adopted by several states. Experts say the algorithms stress the ability to write in whole sentences, not creative or insightful thinking by students.

A new report suggests that DoorDash is still withholding tips from its delivery workers, despite promising a month ago to pay drivers the tips customers give them.

A former Google employee sent a memo before leaving the tech giant in which he claims to have been subjected to racism as a black person working for the Masters of the Universe.

Project Veritas’s latest exposé gave “smoking gun proof” that Google’s executives, including CEO Sundar Pichai, “have been lying under oath” and “perjuring themselves before Congress,” said Dr. Robert Epstein, senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

“I believe we can build a Silicon Prairie,” the South Bend mayor said as voters laughed.

According to a new report, MoviePass locked out high-volume moviegoers from the service by changing their passwords, to prevent them from using the service to get tickets for Avengers: Infinity War and other movies.

A former executive at the dating app company Tinder has sued the firm, alleging that the company’s CEO at the time sexually assaulted her and fired her following her complaint about the incident.

Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow warned students about the growing power of the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe during a speech at the Young America’s Foundation’s National Conservative Student Conference.

Dave Matthews, Anderson Paak and Maren Morris are forming a new lobbying group to represent artists’ interests across the Internet.

Apple contractors around the world regularly hear people having sex, discussing confidential medical and legal matters, and committing crimes such as drug deals, during quality control work for the Silicon Valey giant’s Siri virtual voice assistant.

“We should be cutting Huawei off and trying to kill it,” advised Gordon Chang, columnist at the Daily Beast and author of The Coming Collapse of China, in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Politicians facilitating an “invasion” of illegal immigration are “contributing” to daily killings of Americas, said Mary Ann Mendoza.

San Francisco saw its homeless population rise by 17% in the last two years, but the rise in many surrounding counties has been worse.

A recent exposé on a number of Silicon Valley delivery apps reveals the pressure drivers are put under and how tips meant for drivers are diverted directly to the bottom line by some popular delivery apps, including DoorDash.

Sam Liccardo, the Donald Trump-hating mayor of San Jose, revealed that he will make a cameo appearance in the first episode of the sixth and final season of the hit HBO comedy Silicon Valley.

Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza, who heads the Angel Families organization, has been suspended from Twitter after posting about illegal immigration and raising awareness about the harms of sanctuary city policies. 

The ruling class’s consensus in support of globalizing the American economy is working “quite well” for its architects, the “cosmopolitan class,” while leaving behind the “great American middle,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.

H.R.1044 will “displace Americans” in the labor market in favor of “cheap foreign labor,” said Hilarie Gamm, author of Billions Lost: The American Tech Crisis and The Road Map to Change and co-founder of the American Workers Coalition.

Tech giant Google is being criticized for what many are calling an attempt to create a modern company town, where Google itself owns the majority of houses and businesses.

Rep. Paul Gosar is blasting the passage of a bill that will allow Indian nationals to monopolize the United States’ green card system, providing Silicon Valley’s tech elites with an endless flow of cheaper, foreign workers. 

Amazon, the multinational corporation run by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is thanking the 140 House Republicans and 224 House Democrats for passing legislation that will reinforce Silicon Valley’s cheap labor, outsourcing business model.

House Republicans and Democrats are rewarding the “indentured servitude” business model of Silicon Valley’s tech conglomerates with a bill that allows Indian nationals to monopolize the United States’ green card system, an expert says.

China expert and Asia Times columnist David P. Goldman joined SiriusXM hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Monday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight to talk about the apparent victory of the protest movement in Hong Kong.

Antifa protesters harassed Trump supporters Saturday in the nation’s capital, showing up to counter-protest a planned “Demand Free Speech” rally in D.C’.s Freedom Plaza.

Michelle Malkin warned of tech companies’ increasing political censorship ahead of the 2020 presidential and congressional elections, offering her remarks in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.

Actor and creator of Family Guy Seth MacFarlane floated a “National No Twitter Day” Tuesday evening, which could very well signal the growing concerns of the social justice charade embraced by Silicon Valley.

In 2013, then-Vice President Joe Biden advocated for bringing more H-1B foreign visa workers to the United States to compete against American graduates and professionals in high-paying science, technology, and engineering jobs.

Blexit founder Candace Owens told Breitbart News on Saturday that big tech companies are trying to “make sure that conservative voices are suspended ahead of the 2020 election cycle” under the guise of protecting the “safety” of social media users.

James O’Keefe, founder and head of Project Veritas, joined Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak to discuss how Pinterest secretly used censorship against news media outlets such as Gateway Pundit, PJ Media, and Zero Hedge.

Mike Cernovich said a review of Google’s internal emails in an ongoing lawsuit will reveal hatred of Christians and conservatives.

“Every week, you see them going after Facebook and Apple, and all of these companies, they’re great companies, but there is something going on. I will say the European Union is suing them all the time,” he said in an interview on CNBC.

Santa Clara County’s Superior Court judge said, “Sorry Google, you’re going to have to face these charges in court,” recalled Harmeet Dhillon.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has declared that the big tech “era of self-regulation is over” despite her continuing fundraising from Silicon Valley. 

Juul CEO Kevin Burns told the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board Thursday that the vaping company plans to stay in the city — along with its 1,200 employees — even as the city considers banning the sale of e-cigarettes.