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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. 

Independent video journalist Ford Fischer warned of online censorship corrupting the historical record via deletion of content documenting live events in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. He also discussed YouTube’s recent demonetization of his channel — including its removal of some of his videos, which harm his ability to produce independent journalism.

Silicon Valley investors have already gotten some election officials to begin using “vote by phone” technology, and hope that the concept will flourish, eventually becoming the new standardized voting procedure. Experts in coding and cryptography, however, are concerned over the tech innovation, warning that it will introduce more problems than it will solve.

The House Judiciary Committee said Monday that it will launch a “top-to-bottom” antitrust investigation of America’s largest tech companies, including Amazon, Facebook, and Google, making antitrust behavior of big tech a bipartisan issue. 

The residential real estate surrounding Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, is now so expensive that many locals have been forced to live in vans and RVs.

The Washington Post suggested that Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) remains skeptical of populist moves to break up Big Tech, while many other 2020 Democrat presidential candidates continue to rail against America’s largest technology companies.

Mike Cernovich described the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe expanding censorship of conservatives as a political measure to assist Democrats in 2020’s upcoming presidential elections and beyond, offering his remarks in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

An article at Vox.com on Wednesday fretted about the amount of foreign money bubbling through Silicon Valley — particularly from the authoritarian regimes of China and Saudi Arabia — and offered a little backhand praise to the Trump administration for taking the problem seriously.

President Trump retweeted a Breitbart News story about Facebook’s blacklist of prominent conservatives including Paul Joseph Watson. Good.

The Hoover Institution will hold an event entitled “Big Tech and the Future of the Free & Open Internet” on Thursday in Washington, DC, featuring keynote speaker Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO).

The Marriott hotel chain has plans to compete with Airbnb in the home-rental market with a new business launching in the coming year.

Facebook warned investors that an FTC investigation of its privacy practices would likely cost the company between $3 billion and $5 billion.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will leave Facebook next month after eight years service on its board amid reported, the social media giant announced.

After years of working alongside tech firms during election cycles, Democrats have apparently decided that Silicon Valley is the biggest boogeyman of the 2020 Democratic primary.

Peter Schweizer explained Google’s procurements of political compliance from ostensibly conservative figures via donations.

Robert Epstein found that Google “suppresses [and] depresses websites such as Breitbart News” in pushing its political left-wing biases.

Robert Epstein said Elizabeth Warren tries to “look aggressive” towards Silicon Valley while receiving donations from Big Tech companies.

A recent report from CNBC provides some insight into the sort of money that young interns are being paid at major tech firms, including the fact that Facebook interns make $96,000 a year, nearly double the median salary in America.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry told Breitbart News that attorneys general across America — both Democrat and Republican — are considering “all actions,” including the use of existing antitrust law, to curb the growing power held by technology firms such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter. 

Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), the chairman of the House Juduciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, on Tuesday, called for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether Facebook violated American antitrust laws.

Silicon Valley investor Bill McGlashan has parted ways with TPG Capital this week in response to the college admissions bribery scandal that he has been charged with taking part in.

A leading proponent of “ethical” investing in Silicon Valley allegedly participated in the college admissions scandal that was uncovered by the Department of Justice this week.

“Actually it’s incredible that I won the election because you know it was so rigged against me,” President Trump said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.

Jeff Bezos looks a lot like Ernst Blofeld, the fictional villain in several of the early James Bond movies. Is the resemblance just a coincidence? You decide.

Columnist Michelle Malkin says the “establishment Republican ruling class” does not want American citizens questioning the country’s legal immigration system, wherein more than 1.2 million legal immigrants are admitted every year. 

Patrick Courrielche, host of Red Pilled America, warned conservatives of the danger of ignoring Silicon Valley’s “unprecedented” monopolistic power and increasing censorship over the flow of information. These threats challenge conservative orthodoxy about the government’s role in regulating private industries, he explained.

A February 27 article in Breitbart News, based on a scoop from Project Veritas, highlighted a new concept, courtesy of our friends at Facebook: The Troll Twilight Zone.  (Cue up the eerie music.)

Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA, described immigration as America’s “biggest issue” in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

James O’Keefe invited insiders within Facebook, Google, and Twitter to become whistle-blowers and expose politically motivated censorship.

Left-wing Silicon Valley activists have launched a campaign calling for workers at major tech firms to step forward and blow the whistle on what they consider unethical business practices, which may include projects for the U.S. government.

The Chinese government on Monday unveiled its “Greater Bay Area” project to unite the semi-autonomous cities of Hong Kong and Macau with nine mainland cities into a tech and financial hub on par with Silicon Valley, its collective economy worth over $1.5 trillion.

Silicon Valley’s business elites and donor-class billionaires are uniting with elected Republicans and Democrats to ensure that white-collar, middle-class American jobs are swiftly outsourced to mostly Indian and Chinese nationals. 

Bloomberg published an article on Monday detailing an Apple “black site” for contractors in Cupertino, California, where workers are allegedly treated as “inferior” to the permanent Apple employees at the Big Tech giant’s new HQ.

The pro-mass immigration Koch brothers’ network of billionaire, donor class organizations are backing a Republican-Democrat coalition that would allow for the swift outsourcing of middle-class American jobs to mostly Indian nationals. 

In an article for the New Republic last week, two writers noted that the mainstream media has failed to register the shift in Silicon Valley from libertarianism to leftism.

The toxic belief that wealthy Jews manipulate politicians to harm America is one Ilhan Omar shares with the murderer at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.