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President Donald Trump defended his upcoming effort to protect Silicon Valley products from foreign countries copying their technology.

Despite previous debates relating to privacy issues following 87 million Facebook users’ data allegedly being accessed without their direct consent, Facebook has chosen to further increase the platforms on which it displays ads to its users.

President Donald Trump told reporters a 25 percent tariffs on Chinese technology goods will help Silicon Valley, but a top industry trade group that represents Google and other companies says Trump’s tariffs will hurt profits.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes made a court appearance Friday after being indicted for a “massive fraud” in the blood-testing business that once made her the toast of Silicon Valley.

Judge Richard Leon’s much anticipated antitrust decision on the merger of AT&T and Time Warner is in. AT&T scored a total victory against the U.S. government.

Facebook is advertising to hire “news credibility specialists,” as the company continues to take on the role of a publisher, making editorial decisions about what news content is “trusted” and what is not.

A Thursday report from Axios revealed that Google is facing billions in EU antitrust fines.

Google will not renew their artificial intelligence contract with the Pentagon, following both internal and external complaints, according to a report.

A new poll released Sunday found that nearly half of California’s Bay Area residents want to exit the area within a few years over the cost of living and unaffordable housing prices.

The deep blue Democrat stronghold of California has been the top beneficiary of what Wall Street analysts are calling the “Trump bump” in the economy.

Residents of California’s Silicon Valley are the most likely to move elsewhere due to the incredibly high cost of living, according to a new analysis.

More than 5,000 cases of alleged abuse in the H-1B visa program have been reported in the first year since President Trump created the fraud hotline.

Microsoft surpassed Google in stock market value this week following several years of doubt over whether or not the original Silicon Valley giant would turn it around.

Net Neutrality proponents are continuing to push for their policy even though they were unable to stop the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from dumping it.

Voters in two tech-heavy Silicon Valley cities will have the chance to vote in November on drastically spiking business taxation by charging a new per-employee tax.

“It really is critical to our democracy that people get accurate information” said Clinton.

Tesla has settled a class action lawsuit over the company’s autopilot system for its Model S and Model X cars, which was accused of being “dangerous.”

Google Plus has reportedly become overrun with ISIS accounts, who are openly sharing Islamic extremist content and calling for violence on the platform.

Facebook announced on Tuesday that they would be testing new safety measures to fight revenge porn — by analyzing nude photos submitted by users.

Politico published the results of a six-month investigation on Tuesday that concluded the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is not doing enough to protect American technology from foreign governments, especially China.

Mark Zuckerberg will face questions on Tuesday from European politicians on a variety of the social media giant’s issues around privacy and user data.

Facebook and Google have been presented with a plan to ensure real transparency. Will they take it?

Tech giant Google has officially removed the long-time company motto of “Don’t be evil” from its code of conduct.

Uber’s Chief Product Officer, Jeff Holden, is set to leave the company according to an Uber spokesperson — joining more than a dozen other executives who have left Uber over the last year.

A leaked internal video from Google portrays the company’s vision of “total data collection.”

Twitter has acknowledged that it is working to artificially limit the reach of “troll-like” accounts on the platform — “shadowbanning” users in all but name, a practice that the company has repeatedly denied.

One of Morgan Stanley’s most optimistic Tesla stock analysts has cut his stock price target for the company to below current trading prices.

Facebook, the social network at the center of privacy concerns, is offering privacy tips to children through their new youth portal.

Ridesharing company Uber has agreed to stop forcing victims of sexual assault during Uber rides into arbitration.

“The nexus of power in American media has moved from New York City to Silicon Valley,” said Sen. Cruz.

Tesla’s Senior Vice President of Engineering announced recently that he would be taking a leave of absence from the company, at a time when the car manufacturer is rushing to meet production deadlines.

The expiration of Net Neutrality rules — which regulated broadband cable as if it were a rotary phone service — is set for June 11.

A number of conservatives have been banned from the platform for posting facts and factual claims.

Facebook is reportedly overhauling its entire management structure following its recent user data scandal.

Executives from tech companies such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook are set to attend a discussion on Artificial Intelligence at the White House on Thursday.

Google has rebranded its research department to Google AI in an attempt to “better reflect” its “emphasis on implementing machine learning techniques in nearly everything we do at Google.”