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A lawsuit brought against Facebook by company investors claims that the company failed to protect user data which caused company shares to drop.

Facebook’s PR team reportedly pressured the New York Times to delete a reference to Sheryl Sandberg from one of the paper’s recent articles on the departure of Facebook Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos.

Actor-comedian Jim Carrey took to Twitter to share artwork targeting Facebook over reports that the social media network allowed third-party analytics firm Cambridge Analytica to access millions of its users’ data during the 2016 election.

A new report suggests that universities are spending an upwards of $20,000 on monitoring the private social media accounts of their students.

Following the recent revelations that the user data of millions of Facebook accounts was allegedly compromised via a personality quiz app, securing your Facebook account has become even more important. Follow the steps below to control what private data apps can access.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “saved tens of millions of dollars” by selling his Facebook stock before the company’s decline this week.

Sandy Parakilas, a former Facebook platform operations manager, claimed the company’s “horrifying” misuse of user data was routine, and that Facebook preferred to have “no idea” what third parties were doing with the freely available data.

Breitbart News Senior Technology Correspondent Allum Bokhari joined Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Tuesday, to discuss the Cambridge Analytica controversy.

Facebook has reportedly scheduled an open meeting with all employees on Tuesday to allow them to ask questions about the most recent user data scandal.

As Facebook deals with the fallout of their latest user data scandal, the company’s data security chief, Alex Stamos, is expected to resign from his position.

Facebook stock is down by seven percent today as the company faces another scandal relating to the use of user data.

The Guardian published an op-ed recently titled “No One Can Pretend Facebook is Just Harmless Fun Any More” which took aim at the social media company for their most recent user data exposure.

Google is reportedly teaming up with major retailers for a program called Shopping Actions as the tech giant attempts to take on Amazon while also boosting their revenue.

Tech giant Google has denied that they pay their female workers less than their male employees as lawsuits against the company continue to grow in number.

Friday in an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” PayPal co-founder and Founders Fund venture capitalist Peter Thiel explained his decision to relocate his business from Silicon Valley to Los Angeles. Thiel attributed the decision to the groupthink phenomenon that

Facebook has apologized for recent search suggestions that featured terms related to pornography, some of which included terms like “little girl.”

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) smacked down her former Silicon Valley allies this week by blocking a federal deregulation that would have expedited the testing of self-driving cars.

Despite Mark Zuckerberg’s claims that Facebook influencing an election was “ridiculous,” the company had a page of election “success stories” on their business website until it recently removed.

Tesla employees are claiming that as much as 40 percent of the parts manufactured by the company are flawed, causing expensive rework and hurting employee morale.

Twitter and YouTube allegedly targeted conservative commentator Steven Crowder, limiting his social media accounts and those of his staff, along with removing certain YouTube videos.

Analysis of Facebook traffic conducted by Western Journal is further confirmation that the platform’s recent newsfeed change was politically one-sided.

YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to “conspiracy theory” videos on the platform in an effort to combat alternative narratives, according to a report.

A startup claims that they can upload customer’s brains to the cloud in a process that is “100% fatal.”

The CEO of blood-testing company Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, has been charged alongside the company’s former President Ramesh Balwani with “elaborate, years-long fraud” by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

French authorities are reportedly considering fining Apple and Google for allegedly taking advantage of smaller french tech firms.

Facebook has banned pages run by the right-wing Britain First group across their platform.

Microsoft has received “hundreds” of gender discrimination and sexual harassment complaints since 2010, according to a report.

At a meeting with Bay Area Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA), female tech leaders described a culture of sexism in Silicon Valley.

Google parent company Alphabet and Apple have both suffered big hits to their reputations according to an annual survey of corporate brands.

Uber Chief Brand Officer Bozama Saint John has called on white men to ‘make noise’ about diversity in the workplace.

Snapchat’s continued troubles lend more weight to the argument that Facebook now holds a monopoly in social media.

Netflix has a wide range of categories for every type of film hosted on the entertainment service, but most are not visible at any given time. Here is how to access those hidden categories.

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, warned that “a few dominant platforms” have become Internet gatekeepers, and are now able to control what ideas can be seen online, in a statement, Monday.

Facebook Head of News Product Alex Hardiman expressed the company’s plans to “redefine its relationship” with news publishers in an effort to “minimize the bad” and “promote quality” during a panel at the South by Southwest film festival.

Twitter executives hosted a Periscope video livestream recently where they asked for advice on how to fix their platform and stated their wish to be the “most trusted service in the world.”

According to a new report, Facebook users are spending 24 percent less time on the platform.