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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently stated his belief that Facebook should pay publishers on their platform, “similar to the model adopted by cable companies,” while at the same time attacking both Facebook and Google for the rise of “scurrilous news sources.”

A Facebook manager has stated that the company “can’t guarantee” that social media is good for democracy but claims that they are working on improving their platform.

Despite receiving billions of dollars in government funding, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is unable to perform a rocket test fire due to lack of government assistance since the recent shutdown.

Top tech venture capitalist Sir Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital caused a stir last week by claiming that American tech workers in Silicon Valley are lazy compared to tech workers in China. Sequoia is one of the oldest and highest performing Silicon Valley start-up

Facebook will reportedly begin to rank news outlets based on the level of trust users have in them as determined by surveys conducted by the social media platform.

A new Instagram feature lets your friends know when you were last online — here’s how to disable it.

Social media company Snapchat has laid off two dozen of their employees and relocated some of their content team members from New York to Los Angeles.

Foreign-born workers now overwhelmingly outnumber Americans in coveted high-paying, high-skilled, white-collar jobs in Silicon Valley, California, the hub of the tech industry.

Microsoft President Brad Smith and EVP of A.I. Harry Shum have written a book which claims that within 20 years, human “alter egos” will exist in artificial intelligence.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a recent interview that President Trump’s tax plan would result in a faster-growing economy and greater job creation.

Bloomberg recently published an investigation into former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, providing insight into the issues that the company has faced in the past year.

Facebook and Google are countering “extremist” content on their platforms with counter-propaganda, according to a report.

Amazon has narrowed the future location of its second headquarters, called “HQ2,” to 20 cities. 19 cities in America and Toronto, Canada, remain in the running for the $5 billion project.

The State of California is leading 20 other states — and defending Silicon Valley’s interests — by suing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to stop its decision to repeal Net Neutrality rules.

Apple is reportedly giving $2,500 bonuses to most global employees in stock units thanks to President Trump’s new tax law.

YouTube announced their intentions to make it even harder for creators to monetize their videos on the platform this week.

Apple announced in a press release on Wednesday that the company will be investing $350 billion into the U.S. economy over the next five years.

Partner and Chief Strategy Officer of GEM Advertising Peter Kozodoy published an op-ed recently outlining why he’s rethinking his investment in Facebook.

A new report has revealed the harsh working conditions inside the factories of Catcher Technology — a manufacturer of many Apple products — where 90 workers were hospitalized last year after a chemical leak.

The recent exposé published by Project Veritas included Twitter engineers allegedly detailing the ways they spy on their users, but these engineers claimed they still weren’t as “creepy as Facebook or Google,” — so exactly how creepy are these other Silicon Valley tech tit

Roger McNamee, one of Facebook’s early investors and a mentor of Mark Zuckerberg, has criticised the company for prioritizing profits over user safety.

An LA hotel has begun using robot butlers to deliver items to guests rooms — but are robot butlers more effort than they are worth?

The Shanghai Consumer Council has requested that Apple provide a full explanation for the slowdown of older iPhone models.

Twitter’s algorithms for political censorship target language and images — such as “America” and the American flag — associated with Breitbart News’s audience, said Project Veritas President James O’Keefe on Monday.

Following the publication of Project Veritas’ third bombshell video, which detailed Twitter employees searching through the private messages of users, nearly all major online tech publications have ignored the story entirely.

Apple has agreed to store the iCloud user data of customers in China on government-backed Chinese servers, despite fears that the government may have access to citizen’s private information.

In the latest video from Project Veritas, Twitter employees have alleged that user data is sold to third-party companies for profit.

AirBnB has promised to invest $100,000 in advertising for rentals available in countries which have reportedly been called shithole countries” by Trump.

James Damore, the former Google software engineer who has filed a class action lawsuit against the company alleging discrimination towards conservatives, has opened a legal fee donation fund.

Facebook has announced an update to users newsfeeds which aims to make posts and content from their friends and family more visible on their timelines.

Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter noted today on Twitter that Utah Senator Mike Lee had a sudden change of opinion about Google once the company expanded into his state.

Twitter shadow bans certain users and Breitbart Tech would like to explain exactly what shadow banning is.

The latest exposé from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas delved into the world of Twitter, confirming years of Breitbart Tech’s reporting on the company.

In a recent interview with former Google Engineer James Damore, Fox News host Tucker Carlson stated that the biggest threat to freedom is no longer the federal government, but large tech companies like Google.

A lawsuit filed by former Google engineer James Damore claims that Google allowed an employee that identifies as a “yellow-scaled wingless dragonkin” give a talk on living as a “plural being.”

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich may face a lawsuit or other legal problems due to his stock sales before the Meltdown CPU bug was revealed, according to legal experts.