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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.

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.

YouTube has issued a statement via their Twitter account about the recent Logan Paul video which featured the dead body of a suicide victim. In the statement, released a week after the video itself, YouTube claims no responsibility for the video and claims to have “acted accordingly.”

Project Veritas has released a new video showing a Twitter employee stating that the company is prepared to hand private DMs from President Trump over to the Department of Justice

Elon Musk’s SpaceX appears to have lost a mysterious government payload known as “Zuma” in their latest rocket launch.

According to a recent lawsuit filed by former Google engineer James Damore, Google’s definition of diversity is “women or individuals who were not Caucasian or Asian.”

A class action lawsuit filed by former Google engineer James Damore claims there is a pattern of intimidation of conservatives at Google.

A new report claims that ten percent of Amazon’s Ohio workforce is receiving food stamps.

Facebook has announced that a system bug may have revealed users’ personal phone numbers to advertisers.

Following the #MeToo hashtag aimed at raising awareness of sexual assault, Silicon Valley has begun capitalizing on the issue of workplace harassment.

Apple has revealed that all of their Mac computers, iPads, and iPhones are vulnerable to the Meltdown and Spectre CPU bugs recently discovered by Google.

In a recent op-ed, Bloomberg predicted that 2018 will be the year of heavily censored social media.

A new report states that Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sold $24 million in stocks in November shortly after the company was made aware of a massive vulnerability in the computing giant’s processors.

El Al Israel Airlines (ELAL.TA) said on Wednesday it will begin nonstop flights between Tel Aviv and San Francisco in the fourth quarter, as it continues to expand into North America.

According to a new report, YouTube may have approved the Logan Paul “suicide forest” video to be published despite knowing exactly what it depicted.

Left-wing activists have set their sights on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, projecting a message reading “@Jack is #Complicit” on the wall of Twitter’s headquarters following President Trump’s latest tweets on North Korea.

YouTube Star Logan Paul has released a video apologizing for his recent video blog in which he filmed the dead body of a suicide victim in Japan’s “suicide forest.”

Germany has announced that social media websites that don’t remove “obviously illegal” posts could now face up to €50 million in fines.

Uber reportedly claimed in a letter to the FTC that their drivers earned less than Uber’s advertised rates because they were choosing not to drive enough.

Streaming services are reportedly planning to put an end to the sharing of account passwords between multiple users.

Social media giant Facebook will no longer be marking news stories as “disputed” as the company says people are more likely to believe possibly inaccurate news stories with the associated tag.

Julia Carrie Wong writes at The Guardian that the election of Donald Trump has shocked the tech industry into taking a more critical look at their effect on the world:

A European Union court has issued Uber a setback by ruling that the ride-sharing app is operating as a transport company, not a tech company, and is subject to transport regulations.

Twitter’s Vice President of Public Policy and Communications recently stated in an interview that it was “no longer possible to stand up for all speech.”

The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled “The Google-Facebook Duopoly Threatens Diversity of Thought,” finally acknowledging a point that Breitbart News has been stating for some time.

France Gives WhatsApp One Month to Stop Sharing User Data with Facebook

T.J. Miller, the former star of HBO’s Silicon Valley, is now facing accusations that while in college he sexually assaulted and punched a woman.

Tech leaders are beginning to worry that Silicon Valley’s new political correctness is stifling innovation.

The former Facebook executive who stated that social media was “ripping apart the social fabric of how society works” has backtracked on his previous statements, saying now that he loves Facebook.

California’s Democrat-controlled legislature is again leading the so-called “resistance” to President Donald Trump — this time, by planning to reinstate Net Neutrality rules repealed by FCC’s Republican majority last Thursday.

Another Uber driver has been charged with rape, this time of a 16-year-old girl in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

There is now more freedom of speech in Beijing than in the San Francisco Bay area — and this could kill the Silicon Valley tech industry.

Google has once again overtaken Facebook as the number one traffic referrer in 2017.

Former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya recently described his regrets in helping to build the company, stating that he believes social media is “ripping apart” modern society.

The European Union (EU) has threatened tech companies with further regulation unless they crack down on “extremist content” faster, according to a report.

Shervin Pishevar, the co-founder of Hyperloop One and former Uber board member, has taken a leave of absence following allegations of sexual harassment.