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Tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel said Tuesday that American Big Tech companies do not consider themselves to be “American companies.”

Parler, the social media service falsely blamed by Democrats for being an extremist platform, worked closely with the FBI for months before the Capitol riot on January 6, warning law enforcement about specific threats, the company said Thursday.

HBO’s “Silicon Valley” actor Alice Wetterlund took to Twitter to respond to recent allegations of sexual misconduct by her co-star Thomas Middleditch, saying she “tried to warn you all.”

The state of California has reportedly banned “dark patterns,” which are user interfaces designed to trick and frustrate users in order to take advantage of them. Web sites designed to make it difficult to cancel subscriptions are one example of dark pattern design.

A recent report from CNN outlines how social media platforms are now having to work harder to keep content creators and online talent exclusive to their platforms. Platforms are throwing cash at prominent content creators, for example, one pair of influencers recently received almost $30,000 for a single Snapchat video.

A recent report alleges that multiple Google employees that approached the company with complaints of racism and sexism were urged to take medical leave and focus on their mental health.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is planning on marshalling a global effort among industrialised nations to introduce a so-called ‘Amazon tax’.

California’s wealthy elite have been doing vey well during the coronavirus pandemic, despite economic shutdowns that have devastated small businesses and caused widespread job losses and disruption.

Republicans are “becoming the party of blue-collar Americans” so long as the party continues on a populist-nationalist agenda, new analysis reveals. 

The UK may follow the lead of Australia and Canada in forcing Facebook to pay news publishers for their content, officials have suggested.

Facebook announced on Wednesday that “with a heavy heart” it will be banning Australian media outlets and censoring users within the country from sharing or viewing news articles on its service. The move comes in response to a potential Australian law that would force Google and Facebook to pay news publishers for their content.

President Joe Biden considered asking Silicon Valley for help with his vaccine rollout. The decision to join forces would further harmonize Big Tech and the Biden Administration; this after Biden packed his transition team with 23 Big Tech executives.

“Cancel culture aims to make people afraid to express their opinions”, and Big Tech is pushing the new system, the minister told Breitbart.

Poland’s new Freedom Act against Big Tech censorship will see members of the public automatically notified of “shadowbans” and empowered to overturn restrictions if their speech online is lawful.

The Republican romance with Big Tech didn’t work out as planned. The Big Techsters, confident of kneejerk Republican support for low taxes and deregulation, were free to follow their bliss on avant-garde woke social issues. In other words, the GOP was safeguarding Big Tech, while the Techsters, taking Republicans for granted, acted like good Democrats.  

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a Republican, is welcoming top executives in the tech world who are moving their companies to his city. Suarez said that tech executives and workers have been won over by his telling them, “Hey, we want you, hey, we appreciate you.”

The Hungarian government has confirmed that it will legislate against Big Tech censorship online, declaring that “we must fight for our digital freedom!”

Vacation rental company Airbnb on Friday offered the Biden administration assistance with distributing the coronavirus vaccine nationwide.

A Silicon Valley elementary school was teaching third-graders Critical Race Theory, asking them to identify their “power and privilege.”

Twitter recently acquired the social broadcasting app Breaker as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to expand its audio features. Breaker, a podcast app, gained steam after becoming one of the first podcast platforms on which users could comment and follow their friends. Breaker’s functions will be incorporated into a product called Twitter Spaces.

The popular digital workplace service Slack recently suffered an outage on the first full workday of 2021. Companies that rely on the platform to manage their remote work activities were left unable to connect to the service for most of the day on Monday.

Half of the blue-collar migrants who openly crossed the southern border between 2014 and 2019 remain in the United States, according to March 2020 data posted by the Department of Homeland Security. 

The coronavirus pandemic took nearly two million lives worldwide and caused unprecedented economic devastation this year, but 2020 had at least three big winners who came out stronger in spite of – or perhaps because of – the pandemic: the world’s billionaires, Silicon Valley’s tech lords, and communist China, where the virus originated.

Former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is attacking conservative and anti-woke celebrities, demanding that social media giants step up censorship because these stars are tweeting “irrational and harmful opinions to millions.”

Top Silicon Valley executives donated tens of thousands of dollars to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, often maxing out on the strict limits imposed upon personal political donations, according to an analysis by Fox News.

After an election year in which the tech giants repeatedly interfered in the election against President Donald Trump, Joe Biden is now rewarding Silicon Valley by appointing insiders to a range of roles in his transition team.

The music streaming service Spotify has reportedly reset an undisclosed number of user passwords after claiming that a software vulnerability in its systems exposed privacte user information to its business partners.

Big Tech executives will be the “most notable billionaire winners” of the presidential election if former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) are sworn in as president and vice president in January 2021, according to Forbes.

Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren will put her Silicon Valley version of GOP Sen. Mike Lee’s S.386 green card giveaway bill into the year-end omnibus bill — if top GOP leaders stand aside, say sources and lobbyists.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) is signaling that she will hold up a quick House passage, for which there would be little-to-no discussion, of Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) green card giveaway for Big Tech.

A judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s reforms of the H-1B visa worker program that allows Fortune 500 CEOs to sideline many American professionals and new graduates.

Hollywood director Paul Feig is urging Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to suspend President Donald Trump from the social media platform, claiming that the president is “trying to tear this country apart.” But the Joe Biden-supporting filmmaker failed to cite any examples of the president violating Twitter rules that could lead to a suspension.

Democrat Joe Biden has chosen Ronald Klain to be his chief of staff should he enter the White House in January. Klain worked on behalf of Silicon Valley executives and their interests, which include providing tech corporations with an endless supply of H-1B foreign visa workers and more free trade.

“Borat” star and British actor Sacha Baron Cohen has called for the removal of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg after the media called the election for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

A little-known super PAC backed by major donors from Silicon Valley and boosted by massive amounts of left-wing “dark money” is unleashing tens of millions of dollars in attack ads against President Trump.

Actress Rose McGowan, who has publicly denounced Joe Biden as a fraud and a liar, is accusing Facebook and Twitter of trying to suppress her freedom of speech, adding that she suspects the censorship is the work of the Democratic party.