Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated recently that the upcoming U.S. midterm elections will be “a real test” of the company’s ability to crack down on “hate speech” and misinformation.
Tech entrepreneur and Founder of Megaupload Kim Dotcom criticized Twitter’s “lazy programming” and “lousy privacy protection” in a series of Twitter posts announcing his own decentralized social network, Tuesday.
A gobsmackingly inept piece in the Daily Mail by Dominic Lawson seeks to blame the Pittsburgh synagogue murders partly on the social media site Gab.
The Family Research Council Action PAC is launching a “social media blitz” starting Tuesday, targeting Illinois Democrat Sean Casten for his proud support of anti-Christian sex columnist Dan Savage.
An East Texas middle school principal was placed on administrative leave Friday after he allegedly opposed illegal immigration in a Facebook post last week.
Twitter is planning to remove the “like” button from its platform as CEO Jack Dorsey is “not a fan” of it, according to a report from the Telegraph.
“A few weeks ago it was a Rocket Ship, now it is a Blimp!” he wrote on Twitter. “Total Bias?”
Facebook has censored a pro-life group’s ads because they contain video footage of ultrasounds and photos of babies who survived premature births.
Twitter can track your online activity even after you delete its app from your phone and log out across all browsers, thanks to a setting that can only be disabled by accessing a particular page on Twitter’s website.
The biggest of the Big Tech companies are quickly positioning themselves as the internet’s thought police, threatening to stamp out one of America’s most cherished freedoms — the right to free speech.
A single Saudi Arabian Twitter employee was able to help the government of Saudi Arabia spy on dissidents, according to a report.
Sir Nick Clegg, the left-wing former Deputy Prime Minister hired as vice-president of global affairs and communications by Facebook, has a long history public controversy, and has previously had harsh words for his new paymasters.
TAir Force veteran Brian Kolfage is vowing to fight Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — all the way up to Supreme Court if necessary — if the social media giant does not reinstate his Facebook pages, which Facebook deleted without warning or explanation.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed in an interview this week that it was a “joke” when the social network described itself as the “free-speech wing of the free-speech party.”
Facebook will ban election “misinformation” ahead of the midterms this year, including satirical posts which claim people can vote via text message.
Gay Patriot, a popular conservative Twitter user, has been permanently blacklisted from the social network for undefined “hateful conduct.”
ABC and Fox News Channel alumnus Jedediah Bila, author of #DoNotDisturb: How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life, linked the growing ubiquity of social media with “moral degradation” across America.
First lady Melania Trump said in an interview with ABC while touring Africa that she is enjoying her role despite the fact that she is continually bullied, even when she is trying to do charitable events.
President Donald Trump may meet with top executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter in October, according to the White House.
A Canadian journalist associate of Tommy Robinson is under police investigation for filming the right-wing activist waving at fans from a window after his appearance in court this Thursday.
Fox Sports Radio’s Clay Travis, author of Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left Is Ruining Sports with Politics, noted how sports media figures are ten times more likely to financially support Democrats than their political media counterparts. He offered his remarks in a Wednesday interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
Free speech social media platform Gab.ai has rebranded as Gab.com and aims to become a tech hub for “liberty-minded tech startups” that wish to avoid connections to leftist Silicon Valley groups.
Theresa May has said Facebook is “allowing people-smuggling adverts”, revealing the UK government is aware of more than 500 pages and posts allegedly advertising and facilitating illegal crossing.
Iran’s hardline Islamist government has attacked social media platform Twitter and accused it of randomly closing down what it calls “legitimate accounts.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reportedly “exploring a potential investigation” of Big Tech social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
Following the launch of American football kneeler Colin Kaepernick’s Nike advertisement, social media users began to make their own versions mocking the shoe company.
29 percent of men under 30 have had their political views changed by social media, while 14 percent of Americans overall have been affected by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other platforms in the same way, according to Pew Research.
CAIRO – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has ratified a law granting authorities the right to monitor social media users in the country as part of tightening internet controls, the official gazette said Saturday.
President Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign manager Brad Parscale issued a warning to Twitter on Tuesday.
On Tuesday’s “Rush Limbaugh Show,” host Rush Limbaugh stated the free market is the answer to social media and tech bias. After referencing a caller who suggested net neutrality as a solution to tech bias, Rush said, “[W]hatever you do,
President Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to condemn Google, criticizing the search engine as “rigged” for favoring liberal and establishment news publications in its search results.
President Trump’s recent comments on social media censorship suggest he doesn’t think social media platforms should be allowed to ban anyone for any reason. Some would call this a radical proposal, but they’re wrong. Social media companies could easily move to a “no bans” policy, with little disruption to their users.
Ivanka Trump expressed heartache over the shooting in Jacksonville on Sunday and the left responded by mauling her on social media.
Bestselling author and conservative columnist Ann Coulter mocked the notion that Russian Facebook ads swayed the 2016 elections and slammed attempts to shut down conservative speech in her recent appearance on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
“Social Media Giants are silencing millions of people,” President Trump warned on Twitter.
Facebook on Thursday removed a piece by Salena Zito on why Trump supporters won’t care about Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort convictions.
“We believe in the right of Americans to speak their minds,” Trump said, criticizing social media censorship.
Twelve-year-old Timiyah Landers was severely injured Friday while attempting to participate in the latest in a series of potentially deadly internet “challenges.”
Popular rapper Post Malone faced danger earlier today when the plane he was on blew out two of its tires, forcing the plane to perform an emergency landing. Malone then took to Twitter to thank those that wished him a safe landing and to attack the “many people” that he claims used Twitter to “wished death” on him.
Social media giant Facebook has reportedly developed a hidden system to assign “reputation scores” to users, rating their trustworthiness according to multiple factors. This system, reminiscent of the Chinese government’s “social credit system,” came to light in a new report by the Washington Post.