The founders and CEOs of several popular alternative social networks, including Minds, Gab, and BitChute, have revealed to Breitbart Tech their thoughts on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s two congressional hearings this week.
A group calling itself a “worldwide leader in Virtual Private Network research and statistics” organized protests on Capitol Hill, at Facebook’s headquarters in California, and at its campus in Austin, Texas, “to advocate for consumer privacy rights and online security.”
Creators like The Pun Guys are becoming more and more unhappy with Facebook’s tight-fisted stance in regards to its biggest social media influencers.
The thing that puts me off libertarianism is the “more libertarian than thou” game so many libertarians like to play.
Technology analysts are suggesting that blockchain technology will back the next generation of privacy-focused social media platforms that will allow users to own their personal data.
“Reining in social media appears to be the trend of governments,” China’s state-run Global Times declared happily in a Sunday editorial. It is not wrong.
According to Bloomberg, “Twitter Inc. plunged to its lowest price in six weeks after short-seller Citron Research said it was betting against the company because of potential privacy regulations.”
Playboy has announced its departure from Facebook, removing its collection of pages, following user data mishandling allegations against the social network.
EXCLUSIVE: Tommy Robinson Hints at Free Speech Rally at Twitter UK Offices Following Account Ban
The Swedish government is planning to put more pressure on tech giants Google, Facebook, and Twitter to end anonymity for ‘online trolls’ and those accused of posting hate speech.
Starting May 1, Microsoft will begin enforcing a ban on “offensive language.” To do so, they have determined that they have the right to mine private user data to “investigate.”
The CEOs of Apple and IBM gave a blunt assessment of Facebook’s ongoing data privacy scandal.
Model Chrissy Teigen announced her departure as a user from Snapchat, Saturday, following Rihanna’s own attack on the platform this month.
A new poll shows that public trust in social media platform Facebook has dropped massively following the site’s latest data scandal.
Following the “refocusing” of Facebook’s News Feed algorithm to prioritize posts from friends and family, Facebook’s ad costs spiked significantly, as ads are reaching fewer consumers.
Dubai – Bahraini authorities on Sunday announced they would be taking “severe measures” to track down dissidents who use social media, as the Gulf monarchy tightens its grip on political opposition.
Robert Epstein, a Senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, published an op-ed recently claiming that Cambridge Analytica are not the problem in the latest user data scandal, but tech giants Facebook and Google themselves are.
Democrat campaign strategist Justin Horwitz appeared on Breitbart News Saturday to discuss how Facebook’s recent changes could lead to censorship, and the way they “marginalize any voice that isn’t in lockstep.”
A new report suggests that universities are spending an upwards of $20,000 on monitoring the private social media accounts of their students.
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.
There is nothing wrong with tattoos, Pope Francis told a group of young people Monday, urging them to be open to cultural expressions of “belonging.”
France’s government has released a public plan to enable it to fight racism and anti-Semitism, focusing on social media and prevention in schools.
On March 15, NPR noted the heinous nature of Florida’s Parkland school shooting but quickly added that claims school shootings are at epidemic levels are false.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been slammed for flying to a liberal arts festival in Texas in the midst of a violent crime wave in his city, to argue that national government should focus on pressuring social media firms to increase censorship.
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.
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.
A 65-year-old woman in the city of Jönköping is set to be prosecuted on hate crime charges for claiming that mass Muslim immigration will lower the general IQ of the Swedish population.
Facebook has banned a number of pages associated with the street marching and activism group Britain First, a week after the leaders of the organisation were convicted of religiously aggravated harassment in an English court.
Facebook has banned pages run by the right-wing Britain First group across their platform.
Popular YouTube Star Jake Paul has taken to Twitter to call for gun reform, including a 30-day waiting period after gun purchase.
New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo boasted about spending two months offline in an article this month. However, it has been revealed he used Twitter consistently throughout the period. “Manjoo wrote about what he learned from his two months
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.”
More than half of millennials are “seeking relief from social media,” according to a report.
Snapchat’s parent company Snap is set to layoff 100 employees from their engineering team following a tough few months for the company.
Congress and the American public should reject the resisters’ cynical ploy to regulate our broadband infrastructure under the false pretense that Washington must save the Internet.
Sri Lanka has reportedly blocked access to social media and messaging sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp in an attempt to prevent “hate speech.”
More details about the American employee of Marriott International who lost his job for violating China’s authoritarian speech codes are coming to light.
Tomas Åberg, project manager for Näthatsgranskaren, or “Network Examiner” an internet-based group who report Swedes to authorities if they see them post “hate speech” online, has been nominated for the “Swedish Hero” award by one of the country’s major newspapers.
Two Missouri men were sentenced to prison last Friday for killing a cat and posting a video of it on social media.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has claimed that “not all interactions in social media are equally good for people in terms of their psychological well-being.”
