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A curator at the University of Texas at Austin Biodiversity Center, who also teaches classes, defended his claims that Republicans desire an “ethnic cleansing” in a tweet this week.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said Wednesday that Congress needs to pass data privacy legislation to encourage more competition in the technology markets.

Pint-size comedy character John Bercow has announced that he plans to use his position as Speaker of the House of Commons to stop Brexit happening…

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joe Simons said Tuesday he remains prepared to break up America’s largest technology companies, even by reversing past mergers, as part of the regulator antitrust investigation into big tech.

What we have here is Cuomo once again embracing and encouraging political violence, just as he frequently does on his low-rated CNN show.

Internet users erupted with mockery in response to a video that surfaced of CNN’s Chris Cuomo having a public meltdown over a man who referred to him as “Fredo.” In the video, the CNN anchor used profanity and accused the man of using an ethnic slur equivalent to “the n-word,” before threatening to throw him down the stairs.

Obviously the “Fredo” nickname gets so far under Cuomo’s skin he’s hoping to make it go away by declaring it a racist insult, equal to the N-word,

Former Wall Street financier and short-lived White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci accused President Donald Trump of back-stabbing on Sunday, after the president reacted to Scaramucci’s recent criticism.

The White House is reportedly planning an executive order that would give the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a role in determining what gets censored on big tech platforms.

Twitter announced Friday that it unlocked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) campaign account after many Republican groups threatened to stop advertising on the social media platform.

Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Friday weighed in on Twitter suspending Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) reelection account after sharing a video of protesters allegedly making violent threats against the Senator while also allowing #MassacreMitch to

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said past comments from her former chief of staff were “divisive” during an interview Wednesday.

Social media companies and Internet service providers must censor “hate speech,” said Democrat presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke on Wednesday while speaking with MSNBC. He linked President Donald Trump to “hate speech” — including descriptions of the president as a “racist” and “white supremacist” — in the same interview and subsequent statements.

Americans Against Antisemitism founder Dov Hikind said Thursday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was a “coward” for blocking him on Twitter and for trying to have a lawsuit dismissed that would force her to allow him and others to view her account.

Social media company Twitter has admitted that an internal bug in its ad targeting system means that the site shared user data with advertising partners without consent.

Arizona State University journalism professor Steven Beschloss admitted on social media this week that he is not a fan of the Second Amendment. In fact, he is “sick to death” of the right to bear arms. He also blames President Donald Trump, who he claims is “bent on allowing these white supremacists to wage war on our country.”

The campaign account for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was suspended from Twitter after sharing a video of protesters allegedly making violent threats against the Senator, including a protester saying “just stab the motherfucker in the heart.” Twitter had no problem with “Massacre Mitch” trending on the platform.

The White House is preparing executive action to tackle big tech bias against conservatives and non-progressives, according to a report by Politico.

In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, radio host and founder of PragerU, Dennis Prager, explains why it’s important to hold tech companies accountable for censorship.

Wajahat Ali, a New York Times contributing op-ed writer and CNN contributor expressed glee as “#MassacreMoscowMitch” — an apparent reference to mass shootings and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) — trended on Twitter Monday and even tweeted out the hashtag himself.

Because there is no appeasing the left, as of this writing, #CancelNYT is still trending on Twitter with people still threatening to cancel their new York Times subscription or bragging that they already have.

Reza Aslan is probably most famous for cannibalism and being too much of a bitter, left-wing extremist — even for CNN.

More than two-thirds of American voters back an antitrust review of America’s largest technology companies, according to a poll released Monday. 

The Twitter account that has been linked to the gunman behind the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday morning re-tweeted a list purporting to provide names of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employees.

The CEO of web infrastructure giant Cloudflare has announced that the firm will blacklist anonymous online forum 8Chan following the recent shooting in El Paso, Texas. Cloudflare’s service offerings protect websites from cyberattacks such as DDOS attacks, designed to prevent sites from operating normally.

The suspended account tweeted in support of socialism, against the election of President Donald Trump, and in favor of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for president in 2020.

Far-left actor and anti-Trump resister Tom Arnold expressed his desire to stand over Donald Trump Jr.’s corpse in a Twitter thread featuring a photo of the elder Trump son trophy hunting, and standing over a dead elephant.

Rep. Ilhan Omar mocked President Donald Trump and his supporters on social media by touting that Speaker Nancy Pelosi took her back to Africa.

In one of those spectacular, double-shot bursts of self-importance and paranoid conspiracy mongering that has come to define and marginalize Never Trump into the national laughing stock it is, Twitter’s Rick Wilson actually believes his criticism of Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has made him a personal target of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow warned students about the growing power of the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe during a speech at the Young America’s Foundation’s National Conservative Student Conference.

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday objected to Twitter temporarily blocking the account of the Russian embassy to Syria, denouncing the move as an unacceptable violation of “freedom of opinion.”

Andrew Yang was not one of the Democrat candidates on stage for Tuesday’s debate but he took a swipe at his competitors on Twitter.

Marianne Williamson — although seeming to speak less than the other candidates on stage — was among the top trending candidates on Twitter.

Twitter has restored free speech activist Lindsay Shepherd’s account after widespread outrage. Shepherd was initially banned from the social media platform after getting into an argument with a transgender user.

American approval of the country’s largest technology companies has plummeted over the last several years, according to a poll released Monday.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Sunday he thinks its “unbelievable” that President Trump “attacks American cities” when asked about Trump’s tweet calling Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings’ Baltimore district a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”