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Republican Federal Trade Commissioner (FTC) Noah Phillips dismissed the idea of using the agency’s antitrust authority to address social media giants’ censorship practices.

Trump once again shows that he can send oil prices lower simply by tweeting.

Following Twitter co-founder Ev Williams’ criticism of the social network’s follower system last week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also criticized the system, Monday.

A new report from England’s Children’s Commissioner raises concerns surrounding the collection of children’s digital data.

Vox.com co-founder Matthew Yglesias defended a group of left-wing Antifa members terrorizing Tucker Carlson’s wife.

Free-speech social media platform Gab is back online following recent attempts to blacklist the site by a number of hosting and domain providers.

Twitter suspended an account linked to the domestic terrorist Antifa movement after it posted the personal address of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and encouraged a harassment mob at his house. However, a second Antifa-linked account that posted the addresses of Carlson, along with Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, and Daily Caller co-founder Neil Patel, has yet to be suspended.

“I would look at that,” the president said in response to a question from Breitbart News during a White House press conference. “I think it’s a serious problem.”

Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) lost his bid for Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) senate seat on Tuesday, despite spending millions of dollars on Facebook and Twitter advertisements.

Actress Tara Strong, a prominent activist for the Democratic Party, posted a video of herself along with fellow actress Rena Sofer harassing a conservative immigrant Uber driver, before deleting the tweet.

A recent article from the New York Times analyzing the spread of the #JobsNotMobs slogan credits Breitbart News with helping the term rise in popularity.

Internet hackers have begun infiltrating verified Twitter accounts and using them to pose as Tesla CEO Elon Musk to spread cryptocurrency scams across the platform.

An association of mosques in The Netherlands has demanded Twitter take down Geert Wilders’ account, threatening legal action if the social media giant does not comply.

Twitter has reportedly deleted as many as 10,000 accounts at the request of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a party group that supports Democrats running for the U.S. House of Representatives.

In a recent interview, President Donald Trump stated that his administration was “looking at” whether or not the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe have violated antitrust laws.

The president is no doubt referring to CNN’s poll of the generic congressional ballot that shows Democrats up by a whopping 13 points on the eve of Tuesday’s midterm election.

Imagine living in a world where a few executives in Silicon Valley, along with a couple of credit card companies, get to control what you say, who you interact with, what causes you can support, whose products you can buy and whether you can run a business.

Big Tech companies, including Facebook, Snapchat, and Spotify, are encouraging their young userbase to vote next week with a series of features.

Twitter apologized, Friday, after allowing “Kill All Jews” to becoming a top trending topic on the social network.

The top three spenders on political campaign Twitter advertisements are Democrat congressmen and senators, with Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) leading the charge, according to a report.

The founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, stated in a recent interview that tech giants such as Google and Facebook have become so dominant in the online landscape that they may need to be broken up.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) posted an image of one of the Zodiac Killer’s ciphered letters to Twitter to celebrate Halloween, A play on the long-running meme that he is the killer that has evaded justice for almost 50 years.

Twitter allowed Cesar Sayoc, the man who allegedly sent apparent bombs to public figures around the country this month, to post more than 240 threats towards 50 different people on its social network without sanction. Meanwhile, the media managed to temporarily force free speech social network Gab offline after it was revealed that the Tree of Life Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting suspect had an account on the platform.

A Washington Post article published on Saturday detailed Silicon Valley’s mission to influence the midterm elections in favor of the Democrats.

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.

Actress Lena Dunham recently announced that she will be writing a movie, adapted from a book, about Syrian refugees — and many on the social justice left are not happy.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a recent statement that the tweet he posted which cost him and his company $20 million each in SEC fines was “worth it.”

Deplatform Hate, a far-left Twitter account, seemed to blackmail Big Tech payment processing service Stripe on Saturday, threatening the company unless it changed its terms of service to the account’s liking, and posting messages with Stripe’ General Counsel showing the two parties discussing the blacklisting of free speech social network Gab.

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.

Free speech social media platform Gab has issued a statement about the account believed to belong to the man behind the shooting today at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.

President Donald Trump tweeted congratulations to Brandon Straka, the former Democrat who launched the #WalkAway campaign.

Upon detaining Cesar Altieri Sayoc on Friday, FBI agents also took possession of his white van covered in pro-Trump stickers. https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1055844916021071872 One Twitter user quickly shared photos that were taken of the van as it traveled down the highway in April.

Twitter is failing to crack down on impersonators on the platform, some of which are scamming other users by pretending to be billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to Bloomberg.

After President Trump called out Twitter for removing “many people” from his account, Friday, Twitter issued a statement defending its removal of followers.

“A few weeks ago it was a Rocket Ship, now it is a Blimp!” he wrote on Twitter. “Total Bias?”

President Trump’s 2020 presidential election campaign will “reduce its reliance” on Big Tech platforms in favor of reaching supporters directly, according to a report.