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Popular YouTube Star Jake Paul has taken to Twitter to call for gun reform, including a 30-day waiting period after gun purchase.

In 2016, we discovered that Big Tech was vulnerable — wide open, in fact — to political manipulators and hackers, both domestic and foreign. In 2017, we learned that Big Tech didn’t want to do much about the problem, even though the Techsters did wish to pursue their various lefty political agendas. And in 2018, we learned that Big Tech was finally willing to do something about its vulnerabilities — but only on its terms.

Actress Lena Dunham has repeatedly placed herself in public relations nightmares by posting inflammatory statements on social media. Dunham, attempting to avoid drama, says she’s hired people to stop her from posting controversial screeds. 

Twitter is hiding a tweet from the official Drudge Report account that features President Trump’s 2020 campaign slogan, “Keep America Great.”

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.”

Actor and former Obama staffer Kal Penn (Kumar of Harold and Kumar fame) ripped into Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for his support for the state of Israel.

Parkland student Kyle Kashuv arrived in Washington, DC, on Wednesday for a series of meetings with members of Congress and journalists to voice his opinions on school safety.

Obviously still rattled by President Trump mocking his record-low Oscar viewership, a defensive Jimmy Kimmel blamed Netflix for the ratings catastrophe.

In one of the filtered tweets, Donald Trump Jr. criticized Twitter for unevenly enforcing their terms of service.

Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel fired off a defense tweet on Tuesday after President Donald Trump trolled Hollywood over the Oscar’s historically low ratings.

The Anti-Defamation League has stated that social media companies YouTube, Twitter and Facebook may use the group’s “Online Hate Index” to detect hate speech on their platforms.

“Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY,” he wrote on Twitter. “Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore – except your President (just kidding, of course)!”

The House Committee on Science Space and Technology released a report on Thursday detailing how Russia has been using social media platforms to disrupt domestic energy markets and influence domestic energy policies.

The unelected executive branch of the European Union (EU) has ordered social media and tech firms to delete content they consider “illegal” with one hour, as they ramp up efforts to censor the internet.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently tweeted that Twitter would be accepting suggestions in an effort to improve the “collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation.”

Twitter has taken no action against a harassment against Pamela Geller’s daughters, instigated by Daily Beast reporter Taylor Lorenz.

Facebook has told MPs conducting a “fake news inquiry” it has found no new evidence of a coordinated attempt by Russian-linked accounts to target voters in the Brexit campaign and influence the vote.

The controversial activist Tommy Robinson has been suspended from Twitter for quoting research which found that nearly 90 per cent of convicted grooming gang members in the UK are Muslim.

Former French presidential candidate and leader of the populist Front National Marine Le Pen has been indicted on charges of “dissemination of violent images” after she highlighted Islamic State abuses on Twitter in 2015.

President Donald Trump commented on the dramatic gun control meeting with members of Congress on Thursday, urging them to “respect” the Second Amendment.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) argued at an Axios event on Wednesday that regulation will come for big tech companies if they are not responsible.

A coalition of 20 states sued the federal government on Monday, arguing that Obamacare violates the Constitution after Republicans repealed the law’s individual mandate.

President Donald Trump has selected Brad Parscale as his campaign manager for 2020, according to an exclusive headline on the Drudge Report.

Democrats are edging closer to adopting single-payer healthcare as the Center for American Progress (CAP) unveiled their “Medicare Extra for All” healthcare scheme.

According to Twitter’s 2017 annual report, the company’s $70 million investment in the audio streaming platform SoundCloud was a huge failure.

“It’s important to remember that we don’t have to agree on everything to get along, be civil to each other and enjoy each others company,” Olympics bobsledder Lauren Gibbs wrote after posting the selfie of her with Ivanka Trump and Sarah Sanders. “#Itsforamerica it was a pleasure to meet you both!”

The NRA gave FCC Chairman Ajit Pai its Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire award at CPAC for saving the Internet.

A group of free-speech lawyers filed the most serious legal challenge yet to Twitter’s censorship policies Tuesday in San Francisco County Superior Court, seeking a ruling preventing Twitter from banning users purely on the basis of their views and political associations.

Snapchat’s market value dropped $1.3 billion after Kylie Jenner dropped a tweet critical of the platform’s most recent update.

Actors from the popular TV series Parks and Recreation attacked the National Rifle Association after the group used of a gif featuring a character from the NBC show.

Guardian and HuffPost contributor Karen Geier expressed hope on Twitter that North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong Un would “drop a bomb on CPAC” this week.

A former Twitter employee blamed the company’s head of trust and safety, Del Harvey, after the platform locked out thousands of conservative users overnight.

#TwitterLockOut became the number one trending hashtag on Twitter, Wednesday, after conservatives reported various account sanctions, including the loss of thousands of followers.

Award-winning actor William Shatner blasted Texas Democrat Brandy Chambers for using a photograph of the two of them without his permission in a campaign letter.

Conservative commentator Pam Geller revealed on Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday morning that her panel on free speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) had been canceled because she refused to remove Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit as a participant.

CNN’s Chris Cuomo, the anti-Trump pundit who hosts CNN’s failing morning show, spread fake news about a gun purchase and then melted down after he was called out for it.