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A columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer compared the recent case of a high school wrestler having his dreadlocks cut before a match to the horrors of the Holocaust.

The Rev. Franklin Graham called Facebook’s decision to place a temporary ban on his account a “personal attack” on him in a Sunday interview with Fox News.

The New York Police Department reportedly plans to use a drone, tethered to a building for safety reasons, to monitor Times Square on New Year’s Eve.

Masses of Tumblr users are continuing to leave the platform in protest over the social network’s ban of “adult content” this month, made in an effort to comply with Apple’s app store regulations.

Open Secrets’ listicle of 2018’s biggest lobbying stories makes no mention of technology companies’ spending on lobbying.

Online scammers are reportedly using fake Netflix billing emails in an attempt to steal users’ personal and financial data.

Elon Musk has a history of well documented personal vendettas against many people and organizations. This does not bode well for the future of his companies, as demonstrated in a recent 60 Minutes interview.

A Louisiana police department issued a tongue-in-cheek warning to methamphetamine users on Saturday, offering to inspect their meth supply for traces of the Zika virus.

Facebook issued an apology for banning the Rev. Franklin Graham from posting on the social networking site for 24 hours and censoring one of his posts, a Facebook spokesperson announced Saturday.

A cyberattack at a Los Angeles newspaper printing plant halted the delivery of a number of popular newspapers, Saturday, including the Los Angeles Times, and west coast editions of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

Far-left Hollywood star Jim Carrey took his hate for President Donald Trump to a new level, asking if “the devil makes Donald swallow” in a grotesque painting of the president posted to social media.

Feminist Amy Siskind tried to get progressive radio show host David Pakman fired from his adjunct professorship at Boston College after he dared to disagree with her social justice politics on Twitter.

Google has rejected an application from conservative website The Gateway Pundit to appear in Google News search results.

A student at the University of Cincinnati is about to receive a $47,000 settlement as a result of the university’s failure to allow him to defend himself against sexual assault accusations.

A former vice chancellor at the University of Missouri argued in a deposition that it can be sexual harassment if a tall man asks a short woman out on a date.

Stephens College, a private all women’s college in Missouri, has announced that it will start accepting transgender students beginning in the fall semester of 2019.

Yet another trove of internal Facebook documents has been leaked, this time the New York Times gained access to 1,400 pages of Facebook’s guidelines for global political speech.x

Kurdish news agencies report on Friday that a map of greater Kurdistan – featuring territory belonging to Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria – no longer appears on Google Earth, replaced by a message stating that the map violated “our Terms of Service and/or policies.”

Peter Schweizer said 2018 was a “watershed year” for revealing technology companies’ use of left-wing political censorship.

New York Magazine claimed this week that most Internet traffic is “fake.”

TechCrunch discovered apps available on Google Play which led to child porn groups on the Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp, all of which reportedly made money through Google and Facebook’s advertising networks.

Pop star Iggy Azalea begged her fans to have sympathy on her after she received criticism this week for continuing to perform after one of her backup dancers collapsed and seized during a performance. In the middle of a concert

Tesla has announced the appointment of Oracle founder Larry Ellison and Walgreens executive Kathleen Thompson-Wilson to its board of directors, in compliance with its SEC settlement. Neither has any manufacturing industry experience.

An unknown hacker or cyber espionage group penetrated the database of a resettlement agency for North Korean defectors and stole personal information for 997 of its clients, according to a statement from the South Korean Unification Ministry on Friday.

A Texas man, lured by the promise of fast money and a free car, faces federal prison on drug smuggling charges after answering a Facebook ad that sought drivers to travel between the United States and Mexico.

Google withdrew ads from populist British news website Politicalite last week, over an article about Marine Le Pen. Online ad platform Taboola followed, accusing the site of violating its Acceptable Use policy.

Montana State University is facing a lawsuit after allegedly suspending a student from campus for confiding in his instructor about being “uncomfortable with transgender lifestyles.”

The left’s insistence that Silicon Valley censorship is just a ‘conspiracy theory’ ring hollow.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought against him by the British cave diver that Musk accused of being a “pedo guy,” claiming “readers did not interpret Musk’s statements as factual assertions,” as well as admitting Musk is prone to “over the top insults.”

The University of Oklahoma recently introduced a feminist course that focuses entirely on James Bond.

A group of students at North Carolina State University launched a campus club centered on satanism.

William & Mary Law School apologized this week after a donor defended Brett Kavanaugh and condemned Colin Kaepernick during a speech on campus.

Facebook’s Instagram platform dominated social media discussions following an unpopular update, Thursday, which led to the rise of Twitter trends such as “RIP Instagram.”

Billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has apologized for funding a campaign that influenced the 2017 Alabama Senate election using disinformation tactics against Republican Roy Moore.