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Reports surfacing this week indicate that the Iranian regime has deployed online bots to push back against the people who want it dismantled and have relied on Internet access to organize protests.

A new Instagram feature lets your friends know when you were last online — here’s how to disable it.

Marriott Hotels stopped posting to any of their social media accounts around the world for over a week shortly after being accused of breaking cybersecurity and advertisement law by the Chinese government.

Social media company Snapchat has laid off two dozen of their employees and relocated some of their content team members from New York to Los Angeles.

L’Oréal Paris UK’s new hijab-wearing Muslim model has made numerous anti-Israel posts on Twitter, calling the nation “sinister,” “child murderers,” and claiming “defeat” awaits them.

A new bill introduced in the South Dakota House of Representatives would force public universities to uphold the First Amendment.

Ohio State University Class Will Analyze ‘Violent White Masculinity’

#ReleaseTheMemo was a trending Twitter topic on Thursday evening as public concern mounts over abuse of government surveillance power.

Apple’s massive $38 billion tax bill suggests that revenues from tax reform will be much higher and deficit much lower than estimated.

Foreign-born workers now overwhelmingly outnumber Americans in coveted high-paying, high-skilled, white-collar jobs in Silicon Valley, California, the hub of the tech industry.

A recently published survey conducted by FIRE suggests that a majority of Democratic college students believe that hate speech should be illegal.

Microsoft President Brad Smith and EVP of A.I. Harry Shum have written a book which claims that within 20 years, human “alter egos” will exist in artificial intelligence.

Lydia Polgreen warned of a “tsunami of false information,” adding “when everyone has a megaphone, no one can be heard.”

Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a recent interview that President Trump’s tax plan would result in a faster-growing economy and greater job creation.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced that the battery management feature which caused slowdown issues in older iPhones can be disabled in future updates.

An Australian lifeguard drone successfully saved two teenagers from drowning by dropping an inflatable rescue pod.

Bloomberg recently published an investigation into former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, providing insight into the issues that the company has faced in the past year.

President Trump congratulated the Log Cabin Republicans, the largest group representing LGBT Conservatives, on their 40th anniversary in a letter this week.

YouTube is deleting videos that are part of the “Tide Pod challenge” trend for encouraging teenagers to consume dangerous detergent.

Facebook and Google are countering “extremist” content on their platforms with counter-propaganda, according to a report.

The fabled SR-71 Blackbird high-speed reconnaissance plane has been officially out of service since 1990, even though it might still be the fastest airplane in the sky – fast enough to outrun a North Korean missile in 1981. Judging by recent comments from a Lockheed Martin executive, the Blackbird’s long-rumored, even faster successor might be closer to going operational than anyone thought.

You must watch the encounter between SJW media maven Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News and free-speech-defending Canadian academic Jordan Peterson.

Amazon has narrowed the future location of its second headquarters, called “HQ2,” to 20 cities. 19 cities in America and Toronto, Canada, remain in the running for the $5 billion project.

The State of California is leading 20 other states — and defending Silicon Valley’s interests — by suing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to stop its decision to repeal Net Neutrality rules.

The Trump administration has “functionally destroyed” the “physical” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) caliphate in the Middle East, but “the war is not over,” warned Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy assistant to the U.S. president, in written testimony prepared for a House panel hearing on Wednesday.

Iranian members of parliament pressured President Hassan Rouhani to permanently block critical messaging and communications app Telegram, used by tens of millions living in the Islamic Republic, on Tuesday.

Apple is reportedly giving $2,500 bonuses to most global employees in stock units thanks to President Trump’s new tax law.

A new undercover Project Veritas video includes a former Twitter software engineer claiming Twitter bans “a lot” of users for the Chinese government, otherwise the company allegedly faces hacking attempts by the government.

Actress and liberal activist Shailene Woodley took to Instagram on Tuesday to declare that last week’s Golden Globes and the Time’s Up anti-sexual harassment movement is “ushering in sacred matriarchy.”

YouTube announced their intentions to make it even harder for creators to monetize their videos on the platform this week.

Former Fox News hosts Greta van Susteren and Eric Bolling were evidently hacked on Tuesday by Turks supportive of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The hackers took control of their Twitter accounts and used them to send direct messages to President Donald Trump.

Colleges around the country are quietly dropping their “Fat Studies” courses, according to a report by Campus Reform.

YouTube star Chrissy Chambers won “substantial” damages in a civil case against her ex-boyfriend after he posted intimate “revenge porn” videos of the two online without permission.

Apple announced in a press release on Wednesday that the company will be investing $350 billion into the U.S. economy over the next five years.

BitConnect, a lending platform for the cryptocurrency space in which lenders could deposit bitcoin and lend out BitConnects “tokens,” has announced it is shutting down.

Partner and Chief Strategy Officer of GEM Advertising Peter Kozodoy published an op-ed recently outlining why he’s rethinking his investment in Facebook.