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Duke University brought miniature horses to campus this month to calm stressed students during finals.

Social media giant Facebook gave multiple tech companies including Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft access to far more user data than Cambridge Analytica ever dreamed of accessing.

A new report from the New York Times about the social media giant Facebook has called into question whether the company adhered to a 2011 consent decree with the FTC. One expert said that Mark Zuckerberg’s company operates “without any apparent sense that they have to follow the law, even while on parole.”

An “error” granted a man who uses Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant access to another user’s 1,700 voice recordings, according to a report.

Alternative social network Minds announced a boycott against Facebook and Google products, as well as payment processing platforms Stripe and PayPal, over their censorship and “unethical” business models, Wednesday.

Monterey Bay Aquarium has apologized for calling Abby the otter fat in a joke Twitter post, which it claimed was “problematic and insensitive” for referencing “African American Vernacular English.”

Veteran conservative talk show host Dennis Prager told Breitbart News that the goal of the Left and Silicon Valley elites is to control and suppress all who disagree with them.

A report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) suggests that most colleges fail to uphold due process rights for students accused of sexual misconduct.

West Virginia University has come under fire for telling fraternities that they don’t have due process rights under the law.

Massive strategic partnerships might prevent Facebook from upholding their promise to audit all third-party applications for user data leakage.

The University of Southern California Board of Trustees has fired business school dean James Ellis over his alleged mishandling of harassment cases.

The University of Texas at Austin is facing a lawsuit that alleges its speech policy that restricts students from using “rude” or “insensitive” language is unconstitutional.

A professor at the University of San Francisco Law School is receiving threats after starting a clinic for black students that have been accused of misconduct — specifically Title IX offenses.

Yet another Tesla executive has departed the company. This time Elon Musk’s global sales director, Dan Kim, has left to join Airbnb.

Social media firm Facebook reportedly used data obtained from the Chinese company Huawei, which has been referred to as a “security threat” by U.S. intelligence, for the platform’s “People You May Know” feature.

Elon Musk promised to display a self-driving car traveling down a futuristic tunnel system to demonstrate the Boring Company’s abilities — instead, the company showed a regular car driving down a bumpy, patchwork tunnel.

A YouTube content creator and former NASA engineer tricked several “porch pirates” intent on stealing delivered packages by placing a bait package rigged with a glitter bomb, fart spray, GPS, and camera outside his house. In a video, which went

Crazy Rich Asians star Awkwafina slammed rapper Lil Pump on Tuesday for using “racist epithets” in a preview of one of his new song.

In an article for the Guardian, Wednesday, writer Jason Wilson claimed that though doxing is a “tactic” that has been “sneered at by some,” it has “proven to be effective” against ideological opponents and in “dismantling the far right.” Ironically, the same write called doxing a “danger facing US journalists” in June.

Britain’s Conservative government has devised a brilliant new strategy to distract from its disastrous handling of Brexit: faux outrage that Jeremy Corbyn has been caught by the cameras in Parliament muttering that Theresa May is a “stupid woman”.

Early Facebook investor Roger McNamee warned “no one should trust Facebook” until the company changes its data-harvesting and information selling business model, according to a report.

Embattled social giant Facebook granted its business partners Spotify and Netflix the ability to read users’ private messages, according to information obtained by the New York Times. 

A New York state Democratic senator sponsoring a bill that would require potential gun owners to submit to social media background checks told a Republican aide over Twitter on Tuesday to “kill” herself.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sent some of his beard hair to rapper Azealia Banks so that Banks could make him a protective magical amulet, according to a report.

On Tuesday, China’s state-run Global Times accused the United States of “mobilizing its allies” to “strangle” Huawei, a nefarious campaign in which the “unfair persecution” of Meng is only one element.

Funded by Patreon, the Red Guards of Austin call for armed violence within the U.S.

Charter Communications agreed to a record $174.2 million settlement with New York state on Tuesday in which the state claimed that the company defrauded consumers by delivering slower than average Internet speeds. 

The NAACP organized a boycott of Facebook and Facebook-owned platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, Tuesday, receiving support from Amy Schumer and ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s.

Amazon is reportedly in a “grassroots battle” with critics of its HQ2 financial incentives in New York City and Arlington, Virginia.

Veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg has quit Facebook, stating that the social media giant’s actions have diverged with his own values and that he is no longer “comfortable” on the platform.

SpaceX investors are reportedly beginning to question the company’s investment in one of Elon Musk’s pet projects, tunnel construction firm The Boring Company.

Facebook recently refused to run Christ buying guide advertisements from Christian gaming review website “Christ Centered Gamer,” a decision the social media giant told Breitbart News was an “error,” but the company has made no move to reverse the decision and has not contacted Chris Centered Gamer since.

A medical student at Stanford was allegedly falsely reported to the university’s Title IX office for having pro-life opinions. The student told Breitbart News “there must be consequences for false accusations.”

Actor Alfonso Ribeiro, found a hit with his hilarious “Carlton dance,” but now he is suing Fortnite for stealing his dance for their game.

Mark Zuckerberg has lost more money in 2018 than any of the top billionaires in the world, after Facebook suffered a devastating year. His losses for the year are estimated at $19 billion.

Cher announced she would stop using Google services and delete her Facebook account, arguing that both companies are only interested in money and “might as well be conspiring with Russia to destroy our democracy.”