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A security expert has reportedly expressed doubt over MSNBC host Joy Reid’s claims that newly-discovered homophobic posts on her old blog were actually written by “hackers.”

Penn State has closed the doors on its 98-year-old Outing Club on the grounds that it threatens “student safety.”

An appeals court has ruled that an Indonesian monkey cannot own the copyright to a selfie it took.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially repealed the agency’s Obama-era 2015 net neutrality order on Monday.

Today I am launching an appeal on behalf of a former British comedian called Robert Webb.

From the Google-owned driving app Waze to Facebook tools like Marketplace, data is being collected on a much larger scale than most users realize. Here are five ways you’re being tracked by Silicon Valley giants that will probably surprise you.

Facebook reportedly spent more on lobbyists in the first quarter of 2018 than it has ever before as the company faces increased scrutiny over data breaches and censorship

Amazon is reportedly limiting which users are allowed to review former FBI Director James Comey’s new book A Higher Loyalty.

A professor at Indiana University dedicated an entire academic journal article to examining Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s marital analingus.

Canadian singer Shania Twain is still being attacked by the left, despite her apology for saying she’d have voted for Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.

Dilbert creator Scott Adams said Kanye West’s praise of conservative commentator Candace Owens “ripped a hole in reality,” in a live Periscope stream on Sunday, prompting the Grammy-winner to share the video on his own Twitter account.

The ties between big tech and “digital rights” groups run deep.

Leftist student activists at the City College of New York are calling for the elimination of the school’s ROTC program.

Rap superstar and fashion mogul Kanye West is doubling down on his efforts to promote free speech and thought on Twitter, despite a barrage of attacks and criticism from the left.

YouTube reportedly demonetized an interview with Dave Rubin of the popular internet show the Rubin Report and American political philosopher and author Thomas Sowell. The video was monetized shortly after Rubin publicly demanded an explanation from YouTube.

Stars & Stripes reports that smartphones made by the Chinese company Huawei are being sold to U.S. military personnel at exchanges on military bases in Germany. Defense officials explained that until Huawei products are explicitly banned by statute or regulation, they will remain available. A bill that would bar U.S. government contractors from using Huawei equipment is currently making its way through Congress.

Ordinary Americans don’t want to trade internet freedom for protection from “fake news.”

Using his verified Twitter account, actor Tom Arnold told black, conservative activist Candace Owens to “suck racist dick.”

Pop icon Cher has said she went “too far” after  launching a politically charged Twitter rant, in which she called President Donald Trump a “cancer ravaging our nation.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has long represented San Francisco, has tapped freshman Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) of Silicon Valley to draft an “Internet Bill of Rights.”

Country music icon Shania Twain says she “would have voted for” President Donald Trump if she were an American citizen, admitting that “he seemed honest” during the 2016 presidential election against Hillary Clinton.

Pop icon Cher raged against President Donald Trump on Sunday, describing him as a “cancer ravaging our nation” that has damaged America’s standing in the world.

Hip-hop megastar and fashion mogul Kanye West took to Twitter on Saturday and declared his “love” for conservative YouTube star turned grassroots activist Candace Owens.

Singer and actress Christina Aguilera stars as a sex robot prostitute in the upcoming movie Zoe.

The Arizona State University mental health crisis center hotline confirmed on Thursday that a joke made by Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar clogged their phone line for two days.

According to a video from 2016, embattled Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar laments the fact that progressives no longer utilize terrorist acts like hijacking planes.

Embattled Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar has a history of unusual remarks predating her recent outburst following the death of Barbara Bush.

With smart-guns still a theoretical idea rather than an actual product the Wall Street Journal reports that “smart-gun evangelists” failed to note that Silicon Valley was not buying into the technology. 

Several politically active Hollywood stars took to social media on Friday to praise and applaud the students who participated in the National School Walkout.

Former President Barack Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan, says the Parkland students promoting gun control are “moving this country in ways [he has] never seen.”

Former FBI Director James Comey is set to speak at Amazon HQ in Seattle, Washington, on Monday to discuss his new book, A Higher Loyalty.

Popular pro-Trump internet duo Diamond and Silk will testify before the House Judiciary Committee over growing concerns that social media companies such as Facebook are routinely censoring and suppressing conservative content.

Harmeet Dhillon, a San Francisco-based attorney representing former Google engineer James Damore in his class-action lawsuit against Google, joined SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight on Thursday to tease information about a burgeoning blacklist of conservatives among Silicon Valley-based technology companies. She told Breitbart News Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that some of her clients have been “blackballed” by “supposedly neutral hiring platforms.”

Reports suggest that Fresno State is scrambling to hang onto their donors after Professor Randa Jarrar’s celebration of Barbara Bush’s death went viral online.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) argued yesterday that Fresno State cannot constitutionally penalize Professor Randa Jarrar for her crude tweets about the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush.

The Los Angeles Public Works Committee asked for a California Environmental Quality Act waiver to accelerate the build-out of Hyperloop tunnels under 4 million residents.