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The Micro-11 mission will test the performance of sperm in microgravity aboard the International Space Station for the first time.

A startup in Dubai called OneGram has created a Bitcoin-style cryptocurrency that ostensibly complies with sharia law, making it an acceptable alternative for devout Muslims.

Twitter “accidentally” shadowbanned and suppressed the posts of an Independent Journal Review editor for over a year according to a statement from the company.

Fred Campbell, a former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Wireless Bureau Chief, told Breitbart News Sunday in an exclusive interview how “Conservatism itself is at stake” thanks to Google and Facebook’s censorship.

Corporate media received a massive boost in Facebook engagement this month, following the social network’s January 11 algorithm change, while conservative media declined, according to independent social media analysis.

Chinese authorities have temporarily suspended four popular news apps from the country’s Android store in an attempt to tighten control over the spread of news and information.

Leftists have been celebrating the perpetrator of the United States’ largest bioterror attack on social media over the past few weeks.

Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed in an interview that ads which track you online are “creepy.”

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet with lawmakers ahead of his scheduled hearings this week to discuss the company’s recent privacy scandal.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s prepared testimony for his hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday has been published.

Twenty-three consumer activist groups signed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) calling for an investigation against YouTube for targeting ads at children.

CNBC reports that social media firm Facebook has reportedly suspended data analytics firm CubeYou for business practices similar to those allegedly used by Cambridge Analytica. CNBC notified Facebook that CubeYou was collecting information on Facebook users through quizzes on the platform, the firm claimed that the quizzes were only being used “for non-profit academic research,” but according to CNBC, was regularly sharing user data with marketers.

Facebook is set to begin notifying users that may have been affected by the company’s latest alleged user data scandal.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is meeting with lawmakers in Washington on Monday ahead of his testimony before multiple judiciary committees this week.

NEW YORK — The YouTube sensations known as Diamond and Silk, former Democrats who left the party to support President Donald Trump, called on the Trump administration to probe social media giants over allegations of singling out certain political viewpoints.

Roslyn Layton, a visiting scholar for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), told Breitbart News Saturday that “Google and Facebook have such an oligopoly” on advertising and that “we need to stop regulating Facebook’s competitors.”

A former special assistant who served under President George W. Bush is giving Mark Zuckerberg a crash course in communication skills before the Facebook chief executive appears Tuesday on Capitol Hill to testify before Congress.

Historic England, the public body tasked with preserving England’s heritage, is advertising paid training placements for itself, the National Trust, English Heritage and other bodies which are not open to white people.

Facebook has reportedly limited the page of the pro-Trump YouTube sensations Diamond and Silk.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey retweeted an article  titled The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War, which claims that bipartisanship in America is dead.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has endorsed an article calling for the Republican party to be wiped out in the U.S. for at least a couple of generations and replaced by a de facto one-party state controlled by well-meaning Democrats.

As he scans the news about tech abuses—from violating privacy, to manipulating the news, to mowing down pedestrians with driverless cars—Virgil is reminded that this year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein.  

Former FCC member Robert McDowell told Breitbart News that national security officials told him not to sign up for Facebook or Twitter, citing security concerns.

Former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell told Breitbart that the Facebook privacy scandal “is a watershed moment for how people will perceive privacy.”

The European Data Protection Supervisor has claimed social media users are treated like “battery animals or experimental rats.”

Former The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr says his new album was inspired by Brexit, President Donald Trump, and “the virus of right-wing ideology that is spreading through the nervous system of the Western world.”

A professor at The New School in New York City is accused of sexually harassing and having orgies with multiple students, and administrators reportedly let him resign quietly, the alleged victim claimed in a lawsuit.

In a documentary by American filmmaker Chris Paine, billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk warned that artificial intelligence “doesn’t have to be evil to destroy humanity.”

The U.S. Weather Service confirmed that 2017 was the costliest hurricane season in America’s history and forecast an above average with 14 named storms for the 2018 season.

The latest survey of online threats from cybersecurity firm FireEye includes a warning that Chinese hackers are ramping up attacks against American corporations, with an emphasis on stealing financial information that could give Chinese companies a competitive advantage.

Rep. Buddy Carter suggested that the message to Mark Zuckerberg at next week’s hearing will be, “Unless you get it right, look for us to make you get it right.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the Senate, one day before he also appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Former Michigan State University Dean William Strampel, Dr. Larry Nassar’s former boss, was arrested last week on sexual assault charges.

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday that the company was too slow to respond to recent privacy crises, prominently including the controversial harvesting of data by Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook secretly deleted messages sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg as well as other high-level executives, company sources have revealed.

The New York-based Soros Fund Management is preparing to trade cryptocurrencies, according to a report from Bloomberg.