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Christopher Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee who exposed Facebook’s data practices this month, claimed President Trump’s election made him speak out.

A professor at the University of San Francisco argues that female professor should receive additional compensation for their “emotional labor.”

A column published in the Wall Street Journal this week highlighted the reality that college students can no longer pay their tuition with a part-time job.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been asked to testify before a second panel of U.S. lawmakers, this time the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 37 State Attorneys General called on the company to provide further data about their latest user data scandal.

Following the publication of a New York Times article on the topic, “Repeal The Second Amendment” has been trending on Twitter.

The MRC will monitor PolitiFact.com, FactCheck.org, Snopes.com, Washington Post Fact Checker, AP Fact Check and CNN Fact Check.

A Facebook tool designed to inform users about the advertisers trying to target them through the platform withholds key information from consumers that get too curious, even locking them out when they use it too many times, according to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Facebook’s share price took a massive hit as the company’s data privacy scandal deepened.

MPs and Peers have said that universities cannot be “safe spaces” from the free exchange of ideas, warning that university “red tape” and students’ attempts to shut down debate they oppose was leaving a “chilling effect” on free speech.

61-year-old Mike Hughes wanted to prove the Earth was “shaped like a Frisbee.” (He didn’t.)

Conservative activist Lauren Southern has reportedly been banned for life from the United Kingdom for conducting a social experiment on Islamic attitudes to homosexuality and transgenderism in Luton, England.

Facebook reportedly donated $200,000 to combat a data-privacy ballot initiative in California that would allow consumers to ban companies from sharing or selling their personal data.

As Tesla faces major delays in shipping its Model 3 design, share values have plummeted into “bear market” territory — and investors are putting money on it.

An Arizona teacher is accused of performing oral sex on a 13-year-old male student in a classroom, reportedly telling him she wanted him “every day with no time limit,” court records show.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk claims his Boring Company’s new bricks will allow a home’s outer walls to be constructed by two people within “a day or so.”

Starting May 1, Microsoft will begin enforcing a ban on “offensive language.” To do so, they have determined that they have the right to mine private user data to “investigate.”

The CEOs of Apple and IBM gave a blunt assessment of Facebook’s ongoing data privacy scandal.

Companies are realizing that they have to train new workers to learn job skills that they failed to learn in college, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.

Professors at Lewis & Clark College are expressing their concerns after a group of students successfully derailed an event featuring Christina Hoff Sommers earlier this month.

A feature in the New York Times this week highlighted a Swedish preschool trend that involves teachers ignoring the gender of their children in the classroom.

Model Chrissy Teigen announced her departure as a user from Snapchat, Saturday, following Rihanna’s own attack on the platform this month.

Facebook may be collecting data from your phone calls, messages and contacts — here’s how to turn it off.

In a rare departure from the mainstream narrative, Zuckerberg expressed doubts about being the world’s censor.

The FTC has announced that they have opened a federal investigation into Facebook following the company’s latest user data scandal, citing “substantial concerns” about Facebook’s treatment of users’ private data.

A new poll shows that public trust in social media platform Facebook has dropped massively following the site’s latest data scandal.

Facebook’s Android app has been collecting data on its users’ phone calls and texts outside of the platform, prompting privacy concerns from consumers who didn’t know just how far Facebook’s data collection efforts really go.

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told show moderator Chuck Todd that Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg needed to come before the U.S. Congress and give testimony about his

Facebook has taken out full-page advertisements in seven British and three American newspapers to apologize for their latest user data scandal.

Following the “refocusing” of Facebook’s News Feed algorithm to prioritize posts from friends and family, Facebook’s ad costs spiked significantly, as ads are reaching fewer consumers.

Dubai – Bahraini authorities on Sunday announced they would be taking “severe measures” to track down dissidents who use social media, as the Gulf monarchy tightens its grip on political opposition.

A Rasmussen poll shows that 51 percent of  Facebook users are “very” or “somewhat” likely to quit Facebook over privacy concerns.

An employee at a Pita Pit in Missoula, Montana, has been fired after a viral Facebook video caught her spitting in a customer’s food order.

Several celebrities took to social media and hit the streets to join the student activists and others who marched in Washington, DC, and in other cities across the country in support of gun control.

Former President Barack Obama tweeted out a message to the anti-Second Amendment activists marching all around the country, saying that he and Michelle are “so inspired” and that “nothing can stand in the way of millions of voices calling for change.”

In the last week, liberal corporations and anti-gun interests have launched a new salvo in the gun control battle.