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The President of Evergreen State College announced this week that the college is predicting a 20 percent drop in enrollment for the upcoming fall semester.

The FBI was reportedly alerted to a threat posted on YouTube by Nikolas Cruz five months ago — but the bureau was unable to track down Cruz despite him having used his real name on the site when he allegedly made the threats.

Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson explained the left-wing origins of the term “fake news” that rose to prominence during the 2016 election at a recent TEDx talk.

Google has responded to a lawsuit brought against them by Prager University claiming that YouTube violates the First Amendment by censoring conservatives, but their response does not address censorship or the reasoning behind restricting and demonetizing PragerU and other conservatives.

A male student at Dartmouth College is facing a significant backlash to an op-ed he wrote in a student newspaper criticizing a campus program that hires mostly female students.

Hollywood actress Natalie Portman claimed it was ‘problematic’ that she was cast as a character described as being of ‘Asian heritage’ in Paramount upcoming sci-fi adventure movie ‘Annihilation.’

Evergreen State College is introducing a new course in the upcoming fall semester on the importance of engaging with diverse political viewpoints.

Conservative political operative Ali A. Akbar met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey this week to discuss the future of conservatives on the social media platform.

Billionaire venture capitalist and noted conservative Peter Thiel is leaving Silicon Valley for Los Angeles, according to the Wall Street Journal, amidst a continuing backlash against his support of President Donald Trump.

The Chinese Party-State has been hard at work constructing a network of propaganda outposts — called Confucius Institutes or Confucius Classrooms – on the campuses of universities, colleges, and secondary schools around the world.

Nancy MacLean, a history professor at Duke University, -argued in a recent lecture a “shocking” amount of libertarians are on the “autism spectrum.”

Dartmouth professor of government Brendan Nyhan published an op-ed in the New York Times claiming that the power of fake news and social media bots is massively overblown.

The heads of six major intelligence organizations including the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA have warned Americans not to use Huawei and ZTE phones

Harvard University is offering a new graduate course on the role of feces in French literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Google is creating an artificial intelligence-based automatic reply system, which will give users personalized, but automated answers to respond to messages with just one click.

A shop owner gave an alleged thief two options after he was reportedly caught stealing: apologize for the crime on Facebook Live, or go to jail. Tyler Stanley allegedly stole an item from shop owner Bo Larsen’s smoke shop in Cocoa

Salon is now using their reader’s spare computing power to mine cryptocurrency.

Marvel Studio’s upcoming blockbuster Black Panther has been criticized for its lack of LGBT representation, and the particular exclusion of a lesbian scene featured in the comic book on which the superhero film is based.

Tomorrow, Google Chrome will be receiving an ad-blocking update — here’s how the new the feature will work.

Comedian and Hulu talk show host Sarah Silverman took to Twitter Tuesday and viciously attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his use of the term “Anglo-American” on Monday while speaking to a conference of the National Sheriffs’ Association.

Ian Pearson, a futurist and A.I. expert, recently stated that artificial intelligence will be “billion of times” smarter than humans and people may need to somehow merge with computers to survive.

People with great sex lives are more likely to cheat on their partners, according to a report.

Speaking at the Recode Media Conference, Facebook’s Head of News stated that Facebook will begin defining “quality news” and said that “not all news is created equal.”

New York Times CEO Mark Thompson stated that print journalism only has another 10 years of life left, during an interview with CNBC on Monday.

Conservative political commentator Andrew Sullivan argued last week in a column that campus politics have gone mainstream.

Actress Vivica A. Fox expressed support for a petition calling on Disney to donate 25 percent of the profits from Black Panther to the black community during an interview with TMZ.

Evergreen State College announced this week that they will replace their controversial “Day of Absence” event with a workshop on “inclusion.”

A German court recently ruled that Facebook’s use of users’ personal data is illegal.

Left-wing employees within Google conspired to undermine Breitbart’s ad revenue, according to sources within the company.

Princeton professor Lawrence Rosen announced on Monday that he’d be shutting down his course on cultural freedoms for the rest of the semester after he faced a media backlash for using the n-word during a classroom lecture on hate speech.

Anti-Brexit figures such as Member of Parliament Damian Collins are dissuading tech giants from investing in the United Kingdom, industry insiders have told Politico. Collins — a pro-Soros, hard-line Remain campaigner — is using his position as chairman of a

Amy Schumer’s upcoming comedy, I Feel Pretty, is already facing an online backlash from women who have accused the film of body shaming.

The British government has funded the development of an online “extremism” filter which technology firms could be legally compelled to use, the Home Secretary has revealed.

WIRED has published a report titled “Inside The Two Years That Shook Facebook – And The World.” They document two years of upheaval at the tech giant and the progressive politics that drive the company’s management.

Verified left-wing users on Twitter celebrated the hospitalization of Donald Trump Jr.’s wife, Vanessa Trump, after she opened a letter addressed to Donald Trump Jr. which contained an unknown white powder.

A newly published report claims that younger social media users are abandoning Facebook at a rapid rate in the United States.