Music streaming giant Spotify recently announced plans to lay off six percent of its workforce. The cuts will impact almost 600 workers as many other internet power players make significant staff cuts as well.
Woke tech giant Google has announced a major layoff, stating that the company plans to cut approximately 6 percent of its workforce, or about 12,000 employees.
DuckDuckGo, the search engine that bills itself as a privacy-centered alternative to Google, but appears to censor conservative news to an even greater degree than its giant competitor, has been dinged by a privacy ratings service for lacking transparency.
Tech giant Microsoft is reportedly laying off 10,000 employees as the company braces for slower revenue growth. The layoff will impact about five percent of the software company’s headcount.
Seattle Public Schools is suing China-owned TikTok, Facebook (now known as Meta), Google’s YouTube, and Snapchat, accusing the social media giants of creating a “mental health crisis among America’s Youth.”
YouTube star Logan Paul has denied recent allegations made by fellow YouTuber Stephen ‘Coffeezilla’ Findeisen that he scammed buyers of his CryptoZoo NFT project and never planned to deliver the promised game. Paul has threatened to sue Findeisen for defamation over his videos exposing the extent of the CryptoZoo fiasco.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Matt Taibbi, one of the reporters of the Twitter files, stated that the files have demonstrated that the government was also trying to sway speech on other platforms like
Tech giant Google has reportedly agreed to pay $29.5 million to settle separate lawsuits with Washington DC and Indiana over the company’s location tracking practices.
According to a recent report, a bug in Google Home smart speakers allowed for the installation of a backdoor account that could be used to control the device and access its microphone feed. In short, hackers could take over Google’s devices to spy on users by listening in on their conversations.
Facebook (now known as Meta) and Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube, are set to lose their long-held dominance over the advertising market this year, dropping below 50 percent of the market for the first time in nearly a decade.
Big Tech has had a rough year, with many startups failing and stock prices plummeting. As a result, seven of the world’s tech billionaires have lost a combined $433 billion in total wealth.
The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, who has acquired a reputation for his incessant attempts to extend his influence into the U.S. federal government, particularly in the areas of science and defense, is helping fund the salaries of several employees in the Biden administration, according to reporting by Politico.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Tuesday on his show “The Lead” that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) were protecting “anti-American” big tech monopolies.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. James Comer (R-KY) reacted to the latest Twitter files release by stating that investigations of big tech will go beyond Twitter to Facebook and Google
An outsourcing firm with Fortune 500 clients hired foreign H-1B visa workers for Information Technology (IT) jobs over qualified Americans, a Department of Justice (DOJ) settlement reveals.
Former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) speculated on Tuesday’s episode of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with special guest host Monica Crowley that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and its subsidiary Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are “running assets” within Big Tech companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter to surveil Americans and design political censorship protocols.
On this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “The Next Revolution,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) credited Twitter under Elon Musk for “insulating” his company with the release of the so-called Twitter files, which offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the company’s political bias in recent years.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) said that it’s a good thing that Elon Musk has pulled back the curtain on Twitter’s inner dealings, but we need to know what role
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has secured another win for conservatives on tech policy, removing a loophole from a bill designed to regulate the app marketplaces of Apple and Google that would have allowed them to continue to censor in the name of “digital safety,” according to sources familiar with the matter.
Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) called for removing liability protection for Big Tech companies as a measure to combat digital censorship on Wednesday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said the Open App Markets Act would end Apple’s and Google’s shared role as “gatekeepers” of mobile apps.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate Apple and TikTok. Carr is a consistent critic of China’s TikTok, calling the app a wolf in “sheep’s clothing.”
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) reacted to disclosures on Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story by saying he thinks the disclosures are just the tip
The president of Media Guild of the West, a union representing journalists and media workers in Arizona, Southern California and Texas, slammed the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) on Wednesday as a handout to Alden Capital, a hedge fund that is the second-largest owner of news companies in the United States.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that her legislation would break up Apple and Google app store duopoly, which could still pass during Congress’s lame-duck session.
Google-owned YouTube is censoring a former Bernie Sanders campaign staffer who made videos showcasing the questioning of election results from both Democrats and Republicans, first censoring both videos, then allowing the Democrat claims to stay up while taking down the video containing GOP claims.
Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. needs to take “aggressive action” to reduce costs and cut down its headcount according to activist investor TCI Fund Management.
Google is set to pay $391 million in a privacy settlement after 40 states accused the tech giant of tracking the location of users who opted out of the location services on their devices.
Dr. Robert Epstein, a consistent enemy of Google’s election meddling plans and the senior research psychologist of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, has recently published an article claiming that Google is once again attempting to shift votes leading into the midterm elections, but believes that there is a solution to this issue coming in the near future.
The Biden Administration’s FTC and DOJ have signaled an aggressive antitrust strategy against Big Tech, but there are growing concerns that the efforts are being redirected, not against monopolies but against smaller companies trying to compete with them.
A report from the Media Research Center, strongly denied by Google, suggests the tech giant is manipulating search terms related to races for the U.S. Senate to favor Democrats.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told analysts that the tech giant plans to slow the pace of hiring after reporting the company’s fifth consecutive quarter of declining sales growth. Shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. have dropped by more than 9 percent in intraday trading.
CNBC reported on Monday that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt oversaw a government commission ostensibly established to provide guidance to the U.S. government regarding policies on AI and machine learning technologies without disclosing personal investments in startups working in the AI space.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that the Lone Star State will bring a case against Google over the unauthorized collection of biometric data from users without their informed consent, in the latest of a long string of legal cases brought by the Texas AG against the tech giant.
Truth Social, the social media platform created by former President Donald Trump, has soared to the top of the Android app download charts after finally being allowed in the Google Play Store this week.
More than 2,600 federal officials either own or have traded stock in companies their agencies oversee, according to a damning report by the Wall Street Journal.
Consumer Reports recently found that the Chinese-owned video app TikTok uses the same techniques as Google and Facebook to track users across the web — even if they don’t use the TikTok app.
Andrew Tate, the self-described ‘Top G’ of the internet, was recently blacklisted from most major social media platforms following an outcry over his pro-masculinity message. Breitbart News sat down with Tate to explore why leftist tech platforms felt the need to silence him. Tate explains, “First, they delete you and then they lie about you. That’s how they attack.”
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is accusing Google of suppressing more than 22 million campaign emails since September, by sending them to users’ spam folders, and is now considering legal action against the tech giant.
Google showers confetti containing LGBT and lesbian pride flags whenever users search the name of Scooby-Doo character “Velma” or “Velma Dinkley.”
