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Google Plus has reportedly become overrun with ISIS accounts, who are openly sharing Islamic extremist content and calling for violence on the platform.

Politico published the results of a six-month investigation on Tuesday that concluded the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is not doing enough to protect American technology from foreign governments, especially China.

Mark Zuckerberg will face questions on Tuesday from European politicians on a variety of the social media giant’s issues around privacy and user data.

Facebook and Google have been presented with a plan to ensure real transparency. Will they take it?

Uber’s Chief Product Officer, Jeff Holden, is set to leave the company according to an Uber spokesperson — joining more than a dozen other executives who have left Uber over the last year.

A leaked internal video from Google portrays the company’s vision of “total data collection.”

Twitter has acknowledged that it is working to artificially limit the reach of “troll-like” accounts on the platform — “shadowbanning” users in all but name, a practice that the company has repeatedly denied.

Facebook, the social network at the center of privacy concerns, is offering privacy tips to children through their new youth portal.

Ridesharing company Uber has agreed to stop forcing victims of sexual assault during Uber rides into arbitration.

“The nexus of power in American media has moved from New York City to Silicon Valley,” said Sen. Cruz.

Tesla’s Senior Vice President of Engineering announced recently that he would be taking a leave of absence from the company, at a time when the car manufacturer is rushing to meet production deadlines.

The expiration of Net Neutrality rules — which regulated broadband cable as if it were a rotary phone service — is set for June 11.

A number of conservatives have been banned from the platform for posting facts and factual claims.

Facebook is reportedly overhauling its entire management structure following its recent user data scandal.

Executives from tech companies such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook are set to attend a discussion on Artificial Intelligence at the White House on Thursday.

Google has rebranded its research department to Google AI in an attempt to “better reflect” its “emphasis on implementing machine learning techniques in nearly everything we do at Google.”

The two largest advertising platforms on the internet, Google and Facebook, have announced plans to stop bail bonds services from advertising on their platforms.

Conservative street artist Sabo has taken aim at Google CEO Sundar Pichai — and the way his company profits off user data — in his latest art installations.

Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, who was referred to as “Chairman Pao” by critical users during her time at Reddit, asked Silicon Valley tech company CEOs to crackdown on “incel” employees on Wednesday.

Tesla stock has taken a dive following what has been described as a “bizarre” conference call with CEO Elon Musk.

Alex Hardiman, Facebook’s head of news products, revealed further details about the social network’s plans to “rank” news outlets by “trustworthiness,” during the Facebook Developer Conference this week.

Facebook has fired an employee who allegedly used company tools to stalk women across the Internet.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated recently that the company plans to “dial up the intensity” of news suppression leading towards the U.S. midterm elections.

Ron Gutman, the co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley health-tech startup HealthTap, has been ousted from the company after the board of directors alleged “toxicity” in the workplace.

Even Mark Zuckerberg’s posts were flagged with the questionnaire, which asked users to determine what posts were “hate speech.”

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has announced plans to leave the company following multiple clashes with parent company Facebook.

In his annual Founders’ Letter, the Alphabet president stress the need for “thoughtfulness and responsibility” in the way we approach new technology.

Conservative Review’s Michelle Malkin joined SiriusXM host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Sam Sorbo for a Friday interview on Breitbart News Tonight to discuss political censorship via technology companies. She dismissed “purist anti-regulation tendencies” while describing companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter as “quasi-monopolies” and “trusts that need to be busted.”

User losses and a drop-off in advertiser spending will be the focus for investors as Facebook gets ready to release their first-quarter results this week.

There is currently no way to track Google’s manipulation of search results and search suggestions.

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. 

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.”

In an article published on his blog 500ish Words, Google Ventures partner M.G. Siegler published an article titled “Arrogance Peaks in Silicon Valley” which claims tech executives in Silicon Valley are becoming increasingly out of touch with reality.

The California Senate passed a super “Net Neutrality” law just as the Obama-era regulation of the Internet is set to be expire on April 23.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is under pressure to face European Union lawmakers over the recent privacy scandal that has engulfed his company. 

Facebook has suspended conservative comedian Terrence K. Williams for posting screenshots of hate mail he received from liberals.