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Zuckerberg explained in no uncertain terms that Facebook will now decide what counts as “quality” news.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has proposed a ‘Facebook Supreme Court’ to rule on hate speech reports on the social media platform.

The New York Times published an article how hard it is to boycott tech companies such as Facebook and Google when they dominate so much of the tech landscape.

The Apple CEO had criticized Zuckerberg over Facebook’s business model of selling user data.

Social media giant Facebook recently announced that they plan to “fact-check” photos and videos on their platform.

A Facebook executive in 2016 hypothesized that the companies platform could allow terrorists to coordinate, resulting in people’s deaths.

Data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica may still be in possession of the data of Facebook users, despite their claims of having deleted all data, according to a new report.

British billionaire investor Jim Mellon has claimed, “We’re going to see decimation particularly of Facebook,” which he described as “sinister,” following allegations of user data mishandling at the social network.

“I think the best regulation is no regulation, is self-regulation,” he said. “However, I think we’re beyond that here.”

Hollywood star Will Ferrell will be deleting his Facebook page this week in response to allegations that the social network mishandled user data.

The Facebook scandal over selling customers’ deepest secrets for huge amounts of cash has accelerated signature-gathering efforts for a “Privacy Act” initiative on California’s ballot.

A BBC interview from 2009 shows Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stating that the company would never sell or share user data, less than a year later Zuckerberg declared that the “age of privacy is over.”

Facebook rates users’ political leanings based on their Internet usage — here’s how to find out what Facebook thinks your politics are.

Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, who has filed a class action lawsuit against Google on behalf of fired employee James Damore, appeared on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Tuesday, to discuss government regulation of tech giants with Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and

Netflix has announced that former United Nations ambassador, National Security Advisor, and Obama loyalist Susan Rice will be joining the company’s board of directors.

According to Bloomberg, “Twitter Inc. plunged to its lowest price in six weeks after short-seller Citron Research said it was betting against the company because of potential privacy regulations.”

Uber reportedly has decided to end their self-driving car tests in California following a fatal car crash in Phoenix.

According to sources close to President Trump who spoke to Axios, he is more worried about the overreaching control of e-commerce website Amazon than he is about social media network Facebook and other Silicon Valley titans like Google.

Following Facebook’s latest user data scandal, the company has promised to give users more control over their personal data.

The Cambridge Analytica employee who revealed the company’s alleged Facebook data mining has stated that he believes his predecessor may have been poisoned.

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.

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.

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

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in New York City on Monday for the beginning of a U.S. tour that will take him through Seattle and Silicon Valley to Hollywood, as he meets with media and tech leaders to talk up Saudi investments and follow up on at least one recent massive purchase: his acquisition of a $400 million stake in Hollywood talent agency WME/Endeavor.

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 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.

Breitbart News Senior Tech Correspondent Allum Bokhari joined Breitbart News Editor-In-Chief Alex Marlow on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Friday, to discuss Silicon Valley’s double standard on free speech and regulation.

Google Deep Learning researcher François Chollet took to Twitter recently to outline Facebook’s use of “digital information consumption” as a “psychological control vector,” while also describing the company’s interest in A.I., adding “Personally, it really scares me.”