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The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled “The Google-Facebook Duopoly Threatens Diversity of Thought,” finally acknowledging a point that Breitbart News has been stating for some time.

T.J. Miller, the former star of HBO’s Silicon Valley, is now facing accusations that while in college he sexually assaulted and punched a woman.

Tech leaders are beginning to worry that Silicon Valley’s new political correctness is stifling innovation.

The former Facebook executive who stated that social media was “ripping apart the social fabric of how society works” has backtracked on his previous statements, saying now that he loves Facebook.

Another Uber driver has been charged with rape, this time of a 16-year-old girl in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

There is now more freedom of speech in Beijing than in the San Francisco Bay area — and this could kill the Silicon Valley tech industry.

Google has once again overtaken Facebook as the number one traffic referrer in 2017.

The European Union (EU) has threatened tech companies with further regulation unless they crack down on “extremist content” faster, according to a report.

Shervin Pishevar, the co-founder of Hyperloop One and former Uber board member, has taken a leave of absence following allegations of sexual harassment.

The UK’s National Crime Agency has warned that live streaming websites pose an “urgent threat” as abusers use them to prey on young children.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has been asked to investigate Facebook, Google, and other tech giants for their role in spreading fake news and discouraging advertisers from placing ads with traditional media.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently announced the company’s plans to launch a Tesla sports car into space on a rocket launched by Musk’s other company, SpaceX.

The identity of the Twitter contractor that temporarily deleted President Trump’s Twitter account has finally been revealed. He claims the deletion was an “accident.”

Silicon Valley tech executives and former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano say they are urging the GOP-led Congress to attach an amnesty deal for potentially 3.5 million illegal aliens to a year-end spending bill.

Facebook claims that their most recent attempts to remove terrorism-related content on their platform using artificial intelligence has begun to “bear fruit.”

Foreign nationals, not Americans, are the future of the tech industry in Silicon Valley, California, tech executives proclaimed in a demand for Congress to pass amnesty for 3.5 million eligible illegal aliens.

Apple is rushing to patch a major operating system vulnerability that left Mac computers open to hacking. Here’s how readers can fix it now.

The city of Chicago has filed a lawsuit against Uber following the company’s failure to report a data breach that left 57 million Uber users vulnerable for over a year.

Corporations have begun pausing advertising on YouTube after ads for their products were appearing alongside inappropriate comments — some of which discussed pedophilia.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was reportedly aware of a hack that took place at the company last year for months before revealing the extent of the data breach to the public.

Peter Thiel has sold three-quarters of the Facebook shares he picked as Mark Zuckerberg’s first venture capitalist, even as the Silicon Valley boycott against him intensifies.

Regulators wolrdwide have begun probing Uber following the recent revelation that the company had covered up a hack that stole the personal info of 57 million users.

Meg Whitman is leaving as Hewlett Packard CEO after a successful six-year turnaround, and seems ready to take on her next Silicon Valley Fortune 500 deal.

Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission has fined Uber approximately $8.9 million for their employment of drivers with a history of criminal activities.

Foreign nationals now outnumber Americans in high-paying, high-skilled, white-collar jobs in Silicon Valley, California – the hub of the United States tech industry.

A former manager at Facebook recently published an op-ed in the New York Times describing the company’s attitude towards user privacy and warning that Facebook is not capable of regulating itself.

Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel has finally cut ties with the Y Combinator investor fund, a year after being called a Silicon Valley traitor for his $1.25 million campaign contribution to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Following an update to Twitter’s terms of service, a number of conservative users have been de-verified and banned from the social media platform.

Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists are outraged that the U.S. Senate’s proposed tax reform makes employee stock option compensation less attractive and forces companies to pay employer taxes.

Global internet giants Google and Facebook can expect to receive a comprehensive tax bill from Israel within the next 12 months, according to a report in the financial newspaper TheMarker.

YouTube has removed thousands of videos featuring Anwar al-Awlaki, the Islamic hate preacher that inspired terrorists including the Boston Marathon bombers and the San Bernardino shooters.

Journalists working for Facebook as part of the company’s fact-checking initiative claim the site’s fact-checking tools have failed and the entire operation was simply a PR campaign.

An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal argues that special legal protections for social media platforms ought to be tied to their upholding of free speech.

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) called for regulation of social networks on Wednesday, claiming, “No one company should have the power to pick and choose which content reaches consumers and which doesn’t.”

Continental, a Hanover, Germany-based developer of technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods, is acquiring Argus Cyber Security, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based automotive cyber security company. The amount of the deal was not disclosed.

The recently released Paradise Papers, which detail the tax affairs of some of the world’s wealthiest people, have revealed the offshore sites used by Apple to avoid paying billions in taxes.