A lawyer claimed the United Kingdom could soon force users to provide valid ID if they want to access social media sites, as the U.K. implements mandatory ID checks on porn users starting in April.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, the law professor behind popular political blog Instapundit, published an article in USA Today, Monday, explaining why he decided to delete his Twitter account which had over 100,000 followers.
Anti-government protesters clashed with French police on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Saturday, leaving the famed avenue shrouded in tear gas on another day of demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron.
Facebook will ban election “misinformation” ahead of the midterms this year, including satirical posts which claim people can vote via text message.
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.”
Playboy has announced its departure from Facebook, removing its collection of pages, following user data mishandling allegations against the social network.
More than half of millennials are “seeking relief from social media,” according to a report.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has claimed that “not all interactions in social media are equally good for people in terms of their psychological well-being.”
LittleThings, a 100-employee-strong company which posted “feel-good stories and videos” on Facebook, has shut down following Facebook’s pivot away from publisher content to user posts.
A former Twitter executive claimed to Vanity Fair that the social network is “just an ass-backward tech company.”
A new proposal calling for greater transparency surrounding the sponsors of online politicals advertisements will be considered by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) next month.
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.
Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed he didn’t want his nephew to use social media this week, criticizing “overuse” of technology.
Mainstream technology news outlet Wired has defended Twitter following Project Veritas’ exposé on the company, which revealed how the platform censors users and sells their information. In their article, Wired called Project Veritas’ investigation, which confirmed years of Breitbart Tech
Twitter has responded to Project Veritas’ undercover investigation, which revealed employees at the company boasting about censoring conservatives, by attacking the messenger.
Left-wing and mainstream technology news outlets ignored Project Veritas’ Twitter censorship exposé, which revealed Twitter employees admitting to censorship against conservatives this week.
Twitter direct messaging engineer Pranay Singh admitted to mass-banning accounts that express interest in God, guns, and America, during a Project Veritas investigation.
Facebook will reduce the spread of “engagement bait” posts that “beg” for likes, comments, and shares, according to a report.
Facebook hopes to detect suicidal users on their platform through the use of artificial intelligence after successfully testing the feature in the United States.
Roger Stone’s “Stone Cold Truth” account, center-left commentator Bunty King, and Sam Hyde’s comedy group Million Dollar Extreme were all permanently suspended from Twitter this week.
Twitter is set to crackdown on revenge porn amid new rule changes on the platform, according to a report.
Google and Facebook, along with other companies in Silicon Valley, spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress in the third quarter in response to fears of regulation, according to a report.
Twitter has removed the ability for conservative users to send out automated tweets using a service created by the Patriotic Journalist Network (PJNet). According to Slate, “The app helped users build tweets with prewritten text and pictures and allowed them
Breitbart Tech recently had the opportunity to speak to open source social network Minds’ founder Bill Ottman, who explained the differences between Minds and free-speech centric social media site Gab and discussed why Big Tech is failing.
British Prime Minister Theresa May is reportedly considering regulating Facebook and Google the same way as news organizations.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret at previously thinking that claims misinformation on his platform changed the election were “crazy.”
Twitter has doubled the allowed amount of characters in posts from 140 to 280, rolling out the new update to select accounts.
Social networks and technology companies in the UK could face government sanctions unless they pledge to stop “trolling,” “sexting,” and “cyberbulling on their platforms.
There’s a new social network on the block for Muslims who want to use the web and isolate themselves from western values. Muslimface, which models itself after Facebook and Twitter, aims to cocoon its users from “blasphemous” content.
