Facebook’s refusal to even touch false political ads sends the message that it only cares about lies spread by regular users and not politicians.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been secretly indicted by the Trump administration’s Justice Department, “a drastic escalation” of the feds’ efforts against him, the New York Times reported. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denounced Wikileaks as a “non-state hostile intelligence service” and labeled Assange a “fraud,” “coward,” and “enemy.” But rather than a federal indictment, Assange deserves a tweaked version of one of Washington’s hottest honorifics.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social media platform is prepared to fight interference in the 2020 election, but the task is never-ending.

Syria and Ukraine prove that he is completely unfit for office.

Uighurs living in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and France have complained of intimidation by Beijing

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg briefly poked his head out of his gilded panic room on Monday to address reports that he ran a quiet lobbying campaign to reassure right-wing critics of his company that he shares their concerns. In his view, he’s guilty of nothing more than “hearing from a range of viewpoints” and “learning.”

Except... it turns out that the latter part of Warren's "fake news ad" -- the part which she presents as truthful -- is actually false as well.

LeBron James' Monday news conference played right into the hands of Chinese government propaganda and undermined the values he has publicly espoused.

President Donald Trump has joined the Amazon-owned video game streaming service Twitch as part of his 2020 re-election campaign. But Trump has well-known long-standing animosity with Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos and has railed against violent video games in the past.

We thought economic growth and technology would liberate China. Instead, it corrupted us.

When a protest group with strong public support turns violent, people may perceive them as less reasonable. In turn, this leads people to identify with them less, and ultimately become less supportive, according to a new study by Stanford sociologist Robb Willer.

Women are swinging elections in the US and Australia in ways analysts have struggled to predict. Two recent studies can help explain.

There aren’t enough synonyms for “cowardly” to capture the craven pusillanimity of America’s corporate capitalists who have abjectly prostrated themselves before Chinese government censors. Those spineless weaklings whose expense accounts tower over their atrophied consciences have shamed themselves and their country.

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Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.

George W. Bush is not a “kind, sweet man.” There is nothing “beautiful” about him. He was a monster as governor of Texas and a monster as president.

The propaganda app — mandatory in some workplaces — can give the Communist Party a powerful new surveillance tool. 

Ad claims CEO backs Trump – then admits it’s not true – after company admits letting politicians make false statements

A new report from The Guardian outlines Google's "substantial contributions to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington despite its insistence that it supports political action on the climate crisis." The full list of groups that receive substantial contributions from Google is available on their website.

If he can’t be indicted, and if he can dictate his own terms to Congress — as the White House counsel suggests — then the president is saying that he’s something other than a president.