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Clarium Capital President Peter Thiel gestures while giving the keynote speech during the StartOut LGBT Entrepreneurship Awards Thursday, March 8, 2012, in San Francisco.

Tech investor Peter Thiel stepping down from Meta’s board

Abigail Adcox · February 7, 2022 10:11 pm

Facebook and Instagram could get pulled from Europe over data transfer dispute

Ryan King · February 7, 2022 7:37 pm

FILE - In this March 19, 2014 file photo, Peter Mason tries the Oculus virtual reality headset at the Game Developers Conference 2014 in San Francisco. Oculus, the virtual reality company acquired by Facebook earlier this year for $2 billion, is holding its first-ever developers conference and is expected to discuss the much-anticipated release of its VR headset for consumers. The two-day Oculus Connect conference begins Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file)

Metaverse implements personal boundaries to prevent virtual harassment

Jenny Goldsberry · February 5, 2022 1:36 am

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at an event at the US Climate Action Center at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow has entered it's second week as leaders from around the world, are gathering in Scotland's biggest city, to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming.

Beltway Confidential

AOC wants to ruin Facebook (and some Republicans agree with her)

Brad Polumbo · February 3, 2022 5:01 pm

In this April 11, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pauses while testifying before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy.

Facebook sees biggest drop in market value ever on news it lost users

Zach Halaschak · February 3, 2022 2:22 pm

Facebook suffers biggest one-day value drop of any US company in history

Facebook suffers biggest one-day value drop of any US company in history

Zach Halaschak · February 3, 2022 12:00 am

Facebook removes ‘Convoy to DC 2022’ group

Ryan King · February 2, 2022 11:41 pm

Ending Big Tech’s free ride

Ending Big Tech’s free ride

Conn Carroll · February 2, 2022 12:00 am

Kansas City Chiefs fans donate over $173,000 to Buffalo children’s hospital

Luke Gentile · January 26, 2022 4:53 pm

Bipartisan anti-tech bills unpopular with voters, industry polling shows

Nihal Krishan · January 20, 2022 3:46 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook is suing several law firms that represented Paul Ceglia, a man who claimed he owned half of the social network and was entitled to billions of dollars from the company and Zuckerberg. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Beltway Confidential

Facebook strikes a blow against free speech

Nathan Maxwell · January 17, 2022 11:00 am

This June 4, 2014 photo shows Amazon.com boxes in Phoenix. Amazon reports quarterly financial results on Thursday, July 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Antitrust bill would destroy Amazon Prime, critics say

Nihal Krishan · January 14, 2022 11:00 am