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Last week, Breitbart News revealed that Google Search is interfering in the election, purging links to conservative websites from its search results, including a complete purge of Breitbart News links from searches related to Joe Biden. The blacklisting of conservatives sources becomes even more serious in light of Google’s status as the default search engine on every smartphone in America — a monopoly on searches that Google pays Apple $1.5 billion to maintain.

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told Congress that all app developers are treated equally in Apple’s App Store, but a report from Bloomberg alleges that Apple halved its App Store fee to get Amazon Prime Video on its mobile devices and TV set-top box.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is pressing Google CEO Sundar Pichai for answers regarding the search giant’s meddling in the U.S. presidential election after an explosive Breitbart News investigation published this week proved the company is blocking search traffic from Breitbart News and other conservative websites.

A recent report from Business Insider states that claims by the CEOs of Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook that their companies are not “that big” is undermined by the massive profits that the tech titans generate.

During testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reacted to the CEOs of Apple, Google, and Amazon downplaying technology theft by China by stating that “they need to get out more”

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) told Breitbart News Daily that he will no longer accept donations from America’s largest technology companies. 

The most powerful tech CEOs in the country, representing Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook, appeared before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel to discuss their market dominance and censorship yesterday. Here are some of the most misleading answers the CEOs gave Congress.

During yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, the CEOs of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook were unable to agree on whether or not China has been stealing technology and intellectual property (IP) from American companies. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the only honest and straightforward answer to Rep. Greg Steube’s question, answering: “I think it’s well documented that the Chinese government steals technology from American companies.”

Apple CEO Tim Cook was questioned today by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) about the company’s monopoly on its App Store during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel alongside the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Cook claims Apple “treats every developer the same,” and that “the rules apply to everyone.”

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) said during a big tech antitrust hearing on Wednesday that big tech companies are “out to get conservatives,” citing Google purging Breitbart News from its search results. 

Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google have donated vast sums of money to members of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee in advance of its Big Tech hearing on Wednesday.

The House Judiciary Committee will hold an antitrust hearing on America’s largest technology companies on Wednesday.

The White House on Wednesday confirmed the Department of Commerce had filed a petition to the Federal Communications Commission challenging the regulation of large Silicon Valley social media companies.

AMC Theaters and Universal Studios just agreed to shorten the theatrical window from around 90 days to just 17 days. Massive. Massive. Massive.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and a host of other House conservatives introduced legislation on Wednesday that would block big tech giants from censoring lawful political speech on the Internet.

Facebook’s photo-sharing social media service Instagram has promised to fix what it claims is a bug in its app after Apple’s iOS 14 revealed that the app regularly accesses iPhone users’ cameras.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr unveiled his outline for tackling big tech censorship, dominance on the Internet, and anticompetitive practices in an op-ed on Monday.

NYU professor, Silicon Valley expert, and author Scott Galloway recently outlined seven antitrust-related questions that Apple CEO Tim Cook could be asked when he appears before Congress this week.

Tech giant Apple’s contract manufacturer Foxconn has reportedly begun production of the company’s iPhone 11 lineup at its production plant near the southern city of Chennai in India.

Legendary engineer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is suing Google-owned YouTube over a series of cryptocurrency scams that reportedly used Wozniak’s name and likeness to lure in victims.

During an interview with Fox News released on Tuesday, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) stated that Congress should hear from the CEOs of Apple and the NBA and Hollywood executives about how China uses its economic might “to coerce American citizens

Google has claimed that its Chinese virus contact tracing technology would not track users’ locations, but in order for the tech to work on Google’s Android smartphones, users must turn on the devices’ location tracking enabling Google to track them.

Apple and Google have been accused of deleting Palestine from their online maps — even though it was never being labelled in the first place — sparking outrage among pro-Palestinian activists and prompting the Palestinian Authority’s communications minister to reportedly shun Ramallah’s use of the search engine.

Amid the second wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic, The Business Roundtable called on Friday for every company to require employee and customer masks.

Tech giant Apple has won a landmark court case against the European Commission over a dispute relating to a 13 billion euro ($14.9 billion) Irish tax bill.

California, the home state of Silicon Valley, reportedly opened an antitrust investigation against Internet giant Google on Tuesday. Until today, California joined Alabama as the only states not investigating Google’s business practices.

White House Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump will launch a new ad campaign on Tuesday promoting the value of job training outside of the four-year university college system.

The career-focused social media platform LinkedIn is being sued in San Francisco Federal Court over allegations that the site’s iPhone app snooped on users by reading the contents of their smartphones’ clipboards.

Tech giant Apple has reclosed 11 of its stores in Southern California, Maryland, Ohio, and Tennessee due to local increases in Wuhan coronavirus infections. This makes a total of 91 American stores that have been closed back down after opening.

A number of popular iPhone apps such as Spotify, Pinterest, Waze and Tinder all crashed today with analysis appearing to show that Facebook is to blame.