Protests against the Turkish government in Russia following the downing of a Russian jet on the Turkey/Syria border have intensified. Last week, Russians burned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in effigy before a Turkish embassy in Crimea.
Sinead O’Connor has been found “safe and sound” in Dublin after posting an ominous suicide note-type message to Facebook.
Unimpressed by their “historic” nuclear deal with the United States, and its billions of dollars in sanctions relief, Iran’s hackers have escalated their attacks on U.S. government officials over the past four months.
On Tuesday, Western Washington University (WWU) called off its classes on its main campus in Bellingham, WA, due to media posts that President Bruce Shepard called “hate speech targeted at Western students of color.”
The big social media services have been generally aggressive about purging ISIS content—if sometimes unable to keep up with the sheer volume of it. One example is the “Khilafah News” page on Facebook. The social media giant initially hesitated to take it down, but upon review, concluded that it does violate their community standards.
Hostility between the hacker collective Anonymous and the Islamic State escalated into a ‘cyberwar’ after the Paris terror attack, with Anonymous hackers claiming to have taken out hundreds of ISIS websites and thousands of their social media accounts. However, the
That terribly public social media breakup announcement may get a smidgen less awkward with a little help from a new, custom Facebook feature debuting now on U.S. mobile devices nationwide.
The Telegram messenger application announced they blocked at least 78 Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) accounts in twelve languages. However, just like Twitter, new ISIS accounts form just as soon as the service deletes the old ones. https://twitter.com/telegram/status/667051485327458304 “We were disturbed to learn
The president of the Russian region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, suggested on his Instagram account that terrorists should be tied to drones and dropped on the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
On Tuesday, at a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) inquired if the Federal Communications Commission has the power to shut down websites used by the Islamic State and other terrorist groups.
ISIS-linked terrorists slaughtered 129 people, 100 people alone in a concert hall, on Friday in Paris. Family members and friends took to social media to put faces to those lost in the tragedy.
The most basic, primitive honor a nation owes to its dead is to fight to defend itself—to defeat the enemy and win. And yet the West won’t.
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for what it described as “The Blessed Onslaught In Paris Against the Crusader Nation Of France.”
The Islamic State’s affinity for social media takes another grim turn, as users of an ISIS message channel can now download graphics of Islamist flags, beheadings, and immolations to spice up their chat sessions and text messages.
Facebook’s Global Government Requests Report was released on Wednesday, and it showed a tremendous surge in requests for user account data from governments around the world, topped by the government of the United States. The governments of Turkey and India were cited as the most aggressive in censoring Facebook pages.
On November 11, film director Spike Lee told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he believes “social media is partly to blame” for the surge in “gun violence” and firearm-related homicides in Chicago.
A twisted string of allegations about racism on the campus of Yale University led hundreds of students to protest Monday, just days after a conference on the future of free speech was disrupted by allegations of racism and two weeks after protests against alleged racism and cultural insensitivity were held over student Halloween costumes.
The Washington Examiner reports an audit of the Twitter accounts for the 2016 presidential candidates found Hillary Clinton has the highest percentage of phony followers by far, a whopping 41 percent. This means that of the 4.65 million followers Clinton claims, 1, 906,500 of them might be fakes.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has issued a report accusing Shiite militias in Iraq of using child soldiers to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The terrorist group is widely known for also using this practice.
We’ve seen this before: An encounter between a black citizen and police is framed as an example of racial profiling. The story spreads like wildfire on social media and is pointed to as evidence of the need for immediate cultural change.
Britain’s government published proposals for new Internet spying laws Wednesday to keep pace with the digital age and crack down on terror threats, but critics have branded the package a “snooper’s charter”. The plans are expected to grant intelligence agencies
T-shirt souvenirs reading “Support Assad” and “Polite Invaders” have saturated Moscow as the Putin government continues its military campaign to stabilize the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Fresno State football player Christian Malik Pryor was arrested on November 2 for allegedly threatening a gun-related mass shooting on the school’s campus.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush announced Jeb Can Fix It as his new campaign slogan in hopes of firing up his dwindling support. However, it only led to backlash and insults on social media.
Supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have released a new propaganda manual, titled Oh Media Correspondent, You Are the Mujahid, in an effort to amp up their already well-known social media and Internet presence.
