Gallup Poll Finds More Americans Think Crime Is on the Rise
A Gallup poll finds that Americans feel crime is on the rise, with more Americans saying there is more crime this year than last year.
Tag: Social Media
The Whip: Breitbart News Grew 75% in Months
Wynton Hall is a Social Media Director and Managing Editor at Breitbart, which has been rising fast in our rankings of the largest publishers on Facebook each month.
Twitter Braces For Company-Wide Layoffs Under New CEO
Company co-founder Jack Dorsey, recently installed as CEO, has promised “big changes” for Twitter, and “has been vocal about the need to shake things up at the company, as user growth and engagement has stalled and the company’s stock has been battered,” according to Business Insider. Dorsey described the company’s flagging performance as “unacceptable” and promised to “ensure more disciplined execution” in a June conference call.
Report: 15 of 58 American ISIS Terrorist Recruits Were From Minnesota
The House Homeland Security Committee released a report on domestic terrorist recruitment on Tuesday that found the largest number of American ISIS recruits came from Minnesota, with California and New York vying for second place.
Police: Couple Robs Bank, Takes Selfies, Posts on Facebook, Gets Caught
Two young Ohioans, fancying themselves Bonnie and Clyde-types, allegedly robbed a bank, then went home and took selfies to post on Facebook, leading police to arrest them days later.
White House Asks Hollywood to Fight Jihadist Propaganda (But Don’t Mention Jihad)
White House Asks Hollywood to Fight Jihadist Propaganda – But Don’t Mention Jihad
Photos: Migrants Flow Through Europe as EU Makes Countries Take Refugees
The European Union has passed a deal that secures the distribution of 120,000 Middle Eastern and African migrants throughout the continent. The migrants, many stuck in interim nations before reaching what they hope to be their final destination, are now continuing those voyages as per the EU.
Claim: President Obama Blocks His 13-Year-Old Critic CJ Pearson on Twitter
CJ Pearson, the 13-year-old who rose to fame for his YouTube videos criticizing President Obama, shared an image claiming he was blocked from following Obama on Twitter.
ISIS Executes 22-Year-Old Woman for ‘Disparaging’ Them on WhatsApp
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in London, a 22-year-old woman in the Syrian city of Deir al-Ezzor was imprisoned for two months, and then executed, by the Islamic State for speaking “disrespectfully” about the “caliphate” on the WhatsApp social media platform.
EXCLUSIVE: CJ Pearson Backs Ted Cruz for Prez to Recruit Millennial Voters
The 13-year-old social media star CJ Pearson, whose YouTube videos criticizing President Obama have gone viral, joined Cruz for President this month to help reach out to millennial voters through the campaign’s “youth operation” and talked about his new venture to Breitbart News.
Turkey Targets Hurriyet Parent Company for ‘Terrorist Propaganda’
Turkish authorities are now targeting Doğan Media Group for “terrorist propaganda,” only days after mobs attacked the offices of Doğan-owned Hürriyet Daily News.
Guantanamo Bay Prisoner’s Match.com Profile: ‘Detained, but Ready to Mingle’
Guantanamo Bay is not standing in the way of prisoner Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani’s desire to find love. His lawyer Carlos Warner runs account an account for the terrorist on Match.com.
Turkish Police Raid Magazine Due to Alleged President Erdogan Insult
Police officers raided Turkish magazine Nokta after they published an illustration of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan taking a selfie next to a soldier’s coffin. The officers also seized remaining copies from the newsroom.
Bahrain Arrests Man for Insulting Troops in Yemen
On Monday, Bahraini officials arrested a man for allegedly insulting soldiers who are currently fighting in Yemen. Less than a day later, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa announced his son will join the Saudi-led coalition.
2016 Republican Website Wars: The Good, the Bad, and the Merely Functional
On the whole, the candidates’ websites seemed surprisingly timid, even backward, as if the designers were primarily afraid of (a) soaking up too much bandwidth from visitors, and (b) leaving some important scrap of text off the main screen, for fear that visitors would explore no further. These are both very last-generation concerns. Seriously, folks, it’s 2015. A dash of animation, such as Fiorina and Chris Christie offer, will not cause anyone’s computer to chug.
Boston Police Thwart Potential Mass Shooting at Pokémon World Championships
Two men were arrested at the Pokémon World Championships in Boston, MA, over the weekend, after a private security firm was alerted the pair might be planning an act of violence against other attendees.
Local Government Splurges £1.3 Million Checking Twitter for Mentions of Themselves
Local authorities have splurged a whopping £1.3 million tracking the press and social media for mentions of themselves over the last five years, it has emerged. They have justified the huge spend on the grounds that it helps ensure a
Report: ISIS Bans TV, Destroys Satellite Dishes in Areas Under Its Control
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has banned television and demolished satellite dishes to prevent residents of its self-declared “caliphate” from accessing foreign channels deemed “dangerous” due to their anti-ISIS programming, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has learned.
China Follows Crackdown on Tianjin Reports: 15,000 Cybercrime Arrests
China’s government announced earlier this week that it had arrested 15,000 people for an assortment of cybercrimes, the result of a project announced in July titled “Cleaning the Internet.”
Report: YouTube Censoring Videos of Black-on-White Crime
Colin Flaherty—”who chronicles racially motivated violence by blacks against whites”—reports that YouTube terminated his account on August 13, thereby ending his use of the social media platform to publish articles showing black-on-white crime.
Chrissy Teigen Scolds Social Media Followers for Being Mean
Chrissy Teigen has a message for all the meanies who insult her on social media: If you’re going to put me down, at least do me the courtesy to not tag me in your posts.
Young Mom Posts Breastfeeding Photo with Her Son and Her Friend’s Son
One young mother near Philadelphia decided to pose online breastfeeding two boys, but only one of them was her son.
Fiorina on Fire: Carly ‘Consensus Winner’ of Undercard GOP Debate
“When life hands you lemons, make lemonade,” the saying goes. What Carly Fiorina did Thursday night, when her ranking in the GOP primary polls gave her the “lemon” of the undercard debate, was the equivalent of opening a lemonade factory.
Bush Wins Mainstream Media Attention, Trump Dominates across all Media Platforms out of GOP Field
CLEVELAND, Ohio: A top media intelligence company, iQ Media, reviewed which presidential candidate is winning in terms of media mentions across television — ABC, CBS, and NBC.
Anti-Cop Activism Leads to Sky-High Murder Rates in Democrat-Run Cities
A sharp spike in the murder rates of Democrat-controlled cities across America is one of the consequences of the increased tension between police and black Americans; tension that has been stirred up by both the liberal media and by Democrat-aligned radical political activist group Black Lives Matter.
