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Chicago’s interim police superintendent John Escalante is struggling to explain the wild jump in shootings in the Windy City, and he thinks he has at least part of the explanation: it’s social media’s fault.

Authorities in San Bernardino are on the hunt for an18-year-old woman who allegedly stabbed her 21-year-old boyfriend to death after an argument, and then posted about committing the crime on Facebook.

Today is the third anniversary of Aaron Swartz’s death. Had he lived, the legendary programmer, hacker and free speech campaigner would have been 29 today. Swartz committed suicide in 2013, facing up to 35 years in jail for data theft.

Venture capitalist and former Facebook president Sean Parker has thrown his support behind a new ballot measure that seeks to regulate and legalize marijuana for recreational purposes in California this year.

In an email sent Wednesday afternoon obtained exclusively by this reporter, Facebook rescinded its initial decision that a page that incited hatred and violence against Israelis met “community standards.” “As you may have noticed, we have now taken down both those

The German government’s demand that social media giants Google, Facebook and Twitter remove what it calls anti-migrant ‘hate speech’ is having its first real test in the wake of the sickening sex attacks in Cologne over New Year’s Eve. Breitbart London first

A federal judge has ruled that Facebook must face two class action lawsuits claiming the company concealed slowing ad growth in its initial public offering (IPO) in 2012, and helped its underwriters make a $2.4 billion profit by shorting 63 million shares on inside information.

As the fifth anniversary of the social media-driven Arab Spring uprisings approaches, Egyptian authorities have arrested three influential Facebook administrators, accusing them of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. On Saturday Egypt’s Interior Ministry charged two men and one woman,

With CES 2016 opening at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 6, the world is on the cusp of “virtual reality everything” with the launch of the Augmented Reality Marketplace.

Although a 14-year-old offender was recently released from detention due to his tender age, apparently 17 is old enough to do hard time for mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Facebook.

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Facebook’s attempt to introduce “Free Basics,” an internet service for low-income Indians that only offered access to Facebook and a number of the site’s partners, has been blocked by regulators.

TEL AVIV – A mysterious gold object discovered in a Jerusalem cemetery turns out to be a “diffuser of positive energies” available on the web, Facebook users informed the Israel Antiquities Authority.     On Tuesday, Breibart Jerusalem reported that the Authority had

A U.S. special forces mission into Libya ended in confusion and embarrassment after the Libyan Air Force posted photos of the American commandos on their Facebook page.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republicans and Democrats, in a rare show of bipartisanship, came together to pass legislation that requires the Obama administration to produce a strategy to combat terrorists’ use of social media.

Widespread outrage greeted Department of Homeland Security director Jeh Johnson’s revelation that immigration officials have been secretly barred from looking at the social media posts of prospective immigrants, due to political correctness and fears that such investigations would result in “bad public relations.”

“We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook!” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan thundered in the spring of 2014. “We will take the necessary steps in the strongest way.” Now, he has come out in praise of Facebook.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany said on Tuesday that Facebook, Google and Twitter have agreed to delete hate speech from their websites within 24 hours, a new step in the fight against rising online racism following the refugee crisis. The government

The North Carolina woman who caused outrage on Facebook after posting a photo of her dog with its muzzle clamped shut with duct tape to keep it from barking appeared in court this week to face animal cruelty charges.

TEL AVIV – Religious LGBT Jews are coming out online in the first campaign of its kind, Israeli news website Ynet reported.  An estimated 44 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender religiously observant Jews are posting photos, names, and sexual orientation

The Foreign Desk’s editor-in-chief, Lisa Daftari, launched the MyTreedom campaign on Facebook this week to give Christians celebrating Christmas in regions where they face intense persecution a platform to showcase their proud Christmas decor.

In answer to a question that no one anywhere is asking, Mark Zuckerberg has proclaimed that no, he will not be banning Muslims from Facebook.

TEL AVIV – A new video making the rounds on Facebook features a little Palestinian girl holding a large knife and demonstrating how to stab Israelis, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. The video, which originally appeared on the Facebook page

SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said he supported Muslims in his community and around the world. Muslims in the United States and abroad have been criticized in the wake of attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.

TEL AVIV – Jewish actress Mayim Bialik took to Facebook to slam people who boycott her because she supports Zionism and Israel. Bialik posted this (original at right) on Tuesday: “For those of you who refuse to follow me and discourage

Australian author and columnist Kerri Sackville has created a private Facebook group that is dedicated to the public naming and shaming of men who post abusive comments towards women online.

In the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, there has been increased pressure on social media companies to take down Islamist material to interfere with their recruiting efforts, but the companies are also worried about allegations of censorship.

TEL AVIV – In honor of Hanukkah, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo of a dog dressed in a yarmulke and tallit – the Jewish prayer shawl – to his Facebook page. The photo attracted a litany

San Berardino jihadis Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik took some steps to clean up their online footprint before launching the attack.

On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan announced that in honor of their daughter’s birth, they would donate 99 percent of their shares in Facebook, valued at $45 billion, to various causes.

Sinead O’Connor has been found “safe and sound” in Dublin after posting an ominous suicide note-type message to Facebook.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian officials say they have arrested two women on human trafficking charges: one for selling her baby for $250, the other for buying it after placing a “want ad” on Facebook.

Google has censored hundreds of thousands of links to comply with European “right to be forgotten” regulations. A new transparency report reveals that the search giant has complied with 348,508 of the 1,235,473 URLs that users have requested be removed from search results.

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.

President Obama commented on the video that was released of the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a police officer in Chicago.

Elisha Levy, an immigrant IDF soldier from Britain, uploaded a video to Facebook in which he implores overseas students in Israel to stay despite the recent wave of Palestinian terrorism.