The Erdogan regime in Turkey fined Facebook, Twitter, and other tech firms this week for failing to comply with a social media law that requires each to appoint a representative to liaise with the Turkish government.
Pornographic photos and videos of a missing teenage girl that were posted online have led to a suspect’s arrest in Davie, Florida.
Socialist authorities in Venezuela began cutting off citizens’ access to social media this week in what is likely an attempt to stop any groundswell of support for legitimate President Juan Guaidó.
The far-left network played a central role in the campaign to get Alex Jones kicked off social media.
The UK’s National Crime Agency has warned that live streaming websites pose an “urgent threat” as abusers use them to prey on young children.
A woman was arrested on Friday night after she allegedly assaulted Alaskan artist and pro-Trump activist Tim Treadstone, better known by stage name Baked Alaska, outside of a popular Mexican restaurant in West Hollywood.
Former “Opie and Anthony” radio show host Anthony Cumia was arrested and charged over the weekend for allegedly hitting and strangling a woman who began live-streaming the aftermath of the alleged confrontation on the video streaming app Periscope.
A Florida woman was arrested over the weekend for drunk driving after live-streaming her trek from the bar via Periscope, which is an app that allows users to stream live video. Whitney Beall, 23, told those watching her live-stream that
“You don’t need to be filming this, put it down, you’re not reporting,” President Obama told reporters he met at a tea shop. The shooter then ended the broadcast of his video, but not before hundreds of viewers had tuned in to watch the president.
The battle for the next great social network service has become a neck-and-neck race. The hot new trend–as of this month –is live social video streaming, where users interact in real-time with their favorite Twitter friends, as they record events and conversation. One of the two contenders, Periscope, had the massive promotional power of Twitter itself, but after a brief rise to dominance, has fallen into tight competition with the scrappy startup, Meerkat.
