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The Greater Hartford, Connecticut, branch of the NAACP called for Simsbury residents to “pack” a board of education meeting Tuesday night after a photo seeming to show two high school students in “blackface” appeared on social media.

Emojis are increasingly common in court cases, and the meanings behind these emojis are reportedly being argued during trials.

The most popular app on the Chinese version of Apple’s app store is currently “Study to Make China Strong,” a program that spits out nuggets of Communist Party propaganda.

A Canadian “Instagram influencer” is facing criminal charges after a video showed her allegedly tossing a chair off of an apartment’s balcony 45 stories up from a busy street in downtown Toronto.

Socialist tyrant Nicolas Maduro is cracking down hard on Venezuelan media in his bid to retain power, shutting down television stations and yanking radio hosts off the air if they dare to mention any number of banned topics, according to reports surfacing this weekend.

Actor Liam Neeson expressed regret in a shocking interview for the “horrible” thoughts he had about wanting to kill a black person after a friend was raped.

Democrat-led majorities in the House and Senate Illinois lawmakers are pushing an “assault weapons” ban and firearm registration requirements.

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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims she is a victim of unfair attacks by “Republicans” or “conservatives,” then responds cleverly to those non-attacks.

Turkey’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his support for semi-deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday and Thursday. Erdogan supporters, and even some of his critics, enthusiastically followed his lead and pushed their #WeAreMADURO hashtag to the top of trending topics on Twitter.

Twitter is officially banned in China, but several million Chinese still use it, a situation the Communist tyranny is addressing by throwing Twitter users in jail, threatening their families, and deleting their tweets.

The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church said that the Antichrist will run the “world wide web” and that powerful data-gathering devices are a harbinger of his arrival.

Rapper-singer Post Malone sent an alarming message about his mental health on social media Sunday, pleading with his fans and followers to “let me live.”

The American Center for Law & Justice is calling on the state of Ohio to revoke the medical license for the former Cleveland Clinic doctor who was caught threatening to give Jewish patients the wrong medications.

An 18-year-old Syrian national living in Houston, Texas, allegedly shot and killed his 19-year-old friend during a “No Lackin Challenge” video gone wrong. 

A former resident at the Cleveland Clinic was discovered to have made anti-Semitic statements online, comparing Jews to “dogs” and “Nazis,” and claiming that she would give Jewish patients the wrong medications.

Mark Zuckerberg promised to better prevent “election interference” and “the spread of hate speech” in a Friday-published Facebook post.

Quillette casts PewDiePie’s battles with censorship as illustrative of an internet dominated by a cartel of politically aligned capitalists.

Jordan Peterson told Breitbart News that social media censorship is a problematic “can of worms” without a “straightforward” solution.

In an article for the Guardian, Wednesday, writer Jason Wilson claimed that though doxing is a “tactic” that has been “sneered at by some,” it has “proven to be effective” against ideological opponents and in “dismantling the far right.” Ironically, the same write called doxing a “danger facing US journalists” in June.

A New York state Democratic senator sponsoring a bill that would require potential gun owners to submit to social media background checks told a Republican aide over Twitter on Tuesday to “kill” herself.

Authorities arrested a Florida teacher after she tried to lure a 13-year-old boy using social media to engage in lewd activity and professed her love for him, police said.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds, the law professor behind popular political blog Instapundit, published an article in USA Today, Monday, explaining why he decided to delete his Twitter account which had over 100,000 followers.

A Southwest Airlines gate agent allegedly mocked the unusual name of a five-year-old epileptic girl while the child recently pre-boarded a flight.

German police in Freiburg gave a stern warning to the public after a woman posted a picture of a migrant on social media she believed had molested her 12-year-old daughter in order to get help from the public in identifying the man.

DePaul University has introduced a new course that will examine what it refers to as “the more troubling aspects of social media,” as well as explore how these platforms can be censored to protect women and “queer people.”

Free speech is increasingly imperiled as nations around the world turn to authoritarianism, which comes packaged as everything from iron-fisted dictatorial rule to coercive “progressivism.” One thing every brand of authoritarianism has in common is speech codes. Dissenting ideas dilute authority, so they must be suppressed. We should be thankful for the free speech that remains, and rise from our Thanksgiving tables prepared to fight for it.

Snapchat parent company Snap is reportedly preparing to release the latest version of its Spectacles product — despite the previous models under-performing in the market.

A recent poll by SurveyMonkey appears to show that public opinion on social media firms has become quite negative amongst the majority of people questioned. 57 Percent of Americans surveyed believe that social media hurts democracy and free speech.

In a lengthy post, Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the problems with “algorithmic bias” and how to create a better appeals process.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff claimed Facebook is the “new cigarettes” and should be regulated as such in an interview on Wednesday, doubling down on similar comments he made earlier this year.

The Chinese Communist Party wiped out 10,000 accounts over the past three weeks across multiple popular social media services to suppress dissent and enforce the Communist Party line, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.

A new report from England’s Children’s Commissioner raises concerns surrounding the collection of children’s digital data.

Twitter co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams claimed the social network’s follower system was a bad idea at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, this week.

“I would look at that,” the president said in response to a question from Breitbart News during a White House press conference. “I think it’s a serious problem.”

Brooklyn borough president Eric Adams (D) and New York State Sen. Kevin Parker (D-21) are both pushing to require a social media background check before allowing individuals to purchase firearms.