Government ministers are considering a raft of measures to crack down on hate preaching in the wake of the jailing of Anjem Choudary, who was allowed to promote Sharia in the UK for two decades. Questions have been raised over
Twitter and YouTube refused to take down posts by hate preacher Anjem Choudary even after he was arrested for swearing allegiance to Islamic State, and despite the best efforts of the British authorities to force them to do so, it
London’s Metropolitan Police is planning to spunk £1.7 million setting up a new “Twitter squad” to combat trolling on social media. On top of this, the Home Office has put nearly £500,000 into setting up an Online Hate Crime Hub. Gosh,
SocialTimes, a blog by Adweek, lists Breitbart News among the Top 10 U.S. media publishers in July 2016 based on social media engagement. Breitbart had the largest month-to-month growth out of any publisher.
Facebook took down Tam Khan’s profile after the boxing trainer published an anti-Islamic State message urging Muslims in Britain to contribute to the country and respect its culture.
Current polls show the race for President is much tighter than it really is. Ann Coulter warned us years ago in her best seller Slander that Democrats and the liberal media always use polls to manipulate and discourage conservatives from voting.
The sister and cousin of social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch have reportedly been arrested by Pakistani police for their “possible involvement” in the “honor killing” of the star known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian.”
Turkey’s justice minister has confirmed that police will be investigating individuals who expressed a belief or shared content that furthers the idea that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan staged a coup attempt against himself in order to orchestrate a purge of opposition in the military.
Califorlia Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom plagiarized an attack on Donald Trump on Friday evening, presenting work by a retired Air Force officer as if it were his own, and signing it with his name. Newson later admitted the plagiarism, once caught.
Hillary Clinton has launched a website that allows users to “Trump Yourself” using the Facebook platform to superimpose now-infamous lines uttered by Donald Trump onto their profile pictures.
German Police raided the homes of 60 people suspected of writing ‘hate’ speech on social media in Germany. Coordinated by the Federal Criminal Police (BKA), the operation saw officers from 25 departments search across 14 states. The police raids took place as part
TEL AVIV – Following a $1 billion class-action suit filed against Facebook by American victims of Hamas terror, Israel’s Justice Minister and Public Security Minister presented to the Knesset an unprecedented bill for the forced removal of terror-inciting content from social media platforms.
JAFFA, Israel – The massacre of five policemen in Dallas, Texas, has stirred a commotion on Arab social media, with many users gloating at America’s misfortune.
Bangladeshi authorities failed to heed online warnings of an imminent attack in the capital of Dhaka on July 1, reports Reuters.
A Labour councillor has said he will report a former Yorkshire mayor to the police for liking “racist” tweets. George McManus said tweets sent and ‘liked’ by Heather Venter would “cause racial and religious hatred” and that they were “designed
If you’ve found yourself debating liberal friends on Facebook about Hillary Clinton’s email scandal recently, you’ve probably noticed they are clueless.
A police-involved shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has begun to make headlines across the world, and because the case is in its very beginning stages, it is a perfect case study in how social media platforms like Twitter have become an Institutional Left manipulation of how a story works. Already, protests have begun in Baton Rouge, and the story is making headlines in NBC News, New York magazine, The Huffington Post, and international outlets like the BBC and Al Jazeera.
The U.S. government has proposed asking visitors to voluntarily disclose their Facebook, Twitter, and other social media information before they are admitted into the United States, as part of of security efforts to screen foreigners for links to terrorism.
JAFFA, Israel – Several hashtags have been launched on Arab social media, including the popular #Turkey_is_not_alone, as tens of thousands have reacted to Tuesday’s attack on Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.
Washington (AFP) – When allegations emerged that Facebook was skewing its trending news stories, many learned about it… on Facebook.
A journalist working for the Telegraph has asked her Twitter followers to consider if they would kill UKIP leader Nigel Farage, comparing him to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Update: A Telegraph spokesman told Breitbart London in a statement: “The tweets were wholly
The sentencing phase of a trial of a New York man convicted on child pornography charges was abruptly ended when the convict bit his own lip and then started spitting blood at one of his victims, court documents reveal.
The list of information foreign travelers to the United States are asked to provide may soon get a little longer.
Older people were far more likely to vote to leave the European Union (EU), and having lost the argument, supporters of Remain are blaming them, insult them and even arguing their democratic rights should now be curtailed. The demographic divide
A Saudi company came under fire for organizing a mixed-gender iftar dinner for its employees.
U.S. Marines policed their own, reporting a social media post of a Marine with a rifle and the caption “coming to a gay bar near you!” not a week after 49 died in an Islamic terror attack on an Orlando gay nightclub.
While his victims texted heartbreaking last words to loved ones from the blood-drenched floors of packed bathrooms, Omar Mateen apparently turned to social media to measure the viral shockwaves his attack on a gay nightclub had generated.
Beltway insiders like to dismiss Donald Trump’s strength in social media as a mirage – a following of reporters and political gadflies, not Republican voters and core activists.
“You can’t be reading all that stuff. I mean, that’s like letting somebody just walk up and slap you, you know?” Michelle Obama tells Oprah. “You would never just sit there and go, slap me in the face and I’m good with it.”
Supporters of Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid have taken to social media to blast Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for endorsing Hillary Clinton, “the worst nominee of the Democratic Party.”
Orlando jihadi Omar Mateen pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State. ISIS took responsibility for the attack, and declared Mateen one of its “caliphate soldiers.” Now comes word that ISIS supporters are cheering the slaughter in Orlando and pronouncing Mateen a “martyr” to their cause.
JAFFA, Israel – Stark differences of opinion emerged on social media in the Arab world on Sunday and Monday, after 29-year-old Omar Mateen, who reportedly swore allegiance to the Islamic State, carried out a deadly shooting attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The Sunni-Shia divide was also evident in the online comments.
A Saudi family that filmed themselves eating an extravagant Ramadan feast around a moving table has caused an uproar on social media platforms over the meaning of the holiday and the morals of luxury at a time when many in the Arab world are in need.
A video in which a woman from the United Arab Emirates praises her servant’s household abilities while appearing to treat the worker as an object has gone viral on Arab social media.
JAFFA, Israel – Palestinians in several locations took to the streets while others converged on social media to celebrate a terrorist shooting attack in downtown Tel Aviv’s Sarona market on Wednesday night that killed four Israeli civilians.
As the Kremlin claims unequivocal support among Russians for its policies both at home and abroad, a crackdown is underway against ordinary social media users who post things that run against the official narrative. Here the Kremlin’s interests coincide with those of investigators, who are anxious to report high conviction rates for extremism. The Kremlin didn’t immediately comment on the issue.
Is social media in trouble? Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat have all seen large user declines this year.
Social media analysis company Impact Social looked at over 73,000 social media posts (including forums and comments on open news sites) over the past week, revealing in the first instance that the sentiment around immigration is overwhelmingly against
Breitbart London has produced a video to get the word out about the EU’s “Orwellian” new online censorship deal with Facebook and Twitter, after the story went under-reported in the mainstream media. On Tuesday, unelected eurocrats and private corporations slashed
CULVER CITY, California — Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) rallied a small group of millennial supporters of Hillary Clinton in a Starbucks coffee shop Thursday evening, where he urged those in attendance to use the power of new media to encourage friends to vote in California’s primary on Tuesday.
