German police are hunting down the operator of a Facebook page of the “anonymous” group for criticising migrants. In the latest crack down on online speech, the anonymous group, who originated on notorious website 4chan, are in the sights of
TEL AVIV – Israel will take legal measures against Internet giants like Facebook and Google if they do not start controlling anti-Israel “incitement,” the country’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Sunday.
TEL AVIV – HotDudesAndHummus is an Instagram account featuring, you guessed it, hot (Israeli) dudes eating hummus. The account was created by a group of Israeli university students to show a different – yummier? – side to Israel that has
An Egyptian actor and comedian has reportedly accused victims in Syria’s city of Aleppo of using makeup to “fake” the slaughter wrought by Bashar al-Assad regime airstrikes.
Oscar-winning actors Michael Caine and Emma Thompson are blaming major Hollywood studios for what they say is a damaging new trend — namely, an increase in the hiring of young actors and actresses based solely on the size of their social media following, rather than on any actual acting ability.
JAFFA, Israel – The death of three children in a house fire on Gaza has sparked a fierce media war between Fatah and Hamas.
Twitter showed the hashtag #DropOutHillary top trending on Wednesday afternoon, with over 265,000 tweets and rising, according to the site.
A new study finds that the more time young adults spend using social media, the more likely they are to be depressed.
More than 1,000,000 people — plus their families — have signed the boycott pledge against Target, following the secretive decision by executives to open all of their stores’ bathrooms and changing rooms to people of both sexes.
On Monday, Twitter announced an update to their abuse prevention system that allows users to flag accounts by attaching questionable tweets to an account report.
Former professional boxer Mike Tyson paid tribute to Prince on Twitter late Thursday by doing something Mike Tyson does best — dividing the Internet.
The BBC chronicles the misadventures of 29-year-old Jiang Yilei, a Chinese Internet sensation who works under the name “Papi Jiang.” She was a video blogger, racking up 100 million views for her amusing commentary videos and building a following of 11 million fans, until she disappeared.
Social media has emerged as a valuable and effective fundraising tool for terrorist groups. The Internet’s easy access and relative anonymity allows terrorist groups to solicit online donations from both supporters and unsuspecting donors who believe they are supporting a humanitarian or charitable activity.
Scarlett Johansson’s casting as the lead role of Major Motoko Kusanagi in the live action movie Ghost in the Shell, based on the comic series, has caused controversy and is being called the “whitewashing” of an “Asian role.”
The New York Times reports it was able to persuade Facebook to shut down six web pages used as “sprawling online arms bazaars” for terrorists and militants, “offering weapons ranging from handguns and grenades to heavy machine guns and guided missiles.”
Indiana women have formed an activist group called “Periods for Pence” to protest an abortion law signed by Gov. Mike Pence (R).
Glasgow Police have threatened social media users, ordering them to be “kind” and not “hurtful” unless they want to “receive a visit… this weekend”. https://twitter.com/GreaterGlasgPol/status/715867273261662208 Using the witty acronym ‘THINK’, and the hashtag #thinkbeforeyoupost, they cautioned people to consider whether something is
The State Department has apologized a tweet in which it suggested unattractive American spring break vacationers need to be extra vigilant regarding scams abroad.
A man attacked and beheaded a four-year-old girl in Taiwan as she and her mother headed to a metro station in Taipei.
An Iraqi Shiite militia group calling itself the “Iraq Special Operation Force” claims it settled the fate of a captured Islamic State jihadi by giving Instagram users an hour to vote for either freedom or death, and imposing a death sentence when the online vote called for it.
A massive brawl between two African-American families in Augusta, Georgia, involving up to 50 people left one teenager dead and nine attackers charged with his murder, police say.
According to the UK Independent, Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) supporters celebrated the Brussels bombings online, even before the Islamic State formally took responsibility for the attacks.
Islamists and Islamic State (IS) sympathisers have been celebrating the massacre in Brussels today, starting a sick Arabic #Belgiumonfire (#بروكسل_تحت_النار) hashtag, similar to the #Parisonfire trend which appeared after the Paris attacks. “Strike terror in the heart of Kufar [infidel]… we
On Thursday, the Justice Department announced the indictment of Aws Mohammed Younis al-Jayab, the 23-year-old “hipster terrorist” of Sacramento, for attempting to provide material support to a Syrian terrorist group allied with the Islamic State.
R&B singer John Legend described GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump as “racist” during a Twitter exchange with Donald Trump Jr. on Friday.
Chrissy Teigen hasn’t yet revealed the name of the first child she’s expecting with musician husband John Legend — but her top choice got the approval of none other than President Obama.
An absurd conspiracy theory regarding the fate of child beauty pageant star JonBenét Ramsey is making its way around the web this week.
Social media users were in an uproar Thursday after it was reported that white Game of Thrones actor Finn Jones had been cast as the titular superhero in Marvel’s upcoming Netflix series Iron Fist — despite the fact that the character is white in the comic books.
The victim of an internet troll who agitated for a conviction for “writing malicious blogs” has found himself before the same judge for sending “malicious tweets” of his own, moments after his abuser was sentenced. The bizarre demonstration of the UK’s growing
Iranian authorities reportedly blocked a new mapping app this week that warns users about where the Iranian regime’s morality police are located, just 24 hours after its launch.
In an lengthy new essay, Scottish-born Talking Heads frontman David Byrne theorized that the main reason for the explosive political rise of Donald Trump is his supporters’ inability to seek information outside of the social media “echo chamber” to become more aware of the Republican presidential frontrunner’s “lies and bullsh*t.”
The Jerusalem Post reports: With Israel and Hamas playing a game of cat and mouse underground along the Gaza frontier, the two combatants have opened up a new front in their long-running war – social media. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit
A Chicago teenager has been arrested and accused of torturing an animal after he posted a video on Facebook showing him allegedly pouring boiling water on a cat. After the video went viral on Tuesday, February 2, Chicago Police arrested
Free speech is under assault — not only in repressive dictatorships suddenly able to influence global conversations through the Internet, but across the Western world, and even in the American bastion of free expression. Absolute protection for speech as an inalienable right has given way to bitter squabbling over how much free expression should be sacrificed for various, ostensibly noble goals, and who the censors will be.
German Klimenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “Internet adviser,” is considering a “technology tax” on Internet giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook to create “more equal working conditions” with Russian tech companies.
The Obama administration is conducting social media reviews, but only on those Syrian refugee applicants for whom there are already red flags, according to the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services.
Abortion political advocacy group NARAL Pro-Choice America responded to Sen. Rand Paul’s statement during the GOP debate Thursday night, “I think abortion is always wrong,” with the message, “Keep saying sh*t like that, you’re gonna get punched.”
The desperation plays keep coming from Twitter, including a new marketing executive, while also promising to hide her marketing efforts from “elite” users of the platform.
Russian MP Oleg Nilov of the Fair Russia Party wants the government to have the ability to shut off the internet in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) regions across Syria and Iraq.
This weekend brought the dramatic news that four of Twitter’s top executives were departing: product head Kevin Weil, media head Katie Stanton, human resources vice president Skip Schipper, and engineering chief Alex Roetter.
