We’ve seen this before: An encounter between a black citizen and police is framed as an example of racial profiling. The story spreads like wildfire on social media and is pointed to as evidence of the need for immediate cultural change.
Britain’s government published proposals for new Internet spying laws Wednesday to keep pace with the digital age and crack down on terror threats, but critics have branded the package a “snooper’s charter”. The plans are expected to grant intelligence agencies
T-shirt souvenirs reading “Support Assad” and “Polite Invaders” have saturated Moscow as the Putin government continues its military campaign to stabilize the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
Fresno State football player Christian Malik Pryor was arrested on November 2 for allegedly threatening a gun-related mass shooting on the school’s campus.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush announced Jeb Can Fix It as his new campaign slogan in hopes of firing up his dwindling support. However, it only led to backlash and insults on social media.
Supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have released a new propaganda manual, titled Oh Media Correspondent, You Are the Mujahid, in an effort to amp up their already well-known social media and Internet presence.
A Gallup poll finds that Americans feel crime is on the rise, with more Americans saying there is more crime this year than last year.
Wynton Hall is a Social Media Director and Managing Editor at Breitbart, which has been rising fast in our rankings of the largest publishers on Facebook each month.
Company co-founder Jack Dorsey, recently installed as CEO, has promised “big changes” for Twitter, and “has been vocal about the need to shake things up at the company, as user growth and engagement has stalled and the company’s stock has been battered,” according to Business Insider. Dorsey described the company’s flagging performance as “unacceptable” and promised to “ensure more disciplined execution” in a June conference call.
The House Homeland Security Committee released a report on domestic terrorist recruitment on Tuesday that found the largest number of American ISIS recruits came from Minnesota, with California and New York vying for second place.
Two young Ohioans, fancying themselves Bonnie and Clyde-types, allegedly robbed a bank, then went home and took selfies to post on Facebook, leading police to arrest them days later.
White House Asks Hollywood to Fight Jihadist Propaganda – But Don’t Mention Jihad
The European Union has passed a deal that secures the distribution of 120,000 Middle Eastern and African migrants throughout the continent. The migrants, many stuck in interim nations before reaching what they hope to be their final destination, are now continuing those voyages as per the EU.
CJ Pearson, the 13-year-old who rose to fame for his YouTube videos criticizing President Obama, shared an image claiming he was blocked from following Obama on Twitter.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in London, a 22-year-old woman in the Syrian city of Deir al-Ezzor was imprisoned for two months, and then executed, by the Islamic State for speaking “disrespectfully” about the “caliphate” on the WhatsApp social media platform.
The 13-year-old social media star CJ Pearson, whose YouTube videos criticizing President Obama have gone viral, joined Cruz for President this month to help reach out to millennial voters through the campaign’s “youth operation” and talked about his new venture to Breitbart News.
Turkish authorities are now targeting Doğan Media Group for “terrorist propaganda,” only days after mobs attacked the offices of Doğan-owned Hürriyet Daily News.
Guantanamo Bay is not standing in the way of prisoner Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani’s desire to find love. His lawyer Carlos Warner runs account an account for the terrorist on Match.com.
Police officers raided Turkish magazine Nokta after they published an illustration of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan taking a selfie next to a soldier’s coffin. The officers also seized remaining copies from the newsroom.
On Monday, Bahraini officials arrested a man for allegedly insulting soldiers who are currently fighting in Yemen. Less than a day later, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa announced his son will join the Saudi-led coalition.
On the whole, the candidates’ websites seemed surprisingly timid, even backward, as if the designers were primarily afraid of (a) soaking up too much bandwidth from visitors, and (b) leaving some important scrap of text off the main screen, for fear that visitors would explore no further. These are both very last-generation concerns. Seriously, folks, it’s 2015. A dash of animation, such as Fiorina and Chris Christie offer, will not cause anyone’s computer to chug.
Two men were arrested at the Pokémon World Championships in Boston, MA, over the weekend, after a private security firm was alerted the pair might be planning an act of violence against other attendees.
Local authorities have splurged a whopping £1.3 million tracking the press and social media for mentions of themselves over the last five years, it has emerged. They have justified the huge spend on the grounds that it helps ensure a
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has banned television and demolished satellite dishes to prevent residents of its self-declared “caliphate” from accessing foreign channels deemed “dangerous” due to their anti-ISIS programming, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has learned.
China’s government announced earlier this week that it had arrested 15,000 people for an assortment of cybercrimes, the result of a project announced in July titled “Cleaning the Internet.”
Colin Flaherty—”who chronicles racially motivated violence by blacks against whites”—reports that YouTube terminated his account on August 13, thereby ending his use of the social media platform to publish articles showing black-on-white crime.
Chrissy Teigen has a message for all the meanies who insult her on social media: If you’re going to put me down, at least do me the courtesy to not tag me in your posts.
One young mother near Philadelphia decided to pose online breastfeeding two boys, but only one of them was her son.
“When life hands you lemons, make lemonade,” the saying goes. What Carly Fiorina did Thursday night, when her ranking in the GOP primary polls gave her the “lemon” of the undercard debate, was the equivalent of opening a lemonade factory.
CLEVELAND, Ohio: A top media intelligence company, iQ Media, reviewed which presidential candidate is winning in terms of media mentions across television — ABC, CBS, and NBC.
A sharp spike in the murder rates of Democrat-controlled cities across America is one of the consequences of the increased tension between police and black Americans; tension that has been stirred up by both the liberal media and by Democrat-aligned radical political activist group Black Lives Matter.
Rapper Iggy Azalea has opened up to Seventeen magazine about plastic surgery, confessing she has had procedures done and that “denying it is lame.”
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump garnered as many mentions in the news and on social media in just one month as Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton did in four months of her campaign, according to a new report.
“We do not expect to see sustained meaningful growth in [monthly active users] until we start to reach the mass market,” Twitter’s interim CEO Jack Dorsey warned. “We expect that will take a considerable period of time.”
On Thursday, Facebook Inc., unsatisfied with its global access, announced it has built a full-scale drone to fly between 60,000 feet above ground at night and 90,000 feet during the day to allow the entire world to use Facebook.
Chechen women conned the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) out of almost $3,300 after they pretended to be prospective brides for terrorists. Instead, the three women wanted to use the money for a vacation.
“Gay” emojis may be banned in Russia if the government finds that they violate the country’s infamous “gay propaganda” law.
Earlier this year, I reported how a handful of green activists at the University of Western Australia had nixed a $4-million policy centre just because it was vaguely associated with “Skeptical Environmentalist” Bjørn Lomborg.
Saudi Arabia’s infamous Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV) arrested a kindergarten official due to a rainbow mural on a school building.
This may be a case of “trolling” gone wild, an increasingly common and troubling phenomenon. It’s easy and cost-free for social media users to whip up campaigns of harassment, unleashing destructive passions that can spill over into far worse activities.
