Threats Of Violence, Antisemitism Flood Social Media After Helene
A wave of antisemitic rhetoric and online threats has been leveled at state and federal officials in North Carolina as they respond to...
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Sep 122 min
Telegram Called The Global App For Criminals and Extremists
Telegram has become a global sewer of criminal activity, disinformation, child sexual abuse material, terrorism and racist incitement,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 252 min
Teen Boys Increasingly Targeted in 'Sextortion' Via Social Media
A new report found a surge in financial "sextortion" schemes targeting teenage boys primarily through Instagram and other social media...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 181 min
Massachusetts Teens Charged In Online Racist Bullying
Six Massachusetts students have been charged in "hateful, racist online" Snapchat bullying incidents, USA Today reports. Hampden District...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 11 min
Zuckerberg Apologizes For Social Media Teen Sex Exploitation
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose Meta also owns Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, had a signature moment during a Senate Judiciary...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 292 min
NJ Woman's Facebook Rants About Judges Lead To Jail Term
For weeks, Monica Ciardi vented on Facebook about her ex-husband, their bitter child custody dispute, and the Morris County, N.J., judges...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 52 min
Social Media Spreading False Epstein Associate Accusations
Social media users spread false accusations about major public figures and their supposed involvement in previously sealed court...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 30, 20231 min
YouTube Briefly Bars LAPD For Posting Footage Of Violent Attack
The Los Angeles Police Department was briefly barred from YouTube after posting footage of a violent attack to seek the public’s help...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 10, 20232 min
Social Media 'Newly Potent Driver' Of Youth Violence
A nationwide resurgence in violence has threatened to erase more than two decades of gains in public safety. In 2020, homicides spiked by...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 6, 20232 min
Video Creator Cenat Charged After Chaotic NYC Union Square Disorder
Social media influencer Kai Cenat faces charges of inciting a riot and promoting an unlawful gathering in New York City after he drew...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 5, 20231 min
U.S. Judge Rules Biden Social Media Actions Violated First Amendment
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring social media companies to...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 28, 20231 min
Social Media Hate, Harassment Seen As Inspiring Real-World Violence
More than half of Americans have experienced hate or harassment online, finds a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League, with a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 8, 20232 min
Instagram Accused of Guiding Users to Child-Sex Content
Instagram's algorithms actively promote underage-sex content, catering to pedophiles searching for content sellers, according to...
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Crime and Justice News
May 23, 20232 min
TikTok 'Performance Crime' Persists Despite Pressure
Unlike some social media-driven trends that seemingly disappear just as police get a handle on them, auto thefts promoted on TikTok and...
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Crime and Justice News
May 18, 20231 min
Supreme Court Clears Twitter Of Charge It Is Liable For ISIS Attack
Twitter will not have to face accusations that it aided and abetted terrorism when it hosted tweets created by the terror group ISIS, the...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 3, 20232 min
How 'Wild West' Of Crime Speculation Harms Innocent People
Brent Kopacka’s death was hard enough on his loved ones before strangers branded him a murderer. The Purple Heart recipient was shot dead...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 24, 20232 min
Rough Day for Social Media in Federal, State Capitols
On the same day that TikTok's chief executive experienced a bipartisan pummeling on Capitol Hill, Utah broke new social-media-regulation...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 17, 20232 min
Police Facebook Pages Overreport Black Suspects Compared to Arrests
There was nothing overtly biased about the way the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Township Police Department described a mugging on its Facebook page...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 27, 20232 min
Man Gets 18-Month Bribery Term For Instagram Threat
A year after Jolen Ghorbani was abducted at gunpoint, robbed and beaten, he sent an Instagram message to one of his kidnappers. Ghorbani...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 23, 20232 min
Justices May Protect Tech Firms From Suits Over Aiding Terrorism
Supreme Court justices seemed to favor tech companies in litigation over their liability for aiding terrorist acts. Several court members...
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