‘Aaron Harvey has no criminal record, but he’s facing life in prison for a picture he posted to Facebook. Harvey and 14 other men, including notably the rapper Tiny Doo, are charged with conspiring with […]
‘An expat American has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates for comments he posted on Facebook while in the US. Helicopter mechanic Ryan Pate wrote the Facebook post while in Florida after arguing with […]
‘Facebook has removed the personal account of a 12-year-old Georgia boy who posted a viral video last week in support of Rudy Giuliani’s comments that President Obama ‘doesn’t love America’. Republican C.J.Pearson found out the […]
‘Congress and the White House are leaning on Twitter to censor Islamic State posts on its network. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, the chair of a House foreign affairs subcommittee on terrorism, has singled out Twitter […]
‘A new Facebook privacy policy allows the site to track your activity even after you’ve left it — and all users have automatically signed up to it. The change enables it to gather data from […]
‘The Feds have made their intentions known about conducting surveillance on a range of social media platforms covering everything from political speech, activist assembly, and even health. In tandem with corporate data harvesters, open public […]
‘Only two weeks after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a strongly worded #JeSuisCharlie statement on the importance of free speech, Facebook has agreed to censor images of the prophet Muhammad in Turkey — including the […]
‘Hundreds of millions of people worldwide were unable to use Facebook and Instagram for around an hour today after an alleged cyber attack. The online group Lizard Squad have claimed they hacked the two sites […]
‘Although Facebook recently announced its new flagging feature which allows users – including government officials – to suppress posts they disagree with, it’s not the first time the social media giant censored free speech in […]
‘You’ve seen them in your feed: false reports of celebrity deaths, conspiracy theories presented as real news, promises of free iPads if you share a link, quotes attributed to the Pope that he never said. […]
‘A caricature of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in Germany’s largest broadsheet newspaper shows anti-Semitism reminiscent of the Nazi propaganda, say critics. The cartoon, in the liberal Süddeutsche Zeitung, depicts Mark Zuckerberg as an octopus with […]
Goldman Sachs,one of the six MegaBanks (alongside Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo) that stole trillions of dollars from us and are currently intentionally devaluing our dollar alongside the Federal Reserve, has bought into Facebook …