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These Comments By Cops On The Eric Garner Decision Will Turn Your Stomach
Reports: The popular law enforcement website, policeone.com published a story on the outcome of the Eric Garner grand jury decision Wednesday, and it was riddled with disturbing comments from police...
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Twitter Under Pressure To Ban Blogger Who Posted UVA Rape Victim’s Name
Twitter users are calling on the social media company to jumpstart its new anti-harassment policies after a conservative blogger claims to have published the full name of the University of Virginia...
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Iraq War Propaganda Film “American Sniper” Sets Twitter Ablaze
Since “American Sniper,” Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort and war movie, was released in theaters across the nation on Jan. 16, it has broken box office records, pulling in $107 million over...
View Article(VIDEO) Mark Cuban: The Big Mistake You Don’t Know You’re Making on Social Media
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During Baltimore Uprising, City Officials Criminalized Hashtags & Labeled...
Originally published at Shadowproof. In the early moments of the uprising in Baltimore after police killed Freddie Gray, Baltimore city officials monitored social media. The officials labeled...
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Feds Pouring Money Into A Project To Create A Database To Track “Suspicious”...
The federal government spent $1 million to create an online database that will collect “suspicious” memes and track “misinformation.” The project, which is known as the “Truthy Database” is being...
View ArticleThe New Big Brother: How Social Media Is Creating An ‘Orwellian’ Society
Joint research conducted by academics from the University of Edinburgh Business School, the University of Bath and the University of Birmingham have uncovered previously held concerns about how social...
View ArticlePolice Caught Spying On Social Media To Track Anyone Who Talks About Flint...
After needlessly contaminating Flint’s water supply with lead, a new report reveals the government now monitors social media for hints subversive communications relating to the Flint Water Crisis....
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Trolling Her Way To The White House?: Clinton-Linked PAC Launches $1M...
Hillary Clinton’s PAC, Correct the Record, announced plans to launch an online offensive against her detractors. AUSTIN, Texas — Hillary Clinton is taking her battle for the White House to social...
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Facebook ‘Blacklisting’ Conservative Leaning News Stories
(AP Photo, Joerg Koch) Revelations that Facebook may have regularly “blacklisted” conservative stories from the platform’s “trending” news section was met with outrage on Monday from journalists...
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US May Soon Vet Social Media Accounts Before Granting Travel Visas
File this under Another Unsettling Development: People who want to travel to the United States may soon have their Facebook profiles and other social media accounts “vetted” by the Department of...
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Twitter Bows To Israeli Government Pressure To Censor Tweets
In Israel, A Slow Death Sigh For Free Speech And Press Freedom Under The Far-Right Netanyahu Government. SEATTLE — Though Israel’s reputation as a true democracy has certainly come under fire, its...
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Donald Trump Staffers Online Posts Include Racism And Talk Of Holy War
This combo shows two examples of some of the social media postings by Trump campaign staff members discovered by the Associated Press in an online search. Trump’s paid campaign staffers have declared...
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French Official Threatens Lawsuits Against Anyone Who Shares Images Of Police...
Christian Estrosi, A right-wing French official, has threatened suit against anyone who publishes images such as this one, showing French Police forcing a woman to disrobe at a Nice beach. Responding...
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‘Demonetization’ Scandal: YouTube Inexplicably Removes Ad Money, Angers Users
The YouTube logo. YouTube is under fire for “demonetizing” (removing ad dollars) from thousands of videos on the site. (Flickr / Rego Korosi) YouTube content creators are up in arms over the video...
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Thousands Of Israelis Take To The Streets Calling For Palestinian Genocide
The Tel Aviv rally—organized to support an Israeli soldier who murdered a wounded Palestinian by shooting him in the head as the victim lay on his back—was marked by chants and banners calling for mass...
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Detroit Man Faces Terrorism Charges For Anti-Police Facebook Post
(AP Photo, Joerg Koch) A Black Detroit man who advocated killing white police officers on social media has been charged with making a terroristic threat and using a computer for a crime, the Michigan...
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Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race
Image credit: David Sleight/Pro Publica/CC Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That’s basically...
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Spanish Government Poised To Wage War Against Memes
A protestor wears a mask with a gag as she marches against the Public Security Law in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Spain’s ruling People’s Party seeks to amend the country’s privacy laws in...
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Facebook Develops Censorship Tool In Bid To Enter Chinese Market
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. where Facebook Inc. announced a partnership called Internet.org on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. Facebook is under...
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