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RT News Reports Russian Intelligence Is Attempting to Influence Mass...
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has ordered three systems worth about US$1 million that will automatically spread information on the Internet. The systems were ordered in a three separate...
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Former Reuter’s Editor Charged With Hacking Tribune’s Computer System
Photo Credit: Reuters Former Reuters.com Deputy Social Media Editor Matthew Keys pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal charges that he aided members of the Anonymous hacking collective. Keys, 26,...
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Facebook Causes ‘Psychotic Episodes and Delusions’, Claims Study
Photo Credit: Mike Kemp Facebook and other social networking sites can actually send you mad, according to scientists in Israel. Researchers from Tel Aviv University have linked psychotic episodes in...
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Smitten Teen Girls Drive Social Media Campaign to Free Boston Marathon...
Photo Credit: NY Post Thousands of American teen girls are crushing on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev, 19 — and leading a social-media movement to exonerate him. The swooning teens...
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State Department Bureau Spent $630,000 on Facebook ‘Likes’
Photo Credit: Thinkstock Image State Department officials spent $630,000 to get more Facebook “likes,” prompting employees to complain to a government watchdog that the bureau was “buying fans” in...
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Facebook Usage May be Able to Predict Risk of Suicide
Photo Credit: Shutterstock If you’ve been thinking about killing yourself, your social media might give you away. An initiative called the Durkheim Project will use artificial intelligence (AI)...
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Journalist Shot in Head, Egyptian Christian Church Attacked, Muslim...
Photo Credit: Mohamed Rashed By MENA. Masked gunmen opened fire at Mar Mina Church in Port Said’s al-Manakh early Tuesday and managed to get away, according to state-run news agency MENA. No...
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White House: Social Media Helped Prove Chemical Attack in Syria
Photo Credit: AP By Susan Ferrechio Social media helped American intelligence officials determine that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime carried out a deadly nerve gas attack on its citizens...
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Calls to Congress 499 to 1 Against Syria War
Americans are slamming at least 22 members of Congress with thousands of phone calls and emails, urging lawmakers not to approve a military strike on Syria – by a margin of as much as 499 to 1. A...
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The NSA Has Been Creating Maps of American Citizens’ Social Networks Similar...
Photo Credit: Daily Mail The NSA has been graphing American’s social networks and plotting them as they do organized crime since at least 2010, according to the latest published Edward Snowden leak....
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Government ‘Mining’ Social Media for Information on Health Behavior
Photo Credit: AP The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is “mining” Facebook and Twitter to improve its social media footprint and to assess how Tweets can be used as “change-agents” for health...
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First of its Kind California ‘Erase’ Law Allows Minors to Delete Social Media...
Photo Credit: REUTERS The Mean Girl tweets, the Spring Break selfie that probably tanked a summer internship or Ivy League application … . California is now requiring social media companies to give...
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Couples Now Demanding ‘Social Media Prenups’
Photo Credit: Sky News A top US attorney says a third of her clients are now asking for social media clauses in prenuptial agreements. Ann-Margaret Carrozza specialises in estate planning in New York...
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Michigan Mom Turns to Prayer and Social Media for Miracle to Save her Son
Photo Credit: Fox News In a pessimistic world, a Michigan mother is looking for a miracle to save her terminally ill four-year-old son – and she’s turning to prayer and social media to find it. Tammi...
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Study Shows Liberals More Likely Than Conservatives to “Unfriend” Someone...
Photo Credit: TownHall A new study by the Pew Research Center has found that people who identify as “liberal” in their political beliefs are more likely than conservatives to have unfriended someone...
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State Law Allows Schools to Demand Students’ Social Media Passwords
By Kara Pendleton. In an effort to address the growing problem of cyber-bullying, an Illinois law passed last year gives schools the right to demand student social media passwords. This law applies to...
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See the Social Media Post Madonna Had to Delete After Gay Outrage
Monday, Madge shared and then deleted an image of late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Instagram, captioned with a famous 1989 quote from the leader, who passed away in 2013: “If you set...
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Islamic State’s Command of Social Media Called Unprecedented
When Elton Simpson drove from Phoenix to Garland, Texas, last month to gun down attendees at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest, he also fired off a series of tweets. Those tweets were indicative of...
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Family members could be kept alive forever virtually so that living relatives could interact with their avatars, an academic has suggested.
View ArticleSecret Hashtags Help Teens Share Dangerous Habits
Rule-breaking may be just as irresistible to teenagers today as it was in their parents’ day, but a new study of secret social media hashtags suggests that new technology is helping kids share...
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