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Crime and Justice News

Oct 172 min read

Instagram Rolls Out New Policies to Prevent Sextortion

Instagram introduced new safety features to prevent sextortion schemes, marking the platform’s latest effort to protect users, especially...

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Crime and Justice News

Oct 92 min read

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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Crime and Justice News

Sep 122 min read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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 read

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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