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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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Crime and Justice News
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Feb 22, 20232 min read
Justices Unlikely To Gut Tech Firms' Legal Protections, Defer To Congress
The Supreme Court appears unlikely to gut tech companies’ legal protections that cover how they recommend and curate content for users....
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 7, 20232 min read
Amid Signs Of Progress, Child Porn Still Persists On Twitter
Twitter's Elon Musk declared that “removing child exploitation is priority #1” in late November. Since then, it has included 120,000...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 31, 20231 min read
Man Sues FL Sheriff For Appearance On Social Media Game Show
A man falsely included in several episodes of a Florida sheriff's popular "Wheel of Fugitive" social media game show is suing the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 27, 20232 min read
Surge in Auto Thefts Tied to TikTok Video
A video posted on the social media platform TikTok has led to a "massive" increase in car thefts across many U.S. cities, the crime...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 26, 20232 min read
Social Media Sites Face Criticism For Enabling Drug Dealing to Kids
Three years ago, Amy Neville went to her son Alex's bedroom and found the 14-year-old lying dead on a bean bag chair. He had overdosed —...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 17, 20231 min read
Social Media Firms Failed to Halt Online Extremism, House Staff Said
The House's Jan. 6 committee spent months gathering stunning new details on how social media companies failed to address the online...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 3, 20222 min read
Many YouTube Videos That Helped Buffalo Shooter Remain On Site
In the months leading up to the May 14 massacre at a Buffalo supermarket, accused gunman Payton Gendron turned to YouTube to plot his...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 19, 20222 min read
Court OK's Texas Law Banning Social Media ‘Censorship’
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have succeeded in their efforts to combat censorship of conservative viewpoints by...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 16, 20222 min read
White House Task Force To Fight Online Harassment, Threats
The White House is starting a task force focused on the prevention of online abuse, marking one of the most significant steps the Biden...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 13, 20222 min read
Can Police Distinguish Social Media Ramblings From Real Danger?
White nationalists and supremacists, on accounts run by young men, are building thriving, macho communities across social media platforms...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 1, 20222 min read
Justices, 5-4, Halt TX Law Banning Social Media From Policing Posts
The Supreme Court suspended a Texas law banning online platforms from restricting user posts based on their political views, a major win...
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Crime and Justice News
May 27, 20222 min read
Shooters' Use Of Private Social Media Could Thwart Prevention
Before two 18-year-old men killed 31 people in separate shootings in two weeks, they turned to several social media apps to share...
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Crime and Justice News
May 17, 20222 min read
Experts Suggest More Livestream Restrictions After Buffalo Massacre
Mass shooters like the teen charged in the Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket attack don’t stop with planning out their brutal attacks. They also...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 5, 20222 min read
Facebook Hosted 650,000 Pre-Jan. 6 Posts Protesting Biden Election
Facebook groups displayed at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of President Biden’s victory between Election Day and the Jan....
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 3, 20222 min read
White Supremacists Recruit Youth Via Video Games, Social Media
They arrived in yellow rental trucks, unfurled flags, and readied shields and smoke bombs. Close to midnight on July 3, about 200 members...
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