Don’t ‘Like’ Violent News On Facebook

In the wake of mass shootings like the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, last month, media coverage of the violence is all over social media. Often, it focuses on the killer. If you’re sharing or “liking” stories about these crimes on Facebook, you may be inadvertently helping perpetuate the violence — and new research suggests that kids, in particular, can

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If You’re Trying To Join ISIS Through Twitter, The FBI Probably Knows About It

WASHINGTON — Twitter has been “very cooperative” with FBI agents looking into individuals affiliated with the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations that use the social network to organize and inspire people within the U.S. to commit terrorist acts, FBI Director James Comey said Thursday. Comey said many terrorist recruits first interact with overseas terrorists on Twitter. Affidavits filed by

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England Football Deletes Ill-Advised Tweet About The Women’s Team

Whoever runs the official feed of the England Football Team pretty quickly decided it wasn’t the best idea to welcome the women’s national team back to the motherland this week with this little tweet: The reaction was perhaps best summarized by this bit of Internet sarcasm: I don’t need femimsms YES IT IS TRUE FEMALE ATHLETES TRANSFORM BACK INTO WIVES

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Fusion’s Alicia Menendez: Do You Feel Like A Pooping Onion?

Fusion host Alicia Menendez had a hilarious rant at the top of “Come Here, Say That” Tuesday. The topic: nonsensical Facebook stickers. “Facebook stickers, they are so weird. What are they trying to say?” Menendez said. “One day, life makes sense. The next, there’s Hamcat.” She rattled off some of the odder decals the social network thinks its users need

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Obama Tweets Back To Girl’s Awesome Letter About World Peace, Marriage Equality

A 5-year-old has some suggestions for how to solve a couple of global issues, and the leader of the free world has responded. Last week, Yasmeen, self described as “5 almost 6 years old,” took to writing a handwritten letter to President Obama advocating for world peace and marriage equality. @POTUS A letter from my 5 year old niece. Right

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