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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Is #DontJudgeChallenge Really About Self-Acceptance?

It wouldn’t really be social media movement if there wasn’t a side of controversy. The increasingly popular “#DontJudgeChallenge,” which has blown up on Twitter and Instagram, is no exception. This campaign was, in theory, supposed to be a movement that encouraged self-acceptance and diminished cyberbullying. But it only took a few individuals to shift the focus from celebrating imperfection to

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Here’s A PG-Rated Facebook Alternative For Evangelical Christians

Despite Facebook’s numerous privacy settings and content controls, some find the site too immoral for their taste. In Brazil, a group of evangelical Christians recently took matters into their own hands and built their own social network. The new platform, called Facegloria, launched on June 4 and already has 100,000 users, one of its founders told the Agence France-Presse. The

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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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Women Are Revealing The Everyday Sexism Of #BeingFemaleInNigeria

The powerful hashtag #BeingFemaleInNigeria is trending on Twitter, sparking a conversation about the daily sexism and misogyny women in the West African country face. Nigeria has made headlines world wide in recent months due to the kidnapping and rape of thousands of girls at the hands of Boko Haram, its recent banning of its recent ban on female genital mutilation

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