The official Twitter and YouTube accounts of CENTCOM—the Pentagon branch that oversees American military power in the Middle East—is now an unofficial propaganda machine of the ISIS "Cyber Caliphate."
There was a programming shift over the weekend at Crayola's official Facebook page: instead of tutorials for kidz and Christmas greetings, crayon fans were delivered beautifully pure Facebook click-chum posts like "These Are The WORST Kind of Boobs" and "Reason Why Girls Don't Give Bl0wjobs."
It's 2015, and your friends are sharing that block of pseudo-legal gibberish that supposedly prevents Facebook from using their "copyrighted content." This copyright notice means exactly the same thing it did when they posted it in 2012, 2013, and 2014: jack shit.
According to a report from DNAinfo's Murray Weiss, the NYPD is investigating social media death threats against cops from alleged gang members who are apparently promising to turn tonight's New Year's Eve celebrations into "Kill a Pig Night." But who are these violent tweeters? Do they exist at all?
People kept posting this Vine in the comments on posts about the grand jury's decision not to charge Darren Wilson in shooting of Michael Brown, because it seemed to them, on a horrible night in America, that it makes a sad and important point. And it does.
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Uh-oh. What is happening? Twitter moved the tweet box, is what's happening. Out of the sidebar, where you might have had to stop and think for a decisecond. Up near the search box, where you're more likely to broadcast your search results. Right at the top of the column, where the new-tweets-are-here alert used to be.…
Chances are, you've never accidentally scrolled past child porn on your Facebook or Twitter feed, or cued up an innocuous-looking YouTube video only to find a clip of a beheading. For that, you have tens of thousands of poorly-paid contract workers to thank.
Like an urban legend sprung to life, a quiet, mysterious woman shrouded entirely in flowing black clothing has been spotted walking on roadsides all along the Appalachian U.S. in recent weeks.
The FBI knows what LMAO means. According to an internal manual released today under the Freedom of Information Act to the open-records website MuckRock, the bureau also knows what ANFAWFOS, EOTWAWKI, and IITYWTMWYBMAD stand for. So beware: The feds have cracked Twitter slang. Or think they have.
Back in April, The Best Man and The Best Man Holiday star Taye Diggs began following new people on Twitter. Many new people. He followed so many people so quickly—thousands and thousands per day—that it started to feel less like a follow and more like a deranged chase. He followed a volunteer fire department. He…
It's "Extreme Week" on The Steve Harvey Show, which opens the door for this bit of complete and utter nonsense that aired earlier today. Carla is supposedly addicted to social media ("I feel like I'm a minister of the gospel of Facebook") and unable to do anything without documenting it for the world to see ("If it…
Who says journalism degrees are useless? If not for Russell Clayton and his doctoral research at the University of Missouri's j-school, we might have only guessed at the fact that your inability to stop tweeting leads your spouse to, uh, "favorite" someone else's handle.
Because it is impossible to fully enjoy your wedding until as many people as possible are enviously following it on Twitter, you can now pay $3,000 to rent a "social media wedding concierge." This expert will pick a bespoke hashtag, get your wedding guests to use it, and make sure photos are posted on Instagram. (So,…
Shockingly, 87 percent of consumers think awful banks are also awful at social media. There's only one way to change perceptions like that: Hire credit ratings agencies to lie to us that the banks' Twitters are doing great.
When the FBI Press Office uses Twitter, it sends a half-dozen tweets in one second, and then there's nothing for a day or three.
For his latest candid camera gag, popularly YouTube prankster Jack Vale decided to freak some strangers out by using their public social media posts to pretend he knows more about them than any random person should.
Every generation gets the moral panic it deserves. The 1980s had satanic cults and teen pregnancy, 1990s had designer drugs, the aughts had rainbow parties and Paris Hilton. Looks like the 2010s have cemented theirs: Sexting.
