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Testifying before Congress on Tuesday, representatives from major social media and technology companies Facebook, Google and Twitter said Russian influence activities surrounding the 2016 election were more pronounced than previously reported. Despite earlier claims of minimal exposure, Facebook now says that Russian propaganda and misinformation efforts may have reached up to 126 million users worldwide. […]

An open letter written by a retired Lieutenant Colonel who served on the faculty at West Point has made its rounds on social media, prompting an outcry from West Point alumni and a direct response from the Superintendent, Lieutenant General Robert Caslen. The letter has surfaced in response to the publication of a sworn statement, […]

Executives from Facebook, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Twitter have been asked to testify to the U.S. Congress in coming weeks as lawmakers probe Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. election, committee sources said on Wednesday. A Senate aide said executives from the three firms had been asked by the Senate Intelligence Committee to appear […]

Twitter shut down over 200 accounts linked to Russian government operatives, the company said Thursday, in response to mounting evidence that the platform was used extensively to sow discontent and misinformation in the United States on behalf of the Kremlin. Facebook announced similar news, saying it had deactivated roughly 450 Facebook accounts for similar activities […]

A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and second lieutenant in the United States Army is now under investigation from the Army after pictures surfaced on the officer’s Twitter page on Tuesday showing him displaying pro-Communist messages and imagery, to include while in uniform. Now, West Point has released an official statement […]

For the first time since tensions began to rise between the United States and North Korea, Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers from Guam and Air Force F-15C Eagle fighter escorts from Okinawa, Japan flew alongside the Korean peninsula north of the demilitarized zone over the weekend.  Although the aircraft remained in international airspace, this marks […]

Although tensions seemed to fizzle between the United States and North Korea in recent months, after Kim Jong un announced he would be tabling plans to launch long-range ballistic missiles toward American bases in Guam, recent weeks have seen yet another dramatic increase in aggressive rhetoric between the two nations. President Trump, who has dubbed North […]

Twitter has suspended nearly one million user accounts for promoting terrorist violence over the course of the last two years, the company reported on Tuesday. In its bi-annual transparency report Twitter reported that its own internal control measures had eliminated 75% of the terrorist accounts before they had even posted a single tweet. The company said […]

In the latest twist in the ongoing Culture Wars, monuments and memorials have become the focus of a heated debate over free speech, revisionist history, and the legacy of race relations in the United States. Early this morning it was discovered that an anonymous vandal had spray painted an offensive slogan on the Lincoln Memorial […]

In response to the new round of sanctions placed on Russia by the United States, Russia has responded with a bellicose statement from their Prime Minister and a bizarre renaissance-fair-set-to-metal music hype video on Twitter. Following President Trump’s decision to sign the sanctions bill sent to him from Congress, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev took […]

A woman in Saudi Arabia who was detained by police after a video of herself walking in a skirt went viral, has been released. The woman, whose name has not been released, became known as “Khulood the Model” and a hashtag demanding her arrest and trial quickly followed suit. https://twitter.com/50BM_/status/886614068768976897 The video shows the woman […]

It was September 2015 when the FBI first noticed that Russian hackers had infiltrated a computer system belonging to the Democratic National Committee. It was the first sign that Moscow was attempting to meddle in the presidential election. Nearly a year later, further reporting and testimony from current and former intelligence officials have painted a […]