Kathy Griffin’s stunt depicting President Trump decapitated backfires

The self-proclaimed “D” list celebrity and comedian, Kathy Griffin was recently photographed proudly toting a replica of the severed and bloody head of President Donald Trump. This wasn’t a quick last-minute selfie rather a full-on photo shoot with photographer Tyler Shields to airbrush her with the bloody head.  TMZ published the image on Tuesday. While every US citizen […]

President-Elect Trump and Twitter: A brief brief

One thing has become painstakingly clear – we don’t know when and where a “hack” or infiltration may occur. The skill set has long been around and many of its practitioners are more sophisticated than before. As an individual, you’re vulnerable to identity theft and hacking. We’ve all had friends who post that their Instagram […]

Putin Declines to retaliate in move praised by Trump

MOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin said Russia wouldn’t expel U.S. diplomats in response to new U.S. sanctions despite the recommendation of his foreign minister, a move that seemed aimed at embarrassing the Obama Administration while expressing hope for stronger U.S. relations once President-elect Donald Trump takes office. Mr. Putin’s decision came after Russia’s top diplomat, Sergei Lavrov, […]

Trump Tweet Part Deux: F-35 Program Costs Out of Control!

About a week ago President-elect Trump caused a major stir when he tweeted that the cost Boeing was charging for the new Air Force One program was too much and that he wanted to cancel the program. Today the President-elect went another step further stating the F-35 Lightning II costs are “out of control” and […]

Tech titans join forces to battle online terrorist content

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have joined forces in an attempt to curb the spread of terrorist content on the Internet. The tech giants have announced the creation of a shared industry database to tackle terrorist content. The database will use “hashes,” or unique digital “fingerprints,” for violent terrorist imagery, recruitment videos or videos that […]

Fire, Film, Tweet: The Taliban’s New Way of War

 Taliban fighters posed for the camera, their shawls and bandannas covering their identities but not their jubilation, as they captured the main roundabout in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz early this month in what could have been called “operation hoist the flag and pull out a smartphone.” The shaky cellphone video directly contradicted Afghan and American military […]

Waves of cyber attacks hit Netflix, Spotify, Twitter

At least two successive waves of online attacks blocked multiple major websites Friday, at times making it impossible for many users on the East Coast to access Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr and Reddit. The first attacks appear to have begun around 7:10 am Friday, then resolved towards 9:30 am, but then a fresh wave began. The […]

It’s time to fix terrorism on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, say lawmakers

Social media firms including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are “consciously failing” to stop their sites from being used to promote terrorism and recruit extremists, U.K. lawmakers claimed in a report released on Thursday. The Commons home affairs select committee, which is made up of British members of parliament (MPs), said that U.S. platforms have become […]

Twitter Suspended 360,000 Accounts for ‘Promotion of Terrorism’

Twitter Inc. has shut down 360,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts since the middle of 2015, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. The microblogging platform has previously come under fire from Washington and third-party groups for not doing enough to stop accounts linked to Islamic State militants. But, since February, it […]

Twitter is not legally responsible for the rise of ISIS, rules California district court

A lawsuit accusing Twitter of providing material support to ISIS has been dismissedby a California District Court. First filed in January, the lawsuit argued ISIS’s persistent presence on Twitter constituted material support for the terror group, and sought to hold Twitter responsible for an ISIS-linked attack on that basis. Filed by the family of an American contractor […]