Woman invents child cancer victims to scam IndieGogo
A woman set up at least two campaigns asking for donations to cover the medical costs of cancer-stricken kids. That's fantastic, except for one major issue: The kids were all made up. Antranette Nolan...
View ArticleTwitter has a plan to combat child porn
In its story about the U.K.'s plan to block online porn, the Guardian, almost as an aside, claimed Twitter is building a tool to help detect and stop child porn from appearing in tweets. The company...
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Sweden's Anthony Weiner sexts the world with this vulgar Instagram
Swedish politician Lars Ohly seems a big fan of English Premier League team Liverpool. So much so that he tattooed the team's liver bird emblem on his calf. Proud was Ohly of his ink that he wanted to...
View ArticleTwitter-organized sex parties hit the U.K.
Several sex workers are using Twitter to drum up business for orgies in the U.K. Here's how it all goes down: Organizers brazenly advertise the events in the community, providing basic details and...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner dodges the most important social media question of our time
In a 21st-century political debate, the question “Facebook or Twitter?” is a bit of a softball. Just not for sext-happy New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. Weiner, whose uncensored nude...
View ArticleWe star 1.2 billion tweets a month, and it's making us lazy
Twitter is made of stars, and I don't mean celebrities. Favoriting tweets is not a new fad, despite what the Wall Street Journal has to say. Sure, the number of monthly faved tweets jumped to 1.2...
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How can Twitter make it easier to report hate speech?
Death threats, rape threats, and misogynist hate mail. If you’re a woman who likes to express her opinion on the Internet, it may seem like these things are unavoidable. Just ask Anita Sarkeesian. But...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner paid an absurd sum to "investigate" his own sexts
Crying "I've been hacked!" to cover up a big mistake on Twitter is all too easy. You'll have skeptics and you might have to work hard to convince them your lie is the truth, in part because some...
View ArticleDrunk man kills Royal Marine, boasts about it on Twitter
Soon after landing the punch that killed a Royal Marine, a drunk man boasted about the attack on Twitter. “Hahaha, f****** hand is killing me!” bragged Reece Kay at 5am, after throwing the deadly...
View ArticleTwitter CEO breaks NCAA rules by tweeting high school recruit
Dick Costolo might be the CEO of Twitter, but he's not exempt from its rules. Specifically, he's not exempt from the NCAA's maddeningly strict social media rules, which prohibit people like Costolo...
View ArticleThis tip-shaming tweet got a food truck worker fired
You work part-time at a Brooklyn food truck, baking grilled cheese in the middle of summer. You get a $170 order that holds up the whole line—and then the customers stiff you on the tip. What do you...
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Did "slutbag" finally sink the Weiner campaign?
It's going to take a lot more than a few dick pics to keep New York mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner from dropping out of the race. The latest public-relations catastrophe occurred Tuesday afternoon...
View ArticleTwitter's transparency can't extend to secret FISA orders
Twitter has released some interesting insights into how it deals with government requests for data in its most recent transparency report. However, it is unable to reveal how many requests it has...
View ArticleThe Twitter button meant to stop trolls actually feeds them
Following a flood of death and rape threats, one man was arrested over abusive remarks onTwitter, leading to calls for a better way to report abuse and hate speech on the platform. Earlier this week,...
View ArticleFemale journalists face bomb and rape threats online
Police are investigating after anonymous Twitter users used throwaway accounts to send rape and bomb threats to several female journalists. The Guardian's Hadley Freeman, Independent writer Grace...
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"Supernatural" star posts phone number, politely trolls fans
Once again, Supernatural actor Misha Collins has taken over Tumblr. And this time it wasn’t even thanks to a pre-planned Mishapocalypse. After using Twitter to answer a few questions about GISHWHES,...
View ArticleCongressional Twitter account makes Edward Snowden borscht joke
For some reason, the minority office of the House Foreign Affairs Committee got all snarky on whistleblower Edward Snowden Thursday."Edward Snowden, enjoy the #Russian winter and the borscht!" the...
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Burger King employee reclines in throne of hamburger buns
If you can't handle the heat, don't take a nap on a pile of food. One Burger King employee in Japan seemed a little fed up with the glut of orders he had to speed through on a busy weekday."How many...
View ArticleNo actors have more fun on Twitter than the "Game of Thrones" cast
Poor Davos. The former smuggler, played by Liam Cunningham, was once the right hand man of the king-to-be, Stannis Baratheon. But when Davos turned on Melisandre (Carice van Houten), the red-eyed...
View ArticleA silent feminist Twitter protest gets mixed support
"From politics, it was an easy step to silence." When Jane Austen wrote these words in her classic 1823 novel Northanger Abbey, she hardly anticipated that one day the politics, and the silence, would...
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