ICE official in Bay Area apologizes for social media post
(CNN) An official with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco apologized for posting an image on social media that drew criticism from a Muslim civil rights group. David Jennings, field office director for ICE in San Francisco, in a statement Friday said he was poking fun …
Met Police chief: Social media leads children to violence
The UK's top police officer has blamed social media for normalising violence and leading more children to commit stabbings and murders. Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick told The Times social media sites "rev people up" and "make violence faster". Fatal stabbings in England and Wales are at … Read More
Pat Leahy: Social media is the wild west of electioneering
Social media is not bad in itself, just like the telephone or television or email isn't in itself bad. But the way it has come to be used by some people presents immediate challenges for some of our most important public institutions and processes. This is an enormous challenge for …
US State Department proposes asking visa applicants for social media identities from last five years
The State Department filed a proposal which would require most immigrant and non-immigrant visa applicants to list all social media identities they have used in the past five years, as well as previously used telephone numbers, email addresses and their international travel history over the same period. Read More
Cressida Dick: Social media fuels murder and knife crime among children
Trivial disputes between children are escalating to murder "within minutes" due to the influence of social media, Britain's top police officer has said. Cressida Dick told The Times that the internet normalised violence, which is sped up by rivals goading each other on message boards. It comes amid a … Read …
Jaywalkers Punished With Social Media Shame
Instead of facing fines, those who disobey traffic laws in the southern city of Guangzhou can opt to make a public apology on social media, local media reported Wednesday. The offender's post must earn 20 likes or be posted in 10 chat groups. Since the beginning of March, traffic police …
Millions of visitors to US face social-media screening
New York: Nearly all applicants for a visa to enter the United States — an estimated 14.7 million people a year — will be asked to submit their social–media user names for the past five years, under proposed rules issued by the US State Department. Last September, the Trump administration …
US may tie social media to visa applications
The Trump administration has said it wants to start collecting the social media history of nearly everyone seeking a visa to enter the US. The proposal, which comes from the state department, would require most visa applicants to give details of their Facebook and Twitter accounts. They would have to … …
PR firm tracked Nassar victims’ social media for university
Weber Shandwick says its work mainly "involved crisis counsel" from late December to early March. The firm adds it wasn't hired to track accounts, but it shared media coverage and social media with university officials. That included posts by women who say they were sexually assaulted by Nassar. Read More
Met chief says social media is behind soaring rate of knife crime
“There's definitely something about the impact of social media in terms of people being able to go from slightly angry with each other to 'fight' very quickly,” she said. She said that insults or threats online “makes [violence] faster, it makes it harder for people to cool down. I'm sure …