U.S. GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS GO 'ROGUE' IN DEFIANCE OF TRUMP

Can't wait for President Trump to call us FAKE NEWS, one anonymous National Park Service employee posted on the newly opened Twitter account AltNatParkService... READ MORE›

'MASSIVE RISE' IN HATE SPEECH ON TWITTER DURING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

That effort is taking on greater urgency as rampant abuse undercuts Twitter's business... READ MORE›

QUEBEC MOSQUE ATTACK: SOCIAL MEDIA TRIBUTES POUR IN

Social media users express solidarity after attack on a Quebec City mosque leaves six Muslims dead and eight wounded... READ MORE›

FRIEDMAN THE WORLDS HOT SPOT

Let me point out a few news items you may have missed while debating the Iran nuclear deal... READ MORE›

GRAFFITI ON HOMELAND UNNOTICED BY PRODUCERS CALLS SHOW RACIST

In October 2012, Lebanon's tourism minister at the time, Fadi Abboud, threatened to sue the makers of the series for their depiction of Beirut, the Lebanese capital... READ MORE›

FRIEDMAN SYRIA OBAMA AND PUTIN

Putin stupidly went into Syria looking for a cheap sugar high to show his people that Russia is still a world power... READ MORE›

'ISIS' BOMBS SHIA MUSLIMS DURING RAMADAN FRIDAY PRAYERS

The attack came three months after three Islamist gunmen shot dead dozens of people at the Bardo museum in the coutry's capital Tunis... READ MORE›

"I experienced every show, movie, webisode, album, book, webcomic, podcast, video game, Twitter feed, Tumblr, Instagram, Reddit AMA and op-ed you guys were telling me I had to check out... READ MORE›

#PORTEOUVERTE: PARIS RESIDENTS OPEN DOORS TO THOSE STRANDED BY ATTACKS

Twitter users in other countries also began using the hashtag to share their delight that social media was being used for a good cause... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA LOOKS SET TO START BOMBING SYRIA AS LIBERALS WARN AGAINST TOO MUCH COMPASSION FOR REFUGEES

Australia looks set to start bombing Syria as Libs warn against too much refugee compassion... READ MORE›

ISIS HELD US AID WORKER AS SEX SLAVE BEFORE DEATH

DOHUK Iraq Somewhere in territory controlled by the Islamic State Kayla Mueller an American aid worker was chained in a room with other female captives... READ MORE›

ISIS OR AL QAEDA AMERICAN OFFICIALS SPLIT OVER TOP TERROR THREAT

Senior leaders of the Islamic State -- unlike those of Al Qaeda -- have not made a priority of organizing strikes on the West... READ MORE›

GERMAN ISIL FIGHTER WHO RETURNED FROM SYRIA DENOUNCES GROUP AS UN-ISLAMIC

Ebrahim, a trained massage therapist, claimed that Isil members are given a choice You must immediately decide to either be a fighter or a suicide bomber... READ MORE›

STATE OF THE ART TWITTER TO SAVE ITSELF MUST SCALE BACK WORLD-SWALLOWING AMBITIONS

Clarifying Twitter's mission would be painful for the people who work at the company... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE IS RUBBING ITS HANDS WITH GLEE OVER THE SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS

The media have focused on the human tragedy of the tens or hundreds of thousands of people from areas under the bloodthirsty murderers of Isil... READ MORE›

MIGRANTS CLASH WITH THE MACEDONIAN POLICE IN PICTURES

Photograph Nikos Arvanitidis EPA Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close A migrant girl confronts a Macedonian police officer... READ MORE›

SYDNEY BAR UNDER FIRE FOR USING NAKED MODELS AS FRUIT PLATTERS

Another Twitter user described the display as appalling while historian Helen McDonald labelled it horrifying... READ MORE›

ISIL LEADER SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AMERICAN HOSTAGE

The Islamic State claimed Mueller was killed in February in a Jordanian airstrike near Raqqah, the group's self-declared capital in Syria... READ MORE›

HACKERS ADD RAINBOWS, GAY PRIDE SLOGANS TO ISLAMIC STATE ACCOUNTS

Normally they take over Twitter accounts and fill them with Anonymous imagery and the phrase Islamic State, we own you... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE DESTROYS 2,000-YEAR-OLD ARCH OF TRIUMPH IN PALMYRA

The Syrian presidency issued a rare condemnation of the destruction, describing it as Isil's revenge against a pluralistic history that threatens the extremist group's grand project... READ MORE›

ARRESTS MADE OVER KUWAIT SHIA MOSQUE ATTACK

A mass funeral will be held on Saturday after the Gulf country's worst militant attack in years which has been claimed by Islamic State Isis ... READ MORE›

SAUDIS CAST NET FOR ISIS SYMPATHIZERS

In April, Saudi Arabia reported that 93 people suspected of having ties to the Islamic State had been arrested... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE SELLING SEX SLAVES, THE YOUNGER THE BETTER, CLAIMS UN OFFICIAL

For Islamic State fighters, the prices in Iraqi dinars for boys and girls aged one to nine are equal to about US165 230, Mrs Bangura said... READ MORE›

LIVE TV OF AIRASIA SEARCH DELIVERS SHOCKING, SUDDEN NEWS TO RELATIVES

An Indonesian woman holds a family picture outside the crisis center at Juanda International Airport... READ MORE›

TWITTER FLOODED WITH PHOTOS OF KITTENS IN SUPPORT OF MANHUNT FOR TERROR SUSPECT

However, they soon realized that their Tweets might endanger the lives of police officers when Belgian authorities asked social media users to stop sharing details... READ MORE›

A DIGITAL FACT-CHECKER FIGHTS FAKE NEWS

Storyful says that's a common MO for social media propagandists... READ MORE›

NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD

New Year celebrations around the world - in pictures... READ MORE›

ISIS APPEARS TO HAVE KILLED THREE CHRISTIAN HOSTAGES IN SYRIA

Isis captured 253 Assyrian Christians from the area in the initial offensive, periodically releasing elderly prisoners... READ MORE›

FOUR WOMEN DEAD IN SHOOTING AT MALL IN WASHINGTON STATE

NBC News reported that Washington State Patrol have said that there is no indication of terrorism in the shooting in Burlington... READ MORE›

JESSE JACKSON ASKS TWITTER FOR RACIAL BREAKDOWN OF LAYOFFS

Twitter spokeswoman Natalie Miyake said in a statement that Twitter's restructuring did not adversely impact underrepresented groups... READ MORE›