Wishful Thinking: Why The Economist Wants Social Media to Replace Blogs
Anthony Wile The Daily Bell The Economist Magazine is out with an article entitled “The end of mass media: Coming full circle.” It actually provides…
Facebook Censoring Some Alternative News Sites While Allowing Hackers To Attack Others
Alexander Higgins The Intel Hub Facebook now appears to be censoring some alternative news sites while allowing hackers to go after others. It is no…
Iceland Is Crowdsourcing Its New Constitution
Reykjavik, Iceland – Wiki Image Andrew Price Good.is Vikings. They’re the vanguard of 21st-century democracy. In the wake of the devastating collapse of Iceland’s commercial…
Officials Exploit Indy 500 to Roll Out New Alert System
Kurt Nimmo Infowars Indiana, the state now infamous for trashing the Fourth Amendment, has rolled out its own version of the Department of Homeland Security’s…
Secret Service interrogates Tacoma 7th grader for Facebook post
Wiki Commons Dana Rebik Q13 Fox News A Tacoma seventh grader faced federal interrogation at school for what he posted on his Facebook page. …
Facebook accused of removing activists’ pages
Protest groups claim Facebook has taken down dozens of pages over the weekend in a purge of activists’ accounts Shiv Malik Guardian Facebook has removed…
Obama off to ‘friend’ Facebook in person
President Barack Obama heads to Facebook’s headquarters on Wednesday © AFP/File Ryan Anson AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama heads to Facebook’s headquarters on…
Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda
Does a code of ethics still exist in Intelligence firms? Does it disappear behind closed doors, dirty deeds done in the dark and used against…
Clinton says Twitter helps US tap into youth unrest
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube reflected “the power of connection technologies as an accelerant of political, social, and economic change.” AFP Twitter AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) –…
Obama to meet Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg © AFP/Getty Images/File Justin Sullivan AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama will meet ailing Apple chief Steve Jobs and other…
Google’s Revolution Factory; Alliance of Youth Movements: Color Revolution 2.0
Screenshot of Movements.org Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post In 2008, the Alliance of Youth Movements held its inaugural summit in New York City. Attending…
Activists on Facebook need protection: senator
© AFP/File Leon Neal AFP/Activist Post WASHINGTON (AFP) – Facebook has become an important tool for democracy and human rights activists and it needs to…
Cashless Society: ‘Facebook Nation’ unveils its new currency
Patrick Henningsen 21st Century Wire The 21st century has certainly witnessed a progression towards a ‘cashless society’, but social networking giant Facebook are taking things…
Facebook, Twitter, and the Arab Revolutions
Gary North Lew Rockwell The dictator of Tunisia was overthrown in less than one month after being in power for 23 years. There is no…