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From gagging orders to inciting rioting, and libel suits and defamation, Twitter can be a minefield for legal implications, according to new research. Amid the super-injunction controversy earlier this year, 68 percent Twitter users in the UK have “little or no awareness of their legal responsibilities”, law firm DLA Piper found. Britain’s libel law is [...]

It’s widely known that Facebook is the most popular third-party app on most, if not all, mobile platforms. When it comes to Google’s Android platform though, the first mobile media rankings from Nielsen (July 2011) paint a more interesting picture. The research firm determined each apps active reach – the percentage of Android owners who used an [...]

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends limited television for children – and discourages it altogether for children under age 2. A new study in the October, 2011, issue of the journal, Pediatrics, finds that some TV shows may be worse than others. The study, “The Immediate Impact of Different Types of Television on Young [...]

Cable News Network (CNN) and National Public Radio (NPR) have acknowledged that eight members of the US Army 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group served as interns in their news divisions and other areas during the Kosovo war. PSYOPS is a highly specialized unit of the military whose personnel are trained in the production and dissemination [...]

It is hard to watch the news without being confronted with images and stories that disparage young black people again and again. From Philadelphia to Chicago to England, elected leaders and the media represent black youth as being engaged in uncontrollable behavior that necessitate legal interventions and arrests. In Philadelphia, black mayor Michael Nutter has [...]

Who want to rule the world with me? I ask this question because there hasn’t been a powerful African-American leader that captivates audiences since Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm-X, Huey Newton and the list goes on. I know there are people out there thinking, “What about Barack Obama or Oprah?” They’re great leaders but they’re [...]

Mumia Abu Jamal – The World Weeps As the U.S. performed its semi-religious rites in memory of 9/11, it does so with little real question of why 9/11 happened–at least among average Americans. For they have been ill-served by the media, primary educational systems and even many universities, which teaches approved lessons designed to instill and reinforce U.S. nationalism, while turning a blind eye to the real American history of the CIA and the military as it wreaks sheer havoc abroad. For while these agencies often engage in secret carnage, their attacks are seldom secret to those who have borne the brunt of their mega-violence. For them, for the vast majority of the people in [...]

Out in the physical world, crime happens every day. People get robbed and have their pockets picked, and no one blames the victim. So why do the rules change when nontechnical PC users fall for a Trojan online? The story of the Trojan Horse is one of the most enduring in human history. The original [...]

011 Speech to the Grass Roots Radio Conference August 19, 2011 Kansas City, MO Station KKFI By Mumia Abu-Jamal Ona Move! Long Live John Africa! Dear friends: Attendees at the Grass Roots Radio Conference! Thank you for your invitation. I join y’all today, this way, by necessity; but we are joined by our common love [...]

Here’s a video showing how the integration works: Ticketmaster just rolled out Facebook integration in its interactive seat map feature. If you sign into Facebook before you buy a ticket online, you’ll be able to see which of your Facebook friends are also going and where they’re sitting. A couple weeks ago, Facebook director Sean [...]

Americans have watched in astonishment, along with the rest of the world, at the violence that’s erupted in England as young, disaffected Britons take to the streets to vent their rage.   But could it happen in the United States as it grapples with a 25 per cent youth unemployment rate and a double-dip recession [...]

A Tucson, Ariz., SWAT team defends shooting an Iraq War veteran 60 times during a drug raid, although it declines to say whether it found any drugs in the house and has had to retract its claim that the veteran shot first. And the Pima County sheriff, whose team conducted the raid, scolded the media [...]