Social Media Terror Posts

A video apparently shot by gunmen who carried out the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall has been posted on social media accounts typically used by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), according to the SITE Intelligence Group.

A leading Arab Israeli actor has been detained on suspicion of "incitement to terrorism" over a social media post about Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, police and her lawyer said Tuesday.

A journalist, based in Haryana's Hisar, has been charged with "cyber-terrorism" and "promoting enmity between classes" over one of his social media posts.

Siddique Kappan, the Kerala journalist arrested in October on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to report on the alleged gang-rape of a Dalit woman, has been granted bail by the Supreme Court for five days, with conditions, to visit his mother.

Across social media, viewers shared screenshot after screenshot of indecipherable blobs

Union Tourism Minister Alphons Kannanthanam, who was slammed on social media over a photograph near the coffin of a CRPF soldier who laid down his life in the Pulwama terror attack, denied that it was a selfie. Many social media users had accused him of indulging in "blatant self-promotion" in the back of a tragic incident.

A 27-year-old Colorado man has been arrested on a terrorism charge after he posted messages on social media, citing his virginity as the reason he said he was planning to carry out a mass shooting, "killing as many girls as I see," authorities in Utah said.

Ahtesham Bilal Sofi, the Kashmiri student who went missing from his college in Greater Noida last week, has joined a terror outfit in Jammu and Kashmir, social media posts claim.

Social media posts carrying alleged pictures of a Kashmiri teenager, who went missing from a private university in Uttar Pradesh days ago, on Friday claimed that he has joined terrorism in the Valley.

In a 2016 employee memo that was leaked this week, a Facebook executive defended the company's questionable data mining practices and championed the growth of social media at any cost - apparently even death.

Britain's Prince George is on the hit list of terror group ISIS which has threatened to kill the four-year-old son of Prince William and Kate Middleton, according to a UK media report. The threat appeared as part of a message posted by ISIS members on social media.

A picture of a Jammu and Kashmir policeman holding an AK-47 assault rifle has gone viral on social media, confirming reports that he has joined a terrorist organisation, police sources have said.

During the terrorism attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015, a Canadian Sikh was falsely accused of being one of the attackers after a photo went viral, doctored to make him look like he was wearing a suicide bomb vest. A Spanish newspaper published the picture on its front page and later apologized. Less than a year later, the photo start...

The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of Qatari government news and social media sites in order to post incendiary false quotes attributed to Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani, in late May that sparked the ongoing upheaval between Qatar and its neighbors, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

Turkey is investigating 10,000 people suspected of terror-related activity on the internet or posting comments on social media insulting government officials, the interior ministry said on Saturday.

A video apparently shot by gunmen who carried out the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall has been posted on social media accounts typically used by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), according to the SITE Intelligence Group.

A leading Arab Israeli actor has been detained on suspicion of "incitement to terrorism" over a social media post about Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel, police and her lawyer said Tuesday.

A journalist, based in Haryana's Hisar, has been charged with "cyber-terrorism" and "promoting enmity between classes" over one of his social media posts.

Siddique Kappan, the Kerala journalist arrested in October on his way to Hathras in Uttar Pradesh to report on the alleged gang-rape of a Dalit woman, has been granted bail by the Supreme Court for five days, with conditions, to visit his mother.

Across social media, viewers shared screenshot after screenshot of indecipherable blobs

Union Tourism Minister Alphons Kannanthanam, who was slammed on social media over a photograph near the coffin of a CRPF soldier who laid down his life in the Pulwama terror attack, denied that it was a selfie. Many social media users had accused him of indulging in "blatant self-promotion" in the back of a tragic incident.

A 27-year-old Colorado man has been arrested on a terrorism charge after he posted messages on social media, citing his virginity as the reason he said he was planning to carry out a mass shooting, "killing as many girls as I see," authorities in Utah said.

Ahtesham Bilal Sofi, the Kashmiri student who went missing from his college in Greater Noida last week, has joined a terror outfit in Jammu and Kashmir, social media posts claim.

Social media posts carrying alleged pictures of a Kashmiri teenager, who went missing from a private university in Uttar Pradesh days ago, on Friday claimed that he has joined terrorism in the Valley.

In a 2016 employee memo that was leaked this week, a Facebook executive defended the company's questionable data mining practices and championed the growth of social media at any cost - apparently even death.

Britain's Prince George is on the hit list of terror group ISIS which has threatened to kill the four-year-old son of Prince William and Kate Middleton, according to a UK media report. The threat appeared as part of a message posted by ISIS members on social media.

A picture of a Jammu and Kashmir policeman holding an AK-47 assault rifle has gone viral on social media, confirming reports that he has joined a terrorist organisation, police sources have said.

During the terrorism attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in 2015, a Canadian Sikh was falsely accused of being one of the attackers after a photo went viral, doctored to make him look like he was wearing a suicide bomb vest. A Spanish newspaper published the picture on its front page and later apologized. Less than a year later, the photo start...

The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of Qatari government news and social media sites in order to post incendiary false quotes attributed to Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani, in late May that sparked the ongoing upheaval between Qatar and its neighbors, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

Turkey is investigating 10,000 people suspected of terror-related activity on the internet or posting comments on social media insulting government officials, the interior ministry said on Saturday.