Two British men, 22 year-old Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan from Warrington, and 20 year-old Jordon Blackshaw from Marston, were sentenced to four years in jail for inciting riot and civil unrest in England.
 

Two British men will serve four years in jail for inciting riots on Facebook.

The men were arrested after days of riots in London, which were triggered by the death of Mark Duggan during a firefight with police. The riots began in Tottenham, London and spread across the city with the help …

SpamTitan Technologies, based in Galway, Ireland, has calculated that non-work related  social media activity carried out at an average sized company with 52 employees costs the company about 5 percent of its annual salary bill, or $52,000 a year.
 

Use of social media by employees on the job costing companies.

SpamTitan, which provided email services to businesses, has created a “social media cost calculator” to help evaluate how use of social media for purpose unrelated to work …

Scotland’s Lothian and Borders police has received the backing of the Scottish government, Crown office, and Procurator Fiscal Service for its launch of a first of kind program dubbed ‘Made from Crime’ that allows internet users to anonymously express their concerns on Facebook, about criminal activity.
 

Scotland's "Made from Crime" scheme lets Internet users anonymously report crimes on Facebook

The scheme makes use of the Proceeds of Crime Act to allow officers …

Is David Cameron considering a ban on Facebook and Twitter, which played a major role in recent riots in the country?
It is a million dollar question, but anyway he is really concerned about it.
Britain’s Prime Minister during an emergency meeting held in the parliament on Thursday said that “the free flow of information” can lead to big problems.
Cameroon was a sort of condemning the popular social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, as well as free chat room, available …

Many who have become used to casually posting tweets and status updates on their Twitter and Facebook accounts may want to think, or tweet again about the potential consequences of what may seem to be such a minor and casual communication, given the fact that employers increasingly use social media to perform background checks.
 

More employers use social networking sites to perform background checks.

Most messages are likely inconsequential but there may be the occasional social event …

Time Warner and Facebook have partnered in a joint multiplatform campaign against bullying among school children and teens dubbed “Stop Bullying, Speak Up”, which is aiming its message at parents, educators, and students.
 
The campaign will use social media, print, and broadcast media to promote its message, begin a conversation among its audience and will introduce an interactive social media app on Facebook where people can voice their commitment to end bullying and ask others to do …

Pop singer Taylor Swift got on Facebook on July 5th to announce that her newest single “Sparks Fly” has shot up the Social 50 from the 21st to the 14th position.
 
Swift’s fan base on Facebook has enjoyed substantial growth, increasing from by 269,000 fans and her Twitter followers also jumped up by 73,000, a 20 percent week-on-week increase.   Swift garnered 22,400 status Likes and 9,200 comments when it was reported just a day after her Social 50 announcement that she would have …

Tom Kent, Deputy Managing Editor for Standards and Production for the Associated Press, issued a warning to staffers this week not to voice their opinion about current news events via Twitter or Facebook, because it can undermine the AP’s credibility as a fair and balanced news organization.
 

ap social media rules staffers

Kent pointed out there have been two recent cases of controversial news issues in which AP staffers voiced their opinions on social networks.  Kent explained in …

Twitter, Facebook, and one of Russia’s biggest social networking websites were blocked by the authoritarian government of Belarus in an attempt to squash the efforts of protestors in Minsk, Belarus. Police on Sunday detained several dozens of protestors during an action dubbed “Revolution via Social Network”.

Belarus facebook twitter social media

Thousands of police and secret service agents were sent to help suppress the protest action but between 700 and 800 showed up employing a new …

Thai citizens and candidates in Sunday’s election were warned by police not to tweet or use any other social media platforms like Facebook, or carry out any political campaigning on Saturday, and those that do not heed the warning could face jail time.

Thais tweet election

Political campaigning the day before an election, after 6 p.m. local time, is forbidden by Thailand’s election law.  Major General Prawut Thavornsiri warned that anyone, including candidates or the ordinary citizen, …