The Albuquerque Police Department (APD) warned parents on Wednesday morning about the connection between juvenile crime and social media.”There are a lot of different items being offered on the internet that are not good for our children’s health and won’t lead to productive futures,” Harold Medina, Albuquerque’s police chief, said.According to APD, social media is…
Huione Group has been linked to cyber fraud, but it managed to get some of its crypto apps on Apple and Google marketplaces. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images For the last few months, Apple and Google’s app stores hosted apps developed by Huione Group, a Cambodia-based company that was…
During this year’s election season in Mexico, propagandists leveraged a new mass-broadcasting feature on WhatsApp, called “channels,” to impersonate reputable political news outlets and pump out misleading information. Thousands of miles away, Telegram users in Hungary leveraged the app’s forwarding bot against LGBTQ+ and pro-democracy civil society organizations, portraying them as “Western-controlled” ahead of European…
On November 23rd last year, hours after the tragic stabbing incident in Dublin city centre, users in a private group chat on the Telegram messaging platform discussed plans for that evening. One voice note included the message, “Seven o’clock, be in town. Everyone bally up [wear balaclavas], tool up. And any f***ing g**o, foreigner, anyone,…