April 21st, 2008
Accused killer on facebook:
23-year-old Haldane Jensen-Huot of Edmonton, Alberta was arrested in the stabbing death of 77-year old Hans Alberts. Jensen-Huot stabbed Alberts to death after Alberts and his wife finished celebrating their wedding aniversary. Jensen-Huot didn’t say anything during the attack nor did he take anything.
One explanation about the crime is that Jensen-Huot […]
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April 16th, 2008
Salem cops follow Facebook to boozing youths:
As long as kids are stupid their underage drinking spots will keep getting busted.
For example this story from Salem, Mass. A place called the Bangkok Paradise was popular with the 18-20 crowd as they would post on their Facebooks and MySpaces that they were going to be at the […]
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April 8th, 2008
Terror experts probe Facebook death threat:
This is one of the more bizarre stories I’ve posted on this site.
A Jewish woman from Melbourne, Australia received a death threat after refusing a friend request.
The dejected friend who allegedly goes by the name Ibrahim Dirani then claimed to be a member of Hezbollah.
According to police documents, the […]
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March 31st, 2008
Facebook girl beaten and shot dead by her father for talking online:
I’m not sure how true this story is because everyone involved is ‘unnamed’ but I wouldn’t put it past the Saudis.
Anyway a Saudi news agency is reporting that a father brutally beat and shot his daughter to death for using Facebook to talk to […]
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March 27th, 2008
British man cleared of harassing ex on Facebook:
Earlier this month I posted about Michael Hurst. He’s the British man that was being tried for harassing his ex over Facebook. Well, he’s been cleared of the charges. But he’s been ordered to refrain from making any contact with his ex in the future.
Yeah, we’ll see how […]
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March 20th, 2008
Moroccan king pardons man convicted of usurping prince’s identity on Facebook:
I’ve posted about Fouad Mourtada before. He was the 26-year-old from Morroco who was imprisoned for making a fake Facebook profile of a Moroccan prince.
Luckily Morocco’s King Mohammed has pardoned Mourtada along with 565 other pardons.
The official says the pardon is one of 566 […]
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March 19th, 2008
Tycoon’s son wanted over Facebook murder:
The international perss are referring to the murder of Norwegian socialite Martine Vik Magnussen the Facebook Murder. The reason being is that one of her Facebook friends is the prime suspect…
Yemen born Farooq Abdulhak, 26, was allegedly the last person to see Martine Vik Magnussen alive after leaving the exclusive […]
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March 17th, 2008
Thousands of Facebook and MySpace gatecrashers turn up to girl’s 18th:
18-year-old Sarah Ruscoe invited 200 of closest friends to her 18th birthday party. That was before she posted about the party on MySpace and Facebook. Then 2,000 more people showed up and trashed her family’s £3million house.
Allegedly the party was also mentioned on BBC Radio […]
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March 5th, 2008
Man faces trial over Facebook harassment:
In England 33-year-old Michael Hurst will be the first man in the UK to be tried for harassment over Facebook.
I don’t see what the big deal is.
A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said: “We have prosecuted alleged harassment cases before where people have sent letters, made phone calls […]
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February 29th, 2008
Facebook Denies Role in Morocco Arrest:
Facebook is claiming that they gave no information to the Moroccan government as to the identity of Fouad Mourtada. Mourtada was jailed for three years for making a fake Facebook of a Moroccan prince.
Brandee Barker, a Facebook spokewoman, said in a statement that the company’s privacy policy and terms of […]
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February 29th, 2008
Moroccan Bloggers Protest Jailing for Facebook Prank:
Bloggers in Morocco are up in arms about the jailing of Fouad Mourtada. Mourtada is the man who was sentenced to 3 years in prison for making a Facebook profile that imitated Prince Moulay Rachid. As far as I know it wasn’t a parody but rather a tribute to […]
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February 26th, 2008
Moroccan jailed for royal Facebook ‘joke’:
This is a story for all those people who complain about free speech rights being violated when their precious little snowflakes get disciplined for making libelous fake MySpaces of people.
In Morocco 27-year-old computer engineer Fouad Mourtada was sentenced to 3 years in prison for making a fake Facebook of King […]
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February 21st, 2008
Study: Sex Offenders Use Chat Rooms, Not Facebook:
This an article from PC Mag that says a study from the University of New Hampshire’s Internet Solution for Kids, Inc. claims that sexual predators aren’t as prevalent on MySpace and Facebook as the media says they are.
“Between June and October 2007, we conducted over 400 interviews […]
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February 8th, 2008
Facebook Site Prompts Sexual Assault Charges At College:
Every time I make a post about Facebook vigilantism I hear the song “Ghost Riders in The Sky” by The Outlaws in my head.
Anyway Facebook Vigilantes have struck again. This time the vigilantism has crept over our northern border and is now taking place in the good […]
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February 5th, 2008
Police Investigate Alleged Facebook Rape:
Police in Southfield, Michigan are saying that they are investigating an allegation of rape that may be connected to Facebook.
Police said the alleged rape took place when a 19-year-old woman invited a 20-year-old man over after they met on the popular networking Web site Facebook.com.
No additional details have been released. […]
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