Criminal

Facebook parent company Meta and Google’s video network YouTube said on January 9 that they were banning information promoting or applauding anti-democratic protestors’ looting of Brazilian government facilities over the weekend. During a three-hour assault, tens of thousands of fans of the far-right former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, damaged the windows of the presidential palace, flooded areas of Congress …

Monday, New Jersey and Ohio joined other states in prohibiting the use of the popular video app TikTok on government-owned and operated devices. In addition to banning the short-video app owned by Chinese technology conglomerate ByteDance from state devices, Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy also banned software vendors, products, and services from over a dozen vendors, including Huawei, Hikvision, …

An study by Aos Fatos discovered that pro-Bolsonaro terrorists profited from the invasion of Brazil’s Congress, presidential palace, and Supreme Court by streaming the act on YouTube. Despite the platform’s regulation prohibiting “material intended to laud, promote, or help violent extremist or criminal organizations,” radicals may live-stream demonstrations and use the footage to solicit payments from fans. Aos Fatos investigated …

A woman posed as an attorney and conned her contacts into giving her over S$62,000 for “legal services” or employment at a reputable firm. Siti Suhailal Halil, 28, was given a two-year prison sentence on Friday (Jan 6). She pleaded guilty to three counts of cheating, with three further counts taken into account. The court heard that Siti cheated on …

Friday, December 30, a starkly split federal appeals court maintained a Florida high school’s policy prohibiting transgender students from using bathrooms that correspond to their chosen identities. The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, by a vote of 7-4, that the St. Johns County school board did not violate the U.S. Constitution or federal civil rights legislation by mandating …

Prosecutors in Romania said on Thursday (Dec 29) that they had arrested Andrew Tate, a controversial Internet celebrity and former professional kickboxer, on suspicion of human trafficking, rape, and creating an organized crime cell. Tate, who was banned from several social media sites for misogynistic statements and hate speech, and his brother Tristan will be jailed for 24 hours together …

A Singaporean billionaire who made headlines in 2020 for attempting to purchase an English Premier League football team but who fled Singapore weeks later amid suspicions of accounting irregularities has been apprehended in China. Saturday marked the return to Singapore of Novena Global Healthcare Group (HGHG) director Nelson Loh Ne-Loon and a business employee. Loh and his 43-year-old colleague Wong …

TikTok and its parent firm ByteDance discovered that workers had exploited their credentials to monitor journalists in an attempt to prevent information breaches. Forbes reported (paywalled) on Thursday, December 22 that ByteDance’s internal inquiry revealed that staff examined the IP addresses and user data of Forbes journalists to see if they were in the general vicinity of a ByteDance employee …

Daystar Peterson, also known as Tory Lanez, was found guilty on Friday, December 23 by a Los Angeles jury of shooting fellow artist Megan Thee Stallion in both feet during a dispute in 2020, according to prosecutors. The jury convicted Lanez, 30, guilty of three felonies: carrying a loaded and unlicensed firearm in a motor vehicle, assault with a semiautomatic …

Epic Games will pay $520 million to resolve charges that it improperly gathered the personal information of children and deceived consumers into completing purchases, the Federal Trade Commission and the business said on Monday, December 19. It will pay a record $275 million fine for breaking a children’s privacy legislation, and it will implement strict default privacy settings for youngsters. …