Teen plans to record 1,000 stories of war vets

Police officers and detectives are using Twitter and Facebook to solve crimes, yet social media can be as much a curse as a blessing. In preparation for the six-week long 2011 Rugby World Cup, New Zealand officers scrolled through YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and other sites, searching for signs of intended criminal activity. Information was plotted on an interactive map on officers' computer screens, as the cops searched for 'Folks who want to take out your mum,' as officer Neal Macrae described the potential suspects in an interview. The monitoring system the officers used included a mashup of geo-located tweets and streams of content from other social sites, including YouTube, which was found to have the least accurate information... (OhMyGov ) Coup Rumors Spur China to Hem in Social Networking Sites. China started a sweeping crackdown of its vibrant social networking med...

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