Category: Crime News

Google And Facebook Battling Terrorist Groups Online

 
For years, Islamic terror groups like ISIS and their followers have used the Internet and social media to recruit and spread propaganda, but now the tech giants are exploring new ways to fight back. 

Google’s Alphabet parent company GOOG has partnered with Facebook FB and Twitter TWTR to sponsor three experiments that will use videos to counter terrorist propaganda spread on their sites, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The anti-terror ads target Muslim teens and young adults with different kinds of anti-radical messaging to see which works best at diffusing disaffected people before they’re radicalized.

Twitter confirms the projects have been in the works since late 2013.

“We partnered with respected organizations such as People Against Violent Extremism (PAVE) and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue to empower credible non-governmental voices against violent extremism,” Twitter spokesperson Nu Wexler tells Fortune. “We also attended government-convened summits on [common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE)] hosted by the White House, the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, the UK government, the French prime minister, the European Commission, and the United Nations.”

Read the entire article on Fortune Magazine, here. 

Phaedra Parks’ Former Client Denied Bond After Bomb Threat 

Atlanta rapper Drama, former client of entertainment attorney Phaedra Parks, was denied bond on last Friday.

Drama went down to Phaedra’s Atlanta law office and demanded to see her. After he was denied entry, he refused to leave and stated that he had a bomb. Frightened workers called police and he was arrested immediately. 

 
Read the entire story on AJC.com 

50 Cent Still Working On ‘Black Mafia Family’ Project 


As you heard here a while ago, music mogul 50 Cent had obtained the movie rights to executive produce a film about the powerfully notorious Black Mafia Family, headed by Demetrius ‘Big Meech‘ Flenory & his older brother Terry ‘Southwest T‘ Flenory.

Well a couple of years has since passed with no updates on the project and some thought it was not going to happen, or at best– obviously at a standstill.

Hope was restored after gossip surfaced last week that he is in fact still working on the project, the picture above shows him with his maybe his writer? Business partner?

According to the Internet streets:

Rapper 50 Cent is quietly becoming one of the most POWERFUL men in Hollywood. His hit series POWER is now widely recognized as one of the BIGGEST HITS on cable TV. Well he’s got anothe hit on his hands.

50 acquired the rights to the Black Mafia Family’s stories, and hes creating a TV show about it. You already KNOW its going to be GOOD.

Well not everyone is happy about it. MediaTakeOut.com learned that there are whispers around Atlanta that 50 is refusing to consult with the heavy hitters in Atlanta on the BMF TV series, including T.I., Jeezy, and some well known ex-drug dealers. Although 50cent own the rights, people are chatting and tweeting their displeasure with him leaving out the enter core of BMF.

Now I’m not sure how true any of this gossip is, but it appears we will get a BMF production sometime in the future. If executed properly, 50 stands make a grip off of this project, as well as create a street classic that will live on forever.

https://twitter.com/majestykagiso/status/759828544432250880

50 seems like a very business savvy guy, I’m sure he’ll find the proper sources when it’s time. He has to get the streets to cosign this project, there is no other way.

Hopefully he will get the story straight from Big Meech & Terry themselves, that way we know it’s real. It’s been a lonnng time coming!

Check out this interview with Tonesa ‘Toni’ Welch, spouse of Southwest T, as she sheds some inside light on what the Black Mafia Family was all about. She says more than anything the brothers were always trying to help others, even if they went about it the wrong way.

She also gives insight into their next level plans for rebranding the BMF brand on the fashion & home decor scenes.

Check out her son’s website and cop you some goods!