Applying an anti-threat statute to convict a defendant who published Facebook posts about a local district attorney violated the poster’s First Amendment rights, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled, vacating his conviction. Unhappy with Macon County District ...

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A Mecklenburg County jury has awarded $200,000 to a man whose neighbor waged a campaign of harassment against him that included enlisting friends to leave poor reviews on his businesses’ Facebook page and posting a personal ad offering massages that ...

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  A punishment handed down to a Macon County man who streamed court proceedings on Facebook will stand–including a requirement that he write an essay about respecting the court system, post it on social media, and delete any negative comments ...

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North Carolina’s Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint about work performed by Cambridge Analytica for the campaign of Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis. Cambridge Analytica has been accused of vacuuming data from Facebook users to try to influence the ...

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Whichard v. CH Mortgage Co. (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-136-16, 10 pp.) (Robert Hunter Jr., J.) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court (Lindsay Davis Jr., J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: An employee’s Facebook post made only a conditional threat and was ...

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The Drug Enforcement Administration set up a fake Facebook account using photographs and other personal information it took from the cellphone of a New York woman arrested in a cocaine case in hopes of tricking her friends and associates into revealing incriminating drug secrets.

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It’s the stuff of science-fiction films: You wake up to find that there’s an impostor on the loose. The impostor looks just like you and is pretending to be you, even managing to fool some of your closest friends. For ...

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Dewitt v. Dewitt (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-16-0169, 12 pp.) (Robert N. Hunter Jr., J.) Appealed from Transylvania County District Court (Mack Brittain, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Since the evidence was clearly inadmissible, the trial court did not err in ...

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Did you know that a few years ago, the number of times that Americans viewed social media sites per day surpassed pornography site views? When that happens, you know you’ve reached a tipping point! Reaching that dubious ...

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The mayor of a small South Carolina town is under fire after her Facebook post criticizing a decision allowing gay couples to apply for marriage licenses.

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