Cyber Beat: Daily Roundup of Social Media and Tech Stories 2/25

Antics on or about social media.

Shameful fakes continue.

• Lawmakers urge Facebook to remove fraudulent Sandy Hook tributes

Some tweets are best left not tweeted.

• Not Even the Onion Thought Its Quvenzhane Wallis Tweet Was Funny

One blogger has an interesting take on the whole Onion outrage. One of his tips – unfollow, leave them to their echo chamber.

• About That Onion Tweet

Women have a way sometimes of putting their exes in their place. It’s just not usually in front of millions of people.

• Denise Richards Scolds Charlie Sheen on Twitter: “Time to Pack It In and Go to Bed”

Oh, Michael Moore.

• Liberal titans collide: Michael Moore vs. BuzzFeed in Twitter death match

Citizen journalists bust some fakes.

• Republican Rep. claims Obama backers using fake Twitter accounts in gun-control blitz

 

Hackers strike again.

This time it’s a think tank.  But why Aspen Institute?

• Authorities believe Chinese were behind cyberattack on Aspen Institute

 

 

In the courts.

Penelope Soto made the news earlier this month when her one finger salute to a judge landed her jail time.  But all the attention on TV and social media raised the profile of what would otherwise have been a typically mundane story.  Since then, things have changed for her, and possibly for the better.

• Teen who flipped off Florida judge back in court

So, about that overly broad social media fishing expedition…

• Legal Loop: Another NY decision on social media evidence discovery