The Twitter and YouTube accounts for the U.S. military command that oversees operations in the Middle East were hacked on Monday by people claiming to be sympathetic toward the Islamic State militant group being targeted in American bombing raids.
A Maryland politician's threat to sue a newspaper if it printed his name has backfired, with the dispute and the politician's name now splashed across the Internet and social media.
A senior leader of al Qaeda in Yemen has criticized beheadings by Islamic State (IS) fighters as un-Islamic, and said his own group had banned such acts.
Hot-tempered Azealia Banks has gone on a rampage in Twitter, targeting fellow rapper Iggy Azalea. According to reports, Banks is fuming at Azalea, whom she nicknamed "Igloo Australia, for failing to comment on the deaths of two black unarmed men. The rapper felt that Azalea must say something about the matter as she is banking on the African American Culture in her music. However, Azalea responded with a message saying that social issues should not be used to promote fan battles on Twitter.
