Woman arrested after trying to sell her kids on Facebook

 

  Covered in detail by Oklahoma’s News 9 station, a 22-year-old woman named Misty Van Horn was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly attempting to sell both of her children on the Internet. Using Facebook messaging as her communication medium, VanHorn first attempted to sell her two-year-old child for a price tag of $1,000. However, she upped the price to…

How Twitter and Social Media Impacts Mexico’s Drug War

 

  Austin, Texas — Twitter, but increasingly Facebook and YouTube, are becoming essential elements to the way ordinary people in Mexico protect themselves from the war on drugs, according to experts sitting on a panel at South By Southwest Interactive called, “Life on the Line: Tweeting the Drug War.” Panelists included University of Texas at…