The FBI’s SOMEX team, which sits within the agency’s National Threat Operations Center in Clarksburg, West Virginia, receives and investigates tips on imminent social media threats from ...

The bureau said that members of the networks—referred to as "764" for the Texas ZIP code where it reportedly originated—befriend minors online via video games, social media and online forums, then coerce them into self-harm and creating explicit material.

KMBC 9 asked two former FBI agents about the process of tracking down a suspect and how recent mass shootings have heightened the response to threats. When a threat is made on social media, it ...

The FBI said that it “routinely notifies” private sector entities, including social media companies, of information related to potential threats after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook ...

“With increased use of social media platforms by subjects of current FBI investigations and individuals that pose a threat to the United States, it is critical to obtain a service which will ...

AUSTIN, Texas—As the U.S. government tries to root out homegrown jihadists, the FBI’s campaign to identify budding terrorists via the Internet before they can carry out violence is playing an ...

PERMIAN BASIN (KMID/KPEJ)- UPDATE: Ector County ISD provided an update on social media threats aimed at schools that began making the rounds on social medial late last week. Here’s what a ...

The FBI is the lead agency for investigating foreign malign influence operations and regularly informs social media companies about associated threats on their platforms.