Pastor Loses Suit Over Gay-Conversion Videos on Vimeo
A federal magistrate threw out a discrimination suit against Vimeo from a California pastor who says he is the product of gay-conversion therapy.
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Pastor Barred Over Gay-Conversion Videos Fights Vimeo
Vimeo bans users from extolling purported gay-conversion therapy, but a pastor who identifies as a “former homosexual” told a federal judge Monday that the video-hosting website shut down his account in bad faith.
Read moreVideo in Epstein Suicide Attempt Is Lost, Prosecutors Say
Video footage of the area around Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on a day he survived an apparent suicide attempt “no longer exists,” federal prosecutors told a judge Thursday.
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Facebook Set to Ban Most ‘Deepfake’ Videos
On the eve of a congressional hearing on media manipulation and deception, Facebook said it will remove digitally manipulated videos – commonly called “deepfakes” – from its platform.
Read moreLethal Force
The Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office sued Trena Miller in Tarrant County Court, claiming it mistakenly sent her 10 seconds of video from a police officer’s body cam in a lethal force incident; it wants her restrained from disseminating it further.
Read moreCivil Case Against Abortion Foes Now in the Hands of a Jury
A jury of nine men and one woman began deliberations Wednesday afternoon over whether Planned Parenthood should be compensated by anti-abortion activists who infiltrated their ranks and recorded abortion doctors and staff.
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Distinctive Accent on Torture Video Leads Police to Suspect
The suspect in a torture killing in Alaska’s biggest city ended up leading police right to him, first by losing a digital memory card labeled “Homicide at midtown Marriott” that contained video of the dying woman.
Read moreCalifornia Gov. Newsom Signs Deepfake Bill Into Law
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Friday meant to cut down on the use of deepfakes meant to disrupt elections after a viral video was released earlier this year of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, manipulating her to appear drunk in it.
Read moreHouse to Push for Live Video in Federal Appeals Courts
With the urging of activists and court watchers, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee could soon reintroduce legislation that would bring cameras into federal appeals courts.
Read moreGraphic Footage Shown on Day 2 of Ex-Cop’s Murder Trial
Prosecutors portrayed a white fired Dallas cop charged with murder as callous and uncaring Tuesday as they played body camera footage of her typing on her phone while first responders frantically tried to save the unarmed black man that she had just shot after mistaking his apartment for her own.
Read morePolice Release More Than 1,000 Files From Smollett Probe
Chicago police on Monday released more than 1,000 files from the investigation of Jussie Smollett’s claim he was attacked by two men, including video footage that shows the “Empire” actor with a thin, white rope wrapped around his neck that he told detectives was a noose.
Read moreFacebook’s Zuckerberg Focus of Latest Doctored Video
Three weeks after Facebook refused to remove a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her words, Mark Zuckerberg is getting a taste of his own medicine: fake footage showing him gloating over his one-man domination of the world.
Read moreWorld Leaders, Tech Execs Pledge to Curb Online Violence
Facebook, Google, Twitter and other tech companies joined a dozen countries in a global pledge Wednesday to step up efforts to keep internet platforms from being used to spread hate, organize extremist groups and broadcast attacks.
Read moreJudge Shields Video of Patriots Owner at Florida Spa
Attorneys defending New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft against solicitation-of-prostitution charges convinced a Florida judge to suppress video evidence that police claim shows Kraft engaging in paid sex acts at a day spa.
Read moreLawyers for Patriots Owner Seek to Have Sex Video Thrown Out
Most Florida second-degree misdemeanors don’t have hours-long pretrial hearings with top-line attorneys and 30 subpoenaed witnesses, including an expert on police procedures — but the State of Florida vs. Robert Kraft is no typical case.
Read moreNew Zealander Pleads Guilty to Sharing Mosque Shooting Video
A Christchurch businessman has pleaded guilty to sharing a livestream video that was recorded by a gunman last month as he began killing 50 people at two New Zealand mosques.
Read moreSame-Sex Marriage
The Ninth Circuit dismissed without prejudice, for lack of jurisdiction, an appeal from news agencies seeking to compel the unsealing of videotaped recordings of a trial on the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8.
Read moreFlorida Spa Patrons Say They Were Illegally Filmed During Sting
More than 30 plaintiffs claim in a federal class action that police in South Florida trampled on their constitutional rights when it secretly recorded them undressed and receiving legal massages during a prostitution investigation that yielded solicitation charges against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
Read moreJudge Halts Release of Video in Kraft Solicitation Case
Extinguishing a veritable media frenzy Wednesday, a Florida judge temporarily blocked the release of video that police claim shows New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft being sexually pleasured by a spa worker.
Read morePublic Won’t See Video of Ex-Cop Shooting Australian Woman
Graphic footage shown to jurors in the upcoming trial of a former Minnesota police officer charged with killing an Australian woman will not be played for the public and the media, a state judge ruled Friday.
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