Discover how the world wide web stopped a terrorist, attacked online pedophiles & got selfie robbers thrown in jail.
These unlikely cyber-heroes took to Facebook, twitter & chatrooms to bust the bad guys – find out how?
10Chatroom suicide
Using a fake persona, pensioner Celia Blay befriended a suspicious “Li Dao” on a suicide chatroom. She exposed Dao as a 47-year-old man encouraging girls to commit suicide leading to his conviction.
09Jihad Jane
Colleen Larose had no idea that her online activity as “Jihad Jane” was being monitored for 3 years. Bloggers worked together and uncovered her plot to murder a Danish artist, saving his life.
08 Robbery selfie
Two teenage girls posted a Facebook selfie before robbing a burger join with a kitchen knife. They stole almost 400 dollar but just 47 minutes later police arrested them at their grandparents´ house.
07Internet pedophile
Hacktivist group ANONYMOUS tracked the online activity of a man luring children on chat rooms. When they´d gathered enough information, Anonymous contacted the police and got him imprisoned.
06Cat abuser
When a masked man uploaded a video of himself abusing a cat, the 4chan community tracked him down. They contacted the police who arrested the abuser and took his into veterinary care.
05Twitter vs. hate crime
“Fansince09” noticed that a video of men attacking a gay couple featured the same people in a restaurant twitter photo. Using Facebook, he uncovered who´d checked into that restaurant and revealed their identities.
04Library vandal
A teenager bragged about his crime in Facebook when he destroyed a public library. He caused 225.000 dollar of damage plugging up the sinks with toilet paper and flooding the building.
03Pensioner assault
A 2012 YouTube video features students abusing an old woman on a bus. When it went viral they got 50 hours of community service and the woman received 700.000 dollar in donations.
02Operation dark-net
In 2014 4chan declared war on pedophilia when they attacked porno service “Lolita City”. They shut down all of its porn sites and exposed 1500 pedophiles for the FBI to investigate.
01Laptop thief
Twitter came to the rescue when computer tracking software located a man´s stolen Macbook 800 km away in a bar. Posing as customers, his followers confronted the thief in a New York bar and recovered it.
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