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CHATTANOOGA, TN (GoMocs.com) -- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team cleaned house on the Southern Conference postseason awards announced by the league office today. Russ Huesman, Davis Tull and Jacob Huesmanswept coach, defensive, and offensive player of the year honors given out by the coaches and media, while Corey Levin took home the Jacobs Blocking Award.

All totaled, an astonishing 21 Mocs walked away with some type of recognition between the All-SoCon and all-freshman teams. A school-record 17 Mocs made the All-SoCon first or second teams while a league-high six earned SoCon All-Freshman recognition.

The elder Huesman is the first Moc football coach to win three SoCon Coach of the Year honors. He swept the award from both the coaches and the media. He led Chattanooga to a 9-3 overall record and a 7-0 SoCon mark this season for its sixth league crown. Coupled with last season's shared SoCon title, Huesman has now led the Mocs to back-to-back titles for the first time since 1978-79.

In addition to earning a spot in the FCS Playoffs for the first time in 30 years, the Mocs also earned the No. 8 national seed and a first-round bye. Chattanooga has been nationally ranked all season, including this week's school-record No. 8 listing in both the FCS Coaches and Sports Network top 25.

Tull and Jacob Huesman become the sixth pair of teammates to sweep the media awards and the first duo to do so for UTC. They also took both honors from the coaches. Tull is currently on the Buchanan Watch List while Huesman is a Payton Award candidate.

Huesman averaged 243 yards of total offense per game. He led the Southern Conference and ranks sixth nationally in pass efficiency (155.9). The Chattanooga, Tenn., native completed 68 percent of his passes for 2,155 yards this season, including a season-high 359 yards against Mercer on Oct. 25. Huesman tossed 21 touchdowns against just seven interceptions. The junior is just three touchdown passes away from setting a new school record. He averaged 63.6 yards per game on the ground and scored 10 touchdowns.

Tull, a defensive lineman, leads the league in sacks for the third straight season, posting 10.5 this year to become the SoCon's all-time leader with 37.0. With his third straight defensive honor, he becomes just the second player in league history to be named defensive player of the year three times and the first since Appalachian State's Dexter Coakley from 1994-96. So far this season, Tull has amassed 55 tackles (35 solo), with 17.0 going for lost yardage. The senior from Knoxville, Tenn., also has a fumble recovery and was the SoCon Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 29.

Levin is just the second Moc to earn the Jacobs Blocking Award and the first in 31 years, joining Mike Nease, who won it in 1983. Also a first-team all-conference selection, Levin, a sophomore offensive lineman from Dacula, Ga., was integral in helping the Mocs boast the top scoring offense in the SoCon at 35.1 points per game and the third-best rushing offense in the league at 204.8 yards per game. The Mocs also lead the conference in pass efficiency at 154.2.

First team honorees for Chattanooga on offense include Huesman, Levin, senior tight end Faysal Shafaatand senior running back Keon Williams. Freshman center Jacob Revis was a consensus second-team pick, while the league's coaches gave senior receivers Tommy Hudson and sophomore receiver C.J. Boardsecond team recognition.

Defensively, Tull was one of six Mocs to earn first team recognition. He and senior defensive linemanDerrick Lott were picked by both the coaches and the media. Senior linebacker Muhasibi Wakeel and freshman defensive back Lucas Webb made the media's first team while sophomore defensive backs Cedric Nettles and Dee Virgin made the coaches first team. Sophomore defensive lineman Keionta Davis and sophomore linebacker Nakevion Leslie were consensus second team selections on defense.

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Bill Cosby survived accusations of sexual assault for decades until viral social media outrage took him down in a matter of days.

Digital operatives recognize that Cosbys fall is sure to be an unusual case, given the severity of what more than a dozen women have said he did, including several who had not spoken out before.

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But strategists also see Cosbys fall as a case study in how social media can spread old news to new audiences with speed and efficiency dramatically different from what any previous generations of political candidates have encountered.

So while opposition researchers retool their digital approach ahead of the 2016 presidential race, when social media will be even more important, theyre planning how to use these digital platforms in new ways to reignite the controversies in their opponents past as part of their campaign strategy.

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The Cosby situation isnt unique to Hollywood celebrities, said Vincent Harris, an Austin-based GOP digital consultant who worked for Mitch McConnells 2014 campaign and recently signed on as top tech strategist for Rand Pauls political operation. The same situation could take place in politics, with decades old information, videos, and events coming to light and with enough online drive behind them, they could ignite a firestorm. People online are relentless and politicians must work hard to harness the searches and information seeking of voters, channeling them into a medium where they control the message.

Part of the reason the past does well on social media is the audience. Users tend to be younger and may not have lived through the first cycle of the story years ago.

Old news is actually new news, GOP strategist Kevin Madden said.

The stuff that happened 15 years ago is a window into how they arrived at this moment, Madden said of how the next generation of voters might find things newsworthy and help propel them to go viral. Its a window into their resume and a window into the kind of person they are.

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ITV Report 25 November 2014 at 2:38pm European police said internet technology allowed the 'industrialisation' of people trafficking. Credit: DPA

People traffickers are exploiting social media and the internet to entrap and control victims, forcing them into prostitution and other criminal activity, the head of the European policing agency has warned.

Europol director Rob Wainwright said that advertisements on sites like Facebook promising work in childcare or cleaning were used by criminal gangs to draw in vulnerable young women.

The traffickers then used internet technology such as webcams to monitor their victims, controlling their movements ensuring they turned up to work in brothels or other criminal enterprises.

Speaking to the Centre for Social Justice think tank in London, Mr Wainwright said the use of modern technology had enabled the "industrialisation" of the traffickers' activities, allowing them to control many more problems.

"Facebook is effectively being used in many cases as the means to attract and then enslave vulnerable young women," he said.

"They (the traffickers) are using the modern technological tools to more efficiently monitor an increasing number of victims.

"So instead of paying them a visit every day they can use the webchat services but also webcam cameras to confirm that they are where they should be, they are in that brothel waiting for the next customer.

"In the past, the pimps and traffickers had to do that by physically visiting them.

"Now they can just do it at the click of a button and therefore control 50 victims much more easily and readily in virtual form.

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When St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch delivered the grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson for any crimes in the shooting of Michael Brown, McCulloch found a new perpetrator to blame instead: social media. Apparently Facebook and Twitter, where many of the initial accounts of the shooting were shared, really cramped local law enforcements ability to control the narrative around the shooting.

On August 9, Michael Brown was shot and killed by police officer Darren Wilson, McCulloch said. Within minutes, various accounts of the incident began appearing on social mediaaccounts filled with speculation and little, if any, solid, accurate information. McCulloch then proceeded with his bizarre lecture, crediting the August protests that followed the shooting to social media and, oh, one more small, insignificant factor: the underlying tensions between the police department and a significant part of the neighborhood.

As McCulloch detailed the steps of the investigation, he made an outrageous claim: the most significant challenge encountered in this investigation has been the 24-hour news cycle and its insatiable appetite for somethinganythingto talk about. Following close behind were the nonstop rumors on social media.

One might think a significant challenge to Ferguson law enforcement would be how to communicate effectively and safely with the residents whom they serve. Maybe they should try Twitter.

Its true that the 24-hour news cycle and social media feed each other. Social media can and often does foster and exacerbate conflict. Not everyone sharing information online does so as a public service. But does McCulloch really want to say that it would have been easier to conduct this investigation if so many people hadnt been paying attention? And most important, did he really want to make that the focus of his speech?

Needless to say, social media didnt create the underlying tensions between the Ferguson police and residents, but it did help share its relevant contexts, like the staggering racial disparity in arrests.

McCulloch admitted that he can recognize, of course, that the lack of accurate detail surrounding the shooting frustrates the media and the general public and helps breed suspicion among those who are already distrustful of the system. And yet, despite that historically hard-earned suspicion and distrust, his message remained here is why you should trust the system.

No doubt McCullochs job would have been easier if everyone in Ferguson, St. Louis and the rest of the country had sat back and patiently waited to be told what to think. But that is not how humans respond to trauma, especially when the roots of the trauma lie in law enforcement and other institutions of authority. Humans talk sharing anger and frustration and fear, trading gossip and confirmed facts alike.

Sure, social media also opens an investigation up to more scrutiny. But to complain about that in the wake of this heartbreaking decision was a pretty unbelievable feat of misdirection.

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