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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Rep. Ilhan Omar has condemned a Republican state senator from North Dakota who posted a long-debunked photo on his Facebook page that purports to show the Minnesota Democrat holding a weapon at an al-Qaida training camp. Omar, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Somalia and is one of the first […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Attorney General William Barr and other U.S., U.K. and Australian officials are pressing Facebook to give authorities a way to read encrypted messages sent by ordinary users, re-igniting tensions between tech companies and law enforcement. Facebook’s WhatsApp already uses so-called end-to-end encryption, which locks up messages so that even Facebook […]

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The nature and ethics of “fake news” has become a subject of widespread concern. But, for many of us, the issue is much more personal: What are we to do when a cranky uncle or an otherwise pleasant old friend persists in populating our news feeds with a stream of posts that can run deeply contrary to […]

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The hashtag #RIPREESE was trending on Twitter on Tuesday after it was reported that Maurice “Reese Him Daddie” Willoughby, 20, died by suicide following the harassment he received for dating a trans woman. His tragic death comes after a video of Willoughby went viral showing him being bullied for his relationship with a trans woman named […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and are instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. But they are only holding CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally responsible in a limited fashion. The fine is the largest the Federal Trade Commission has levied on a tech company, though it won’t […]

When a Georgia woman posted a negative cyberpost shaming a man for sleeping in a McDonald’s, community members who saw the post decided to turn her nasty action into a good deed. Simon Childs is a 21-year-old homeless father of a 1-year-old boy. When the photo was taken, Childs was actually resting between his shifts […]

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Police departments in at least five states are investigating, and in some cases condemning, their officers’ social media feeds after the weekend publication of a database that appears to catalog thousands of bigoted or violent posts by active-duty and former cops. The posts were uncovered by a team of researchers who spent two years looking […]

In the first quarter of 2019 Facebook banned over 3 billion fake accounts. That’s a huge number and honestly a little scary! Chris Paul suggests that they ban all of the fake people next. Like those couples that post pictures smiling and hugging like it’s all good when in reality they hate each other. HEAD […]

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Jada Pinkett Smith, her daughter Willow and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris have brought women together over the past year, with honest vulnerable conversation in a safe space known as “The Red Table Talk.” The popular streaming series available on Facebook Watch celebrated the start to the second season last week in West Hollywood at Laurel Hardware (a trendy restaurant that was formerly […]

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism. The company previously allowed such material even though it has long banned “white supremacists.” The social network says it hadn’t applied its ban to expressions of white nationalism because it previously […]

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Bill Cosby and his wife Camille agreed that she will never visit him in prison while he’s serving three to 10 years for the sexual assault of Andrea Constand. Mrs. Cosby celebrated her 75th birthday on March 20 and someone on Bill’s team posted a message to his “beautiful bride, Camille” on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. It said, “Dear, you’re a […]

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook had stored millions of user passwords in plain text for years, the social media company confirmed on Thursday after a security researcher posted about the issue online. Facebook says there is no evidence that employees had abused access to this data. The company says the passwords were stored on internal […]