Facebook is once again tweaking what you see to focus more on personal connections and take the spotlight off brands and news articles. Facebook says it will highlight posts you are most likely to engage with and make time spent on social media more “meaningful.” That means cutting back on items that Facebook users tend […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is tweaking what people see to make their time on it more “meaningful” in a move that could hurt publishers and news organizations that rely on it to spread their content. Facebook has said before that it will emphasize personal connections over business pages and celebrities that people follow. But […]
A fourth-grade homework assignment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has raised eyebrows across social media for its egregious task. USA Today reports that the assignment asked students to write three good reasons for slavery and three bad reasons. Trameka Brown-Berry went to Facebook to share the assignment to see if other people found it as offensive as […]
Hundreds hailed Erica Garner as a courageous racial justice activist, including rapper Common and Rev. Al Sharpton, at her funeral service in Harlem, New York Monday.
Erica Garner was declared brain dead as family and friends were called to say their goodbyes to the courageous activist Thursday morning.
NEW YORK (AP) — Some of Facebook’s former friends are starting to express some serious doubts about the social network they helped create. Facebook exploits a “vulnerability in human psychology” to addict its users, Sean Parker, the company’s first president, said in a public forum last month. Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook vice president who […]
Facebook is slowly becoming the next best platform to watch shows and docu-series. And one of the shows featured is called Will You Marry Me? Developed by Black wedding photographer Milton Lawrence Jr., the docuseries interviews engaged and married Black men about the moments that lead to them popping the question. In its first episode […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers demanded answers Wednesday from leading social media companies about why they haven’t done more to combat Russian interference on their sites and said congressional action might be needed in response to what one Democrat called “the start of cyberwarfare” against American democracy. Representatives from Facebook, Twitter and Google struggled at times […]
A Georgia father has gone viral after video shot by his girlfriend shows him consoling his son through a universal parenting moment: getting your child’s first shots. That is happened on the day his own father died makes the video even more poignant. People.com reports: Antwon Lee of Warrenton, Georgia, took his newborn son, Debias […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tech giants Facebook, Twitter, and Google are set to go before senators Tuesday to defend their security measures as new revelations have emerged that Russian-linked accounts reached much more American voters than previously thought. Testimony from Facebook obtained by The Associated Press on Monday revealed that posts generated by a Russian internet […]
Facebook has announced that Indigenous Media and Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street are teaming to produce “Five Points,” an original dramatic series created and written by Adam Giaudrone (“Being Mary Jane,” “Black Lightning”) for Watch, Facebook’s new platform for shows. “Five Points” is about five students at a South Side Chicago high school who each experience […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Social media giant Twitter told congressional investigators it has suspended at least two dozen accounts that may have been tied to Russia, but the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee was anything but satisfied. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said Twitter’s explanations of its actions against Russia-linked accounts were “deeply disappointing,” and […]
