Savon Tyler charged after allegedly killing Lauren Martin on Facebook live
A Florida woman was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of fatally shooting another woman in a social media livestream video, police said. Savon Tyler, 35, was charged with first-degree premeditated murder and is being held in the Seminole County Jail without bail, according to jail records. The Sanford Police Department announced that Tyler is accused of […]
SCOTUS hears Facebook bid to toss shareholder suit over Cambridge Analytica scandal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday weighed in on Meta Inc.'s Facebook's bid to quash a federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders who accused the social media platform of misleading about its misuse of user data. The justices heard arguments in Facebook's appeal of a lower court's decision to allow a 2018 class action […]
FACT CHECK: Facebook Video Does Not Show ‘Ballot Mule’ In Lincoln, Nebraska
video shared on facebook A video of a voting mule captured on camera at a library in Lincoln, Nebraska. Verdict: False In a statement posted on its website, the Lancaster County Board of Elections noted that the person seen in the video was not a “voting mule” but a first-time voter. A spokesperson for the […]
Facebook ‘Supreme Court’ Overturns Ban on ‘Dumb and Dumber’ Meme Featuring Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
Facebook's “Supreme Court” is Mark Zuckerberg's social media platform blocking satirical images depicting Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz as the goofy protagonists of the 1994 comedy film The court ruled that it must be lifted. idiot and idiot. The Wrap report In a decision announced Wednesday, the Meta Oversight Board […]
Mayor Tiffany Henyard infers she’ll seek arrest of opponents during rambling Facebook live rant
Dalton's “dictatorial” mayor, Tiffany Henyard, has called for the arrest of dissenters in a rambling social media rant, as described by a landlord who was fed up with his response to Paul, the gunman who was being evicted. I assumed he would ask for it. Henyard, who lives in suburban Illinois, went on a violent […]
Elon Musk’s pro-Trump Pac pouring millions into Facebook ads instead of X | Elon Musk
Elon Musk's Mr. Pack spends far more on advertising on Facebook and YouTube than on Musk's own social network, X. America Pac paid $201,000 to run dozens of ads on X (formerly Twitter) over the past three months. But it spent $3 million on thousands of ads on Facebook and Instagram over roughly the same […]
FACT CHECK: Facebook Post Falsely Claims US Military Confiscated Fake Voting Machines In Georgia
Post shared on facebook The US military recently claims to have seized fake voting machines in Georgia. Verdict: False This claim is false and originally stemmed from an October 16th article published on the satirical website Real Raw News. A spokesperson for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Department (CID) denied the validity of the claim […]
Meta Engineer Admits Facebook Demotes Anti-Kamala Harris Posts, Shadowbans Conservatives
James O'Keefe claims Meta-Engineer admitted in a candid interview with an undercover journalist from O'Keefe Media Group that Facebook demotes anti-Kamala Harris posts. Jeevan Gyawali, a senior software engineer at Meta, revealed in a hidden camera interview that accounts that post anti-Kamala Harris content can be shadowbanned at the same time as their posts are […]
Meta’s Facebook, Instagram down for thousands of users in US
Facebook and Instagram both experienced outages on Monday, according to the website Downdetector. As of 1:44 p.m. ET, more than 8,000 people had reported issues on Facebook and 4,000 on Instagram, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating situation reports from numerous sources. More than one case has been reported. Facebook and Instagram both […]
Scammers exploit grief with fake funeral streaming on Facebook
Fraudsters use everything from social engineering with human authentication pages to impersonating government agencies to deceive users. There would be limits to their tactics, certainly you would think they wouldn't use someone's death to deceive those who are grieving. Unfortunately, that's incorrect. A new scam has surfaced where malicious actors claim to offer video streaming […]