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 […]
FACT CHECK: Facebook Post Falsely Claims Kamala Harris Borrowed Quote From Karl Marx
image shared on facebook Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic candidate, claims to have borrowed the phrase from Karl Marx: “Freed from the burdens of the past.” Verdict: False This quote does not appear in any of Marx's works, including The Communist Manifesto, and there is no other evidence that Harris borrowed the quote […]
Facebook, Instagram users outraged over AI training with user posts: ‘F–k right off’
It is causing user short circuit. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, introduced artificial intelligence to train people's posts, sparking a backlash against the social media site. While there is an announcement that Meta will be Train an AI model using public postsa ChatGPT-like program called Llama 2 (there has since been an […]
Escort who live-streamed her mother’s murder on Facebook pleads insanity
A former California escort who stabbed his mother to death during a Facebook livestream has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Tonantzin Oris Beltrán, 29, added a plea of insanity to his initial not guilty plea in court Thursday. Tonantzin Oris Beltran, 29, is accused of murdering his mother, Olivia Lucia Beltrán Pacheco, 55. […]
FACT CHECK: Facebook Image Purporting To Show Kamala Harris With P. Diddy Is Altered
image shared on facebook It claims to show 2024 Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs. Verdict: False The digitally altered image shows Harris and former talk show host and actor Montel Williams, not Combs. Fact check: Harris leads former President Donald Trump in Michigan, 48% to 43%, according to the […]