A former diversity manager at Facebook and Nike was sentenced to prison on Monday after a $5 million kickback and fraud scheme fell apart. Barbara Furlow-Smiles, 38, of Marietta, Georgia, will serve five years and three months in prison, after which she will have three years of supervised release, according to a Department of Justice […]
The roots of the Capitol incursion lie in the deep, dark depths of Facebook’s algorithms, according to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who is currently working on a script to bring his vision to the big screen. Sorkin wrote “The Social Network,” a 2010 hit about the founding of Facebook. His concepts for another look at the […]
On Wednesday, our humble outlet produced a story covering the announcement for a somewhat surprising fifth movie in the Matrix media franchise. It was, by all accounts, a straightforward story about how it’s both surprising (due to the lackluster performance of the fourth Matrix movie) and unsurprising (due to Hollywood’s infatuation with sequels and “cinematic […]
The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass bipartisan legislation on the Chinese-owed app TikTok. Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., introduced the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act on March 5. Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi are the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the […]
Tuesday morning saw large outages for Meta-owned social media platforms Instagram, Facebook and Threads that lasted roughly two hours. The services going down on Super Tuesday — when voters in 16 states go to the polls — certainly wasn’t the best timing as numerous politicians made last-ditch efforts on social media to rally support behind […]
For those who lived through it, Sept. 11, 2001, is a day they will never forget. But, as time moves on, we need to ensure that we don’t let our children and future generations forget the heroism of those who were in New York City, in Washington D.C., and on United Flight 93 that day. […]
“If you have to change your story, then how do we know at any time where you’re telling the truth?” That’s the question raised by the brother of one of the three Kansas City Chiefs fans who were found dead in the backyard of their friend Jordan Willis’ rental home where they had gone to […]
The longer President Joe Biden and his administration ignore the true severity of the border crisis, the uglier it gets. And a recent photo shared in a Facebook post by the US Border Patrol Yuma Sector graphically demonstrates that fact, portraying a border agent’s wounds after he was assaulted while taking illegal aliens into custody […]
While Elon Musk has regularly been a vocal supporter of free speech, on his social media platform X or otherwise, those he’s hired might not be feeling the same way. Specifically, X CEO Linda Yaccarino released a statement on Monday describing new guidelines regarding how the platform will be dealing with “hate speech” henceforth. Yaccarino’s […]
Instagram deleted the America First Policy Institute’s account Wednesday without any explanation. Brooke Rollins, founder and CEO of the organization, announced on X that the account, a1policy, was banned at 8:49 a.m. The organization appealed at 9:10 a.m. only to receive another message from Instagram at 9:16 a.m. permanently disabling the account. “After posting graphics […]
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