Mary Rodee let her son Riley open a Facebook account so that he could purchase a snowmobile. It seemed innocent enough. That was, until a sexual predator used Facebook Messenger to access Riley through a group chat. Hours after the…
Connecticut is just the latest state to provide a more accessible criminal record expungement system designed to “eliminate employment, education, and housing barriers for those convicted of low-level crimes, who have finished their sentences and remained crime free for a…
New documents released Thursday reveal Facebook willingly censored content the government deemed “misinformation.” According to a House Judiciary Committee report last week, the company removed or demoted some users’ posts and accounts after facing pressure from the White House to…
When the federal government gets together with social media giants to censor critics of the government, is that free speech or censorship? A case moving its way through the federal court system argues it’s censorship — a violation of Americans’…
Facebook made the metaverse a kitchen table topic when it changed its name to Meta. What is the metaverse, exactly? It’s a virtual world where you can be Snoop Dogg’s neighbor without physically living next to him — yes, you…
Doubtless you’ve heard the news. Here’s the headline per Fox News: SINISTER SABOTAGE? Facebook and Instagram down in major social media outage and it gets worse from there The Fox story begins this way: Facebook’s platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp,…
Donald Trump announced in a press conference Wednesday morning that he has filed lawsuits against the CEOs of Silicon Valley’s most powerful corporations: Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sundar Pichai of Google, and Jack Dorsey of Twitter. Trump, who was banned…
We haven’t done a Five Quick Things in this space in a while, and as this has been a long week taxing to the mental energies it seems this is a good time for a 5QT return to the ring….
A warning: near the bottom of this column you’ll find a completely shameless, though entirely relevant, plug. There, I said it. And I don’t apologize. Have you been paying attention to the Facebook–Australia dustup? It’s a fascinating and entirely predictable…