Will Ricciardella https://youtu.be/HxCrQzTO39Q Facebook announced in a blog post Monday that the social media behemoth will be updating their approach to combatting “false news” by blocking Pages from advertising stories marked as false. “This update will help to reduce the distribution of false news which will keep Pages that spread false news from making money….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie The alleged gunman who shot Rep. Steve Scalise and a few congressional staffers made a negative post about the representative on his personal Facebook page in January 2015. James T. Hodgkinson, the man believed to be the gunman at a baseball field in Arlington, Va., Wednesday morning,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock Administrators at a Christian college in Indiana fired an employee and former student body president after he posed for a mock rap album cover, alleging that the picture was “racially insensitive,” even after one administrator “liked” the cover on Facebook. Grace College & Seminary fired Evan Kilgore…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Facebook users claimed that Facebook’s gay pride reaction button doesn’t actually do anything to help transgender people. Most of the user complaints, written on Facebook’s official LGBTQ page, claimed that Facebook should focus on more important issues than launching a gay pride flag button, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday. “Pride…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Why is the First Amendment so important? Because it keeps you from being hurled into jail for 35 years over a Facebook post deemed insulting to Washington DC for starters. In Thailand, a man named Vichai Thepwong has been arrested and sentenced to 35 years in prison for his reportedly insulting…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman A German court reportedly ruled Wednesday that parents of a deceased teenager do not have the right to access her Facebook account. The ruling overturns a lower court’s decision from two years ago, which Facebook originally appealed. The verdict of the Berlin appeals court somewhat showcases how much Germany errs on the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Facebook recently apologized for “mistakenly” censoring content that paid tribute to the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, according to a Tuesday report from the Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP). The social media platform offers users a picture frame to accompany their profile photos, often in support of a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for a universal basic income Thursday during his commencement speech at Harvard’s graduation ceremony. “We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find meaningful,” Zuckerberg said while…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman In an apparent hacking job, Harvard University’s student newspaper reportedly displayed content Thursday mocking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — the same day he was slated to give the school’s commencement speech. The fake stories and doctored pictures featured on the Harvard Crimson were discovered and captured via screenshots by Business…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a live tour Tuesday of where the whole social media company turned tech conglomerate conceptually began: his Harvard University dorm room. It was the first time the tech wunderkind had been back at the nostalgic location since he left college around 14…