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April 24April 24
Facebook warns that its U.S. privacy punishment could hit $5 billion
- Entertainment
Facebook said on Wednesday that a federal investigation into its privacy practices could cost the company as much as $5 billion. In its quarterly results reported to investors, Facebook said that for now it was setting aside $3 billion to pay in potential penalties to the Federal Trade Commission but that the eventual number could […]
April 17April 17
Mark Zuckerberg Leveraged Facebook User Data to Fight Rivals and Help Friends, Leaked Documents Show
- Entertainment
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly proclaiming to be protecting that data, according to about 4,000 pages of leaked company documents largely spanning 2011 to 2015 and obtained by NBC News. The documents, which include emails, […]
March 27March 27
Facebook Extends Ban on Hate Speech to ‘White Nationalists’
- Entertainment
Facebook is extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism. The company previously allowed such material even though it has long banned white supremacists. The social network said Wednesday that it didn’t apply the ban previously to expressions of white nationalism because it linked such […]
March 21March 21
Facebook says it left ‘hundreds of millions’ of user passwords unencrypted
- Entertainment
Facebook said Thursday that an internal security review found the passwords of hundreds of millions of users had been stored on company servers without encryption, but that no passwords were leaked and the company has found no indication the sensitive data was improperly accessed. The issue was first reported by security researcher Brian Krebs, who […]
March 08March 08
Facebook will begin removing misinformation about vaccines from pages, groups
- Entertainment
The world’s largest social media site will soon take aim against anti-vaxxers. Facebook will start by lowering the ranking of groups and pages that spread misinformation about vaccinations in its news feed and search options, a representative said Wednesday. “These groups and pages will not be included in recommendations or in predictions when you type […]
February 21February 21
DRD: North Shore Community Park Projected to Reopen this Summer
- Community
- Local
The North Shore Community Park could be open just in time for summer. The Desert Recreation District announced Thursday on Facebook that the progress has been slowed because of the recent rainstorms. However, there has been no new damage done to the park. Grand Opening of North Shore Community Park Currently, crews are still in […]

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February 18February 18
Woman who called Michelle Obama an ‘ape’ defrauded FEMA of $18K
- Entertainment
The West Virginia woman who made national headlines in 2016 when she was placed on leave from a county development organization over a demeaning Facebook post about then-first lady Michelle Obama has now pleaded guilty to defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency out of thousands of dollars of disaster benefits. Pamela Taylor, 57, admitted on Tuesday that […]
January 02January 02
He lures alleged child predators and shames them on Facebook. Now one of his targets is dead.
- Entertainment
On a cool evening in October, Alain Malcolm, 20, walked into a vacant two-story colonial house in Bristol, Connecticut. Two members of a local internet vigilante group — who regularly try to expose and shame alleged child predators they entice online — were waiting for him. Malcolm was tall and handsome. The oldest son of Jamaican […]

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