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Facebook Braces for Voter Intimidation

The social media giant will ban 'militarized language' in calls for poll watchers

(Newser) - Facebook said it's readied new safeguards for the 2020 US elections that have it better prepared to deal with candidates who prematurely declare victory or contest official results and the possibility of voter intimidation by alleged—and potentially armed—"poll watchers," the AP reports. In the former...

Suicide Video Prompts a TikTok Move
Suicide Video
Prompts a TikTok Move
Sep 23, 2020 2:41 PM CDT

Suicide Video Prompts a TikTok Move

Company suggests tech 'partnership' could help tamp down on harmful content

(Newser) - TikTok says "groups operating on the dark web" engaged in a "coordinated effort" to share a graphic suicide video across its platform. Now it's asking other social media giants for help. The video of a US man shooting himself was live-streamed on Facebook in late August before...

Facebook Makes Move to Avoid Post-Election Chaos

'There could be a period of intense claims and counter-claims as the final results are counted'

(Newser) - Facebook says it is worried about civil unrest following a potentially disputed election. And so it is taking steps to help "protect our democracy." In a lengthy Facebook post Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg says the company will ban new "political and issue" ads during the final week before...

Sister's Long Crusade Ends in Murder Charge

Sarah Turney celebrates her stepfather's arrest

(Newser) - Not everyone celebrates when their stepfather gets arrested. But then, not everyone is Sarah Turney: "I'm shaking and I'm crying," she tweeted Thursday. "We did it you guys. He's been arrested. Omg Loudly crying face thank you." Turney had waged a long social...

After Crowded Parties, LA Cuts Power to 'Influencer House'

It was 'hosting large gatherings in flagrant violation of our public health orders'

(Newser) - Prominent TikTok and Instagram influencer Bryce Hall and his pals have been rendered powerless by the mayor of Los Angeles. Mayor Eric Garcetti's office says the city has cut off power and other utilities to a Hollywood Hills mansion rented by Hall and two other TikTok stars that has...

Facebook Is Adding Labels to Posts About Voting

Users will be directed to the 'Voting Information Center'

(Newser) - Beginning Thursday, US Facebook users who post about voting may start seeing an addendum to their messages—labels directing readers to authoritative information about the upcoming presidential election. It's the social network's latest step to to combat election-related misinformation on its platform as the Nov. 3 election nears—...

Facebook, Twitter Remove Trump Coronavirus Post
Facebook, Twitter
Remove Trump Post
Aug 6, 2020 12:28 AM CDT

Facebook, Twitter Remove Trump Post

President posted a video in which he claimed children are 'virtually immune' to COVID-19

(Newser) - One of President Trump's social media posts has been removed by both Facebook and Twitter after the social media giants declared it misinformation. The Trump campaign posted video from a Fox News interview in which Trump, while urging schools to resume in-person classes in the fall, declared that kids...

Museum Erupts Over Black Lives Matter

The Seattle Children's Museum is in tumult over social media posts

(Newser) - "Black Lives Matter"—until, apparently, they don't. That's what employees at the Seattle Children's Museum are complaining about after their anti-racist social media messages were edited at work, the New York Times reports. Now nine employees who went on strike out of protest have been...

Instagram Launches 'Uncannily Similar' TikTok Rival

Reels also allows users to share 15-second videos

(Newser) - Instagram has launched its own rival to TikTok—days after President Trump gave TikTok's owners a deadline either sell its US operations to a US firm or have the app shut down. The new feature, Reels, is part of Instagram instead of a standalone app, but it strongly resembles...

They Posted 'Tame' TikTok Videos, Then Were Jailed

Egyptian women imprisoned for playful videos viewed as immoral

(Newser) - Two Egyptian women with millions of followers on TikTok have been sentenced to jail time after a court objected to videos showing them singing and dancing. Mawada el-Adham, 22, and Haneen Hossam, 20, reportedly wept as they were convicted of "violating family values" on Monday and each sentenced to...

Twitter Deletes Dicey Tweet Shared by Trump on COVID

'There is a cure,' woman in video claims, referring to hydroxychloroquine

(Newser) - President Trump had been striking a more sober tone about the coronavirus of late, but on Monday night he retweeted a video making so many controversial claims that Twitter deleted it, reports NBC News . "Tweets with the video are in violation of our COVID-19 misinformation policy," Twitter said...

Twitter in 'Very Early Phases' of Building Subscription Model

Jack Dorsey says test version will be out this year

(Newser) - With ad revenues down sharply, Twitter is looking at another way of making money: getting people to pay for using Twitter. CEO Jack Dorsey says the company is in the "very, very early phases of exploring" a subscription plan for the social media site and will likely launch a...

Amid Spread of Misinformation, Whispers on FB's Next Move

Sources tell Bloomberg the social media platform is considering banning political ads before election

(Newser) - Facebook has been struggling lately over a massive advertiser boycott , partly driven by the company's refusal to address political ads spreading misinformation on the platform. Now, people familiar with Facebook's thinking say the company is considering banning political ads in the days leading up to the November election,...

Pompeo on Possible TikTok Ban: 'US Will Get This One Right'

Secretary of state says US is 'looking at' banning popular app, other social media apps out of China

(Newser) - Amid a year fraught with trade issues and a Cold War-style arms race between the United States and China, a new alleged threat is now on the radar: the popular TikTok app, whose parent company is Beijing's ByteDance. Per CNBC , Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared on Laura Ingraham'...

RuPaul Has Inexplicably Disappeared From Social Media

No one's sure why TV personality has vanished from Twitter and nixed posts on IG

(Newser) - "What's going on?!" That's just one of the many perplexed pleas for information as People and Us Weekly report on what has turned into a social media mystery: the disappearance of RuPaul online. Fans noticed Thursday that the 59-year-old drag queen and RuPaul's Drag Race...

Reddit Bans Popular Pro-Trump Forum
Reddit Bans Popular
Pro-Trump Forum
THE RUNDOWN
Jun 29, 2020 3:47 PM CDT

Reddit Bans Popular Pro-Trump Forum

r/The_Donald was booted in crackdown on hate speech

(Newser) - A popular Reddit forum that described itself as "a never-ending rally dedicated to the 45th President of the United States" has been banned as part of the site's crackdown on hate speech. The r/The_Donald subreddit, launched in the early days of President Trump's campaign in 2015, was...

Twitter Rival Sees Huge Surge in 3 Days

Migration follows banning of pro-Trump accounts

(Newser) - It's not quite a stampede, but a migration of conservative Twitter users to rival Parler accelerated this week after Twitter shut down two prominent pro-Trump accounts. Some 500,000 new users signed up to Parler in the space of three days, boosting its total to 1.5 million, compared...

Trump Tweet Gets 'Abusive Behavior' Warning

He said DC protesters would be met with 'serious force'

(Newser) - Twitter has slapped a warning on another tweet from President Trump, this time for "abusive behavior." The tweet, in which the president threatened "serious force" against protesters in Washington, DC, is now hidden behind a warning label, reports Reuters . "There will never be an 'Autonomous...

Trump Tweet Flagged as 'Manipulated Media'

Video added fake CNN headline to clip of toddlers

(Newser) - Twitter has flagged a tweet from President Trump that faked a news story to complain about fake news. The Thursday tweet —the third from the president to be flagged by Twitter—featured an edited version of a video clip that went viral last year, with two toddlers, one black...

Online Posts by Soccer Player's Wife Get Him Cut

LA Galaxy forward Aleksandar Katai's wife, Tea, mocked George Floyd protesters online

(Newser) - The LA Galaxy soccer team cut its 29-year-old Serbian forward Aleksandar Katai on Friday, not because of anything he did, but because of his wife, report Deadline and CNN . The team had become aware that Tea Katai, also from Serbia, recently posted messages online mocking protesters at George Floyd demonstrations....

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