Don’t Be Fooled By Background Check Data, Growth Will Slow For Gunmakers
Blowout Black Friday sales pushed FBI background checks to a new record, but it may signal slower growth going forward. Image source: Flickr via Francisco Angola.
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Google’s 21st- Century empire
Google has colonized more countries than the Ancient Romans. In 95 percent of countries, either Google or YouTube is the most popular website.
Are Silicon Valley Tech Giants Seeking Political Peace?
It's been an interesting few months at the intersection of Tech and Trump. First, tech executives like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and others spoke out loudly against candidate Donald Trump.
Facebook Built – Censorship Tool’ as Part of Chinese Expansion Effort: Report
A spokesperson for Facebook has not explicitly denied a report claiming that the social media company developed a "censorship tool" that would allow it to "suppress posts from appearing in people's news feeds in specific geographic areas," as part of efforts to enter into the Chinese marketplace. A Facebook spokesperson asked about the report, which was published by the New York Times on Tuesday night, told ABC News that the company has "long said that we are interested in China," and is "spending time understanding and learning more about the country," but has "not made any decision on our approach to China."
2 killed, 4 hurt in shooting at Louisville’s Thanksgiving ‘Juice Bowl’
"This is very tragic what's happened here. I'm saddened. We've had over 100 homicides in our city, something that hasn't happened in a long time," Louisville Metro Police spokesman Dwight Mitchell told WHAS.
Facebook’s fake news: Why leave it to Zuck?
After blistering amounts of criticism during and after the US presidential election, Facebook announced last week that it will prevent websites that intentionally deceive visitors from using their ad-selling services. In recent days Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has in further detail how his company will seek to better prevent the spread of fake news in the future.
Facebook working with fact-checkers to weed out fake news
Returning to the controversy over fake news on the social networking site, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said over the weekend that the company was working with fact-checking organizations to put in place third-party verification of the authenticity of news on its site. Facebook has been criticized for fake news on its site, which is claimed to have tilted the recent U.S. presidential elections in favor of Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Revealed: This is how Facebook plans to fight fake news
Facebook has recently come under fire for failing to stop the spread of fake or false news through the social network. Accusations escalated to reach claims that the spread of false news on Facebook has influenced the outcome of the US presidential elections, which saw the victory of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.
Facebook CEO vows to fix fake news problem
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged world leaders meeting in Peru on Saturday to help get more people online to improve global living standards while separately announcing new measures to cut down on fake news stories on the social network that some suggest could have helped sway the US presidential election. The Facebook founder took on the role of an evangelist for "connectivity" as he spoke at an Asian-Pacific trade summit, lamenting that half the world has no access to the online world and is being deprived of its economic potential as well as advances in science, education and medicine.
Mark Zuckerberg is in denial
Donald J. Trump's supporters were probably heartened in September, when, according to an article shared nearly a million times on Facebook, the candidate received an endorsement from Pope Francis. Their opinions on Hillary Clinton may have soured even further after reading a Denver Guardian article that also spread widely on Facebook, which reported days before the election that an F.B.I. agent suspected of involvement in leaking Mrs. Clinton's emails was found dead in an apparent murder-suicide.
Openly gay mayor of Holyoke receives letter saying, – You are going down.’
Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse is no stranger to letters criticizing his way of doing things. Add to that tweets, Facebook messages, and phone calls to his office giving feedback - both positive and negative - on his job as an elected official.
MPs told local reporting required to overcome Canada’s news blues
The publisher of a small southern Manitoba family of weekly newspapers made an appeal for back-to-basics local reporting Thursday to a group of MPs examining Canada's beleaguered news industry. The gruff, to-the-point testimony by Ken Waddell of the Neepawa Banner, Neepawa Press and River Banner helped ground a Commons committee inquiry mired in months of often contradictory hearings.
4 things to do if you are upset about the Presidential electiona …
Last Monday night, I started writing this blog post. I was so excited for Election Day, I couldn't sleep and I wanted to put some thoughts on paper.
Trump’s school choice expansion plan may face uphill battle
8, 2016, file photo, then=Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reaches to shake hands with Egunjobi Songofunmi during a meeting with students and educators before a speech on school choice at ... School voucher programs in the nation's capital and Vice President-elect Mike Pence's home state of Indiana could serve as a blueprint for a Trump administration plan to use public money to enable... School voucher programs in the nation's capital and Vice President-elect Mike Pence's home state of Indiana could serve as a blueprint for a Trump administration plan to use public money to enable disadvantaged... As a small West Virginia community tries to move past the backlash of a racist Facebook post that targeted first lady Michelle Obama, a council member had some inviting words for outsiders who look down on her town.
West Virginia town tries to move past Michelle Obama post
As a small West Virginia community tries to move past the backlash of a racist Facebook post that targeted first lady Michelle Obama, a council member had some inviting words for outsiders who look down on her town. Republicans are still celebrating their election victories, but the country's GOP governors warned this week that they need to move fast on many of the changes that have been promised to voters.
Hustle is the grassroots personalized mass texting tool we need
People hate phone calls and ignore emails, so how do you get them to protest, organize, fundraise, and fight for the causes they believe in? By talking to them like humans, one-on-one. This is the way Hustle motivates people to participate at scale, and how its messages reached 3.95 million voters on election day.
Google, Facebook move to restrict ads on fake news sites
Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc on Monday announced measures aimed at halting the spread of "fake news" on the internet by targeting how some purveyors of phony content make money: advertising. Google said it is working on a policy change to prevent websites that misrepresent content from using its AdSense advertising network, while Facebook updated its advertising policies to spell out that its ban on deceptive and misleading content applies to fake news.
Google Also Gets Fooled by Fake Election News
Google's search engine highlighted an inaccurate story claiming that President-elect Donald Trump won the popular vote in last week's election, the latest example of bogus information spread by the internet's gatekeepers. The incorrect results were shown Monday in a two-day-old story posted on the pro-Trump "70 News" site.
I’ll cut back on Twitter now, Trump says
Donald Trump says social media helped him win the presidential election -- but he'll be "restrained" about using Twitter and Facebook once in power. In an interview with CBS, set to air on Sunday, Trump also tells Lesley Stahl that social media gives him "a method of fighting back" against negative news coverage.