A New Jersey man has been sentenced to over 300 years in the heinous murders of a woman and two children stemming from a Facebook post. Jeremy Arrington received a 375-year sentence for fatally stabbing 7-year-old Ariel Little Whitehurst, her brother, 11-year-old Al-Jahon Whitehurst, and a family friend, 23-year-old Syasia …

To sabotage TikTok, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, allegedly spread false information that the platform is harmful to American society and children. The Washington Post obtained internal emails that a Republican-affiliated firm called Targeted Victory was spreading misinformation about TikTok by saying that specific harmful trends originated there when they originated on Facebook. According to reports, one of the emails shows …

Facebook is taking action against accounts that promote the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Previously, the company relaxed its anti-hate speech policy to allow Ukrainian citizens to express their opinions on attacking forces “in the context of speech regarding the Russian military invasion of Ukraine.” However, on Monday, they …

According to officials, a New Jersey man was convicted of murdering two children and a college student and stabbing three others during a 2016 home invasion because one of the victims had reposted a Facebook alert about him. On Friday, acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II stated that Jeremy Arrington, 31, …

Meta, formally known as Facebook, is going to build an artificially intelligent “universal speech translator.” This week, Meta, which owns Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, announced its plans to build a translation platform that would give “everyone in the world” the ability to translate any language. “The ability to communicate with …

Meta is paying $90 million to settle a ten-year lawsuit alleging that Facebook tracked users’ online activity after they had signed off. As of Monday, the proposed settlement was filed with the court. If approved, it would be one of the top ten largest data-privacy settlements in history. A 2012 …

Meta Platforms, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is reportedly struggling to stop counterfeiters from peddling fake luxury goods from major designers like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel across its social media apps. The platforms have emerged as hot spots for the counterfeit trade to exploit their range of social and …

Meta is adding a “personal boundary” feature after a woman reported she was “virtually gang-raped” in the company’s Horizon Worlds VR game. The new “personal boundary” feature will prevent other users from “invading your avatar’s personal space.” That way, if someone is too close to an avatar, the system will …

On Tuesday, the Xbox Facebook page posted a dedication to Black developers, creators, and players, in which they vowed: “to bring people together, to cultivate joy, creativity, and teamwork.” The post caused outrage among some gamers, who proceeded to leave racist comments, including one who asked if March would be …

On Monday, Meta announced the addition of 3D avatars to Instagram Stories and direct messages, as well as updates to the avatars in Facebook and Messenger. With Meta’s platforms, including its Quest VR platform, users in the US, Canada, and Mexico can appear as their virtual selves on stickers, feed posts, …

OnlyFans influencer Dime Racks, real name Diamond Washington, faces backlash for reportedly putting a hit out on two children. On Friday, Dime put up a Facebook post stating, “Ima Put Charleston On The Map Mark My Words.” The two kids allegedly shared the post, giving their own opinions about whether …

Social media giant Meta is reportedly looking into giving users the option to create, display and sell NFTs. At this point, what isn’t Meta – formerly Facebook – trying to do? According to a report from The Financial Times, the tech giant’s reported next move is to give users on …

A deputy in Georgia is facing termination for what he wrote on a social media post about the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.  The now-suspended deputy, Paul Urhahn, commented on one of WGXA’s social media posts, writing, “that criminal arbery still got the death penalty though,” regarding his killers’ sentencing.  Communities …

Donald Trump is calling for his peeps to leave Twitter and Facebook after Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene gets the boot permanently from Twitter. While Trump has left the Oval Office, he still seems to find time to act as a commander. On Monday, Trump released a statement, telling all …

Police say retail theft is becoming a massive and organized industry. Internet-savvy criminals are allegedly shoplifting expensive items from big-box retailers and then selling them on Facebook Marketplace and other similar sites. Detective Sgt. Todd Curtis of the Perrysburg Township Police Department located in Ohio is one of three investigators who …

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, says almost 50,000 journalists and activists were the targets of spies on Facebook and Instagram. On Thursday, Meta announced it removed about 1,600 fake accounts from its social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, after discovering that seven “surveillance-for-hire” companies were using them to target journalists …

A despondent man forced his way into the Federal Hill home of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and shot her to death Saturday afternoon before heading to Columbia, where he then fatally shot down his ex-wife and took his own life while his children sat in the car.  Between the murders of …

Facebook is introducing a live chat feature that will help users who are locked out of their accounts. So long to the era in which we used to make multiple Facebook accounts because we couldn’t regain access to our original pages. For years, some people have mentioned not being able …

Over the weekend Lil Kim defended Nicki Minaj on Facebook after Angela Yee, co-host of “The Breakfast Club,” posted a throwback clip from 2012 in which Lil Kim spoke on Nicki Minaj’s relationship with Cash Money and some other things. Lil Kim was not here for Angela Yee reviving the …

This week text messages released by the New York Attorney General’s office show that a Facebook manager who once worked for Andrew Cuomo secretly advised the ex-governor’s team to “victim shame” a sexual harassment accuser. The Facebook employee tried to cover up her involvement in advising the disgraced former governor, …