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POP ROC Cereal Bar & Comic Shop announced that it has decided close its doors permanently on Monday. According to the Facebook post, POP ROC will be holding a raffle to help its employees this Saturday, July 11. The full facebook post reads: “If you haven’t heard, POP ROC is closing. There is a lot […]
Verizon is moving advertising money away from Facebook. In hopes that the social media company will do more to stop racism being shared. One of the world’s biggest cell phone companies is part of a boycott organized by civil rights groups under the rallying cry of “#StopHateforProfit.” “We have strict content policies in place and […]
Snapchat parent company Snap will stop promoting President Trump’s account on its Discover tab. Which made me wonder, What is the Discover tab? Well, it’s stories from publishers, creators and popular Snapchat accounts. The President’s account will remain. CEO, Evan Spiegel, wrote in a staff memo. “We simply cannot promote accounts in America that are […]
On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to limit the rights of private tech companies like Twitter and Facebook, after Twitter placed a fact checked label under two of his tweets this week. The tweets claimed that casting ballots by mail allows for voter fraud, when in fact both Republican and Democratic […]
Mayor Lovely Warren has posted a lengthy Facebook post to critique the activity and behavior of some Rochester residents over the long, memorial weekend. The Mayor wrote, “You must like what people say about our community. Calling us fools and spewing hateful rhetoric and other names. It breaks my heart to constantly hear…lock them up, […]
Human behavior is fascinating to me especially lately. During this pandemic we have all seen the good the bad and the ugly when it comes to social media. What people post, what people choose to believe, and the amount of misinformation individuals share. This article I read on BBC.com is very interesting, it breaks down […]
Facebook is stepping up in a huge way to help the graduating class of 2020. On May 15th Facebook will broadcast #Graduation2020 which will include Oprah Winfrey!! Yes! Oprah will give the commencement speech during the #Graduation2020: Facebook and Instagram Celebrate The Class of 2020 ceremony. There will be a musical performance by Miley Cyrus […]
On Thursday, March 12, 2020, Facebook and Twitter both revealed that they had shut down accounts connected to Russian parties that were using the platforms to interfere with elections by targeting black social media users with fake news and divisive messages. Posts, pages, and tweets were typically about civil rights and race topics, but also […]
Last time on Feedback Friday we discussed relationships and social media. The subject of being dishonest on social media came up and if you know someone who lies about themselves online. We all said we knew at least one person that wasn’t honest about their life on social media versus real life. So, my next […]
Thousands of images were released of the social media ads Russian’s purchased from the 2016 U.S. Presidential election by lawmakers Wednesday showing us how they played us.