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ORLANDO, Fla. — A Brevard County woman told WFTV her Facebook page was hijacked, and whoever took over the account is using it to scam others.Cyndi Gilbert has been on Facebook for years. She likes capturing life’s precious and fun moments to share them with friends online. She believed Facebook was the perfect platform to do that.“They send invitations to parties; I can see pictures of my kids and my grandchildren,” Gilbert told Action 9 Consumer Investigator Jeff Deal.But earlier this year, somehow, her page got hacked. Someone took over the account and then locked her out. It’s been a frustrating situation.“They have access to all my family, all my family pictures,” Gilbert said. “I can’t get those back.”But what happened next was something she never expected. She learned whoever took over her account was advertising adorable yorkie puppies for sale. It turns out it was part of a popular online pet scam. Victims will send hundreds of dollars for puppies that never get delivered.  » Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday. Such encryption means that no one other than the sender and the recipient — not even Meta — can decipher people’s messages. Encrypted chats, first introduced as an optional feature in Messenger in 2016, will now be the standard for all users going forward, according to Messenger head Loredana Crisan. “This has taken years to deliver because we’ve taken our time to get this right,” Crisan wrote in a blog post. “Our engineers, cryptographers, designers, policy experts and product managers have worked tirelessly to rebuild Messenger features from the ground up.” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised, back in 2019, to bring end-to-end encryption to its platforms after the social media company suffered a string of high profile scandals, notably when Cambridge Analytica accessed user data on Facebook. Privacy advocates again shined a spotlight on Meta after Nebraska investigators reviewed private Facebook messages while investigating an alleged illegal abortion after Roe v.  » Read More

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JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – With the holidays quickly approaching, a Facebook group is working to help those in need.Pay It Forward Johnstown is seeking volunteers willing to "adopt" individuals or families who need assistance with food and gifts in Johnstown and surrounding areas."My oldest daughter and I started this group 12 years ago because we knew there was a need in Johnstown," said said Anna Halapia, group administrator. "By word of mouth, you can come here and find help that you couldn't find elsewhere." She said when people request Christmas help, they are added to a list with what they're looking for."Our helpers will then come in and say they'll take a family of four, so we'll go on the list and look for that family and the person that's helping will contact them and tell them they're going to pick up their dinner for them and drop it off," Halapia said. People receive assistance in the order in which they request help."Last year we had 109 people seeking help,  » Read More

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A prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August has accused the school of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive in late 2021 into a trove of Facebook files she considers the most important documents in internet history. The actions impacting Joan Donovan’s work coincided with a $500 million donation to Harvard by a foundation run by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan. In a whistleblower disclosure made public Monday, Donovan seeks investigations into “inappropriate influence” from Harvard’s general counsel, the Massachusetts attorney general’s office and the U.S. Department of Education. The CEO of Whisteblower Aid, a legal nonprofit supporting Donovan, called the alleged behavior by Harvard’s Kennedy School and its dean a “shocking betrayal” of academic integrity at the elite school. “Whether Harvard acted at the company’s direction or took the initiative on their own to protect (Facebook’s) interests, the outcome is the same: corporate interests are undermining research and academic freedom to the detriment of the public,” CEO Libby Liu said in a press statement.  » Read More

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LAWRENCE, Kan. – Making their second bowl appearance in as many seasons, the Kansas Jayhawks will play the UNLV Rebels in the 2023 Guaranteed Rate Bowl in Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday, December 26. The game kicks off at 8 p.m. CT inside Chase Field – the home of the Arizona Diamondbacks — and will air on ESPN. The bowl appearance will be Kansas’ 14th in program history, as the Jayhawks make their second consecutive bowl game for just the second time in program history. This year’s Guaranteed Rate Bowl will be Kansas’ second appearance in the bowl, after playing in the 2008 Insight Bowl in Tempe, Arizona, resulting in a 42-21 victory over Minnesota. Kansas and UNLV will meet for the third time in the series history, as the two teams played in a home-and-home series in 2002 and 2003. Kansas won the most recent meeting in 2003, 46-24, while UNLV won the inaugural matchup in Las Vegas in 2022, 31-20. The Jayhawks enter the 2023 Guaranteed Rate Bowl with their best regular season record since 2007,  » Read More

The Indianapolis Colts (6-5) and Tennessee Titans (4-7) released their lists of inactive players ahead of the Week 13 matchup at Nissan Stadium.Here are the inactive players for the Colts in Week 13:NamePositionInjuryJulius BrentsCBQuadJonathan TaylorRBThumbNotesC Ryan Kelly (concussion) will make his return after missing the last 2.5 games.Replacing Jonathan Taylor at running back will be Zack Moss with Trey Sermon serving as the backup.With TE Drew Ogletree (foot) active for the first time since suffering an injury in Week 9, rookie Will Mallory is inactive.Here are the inactives for the Titans in Week 13:No. 1 | WR Josh DownsBryan M. Bennett/Getty ImagesShare thisimagegalleryNo. 2 | WR D.J.  » Read More