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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

I’d turned 38 — one of those nothing birthdays that people can’t even pretend means much, but for which I was mildly and pleasantly spoiled.I had a nice night out, some pleasing gifts, and my son made me a card that was so adorable I hesitate to even describe it here in case you’re voluminously sick. (It declared I was “the best dady in the world”, because what he lacks in spelling, he more than makes up for in taste.)But none of that stuck with me as much as the bip-bip I got from that neglected little app on my phone, signalling that the past was reaching out to me. By past, I mean Facebook itself, which I no longer use on a regular basis. Neither, it seems, do any of my friends, since the notification I received was for the scant three birthday messages waiting for me to peruse; one from a colleague in a job I quit nine years ago, another a schoolfriend’s auntie, and the last from a funk and soul night in Dublin that I followed — but never got round to actually attending — 16 years ago.   » Read More

Basic IssuesFacebook's parent company Meta is seriously struggling to keep pedophiles off its social media platforms.Worse yet, as The Wall Street Journal reports, there have been instances of Instagram and Facebook actually promoting pedophile accounts, making what sounds like an already dangerous situation even worse.Earlier this year, the newspaper teamed up with researchers at Stanford and the University of Massachusetts Amherst and found that Instagram's algorithms were connected to an entire distribution network of underage sex content.At the time, Meta formed a child-safety task force to address the glaring issue — but even after five long months, the company still has a lot of work to do, the WSJ found, with the company's platforms still actively promoting pedophilic content.Unmet ExpectationsAnd it's not just Instagram. There are still entire Facebook groups dedicated to sharing content that sexualizes children.Despite Meta's best efforts, which included having its task force of more than 100 employees ban pedophile-related hashtags,  » Read More

The @highlight tag notifies your friends of a post you wanted to amplify, it doesn't show who's been watching your Facebook page. A VERIFY reader recently texted us a screenshot of a meme they saw on Facebook claiming typing @highlight into a comment exposes who is monitoring your profile. “Type @ in the comments and then click highlight to see who’s always checking your profile. If it turns blue you got page watchers,” the meme says.  One Facebook post with the meme has 20,000 comments – many of which are people responding with “@highlight”.  THE QUESTION Does typing @highlight into a Facebook comment reveal the identity of people checking your profile? THE SOURCES THE ANSWER No, typing @highlight into a Facebook comment won’t reveal the identity of people checking your profile. WHAT WE FOUND The @highlight tag in a comment doesn’t show you who has been watching your Facebook page, but instead notifies your friends of a post you found interesting or wanted to amplify.  » Read More

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PULASKI COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - One Southern Kentucky sheriff’s deputy was recently honored for his role in a crash earlier this year.At Tuesday’s Pulaski County Fiscal Court meeting, Sheriff Bobby Jones presented a life-saving medal to Deputy Logan Crabtree.Back in August, Deputy Crabtree responded to an incident on East Highway 80. When he arrived at the scene, he discovered a man was seriously injured, bleeding from his leg. Crabtree applied a tourniquet, stopping the bleeding.Afterward, Sheriff Jones was told by first responders that if the deputy had not did what he had done, the man would likely not have survived.Congrats, Deputy Crabtree!Copyright 2023 WYMT. All rights reserved.  » Read More

Anju entered India through the Attari-Wagha border late last night (ANI)New Delhi: Anju, the woman from Rajasthan who had gone to Pakistan earlier this year to meet her Facebook friend and eventually married him, is back in India. She entered India through the Attari-Wagha border late last night.However, she has not yet reached her hometown in Rajasthan. Asked why she is back in the country, Anju, walking fast with a mask covering her face, said: "I am happy. I have nothing else to say."#WATCH | Amritsar, Punjab: Anju, who had travelled to Pakistan in July returns to India"I am happy...I have no other comments", says Anju pic.twitter.com/vKPUTsx4jx— ANI (@ANI) November 29, 2023A resident of Bhiwadi in Rajasthan, Anju was married to Arvind and the two have a 15-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter. In 2019, she met Nasrullah on Facebook and the two fell in love.In June, she left for Pakistan to meet Narullah,  » Read More