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Three months ago, Meta touted recent wins in detecting the increasingly robust campaigns by Russian-based operatives to covertly influence world affairs in the wake of the war in Ukraine.President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg told reporters during a press briefing that despite slashing spending as the company lays off thousands, Meta was well positioned to keep up the fight against foreign influence campaigns, misinformation and other problematic content.Meta could both become more efficient and offer “the industry’s leading integrity and safety measures across the company,” he said.Now, Clegg’s optimism is being put to the test as the social media giant prepares this month to hand out a new round of pink slips to workers in its business divisions, including teams that handle content moderation, policy and regulatory issues.Affected employees are expected to be notified Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the matter, part of a months-long downsizing effort.But at least a half-dozen current and former Meta employees who have worked on trust and safety issues say severe cuts in those divisions could hamper the company’s ability to respond to viral political misinformation,  » Read More

7News is learning more about the Facebook group called the Loudoun Love Warriors.  » Read More

Technology The ban on data transfers was widely expected and once prompted the U.S. firm to threaten a total withdrawal from the EU. May. 22, 2023 By Stephanie Bodoni – Bloomberg News (via TNS). Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. was hit by a record €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) European Union privacy fine and given a deadline to stop shipping users’ data to the U.S. after regulators said it failed to protect personal information from the American security services. The social network giant’s continued data transfers to the U.S. didn’t address “the risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms” of people whose data was being transferred across the Atlantic, the Irish Data Protection Commission said on Monday. On top of the fine, which eclipses a €746 million EU privacy penalty previously doled out to Amazon.com Inc., Meta was given five months to “suspend any future transfer of personal data to the U.S.” and six months to stop “the unlawful processing, including storage, in the US” of transferred personal EU data.  » Read More

The Data Protection Commission (“the DPC”) has today announced the conclusion of its inquiry into Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (“Meta Ireland”), examining the basis upon which Meta Ireland transfers personal data from the EU/EEA to the US in connection with the delivery of its Facebook service. The DPC adopted its final decision in this inquiry on 12 May 2023. The decision records that Meta Ireland infringed Article 46(1) GDPR when it continued to transfer personal data from the EU/EEA to the USA following the delivery of the CJEU’s judgment in Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Limited and Maximillian Schrems. While Meta Ireland effected those transfers on the basis of the updated Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) that were adopted by the European Commission in 2021 in conjunction with additional supplementary measures that were implemented by Meta Ireland, the DPC found that these arrangements did not address the risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms of data subjects that were identified by the CJEU in its judgment. The inquiry was initially commenced in August 2020,  » Read More

Timothy Parlatore's departure from Donald Trump's legal team was first announced Wednesday. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Timothy Parlatore, an attorney who recently left former President Donald Trump’s legal team, said Saturday that he departed because of infighting, highlighting disputes with one Trump adviser. “The real reason is because there are certain individuals that made defending the president much harder than it needed to be,” he said to CNN’s Paula Reid on Saturday. “There is one individual who works for him, Boris Epshteyn, who had really done everything he could to try to block us, to prevent us from doing what we could to defend the president.” Parlatore said that Epshteyn “served as a kind of a filter” when it came to passing along information to the former president and also “attempted to interfere with” the team’s effort to search some of Trump’s properties for classified documents. “In my opinion, he was not very honest with us or the client on certain things,” Parlatore said of Epshteyn. Trump’s campaign disputed his former lawyer’s assertions.  » Read More

Cotonou, Benin CNN  —  Standing on the stony ground in the bustling Fifa Park car lot, Rokeeb Yaya is haggling over the price of a dark red car. It is one of a couple hundred vehicles, parked in long lines stretching out across the vast lot – some shiny and new-looking, others dented and dusty. The car Yaya has his eye on, a 2008 US-built Ford Escape, is on sale for around $4,000. It’s relatively affordable – US cars are cheaper than most other brands in the lot – and he wants to upgrade from his motorbike to a car. He is not interested in the history of the vehicle, he said, only that he can afford it. But how this Ford ended up here – in one of the biggest car lots in the port city of Cotonou – helps tell a bigger story about how many of the West’s gas-guzzling cars are starting second lives in West Africa. The 14-year old Ford arrived in Benin from the United States last year,  » Read More

In this fast-digital era we live in, protecting ourselves from online dangers has sadly become an important part of our everyday lives. Also, with the ever-changing landscape of social media platforms, we find ourselves confronting a relentless barrage of cunning schemes and crafty ploys designed to fool folks just like you and me.   I'm on a mission to identify these ongoing cyber concerns and  let you know how to stay safe from danger on the rise. Recently, one of our vigilant readers, Claire from Roswell, Georgia, reached out to us to share a phishing scam that she received. Here's what she had to say. "There is a new trend on Facebook and Instagram where a message shows up in your notifications. It looks like a real message from FB or IG because it’s in your notifications (and this was in my organization’s page notifications.) But it appears to be phishing. It’d be great to see a section on your website dedicated exclusively to warnings of these sneaky social media tricks.   » Read More

Man dies after hit by car while helping ducks cross road in Rocklin DUCKS GET ACROSS THE ROAD WAS HIT AND KILLED BY A CAR. HE HELPED THEM GET UP ON THE CURB BECAUSE ALL THE LITTLE BABY DUCKIES WERE HAVING TROUBLE. THESE KIDS WITNESSED IT. IT WAS A TRAUMATIC SCENE AS MANY PEOPLE WATCHED HIS ACT OF KINDNESS AND IT ALL CHANGED IN AN INSTANT. THE DRIVER, A 17 YEAR OLD GIRL, STOPPED AND POLICE SAY SHE IS COOPERATING WITH THE INVESTIGATION. IT HAPPENED JUST AFTER 8:00 LAST NIGHT AT STANFORD RANCH ROAD AND PARK DRIVE IN ROCKLAND. KCRA THREE’S MICHELLE BANDURA IS THERE, JOINING US LIVE. SO, MICHELLE, YOU SPOKE WITH A 12 YEAR OLD WHO SAW THE WHOLE THING HAPPEN. YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT, LISA. THAT LITTLE BOY WHO WITH PERMISSION FROM HIS MOTHER, TOLD ME THAT HE WANTED TO SHARE WHAT HE SAW HERE LAST NIGHT AT THIS ROCKLAND INTERSECTION BECAUSE HE WANTS PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT HE THINKS THAT MAN WAS SO KIND AND AMAZING TO STOP AND HELP THE FAMILY OF DUCKS GET SAFELY ACROSS THE ROAD RIGHT HERE.  » Read More

Chapman’s Ice Cream is warning of a scam involving fake Chapman’s Facebook pages and contests.Chapman’s Marketing Manager Lesya Chapman says the company’s Facebook page has been cloned by scammers.She says, “They are running fake contests trying to get people’s personal information.”Chapman adds, “Unfortunately, one specific fake contest is gaining a lot of traction.”A post on Chapman’s Ice Cream’s real Facebook page says, “We are aware of fake Facebook accounts pretending to be us. You’ll notice that one account in particular is currently running a fake contest. They only have just over 800 followers and is not a verified page. Please do not engage with this account.”They say, “If you see this fake account, please report it.”Chapman’s actual Facebook account has been active for years and has over 97,000 followers. They note “Only information on our official page is valid; our page is verified with a blue checkmark.”Lesya Chapman says, “The main thing we want people to know is that we will never ask anyone for their personal or financial information.”She says,  » Read More

BOSTON (WHDH) - A Massachusetts General Hospital employee was arrested Wednesday after allegedly bringing a rifle into the hospital, according to a Boston police report obtained by 7NEWS. The report said police responded to the hospital Wednesday night “for a report of a male experiencing a mental breakdown while reportedly carrying a hunting rifle.”Police continued, saying the man “called 911 and stated that he heard god telling him that, if he did not want to be shot, that he should bring his rifle out and also that police were out to kill him.” The report said a responding officer who talked to the man on the phone was able to determine from background noise on the call that the man was near a hospital or fire station. Police soon learned the hospital was Mass General. Police said a hospital security officer “was able to make contact with the suspect and requested he place the object on the ground; not knowing it was a rifle as it was covered by a shower curtain.”The police report went on to say personnel discovered the man was an employee once he was admitted to the hospital for care.  » Read More