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ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) - This is something you will only see on 11 News. This is an update to a story we told you about previously involving excessive road rage caught on camera. The video shows two drivers fighting right in the middle of a local road.This happened in Arapahoe County late last month during the morning hours.The man who took the video tells 11 News he got out of his car and separated the two men. The witness also says he was stuck behind the two vehicles, watching it play out. Christopher Bowick said he watched as one man was dragged from his car before being kicked in the head. Bowick also mentioned how the whole thing lasted five minutes and could have ended up much worse.“It just didn’t seem like the aggressive driver was going to stop even if there was no reason to keep going,” witness Christopher Bowick said. “So yeah, it felt like if someone didn’t end it, they were gonna end it themselves.”Bowick was on his way to work when he noticed the driver in the vehicle in front of him jumped out and pulled a driver from another vehicle.  » Read More

Local NewsA lonely African elephant, a rhino and two hippos touched down in Jacksonville Friday afternoon after a three-hour flight from Puerto Rico.The animals were rescued from a zoo that was ordered to close in February by USDA. The zoo had several animal welfare complaints and did not have a veterinarian. Some animals died.RELATED: From the ring to the refuge: Elephants moving to Northeast FloridaAfter 35 years of living alone, “Mundi,” an African elephant, is now on her way to Georgia where she’ll live with two other elephants. Elephant Aid International Founder and CEO Carol Buckley said elephants are meant to be social so the move will help Mundi flourish.A 747 carrying Mundi and the other animals landed at the Jacksonville International Airport on Friday afternoon. Mundi, whose trunk could be seen waving around in a specially made crate, is on her way to Attapulgus, Georgia. It wasn’t clear where the hippo and rhino are going.  » Read More

Update, 12 May, 2023 (11:16 AM ET): It appears as though Facebook’s auto-friend request bug has been fixed (phew). We’ve checked several unfollowed profiles on different accounts and didn’t see any unwanted friend requests being sent. Meta has yet to comment on what the issue was, but for now it seems safe to peek at your crush once again. Yikes. If you’re in the habit of stalking profiles on Facebook you might want to respect people’s privacy for a little bit. According to many reports from disgruntled users across social media, Facebook is sending unintended friend requests to other users just by looking at their profiles.There are plenty of reports on Facebook and Twitter with users complaining about the bug, but we had to test it for ourselves to be sure. Turns out that it’s absolutely real. Check it out in action in the video below and take note of my taps inside the Facebook app. You’ll notice that while I clicked on my wonderful colleague Hadlee’s profile (look, I don’t use Facebook otherwise we’d already be pals,  » Read More

Facebook users have been caught out by an apparent 'glitch' that reportedly sends an automatic friend request to any profile you click on. Dozens of social media users have reported being notified about people - even random strangers - accepting friend requests which they insist they didn't send. Facebook users have branded the error 'mortifying', saying it basically notifies people whoever has been looking at their profile. Read more: Warning over B&Q one-minute scam as fraudsters target shoppers Some have questioned whether the 'glitch' is part of an upgrade, while others have warned users not to click on anyone's Facebook profile until the issue is fixed to avoid embarrassment. One person on Twitter said: "MY FACEBOOK IS ADDING EVERYONE'S PROFILE I CLICK ON. I just wanna be nosey in peace!" And a second tweeted: "Love a stalk, don’t get me wrong, but Facebook adding people as soon as you click on their profile, relax." A third person wrote: "Facebook sending friend requests to strangers, anybody ever had this?  » Read More

I'm a business owner and I almost fell for the same Facebook Marketplace scam four times in a week: Here's what you need to look out forKayla Houlihan was almost scammed on Facebook marketplace Scammers demand money via PayID to 'release' funds back to the seller By Shania Obrien For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:29 EDT, 11 May 2023 | Updated: 05:29 EDT, 11 May 2023 A business owner almost fell victim to a Facebook marketplace scam four times before realising something was amiss.Kayla Houlihan, owner of cult favourite brand Tribe Skincare, recently tried to sell her television on Facebook marketplace.After only a few hours of posting an ad, she received four almost identical messages from buyers.Kayla found that all the deceitful messages she received used a similar script that consisted of someone else picking up the item and them using PayID to compensate her. Kayla Houlihan, owner of cult favourite brand Tribe Skincare,  » Read More

CNN host Kaitlan Collins struggled to counteract the former president’s ramblings as he leveled a series of attacks against Carroll  Donald Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by a slew of women during his decades of prominence as a public figure. On Tuesday, for the first time, a jury ruled that the former president was liable for sexual battery against author E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of having raped her in the dressing room of a New York Department store in the Nineties.  During a town hall event hosted by CNN on Wednesday, during which Trump reiterated his unfounded claims of election fraud before a friendly crowd of Republican-leaning voters, the former president attacked Carroll, and insisted the claims made against him were fabricated.  When host Kaitlan Collins, who struggled to counteract the former president’s ramblings during questioning, asked Trump to address the verdict, the crowd laughed.  “I swear on my children, which I never do, I have no idea who this woman — this is a fake story,  » Read More

Tech giant Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has reached a settlement with plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit currently pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The lawsuit came after the Cambridge Analytica scandal that shook the social platform five years ago. The political consulting firm exploited a loophole and used a quiz app to access the personal information of over 80 million Facebook users residing in the US. As a result, approximately 85 million people are eligible to participate and potentially qualify for a piece of the $725 million settlement. The social media company denied any wrongdoing but agreed to pay out the lump sum to users located in the USA who have been affected by the scandal and have used the social platform at some point over the last fifteen years. Any Facebook users in the United States between May 24th, 2007, and December 22nd, 2022, are eligible to participate in the class action suit. People who do not submit a claim will not get any money,  » Read More

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said Meta Platforms Inc’s opposition to proposed legislation that would compel payment by its Facebook unit and other internet companies for journalistic content was based on a flawed argument that news has no economic value. Speaking to a parliamentary committee about the Trudeau government’s legislation on Monday, a Meta official said news has a social value, but not an economic value to the company. “If we are being asked to compensate these publishers for material that has no economic value to us, that’s where the problem is,” Meta’s head of public policy in Canada, Rachel Curran, told the committee. Trudeau on Tuesday said, “that argument that the internet giants are putting forward is not just flawed, it’s dangerous to our democracy, to our economy.” Facebook’s stance against paying news content “shows how deeply irresponsible and out of touch they are,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa. The legislation, bill C-18 or the “Online News Act”, proposes rules to force platforms like Facebook and Alphabet’s Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news publishers for their content,  » Read More

After abruptly ending its old system in March, Meta announced Tuesday that it’s expanding a test to pay short-form video creators. The company said it’s inviting thousands of creators of Facebook Reels, its short-form video product, to be compensated based on the performance of their videos directly, not the ads surrounding them. The company did not share any details on how engagement would translate into income.  “This means creators can focus on creating engaging content while we optimize the ad experience for advertisers and people,” a Meta spokesperson said via email. “With a performance-based model, creators can focus on the content that’s resonating with their audiences and helping them grow; advertisers get access to more ad inventory to reach more people; and people get a more consistent viewing experience with more relevant ads.” The company first announced that they would be conducting tests to pay Facebook Reels creators in February of 2022. At that time, the payouts were based on advertising revenue share (like YouTube’s), along with direct contributions from fans to creators.  » Read More

Last summer, a post on Shayla Reyes’ Facebook feed caught her attention. It was a picture of a friend in Japan posing with another person in their late ‘20s. “The accompanying text read, ‘With my grandson’,” said Reyes, a master of media studies student in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS). “To my knowledge, my friend had never posted in English before and although I had not talked with him in 12 years, I know he does not have a grandson. I also knew his English proficiency is high enough for him to definitely understand what ‘with my grandson’ means,” she said. Confused, Reyes dug a little deeper. “That’s when I noticed the ‘see original’ button under the text,” she said. “When I clicked on it, it said, ‘With Mr. Tora’ (a person’s name) in Japanese.” The post was the result of machine translation, which automatically adjusted the Japanese text into English. Reyes, a Canadian Filipina who speaks English and Japanese, has been using Facebook since 2009 to stay in touch with relatives who speak Filipino,  » Read More