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MPD Chief C. J. Davis confirmed four people were killed and three were injured in the mobile mass shooting. Ezekiel Kelly has been identified as the suspect. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police Chief C. J. Davis confirmed in a press conference Thursday morning just after midnight that four people were killed when 19-year-old Ezekiel Kelly went on a random shooting spree across Memphis. Three other shooting victims were also injured.  Police said Kelly was taken into custody in the area of Ivan Road and Hodge Road in Whitehaven. A shelter in place was issued for that area and has now been lifted.  We sat down with Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland one day after the deadly shooting. Watch here: According to Southaven Police, a Dodge Challenger was stolen at a Raceway gas station on Stateline Road just before 9 p.m. The driver of the car recognized Kelly as the suspect and ran off. Memphis Police found the car and took Kelly into custody. Southaven Police has charged Kelly with armed carjacking for this incident.   » Read More

For illustrative purposes only | Royalty-free, iStock / Getty Images Plus, St. George News ST GEORGE — A southern Utah man is facing criminal charges after police say he got into an online argument with another person on an NBA Facebook forum, then created a fake Facebook profile of that other person and used it to threaten the St. George Police Department. The unusual case involving a 30-year-old man from Ivins, Washington County, began in June when the man got into an argument with another man on an NBA Facebook forum. Ethan Lee Freier then started “harassing” the other man through private messages “and even started a fake Facebook profile that had (the victim’s) ex-wife as the profile picture,” according to a police booking affidavit. The fake account used a name similar to the victim’s. Using the newly created fake Facebook account, Freier — while posing as the victim — sent a message to the St. George Police Department claiming that he was being harassed by a man in Ivins and that was at his “breaking point” and was going to kill the Ivins man and “bomb” the police department,  » Read More

In March, two veteran Facebook engineers found themselves grilled about the company’s sprawling data collection operations in a hearing for the ongoing lawsuit over the mishandling of private user information stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The hearing, a transcript of which was recently unsealed, was aimed at resolving one crucial issue: What information, precisely, does Facebook store about us, and where is it? The engineers’ response will come as little relief to those concerned with the company’s stewardship of billions of digitized lives: They don’t know.The admissions occurred during a hearing with special master Daniel Garrie, a court-appointed subject-matter expert tasked with resolving a disclosure impasse. Garrie was attempting to get the company to provide an exhaustive, definitive accounting of where personal data might be stored in some 55 Facebook subsystems. Both veteran Facebook engineers, with according to LinkedIn two decades of experience between them, struggled to even venture what may be stored in Facebook’s subsystems. “I’m just trying to understand at the most basic level from this list what we’re looking at,” Garrie asked.  » Read More

Experts say the movement thrives on events that spur civil disobedience and animosity towards the government.A new report by the Tech Transparency Project ties the resurgence to backlash over the search of Trump's home.Facebook says it continues to make efforts to keep extremists from using the platform.Accounts, pages and groups connected to the violent extremist movement the "Boogaloo Bois" are resurfacing on Facebook, despite the platform vowing to remove references to the movement more than two years ago. A new report by the Tech Transparency Project, provided exclusively to USA TODAY, details several Boogaloo-affiliated groups and pages, including one group with more than 4,000 members, popping up on Facebook in recent weeks.The meme-focused Boogaloo movement, which has at its core a deep distrust and hatred of the federal government, has been tied to dozens of arrests and at least two fatal attacks on police, but the ideology seemed to fade in the wake of the Jan.  » Read More

Many agents are making mistakes when it comes to building their presence on Instagram. Marketing coach Michelle Berman Mikel shares her essential tips for making your friends your followers. September is Marketing and Branding Month at Inman. Tips for better branding and in-depth features on how to take advantage of marketing tools provided by Zillow, Redfin and other platforms are all in the works in addition to insights from experts. You’ll find it all at Inman, as well as our two-day virtual, flagship event, Your Playbook for the Fall Market, in October. Facebook and Instagram are not created equal. Therefore, worrying about someone who is friends with you on Facebook seeing the same content you post on Instagram should not be an issue. Many agents fear that a Facebook friend might be annoyed if they see the same piece of content they post on Instagram, but their focus should be more on ensuring that the messaging they share on both platforms sings the same tune to the viewer.  » Read More

Meta shares four top signals its algorithm uses to determine which videos receive wide distribution on Facebook. The signals that have the most significant influence on video distribution include: Originality Audience retention Audience loyalty Engagement We’ll go over each signal in more detail in the following sections. In a blog post, Meta summarizes its video distribution strategy: “Facebook’s video ecosystem values original content and encourages intentional and loyal consumption. We want videos on our platform to be authentic, enduring, and entertaining, which can turn casual viewers into passionate fans.” In other words — if you produce original videos that viewers keep coming back to watch, your content will likely get surfaced more often. That’s the simple explanation, however. For more information, continue reading the following sections. 1. Originality Facebook prioritizes videos created by the person or team who is publishing them. Facebook will also prioritize videos that aren’t 100% original if the creator adds something meaningful to the source material.  » Read More

4:34 AM UTCLOS ANGELES -- Start the countdown and put the bubbly on ice. The Dodgers are getting closer to winning the National League West for the ninth time in the last 10 seasons.Given their dominant stretch over the last two months, it’s been a matter of when, not if, the Dodgers will win the NL West. It hasn’t quite happened yet, but it’s all getting real following a 9-4 win over the Padres on Sunday at Dodger Stadium.Because the Dodgers locked up the season series against the Padres with their 10th win of the head-to-head matchup, Los Angeles’ magic number to win the division dropped from 12 to nine with the victory. The earliest they can clinch a postseason spot is Friday.“I didn’t realize it was nine,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. “It was just a good series. Obviously, those guys are playing with a lot of urgency. It’s good to see us play well tonight, win a series. Still a lot of baseball,  » Read More

Editor’s Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show” and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @DeanObeidallah. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. CNN  —  Former President Donald Trump gave his first public speech this weekend since President Joe Biden warned Americans in a televised address that “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” And how did Trump respond? By proving Biden 100% correct. At his rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, Trump was not content to serve up more lies about the 2020 election that he lost. He did far worse: He used his platform to demonize the FBI, Justice Department and the federal magistrate who signed the warrant authorizing the August 8 search of his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. These are among the officials seeking the return of classified material and other government documents that Trump took with him when he left the White House.  » Read More

A driver stopped for an infraction at Moorefield Road and Courthouse Road, S.W., on Aug. 26 at 5:20 p.m. showed the officer a picture of his driver’s license on his phone, Vienna police said. The driver told the officer that he had obtained the license through a “group page” on Facebook that he believed was legitimate, having been instructed to pay for the license through gift cards. The officer advised the driver that the group was fraudulent and the license was fictitious.  » Read More

An old claim about campaign contributions to Beto O'Rourke's 2018 U.S. Senate campaign has resurfaced in a popular Facebook post.The post, formatted as a timeline, makes allegations of illegal actions by gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke. One of the claims, written in present tense for 2018, says: "FEC charges Illegal Campaign Contributions."PolitiFact Texas reached out to the current O'Rourke campaign. Chris Evans, communications director, wrote, "No, the FEC did not charge Beto or our senate campaign for illegal campaign contributions."Evans noted the FEC conducts reviews of finance reports and routinely requests additional details from campaigns. "In this case, the FEC asked a common question about a few donations from individuals with foreign addresses and contributions exceeding the federal limit," Evans said. "The donations that had foreign addresses attached to them were made by U.S. citizens who were living overseas at the time, which is permissible. Any contributions above the federal limit were refunded to the contributors as is a common practice in federal races."Christian Hilland,  » Read More