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(Image credit: Andrew Myrick / Android Central) What you need to knowMeta and DoorDash have partnered for local Facebook Marketplace deliveries.It may take up to 48 hours for deliveries to arrive, and only items located up to 15 miles away are eligible.Couriers will only pick up orders that fit in a car trunk.Getting your Facebook Marketplace orders shipped to your doorstep can be a hassle, especially since the platform doesn't have plenty of local delivery options. Meta seems to be filling this gap by teaming up with DoorDash.According to The Wall Street Journal (opens in new tab), DoorDash will soon pick up and deliver items purchased through Facebook Marketplace. However, not all orders qualify for delivery. According to WSJ sources, couriers will only handle orders that fit in a car trunk and are up to 15 miles away. Deliveries are expected to be completed within 48 hours, the report says. It's not clear how much DoorDash will charge for the service.  » Read More

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You may soon have the option to have your Facebook Marketplace purchases picked up and delivered by DoorDash. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is partnering with DoorDash to deliver Marketplace items located up to 15 miles away. Not every item is eligible for delivery, though. Sources tell the WSJ that DoorDash will only deliver items that are small enough to fit in the trunk of a car, and that drivers are expected to make deliveries within 48 hours. Either way, it sounds like a helpful option for anyone who isn’t able to pick up an item themselves. It also fills a gap in Facebook Marketplace’s existing local delivery options, which only lets you get larger items delivered through a service called Dolly. The service is limited to a little over two dozen cities throughout the US, and lets you connect with one or two local “helpers” that will load bulky items — like a refrigerator, bookshelf, or air conditioner — into a pickup truck and deliver them to your house for a fee.  » Read More

Last Updated: August 13, 2022, 12:38 ISTInternational It is important to note that no matter what someone's physical shape is, the only thing that matters is health. (Credits: Reuters; Instagram/@mammootty)Both Tom Cruise and Mammootty continue to be at incredible physical shape at the age of 60 and 70 respectively.Tom Cruise vs Mammootty might make for a good Mission Impossible movie but for the time being, the brawl is happening in the comment section of a Facebook post. Both the Hollywood sensation and the Malayalam movies megastar continue to be at incredible physical shape at the age of 60 and 70 respectively. When a Facebook page called Cinema in Memes posted a photo of Cruise smiling and waving, with the caption “#TomCruise at the Age of 60 Years🙄”, Desis came in with their own flex. The comments were flooded with Desis talking about how fit Mammootty is. Many people also posted pictures of themselves and their parents, being fit and healthy and living their best lives.  » Read More

For years, civil rights activists have sounded the alarm on the cozy relationship between social media companies and law enforcement and its potential for troubling surveillance practices. But social media platforms continue to attract and retain users, leaving hundreds of millions of Americans susceptible to snooping, potentially aided by their favorite apps. The Supreme Court's decision in June to overturn federal abortion rights set the foundation for a robust anti-abortion surveillance state that relies heavily on social media platforms, and a recent incident in Nebraska reveals how it might operate.Earlier this week, NBC News reported that Facebook assisted Nebraska police in their recent investigation into a teen and her mother accused of performing an abortion in violation of Nebraska law. Jessica Burgess is alleged to have supplied her then-17-year-old daughter, Celeste, with abortion bills and helping bury the fetus. Both women have pleaded not guilty to charges related to performing an abortion, concealing a body and providing false information.The incident is alleged to have taken place in April,  » Read More

Six Flags revealed it has shed nearly 2 million customers during the past year – a drop that came partly because of an initiative to weed out “rowdy teenagers,” according to the company’s CEO. The Arlington, Texas-based theme park’s shares tumbled 18% to $21.12 on Thursday after it disclosed that attendance at its 27 parks was down 22% from a year ago to 6.7 million in the quarter ended July 3.  The drop came partly because Six Flags has been steadily hiking ticket prices after offering too many discounts this year, Chief executive Selim Bassoul told analysts on a Thursday earnings call. “So, we only got the discounter or we became a day care center for teenagers,” Bassoul said. “It was a cheap day care center for teenagers during breaks and the summers.” In response, Six Flags has been hiking prices to reduce the numbers of “rowdy teenagers running around,” he added. Videos posted on social media showed young women viciously attacking each other, roofs of cars being trampled on and people smashing windows at the Six Flags in Maryland.CBS News Baltimore The rowdiness has occasionally turned violent.  » Read More

Facebook, Google and Twitter logos are seen in this combination photo from Reuters files. REUTERSRegister now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comIndia wants a panel to review complaints about content decisionsNew Delhi is open to tech firms forming their own review systemGoogle says self-regulatory system sets bad precedent -sourcesNEW DELHI, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Google has grave reservations about developing a self-regulatory body for the social media sector in India to hear user complaints, though the proposal has support from Facebook and Twitter (TWTR.N), sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters.India in June proposed appointing a government panel to hear complaints from users about content moderation decisions, but has also said it is open to the idea of a self-regulatory body if the industry is willing.The lack of consensus among the tech giants, however, increases the likelihood of a government panel being formed - a prospect that Meta Platforms Inc's (META.O) Facebook and Twitter are keen to avoid as they fear government and regulatory overreach in India,  » Read More

Private Facebook chats between a Nebraska mother and her daughter has been used by law enforcement to build a criminal case against the teen for getting a now-illegal abortion in her home state. This appears to be the first case in post-Roe America of cops obtaining a search warrant and essentially forcing a tech company to help them prosecute an abortion case. Jessica Burgess, 41, pleaded not guilty to five criminal charges including felonies for administering abortion pills to her then-17-year-old daughter, and then helping bury the fetus, according to the Lincoln Journal Star. The daughter, who is being tried as an adult, also pleaded not guilty to three charges, including a felony. A Norfolk Police detective, Ben McBride, began investigating the two women in late April, months before US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. However, under an earlier Nebraska law, abortion is illegal 20 weeks after an egg is fertilized.  According to McBride's affidavit , Burgess claimed to have given birth to a stillborn child when she was around 23 weeks pregnant,  » Read More

OMAHA — A Nebraska woman has been charged with helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy at about 24 weeks after investigators uncovered Facebook messages in which the two discussed using medication to induce an abortion and plans to burn the fetus afterward. The prosecutor handling the case said it’s the first time he has prosecuted anyone for illegally performing an abortion after 20 weeks, a restriction that was passed in 2010. Before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, states weren’t allowed to enforce abortion bans until the point at which a fetus is considered viable outside the womb, at roughly 24 weeks. In one of the Facebook messages, Jessica Burgess, 41, tells her then 17-year-old daughter that she has obtained abortion pills for her and gives her instructions on how to take them to end the pregnancy. The daughter, meanwhile, “talks about how she can’t wait to get the ‘thing’ out of her body,” a detective wrote in court documents. “I will finally be able to wear jeans,” she says in one of the messages.  » Read More

Facebook has been roundly attacked for sharing private messages with Nebraska police in a criminal abortion case against a mother and her teenage daughter. Jessica Burgess stands accused of helping her daughter Celeste Burgess, who was 17 at the time, in carrying out an abortion before burning and burying the foetus in Norfolk in April.The case was built around texts the mother and daughter exchanged via Facebook’s Messenger platform, which were provided to law enforcement by the social media giant. The messages allegedly showed that Jessica Burgess obtained abortion medication for her daughter and instructed her on how to use them when she was 23 weeks pregnant - beyond Nebraska’s 20-week cut-off. The mother has pleaded not guilty to all five criminal charges, including three felonies, in the Madison County district court. Her daughter is now being tried as an adult and has pleaded not guilty on three counts, including a felony. Officials have also charged a 22-year-old man for helping the mother and daughter in burying the foetus.  » Read More