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Chicago man accused of making threatening posts on state rep's Facebook page 00:29 WHEATON, Ill. (CBS) -- A Chicago man was charged this weekend with threatening a state representative on Facebook. On Saturday, DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin and Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly announced charges against Cort Chubko, 59, of the Chicago Lawn community. His bond was set at $100,000 by DuPage Countty Judge Joshua Dieden. Prosecutors said on both Feb. 4 and Feb. 12, Chubko commented on or replied to comments on Illinois state Rep. Deb Conroy (D-Villa Park)'s Facebook page with threatening remarks. According to prosecutors, ome of the comments Chubko is accused of making are: "heavy arms are being moved into and distributed across Dupage County. PEOPLE ARE PAST PISSED and READY TO FIGHT.", "(expletive) is GOING TO get ugly in Dupage County.", "This woman and all like her is the reason I own AND CARRY guns.", "You know how I respond to fear Conroy? I move a little lever from SAFE to FIRE." and "But know this Conroy and I couldnt be more serious… ALL HELL will come down on you,  » Read More

Less than a day after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, the head of security at Meta (formerly Facebook) announced the company would no longer accept ad money from Russian state media outlets like Russia Today and Sputnik. Twitter said it would pause all ads from both Russia and Ukraine. And the next day, 26 February, YouTube quietly shared that it had begun blocking a handful of Kremlin-run media outlets from monetizing and running ads on their channels too.It was the start of a cascade of corporate denials of service: one after the other, prominent social media and tech companies intensified restrictions on Russian state media’s presence on their platforms. Even major internet infrastructure firms, such as the domain registrar Namecheap and the internet services provider Cogent, told their Russian customers to take their business elsewhere.Over the next week, the corporate actions against Russia intensified. Kremlin-backed media outlets were blocked from buying ads on Google search and Google removed the Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik news apps from its Google Play store in Europe.  » Read More

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago River now runs green! The St. Patrick's Day parade was also back Saturday after a 2-year hiatus, and the crowds were ecstatic.The crowds returned downtown for Chicago's St. Patrick's Day festivities."It has been completely crazy. It's a line out the door all the way to the alley," said America Escobar, manager at Miller's Pub.The day began with a tradition: the dyeing of the Chicago River."This is amazing after all those years of suffering, and the sun is out," said Onur Celik, who was joining in on the festivities.Last year, the city still dyed the river green -- but did it as a surprise as to not draw large crowds in the midst of a pandemic.Now, making its return in its 67th year, the Chicago parade drew thousands of people."We come every year so we've really missed it the last two years," said Deirdre Kochuearambil.RELATED | Patrick wore blue,  » Read More

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Facebook and Instagram on Thursday said it would temporarily allow content calling for violence against “Russian invaders” in certain countries — making an exception to its hate speech rules as conflict in Ukraine continues. Per Reuters, these exceptions will also allow content calling for the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in countries including Russia, Ukraine and Poland, according to internal emails. “As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine we have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as ‘death to the Russian invaders.’ We still won’t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians,” a Meta spokesperson said to Reuters. Meta reps did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment. Meta said these violent speech posts would otherwise be removed under its hate speech policy. These posts include those targeting Russian soldiers, with the exception of prisoners of war, or targeting Russians where it’s clear the context is the invasion of Ukraine.  » Read More

Facebook lets people running groups at the social network use artificial intelligence to block misinformation. Facebook on Wednesday began letting groups automatically reject posts identified as containing false information, taking aim at a part of the massive network that has drawn particular concern from misinformation watchdogs. More than 1.8 billion people per month use Facebook Groups, which allow members to gather around topics ranging from parenting to politics. Yet critics have said the groups are ripe targets for the spread of misleading or false information by having sometimes large audiences of like-minded users organized on a particular topic. Administrators of "groups" at the leading social network can opt to have software automatically reject incoming posts showcasing information found to be false by third-party fact-checkers, Facebook App communities vice president Maria Smith said. Groups were once touted by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg as a way to build more intimate communities at the world-spanning social network by providing online spaces for users to connect based on hobbies,  » Read More

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