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Lawsuit says 16-year-old Carson Bride was a victim of online bullying through two apps Snapchat hosts by: Lindsay Nadrich Posted: May 12, 2021 / 03:02 PM PDT / Updated: May 12, 2021 / 05:21 PM PDT PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) —  The mother of an Oregon teenager who took his own life after constant cyberbullying has filed a class action lawsuit against Snapchat. Kristin Bride’s suit claims two apps available through Snapchat–Yolo and LMK– which allow users to send messages anonymously, are inherently dangerous and unsafe and should be held accountable for her son Carson taking his own life in June of last year. According to the suit, the anonymity in the apps allowed users to continuously bully Carson without consequence. Bride said these types of platforms have been known to cause severe and fatal harm to teens and that many others have ended their lives over the same set of circumstances.  “We found out that, in the last days of Carson’s life, he was desperately reaching out to friends to learn who was harassing him and searching for Yolo hacks to find a way to identify his tormentors,” said Kristin and husband Tom in a statement. “He never did, and,…

Is Tumblr queer? What do queer Tumblr users think of the platform? We’re getting to the bottom of these questions. In a recent Twitter post, Tumblr proclaimed it was “one of the queerest places on the internet.” Well, there’s no way around it: @tumblr is one of the queerest places on the internet. How queer? Apparently, folks on Tumblr are 193% more likely to identify as LGBTQIA+ than on any other social media platform … including t.w.i.t.t.e.r. Is that you? Are you #tumblrqueer? pic.twitter.com/42jEbt2Nto — Tumblr (@tumblr) May 4, 2021 “How queer? Apparently, folks on Tumblr are 193% more likely to identify as LGBTQIA+ than on any other social media platform … including t.w.i.t.t.e.r. Is that you? Are you #tumblrqueer?” This was promptly ratio’d by nearly 2,000 replies and 3,000 quote tweets by current and former queer Tumblr users telling them that, actually, Tumblr is not one of the queerest places on the internet — it’s far from it. The platform’s decision to ban all “adult content” from the platform in 2018 was poorly handled. And while initial intentions may have been to truly create a better, safer space (before the ban, Tumblr was hosting child pornography and revenge porn),…

Shares of Facebook Inc. Cl A FB, -1.30% slipped 1.30% to $302.55 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP, -2.67% falling 2.67% to 13,031.68 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.99% falling 1.99% to 33,587.66. Facebook Inc. Cl A closed $29.26 short of its 52-week high ($331.81), which the company achieved on April 29th. Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Wednesday, as Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -2.94% fell 2.94% to $239.00, Alphabet Inc. Cl A GOOGL, -3.08% fell 3.08% to $2,200.25, and Twitter Inc. TWTR, -4.12% fell 4.12% to $50.70.true Trading volume (24.4 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 20.7 M. Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.  » Read More

Representations of virtual currency are displayed in front of the Libra logo in this illustration picture, June 21, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File PhotoDigital currency group Diem Association, formerly known as Facebook Inc (FB.O)'s Libra project, plans to launch a U.S. dollar stablecoin as it scales back its global ambitions to focus on the United States, the group said on Wednesday.The association, which comprises 26 financial firms and non-profits, said it was relocating its main operations from Switzerland to the United States and withdrawing its payment system license application with the Swiss financial regulator.Diem Networks U.S., a unit of the Deim Association, will run a blockchain-based payment system that allows real-time transfer of Diem stablecoins and will register as a money services business with the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the group said.Stablecoins are digital currencies pegged to a fiat currency. California-based Silvergate Bank will issue the Diem USD stablecoin and manage the Diem USD reserve. Diem said it would launch a pilot of the stablecoin,  » Read More

Beginning in April, Palestinian-Australian photographer Sarah Bahbah began releasing a series of photos on her Instagram feed. The photos were sensuous and a little gauzy—like stills from a modern soap opera, filtered through a peach-colored screen. A woman, 13 Reasons Why star Alisha Boe, and a man, romcom sensation Noah Centineo, seemed to be enmeshed in an epic romance that played out on twilit beaches, on lushly planted patios, and in frothy jacuzzis. The whole thing was clearly staged, and yet it felt intimate and raw. “I don’t feel like a woman who deserves roses right now,” read one caption; “you don’t get the luxury of knowing what I’m thinking anymore,” read another.The series, titled Fool Me Twice was inspired by actual events in Bahbah’s life. Last year, her connection with a partner had come to an end after she realized that her own desires for intimacy and closeness weren’t being matched by her partner’s. “When I’m working on a series, I’m usually processing my experiences and my trauma at the same time,” she explains. She came up with the idea for the series while grieving the end of this relationship, and tapped into her newfound knowledge of attachment theory,…

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. (WSVN) - A Florida woman was arrested and accused of impersonating a high school student to apparently gain more followers on social media.Audrey Francisquini, 28, appeared in court Tuesday. A prosecutor said she was carrying a skateboard and a painting while dressed like students to blend in at American Senior High School.Francisquini nodded her head as the prosecutor spoke. Her public defender said, “Ma’am, stop doing that.”“It says here she was trying to get people to follow her on Instagram,” said Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mindy S. Glazer.The arrest report states the student impersonator recorded herself handing out flyers at the school then promoted her Instagram page.“She was like, I think recording some stuff in there, some crazy stuff, and then she had like the devil’s mask and everything,” said an unidentified student.She also featured the “devil’s mask” on her social media.Francisquini managed to escape school security, but that night detectives tracked her down at her North Miami Beach home.“I legit have, I don’t know how many cops outside, right now, at my house,” she said in a video posted as an Instagram story.The judge ordered her to stay away from the campus. Her charges include trespassing and…

by Cory Treffiletti , Featured Contributor, 3 hours ago Over the years, I’ve routinely returned to a topic that always sparks interest.  Sometimes that interest gets some readers mad at me, while other times it gets me some happy emails and comments in the section below. The topic is, of course, salespeople and the tactics they use to reach out and garner my attention. In the “olden” days, hearkening back to the mid-2000s and a pre-pandemic world, I would comment on the way some sales folks would “talk first, think second, listen third.” That rubbed some people the wrong way, and rightfully so.  There are many excellent salespeople in the digital media industry.  Those strategic stars were being brought down by a large mass of lazy sales teams who played the numbers game, focusing on the number of calls they could make and trying to get someone to respond in hopes of hooking a deal. Coming out of the depths of the pandemic, I see this tactic still employed far too often. On any given day, I receive between 16-20 unsolicited emails and calls.  Many get caught in the spam filter by my company, while some actually make their way through. advertisementadvertisementThey’re almost all of…

(Reuters) - The U.S. pipeline shut down by ransomware hackers late last week is looking for a cyber manager at its Atlanta headquarters in a job ad posted more than a month ago.The position as the Manager, Cyber Security at Colonial Pipeline's headquarters in Alpharetta, Georgia remains open, according to the company's website and a job listing on LinkedIn. here So far, there have been 32 applicants on LinkedIn.“This is a role that we have been looking to add in an effort to continue building our current cyber security team,” the company said in a statement.The pipeline, which supplies nearly half of the fuel on the East Coast, has been shut since Friday after a ransomware attack the FBI attributed to DarkSide. President Joe Biden has said there is evidence the group operates out of Russia.The outage, which has led to higher gasoline prices and fears of shortages here and potential price gouging, has highlighted the lack of requirements for pipelines to implement cyber defenses. hereAside from making sure its systems are clear of the ransomware, Colonial’s new cyber security manager will be responsible for developing the company’s security standards, designing its policies, and warding off future attacks.The company, which…

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. sentenced Lawrence Keith Limon, 52, of Murphy, N.C. to 72 months in prison for distribution of child pornography, announced William T. Stetzer, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Limon was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison. Ronnie Martinez, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Charlotte, and Sheriff Derrick Palmer of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office join Acting U.S. Attorney Stetzer in making today’s announcement. According to filed documents and statements made in court, from June 2017 to January 2019, Limon engaged in the online distribution of images depicting the sexual abuse of children. Court records show that law enforcement became aware that an individual, later identified as Limon, was distributing multiple child pornography using various internet platforms, including the social media blog platform Tumblr.com and a Gmail email account. On March 12, 2019, law enforcement executed a search warrant at Limon’s resident, seizing three electronic devices including a tablet, a cellphone and a laptop. A forensic…