Free Republic

Dear X, You and I had a sweet friendship: we raised children and discussed husbands together; we traded perennials and casseroles in times of need; we visited one another in funeral homes, hospitals and churches; we met one anotherÂ’s families; we babysat and cleaned and laughed and cried together. I was the reason you homeschooled; you were the reason my dad got proper health assistance when he needed it. You unfriended me. When you unfriended me from Facebook, I cared not. But you also unfriended me from your life. That hurt deeply and it still does. Even though I never...

Hodgkinson’s page shows he has 403 Facebook friends, many of whom have “Resist” or show support to Bernie Sanders. Hodgkinson’s comment to another link to Change.org to remove the president and vice president, on March 22, said, “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.” No further public comment by Hodgkinson defined what he intended by “destroy.” ... His most recent public post, on May 24, was sharing a link to a Change.org petition to stop the NEXUS Pipeline. Hundreds of people from across the country and around the world quickly added...

Archives of Alexandria shooter’s pro-Maddow, Democrat Facebook Facebook deleted his page. Here is what they are covering up. http://archive.is/UayaF http://archive.is/XJJ4J http://archive.is/qu3wa http://archive.is/3ZH8T http://archive.is/GrHKV http://archive.is/8ambF http://archive.is/yQlBI http://archive.is/reZsv http://archive.is/YIR9e http://archive.is/TcP1p http://archive.is/ab9gR http://archive.is/tgMxH http://archive.is/ixrmp http://archive.is/V15Y8 http://archive.is/lFqou

I have decided to create a group on Facebook. It is called 'The Annoyingly Overmoderated Group'. <-- Please click this link, join up and have a good time! No, wait. Having a good time is forbidden there. Here is a partial list of the rules: "No animals allowed in this group. Absolutely no guns, weapons,a ammunition. Jokes against any ethnic group will be deleted. No racial slurs. No controversial topics of any kind. Advertisements will be immediately removed. No transgender / gay / lesbian posts. No political topics of any kind. Poems, art, or quotes will be removed. Topics such...

In addition to propaganda designed to influence service members and veterans, Russian state actors are friending service members on Facebook while posing as attractive young women to gather intelligence and targeting the Twitter accounts of Defense Department employees with highly customized “phishing” attacks.

of them planning bloodbath outside Brooklyn court Police stopped a potential bloodbath outside Brooklyn Criminal Court — thanks to Facebook, officials said Thursday. Cops grabbed three gang members planning violence outside the courthouse on Joralemon St. in Brooklyn Heights on Wednesday after finding a Facebook Live video that showed they had a gun and planned to shoot members of a rival crew, police sources said. Cops monitoring social media sites of gang members found the video around 10 a.m. Wednesday. It showed Rashid Celestine, 19, Davon Arthur, 20, and Envoy Bullock, 24, in a car and armed with a...

As the old saying goes, crime doesn’t pay. And this saying holds true, especially when you decide to boast about your criminal exploits to all your friends and followers on Facebook Live. Breon Hollings, 22, was streaming live to Facebook, showing off his cash and repeating “this shit don’t stop”, when officers from Jacksonville’s Sheriff Department executed a search warrant on the premises. Although police had already planned to execute the search warrant, the video could be used as evidence against Hollings, who would need to explain the source of the stacks of cash. Exactly how much money Hollings...

The students in the spin-off group exchanged memes and images mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust and the deaths of children, sometimes directing jokes at specific ethnic or racial groups, according to screenshots of the chat obtained by the Crimson. One message called the hypothetical hanging of a Mexican child “piñata time.” Other messages quipped that abusing children was sexually arousing. Then, university officials caught on. And in mid-April, after administrators discovered the offensive, racially-charged meme exchanges, at least 10 incoming students who participated in the chat received letters informing them that their offers of admission had been revoked. ... The...

Hi David, We have received a request to permanently delete your account. Your account has been deactivated from the site and will be permanently deleted within 14 days. If you did not request to permanently delete your account, please login to Facebook to cancel this request: https://www.facebook.com/login.php Thanks, The Facebook Team

After so many years, I recently closed down my FB account. Too many people, good or nominal to begin with, become total %&*@!%&^ on social media. Its the computer anonymity, I believe, in many cases. That said, I now have three relatives I am no longer on speaking terms - and why? Because they could not keep their petty insults in check. Few people in FB are ever persuaded by logical arguments and polite discourse.

Would the Mark Zuckerberg of 2017—who recently gave the commencement address at Harvard—have started Facebook? Likewise, would the Mark Zuckerberg of 2004—who was instrumental in building the world’s largest, most popular social networking website in the world—have given the 2017 commencement address at Harvard University? As has been well documented over the last several days—most notably by Rush Limbaugh—Zuckerberg’s 2017 commencement address was laden with socialistic language and ideas that run quite contrary to what is necessary to build a company with thousands of employees and whose annual revenue is measured in billions of dollars. (Ask Venezuelans.)

(UPDATED 11 a.m. 5/31/17) — Editor’s Note: Facebook has now enacted a 24-hour ban on Kyle Reyes’s account. The social media behemoth known as Facebook has had a well-documented rocky relationship with conservatives. It got rockier on Monday when a Connecticut business owner purportedly posted a comment rejoicing in the killing of a law enforcement officer and Facebook retaliated … against another business owner who called her on it. Kyle Reyes, chief executive officer of The Silent Partner Marketing, posted a screenshot of the anti-cop comment on his business’s Facebook page. When the woman who apparently posted the anti-cop comment...

Be very careful what you “like” on Facebook. A court in Switzerland has convicted a man on several counts of defamation after he “liked” libelous comments on the social media platform. The court in Zurich found that the man indirectly endorsed and further distributed the comments by using the ubiquitous Facebook “like” button. The man, who was not named in the court’s statement, “liked” several posts written by a third party that accused an animal rights activist of antisemitism, racism and fascism. In court, the man was not able to prove that the claims were accurate or could reasonably be...

Who better than a 33 year old multi-billionaire college dropout - who stole his multi-billion dollar anti-social network ideafrom various Harvard classmate - to tell us how to “modernize democracy?” All you need do is create a universal basic income (spun out of the gold threads in the air). And isn’t that just the kind of magical thinking we need? The utopian kind, that defies human nature and ignores history. Mark Zuckerface, Harvard Dufus LaureateFeel free to read the entire address, unremarkable in any way other than its naiveté and mediocrity.  Which leaves me wondering this about Mark Zuckerberg: if...

I use FaceBook frequently for the last 3 years. Please don't post don't use it. My family and funds are suers and it is easy to stay in touch. I post a lot of politics including my comments and cartoons. For the last week after I share 4-5 statements ( a lot against the Clintons) or cartoons I have received the obnoxious security check boxes where you have to type in a series of letters some of which I am unable to read. Five days ago the note said You have posted nudity. I never post nudity and two times...

Imagine if two news publishers dominated digital media in the way that Facebook and Google do. The Government would not allow such a duopoly to stand. Campaigners would call for them to be broken up in the name of media plurality. Yet by 2020 Google and Facebook are expected to take 71 per cent of all the money spent in the UK on digital advertising, according to a report by analysts OC&C. The effect of this can already be seen and is devastating for both the news industry and for society in general.

Phoenix police say there are indications an armed man arrested at Phoenix Comicon is mentally disturbed and that he told detectives he's a crime-fighting comic book character and planned to shoot bad police officers. Police also say in a probable-cause statement released Friday that officers took Mathew Enrique Nava Sterling into custody at the Phoenix Convention Center after somebody contacted Hawthorne, California, police to report that Sterling was posting threats on Facebook about killing police officers at the Comicon event. Court documents indicate Sterling lives in suburban Mesa and is 29. Sterling didn't have an attorney present during an initial...

RUSH: Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook — you know, he dropped out of Harvard. He was at Harvard. He dropped out of there because Facebook took off. So he went out to California and did what he did to build Facebook up. So he went back, went back to Cambridge, Massachusetts, yesterday to do the commencement address. Are you ready for this? The 366 commencement. You want to know why this country is so screwed up? Because there have been 366 graduating classes from this place. The country’s not that old. The country’s 230-some-odd years old, 366 graduating classes,...

Mark Zuckerberg returned Thursday to Harvard, where he launched Facebook and then dropped out, telling graduates it’s up to them to bring purpose to the world, fight inequality and strengthen the global community. “Change starts local. Even global changes start small — with people like us,” the Facebook CEO said. He shared stories about graduates such as David Razu Aznar, a former city leader who led the effort to legalize gay marriage in Mexico City, and Agnes Igoye, who grew up in conflict zones in Uganda and now trains law enforcement officers. “And this is my story too,” Zuckerberg added....

Not long after Donald Trump’s surprising presidential victory, an article published in the Swiss weekly Das Magazin, and reprinted online in English by Vice, began churning through the Internet. While pundits were dissecting the collapse of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the journalists for Das Magazin, Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus, pointed to an entirely different explanation—the work of Cambridge Analytica, a data science firm created by a British company with deep ties to the British and American defense industries. According to Grassegger and Krogerus, Cambridge Analytica had used psychological data culled from Facebook, paired with vast amounts of consumer information purchased...