DAVID KLEPPER

June 24, 2020 at 1:32 pm

Fireworks are booming before July 4, but why the ruckus?

NEW YORK (AP) — They are a symbol of celebration, loudly lighting up the night sky and best known in the U.S. as the explosive...

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June 24, 2020 at 11:49 am

Twitter bans pro-Trump meme maker for copyright violations

A conservative social media user whose far-right memes have been praised and reposted by President Donald Trump has been kicked off Twitter for repeated copyright...

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June 21, 2020 at 5:34 am

George Soros conspiracy theories surge as protests sweep US

They say he hires protesters and rents buses to transport them. Some say he has people stash piles of bricks to be hurled into glass...

June 17, 2020 at 10:49 am

Facebook removes another 900 accounts linked to hate groups

Facebook has removed another 900 social media accounts linked to white supremacy groups after members discussed plans to bring weapons to protests over police killings...

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FILE – The Kremlin in Moscow, May 13,2020. With emotions that range from horror to hope, from schadenfreude to self-reflection, the world has been transfixed by the cascading crises in the U.S. – the coronavirus scourge, 40 million suddenly unemployed, the police killings of George Floyd and other African Americans, and President Trump’s threats of a military crackdown on protests that have convulsed dozens of cities. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times) XNYT174 XNYT174

June 16, 2020 at 8:02 am

Report: Russia-linked disinformation operation still active

A Kremlin-linked social media disinformation operation that sought to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election has continued its work to divide and discredit Western democracies,...

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Facebook named the first 20 members of a board that will the power to regulate what content can be removed from the social networker’s platform. (Dreamstime/TNS) 1655885 1655885

June 5, 2020 at 2:00 pm

Facebook removes nearly 200 accounts tied to hate groups

Facebook has removed nearly 200 social media accounts linked to white supremacy groups that planned to encourage members to attend protests over police killings of...