• Social media roasts City of San Antonio for clip on how to get to NIOSA amid construction

    San Antonio Public Works became a punch line on social media after the city department shared a video explaining how those attending NIOSA, one of Fiesta's busiest events, should navigate ongoing construction on South Alamo Street. The video, shot from a first-person POV and tweeted out Wednesday, tells viewers via instructions flashed onscreen to "Start at E. Market and head South towards (sic) E. Nueva St." Pedestrians should then "cross at the SOUTH side of E. Nueva" and "Safely...

  • Australia vs. X: Social Media Platform Challenges Bishop Stabbing Content Takedown

    X challenges Australian regulator's demand to remove tweets about a Sydney bishop's stabbing, claiming it breached Australian law and would contest an "unlawful and dangerous approach" legally.

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    Ex-Man City footballer Joey Barton contacted by police over social media comments

    He said he's been 'visited four times in three days by Cheshire Police”

  • Edinburg moves city attorney in-house

    Just two weeks after Edinburg announced the pending departure of Edinburg City Attorney Omar Ochoa, officials moved toward changing how the city attorney office will function.

  • What happens when we train our AI on social media?

    The unique relationship between social media and AI continues to develop in interesting ways, with Reddit’s recent deal with Google allowing their AI to train on its content, and tech companies’ sudden interest in once-popular social media sites like Photobucket.  But there is a question looming in the background of these deals: Even if AI companies can train their models on social media, is doing so really such a good idea?  AI companies have largely relied on the internet, especially...

  • Social Media Companies Are Having a Bad Moment

    Nick H. Penniman What if it were the start of a movement?

  • Thieves targeting Kia, Hyundai cars in Lowell

    LOWELL — The Lowell Police Department is warning residents about a significant increase in motor vehicle thefts in the city, with thieves specifically targeting certain models of Kia and Hyundai vehicles that have security vulnerabilities.

  • Coalition talks again bogged down in social media disputes

    Talks on forming a new right-wing coalition government in the Netherlands continue to be dogged by social media posts, particularly by far-right leader Geert Wilders. On Thursday Wilders refused to withdraw a post he had placed about the VVD’s junior immigration minister Eric van der Burg, describing him instead as someone “who has turned the Netherlands into one big refugee centre” and a “scary little man”. Earlier Van der Burg had said during a parliamentary debate that the decision not

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    Social media threat closes Kamehameha Schools

    HONOLULU (KHON2) -- The Kamehameha Schools is taking action after a threat to the school was circulating on social media. "With an abundance of caution will be canceling school today, Monday, April 15 for all haumāna, staff and faculty at Kalihi-Palama and Kapalama Preschools," the school said in a letter to the KS community. []

  • Kyle Higashioka starting for San Diego on Saturday

    San Diego Padres catcher Kyle Higashioka is in the lineup Saturday in the

  • Why I Stopped Posting Most Of My Personal Life On Social Media

    I was experiencing my life again instead of curating it for my followers.

  • What's the deal with social media and youth mental health?

    Increasing use of social media and smartphones often cops the blame for an increase in youth mental health issues but the reality is not so simple. We are in the middle of a mental health crisis. Two new studies show that Americans are more worried about their mental health than their physical health. In the UK, research by King's College London found people of all ages agree that young people are struggling with their mental health, with parents blaming the COVID pandemic. In Australia,...