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Facebooks decision several years ago that people must use their first and last names on the popular social media site had negative consequences for a queer African American Bay Area man who recently received an award with his incorrect name. Blackberri, a well known singer-songwriter who uses one name, was initially thrilled when he learned that he had won Man of the Year Award from The Barony, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in the East Bay that raises funds for charities within Alameda, Contra Co...

Last modified on Fri 11 Jun 2021 06.01 EDT A digital marketing firm closely linked to the pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA was responsible for a series of deceptive Facebook ads promoting Green party candidates during the 2018 US midterm elections, the Guardian can reveal. In an apparent attempt to split the Democratic vote in a number of close races, the ads purported to come from an organization called America Progress Now (APN) and used socialist memes and rhetoric to urge leftwing vo...

Originally published on December 24, 2020 6:20 am Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehls district sweeps from the beaches of Santa Monica to the San Fernando Valley. Among the two million people she represents are Latino communities hit especially hard by the coronavirus pandemic. "Many essential workers, many market and pharmacy and food service and restaurant and hotel workers and a lot of health care workers," she said. "So a lot of people just had to go to work." To reach them — am...

Mask Up! How Public Health Messages Collide With Facebooks Political Ads Ban at 6:48 am NPR Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehls district sweeps from the beaches of Santa Monica to the San Fernando Valley. Among the two million people she represents are Latino communities hit especially hard by the coronavirus pandemic. "Many essential workers, many market and pharmacy and food service and restaurant and hotel workers and a lot of health care workers," she said. "So a ...

POLITICO Get the California Playbook Newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 12/15/2020 09:10 AM EST THE BUZZ — California took major steps on Monday away from two overlapping eras: a pandemic and a presidency. Fi...

© Rob Dobi / BuzzFeed Two years ago, a handful of Facebook employees began to raise internal alarms about a series of advertisements appearing in their news feeds. Purchased by a then up-and-coming lip-synching app called Musical.ly — now known as TikTok — the ads featured teenage girlsprovocatively gyrating to music in short video clips. Curious as to why he and his colleagues were seeing ads ostensibly meant for young girls, one Facebook employee, who was also a father, dug into the comp...

Guilty. >> should unemployment be drug tested? the trumpet ministration looking to bring back and expand on a pool that was killed by congress last year to do just that. is this a good idea? here to debate it is gop strategist devon kearns and democratic alex lawson. i want to start with you. tell me the advantages of a rule like this that forces a drug test to claim your unemployment benefits? >> donald trump made it clear since the first day taking office that his goal is to get america workin...