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Woman Admits To Threatening NY Resident In Racially Charged Facebook Messages

Woman Admits To Threatening NY Resident In Racially Charged Facebook Messages

Woman Admits To Threatening NY Resident In Racially Charged Facebook Messages A woman has pleaded guilty to sending racially motivated death threats to a man in New York. Kristin Keeble, age 54, of Pageland, South Carolina, admitted to transmitting threats to injure another person across state lines, according to the US Attorney's Office of the Northern District of New York. Keeble sent four profanity-laced, racially derogatory audio messages through Facebook Messenger on Oct. 26, 2023 to a Greene County man who resides in the village of Catskill. In the messages, she threatened to kill the man, along with a woman he knew and the woman's children, claimi…

by Joe Lombardi

11/11/2024

Business

Facebook, Instagram Go Down For Users Throughout World

Facebook, Instagram Go Down For Users Throughout World

Facebook, Instagram Go Down For Users Throughout World This story has been updated. Some of the most used social media sites and apps around the world were down for around six hours. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger all went down just before noontime Monday, Oct. 4. All four platforms are owned by Facebook and have a combined three billion users. The issues with the platforms were first reported around 11:45 a.m. Monday and they were back up just before 6 p.m. Facebook's only comment on the outage so far came in a Tweet posted at 12:10 p.m. by one of its senior communications executives, Andy M. Stone, who said, "We’re a…

by Joe Lombardi

10/04/2021

Business

COVID-19: Alert Issued For Scam Involving Facebook Friends Pushing Fake Grants

COVID-19: Alert Issued For Scam Involving Facebook Friends Pushing Fake Grants

Covid-19: Alert Issued For Scam Involving Facebook Friends Pushing Fake Grants With many struggling financially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new scam has been making the rounds involving Facebook “friends” pushing faux grants related to the virus. The Better Business Bureau issued an alert regarding a scam involving the social media giant that has become more prevalent in recent weeks. According to the BBB, Facebook users have been receiving a Facebook Messenger chats or direct message that appears to come from a friend, relative, community member, or another person the user trusts. The message describes a COVID-19 relief grant, with scammers claiming to hav…

09/07/2020