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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Mar. 29, 2024 07:24 AM EDT

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. ___ Video from 2022 misrepresented as...

Georgia joins states seeking parental permission before children join social media

Mar. 29, 2024 01:51 AM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia could join other states in requiring children younger than 16 to have their parents’ explicit permission to create social media accounts. Lawmakers on Friday gave final approval to Senate Bill 351, which also would ban social media use on school devices and...

France's Macron embraces Brazil's Lula — and the memes poking fun at their 'wedding'

Mar. 28, 2024 23:17 PM EDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — If social media is to be believed, French President Emmanuel Macron's trip to Brazil that ended Thursday left him swooning. Pictures showed him and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ambling through the Amazon and posing beneath the soaring...

U.S. midfielder Korbin Albert apologizes for sharing 'insensitive and hurtful' social media posts

Mar. 28, 2024 21:02 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Korbin Albert, a midfielder for the U.S. women's national team, apologized Thursday night for having liked and shared social media posts that she described as “offensive, insensitive and hurtful." The 20-year-old Albert, who plays for Paris Saint-Germain, had...

4 Canadian school boards sue Snapchat, TikTok and Meta for disrupting students' education

Mar. 28, 2024 20:25 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario said Thursday they launched lawsuits against TikTok, Meta and SnapChat alleging the social media platforms are disrupting student learning. The lawsuits claim platforms like Facebook and Instagram...

Facebook News tab will soon be unavailable as Meta scales back news and political content

Mar. 28, 2024 16:52 PM EDT

Meta will be sunsetting Facebook News in early April for users in the U.S. and Australia as the platform further deemphasizes news and politics. The feature was shut down in the U.K., France and Germany last year. Launched in 2019, the News tab curated headlines from national and...

Michigan GOP lawmaker falsely claims that buses carrying March Madness teams are 'illegal invaders'

Mar. 28, 2024 16:22 PM EDT

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan state lawmaker involved in former President Donald Trump’s election denials is being widely criticized after the Republican made false claims that buses carrying college athletes to Detroit for March Madness were shuttling illegal migrant “invaders”...

US sanctions online media site Gaza Now and its founder for allegedly supporting Hamas

Mar. 28, 2024 00:04 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Wednesday imposed sanctions on online media site Gaza Now and its founder Mustafa Ayash for allegedly supporting Hamas. U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control says that after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas against Israel — the online entity...

What we know about Truth Social, Donald Trump's social media platform

Mar. 27, 2024 13:48 PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former President Donald Trump launched his social media platform, Truth Social, in early 2022, after he was banned from major sites such as Facebook and the platform formerly known as Twitter following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. While he's since...

Lego head mugshots add to California's debate on policing and privacy

Mar. 26, 2024 17:33 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California police department has been handcuffed by Lego after the toy company asked the agency to stop adding Lego heads to cover the faces of suspects in images it shares on social media. The Murrieta Police Department has been using Lego heads and...