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Say Goodbye to Social Media: 3 Local Teens Accept NBC 7's Challenge to Log Off
Could you do it? Three local teens are taking up the challenge to delete their social media apps for one week.
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North County Students Go on Social-Media Fast
NBC 7 challenged a group of students to deactivate their social media accounts for the next week, reports NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado.
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Teens Love the Video App TikTok. Do They Love It Too Much?
TikTok is a major new outlet for self-expression, one proudly home to the silly, the loud and the weird
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Woman Seen on Video Taunting Lion at Bronx Zoo Turns Herself In: Police
Myah Autry turned herself in to the NYPD in the Bronx Wednesday night, police said. Charges against her are pending
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‘I Am The Lion Now': Woman Seen on Video Taunting Lion at Bronx Zoo Speaks Out for First Time
The woman who was captured on viral video entering the lion’s enclosure at the Bronx Zoo in September spoke to reporters for the first time
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'Wheel of Fortune' Contestant Deadpans on ‘Loveless Marriage,' Kids in Viral Intro Video
Usually, when TV game show contestants are asked to talk about their family, the answer is sugary sweet. But, when a San Diego man competed on NBC’s “Wheel of Fortune” Monday night, his deadpan response was far from ordinary.
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Woman Climbs Into Exhibit at Bronx Zoo, Appears to Taunt Lion
A woman climbed over a visitor safety barrier at the Bronx Zoo’s African lion exhibit over the weekend, according to the zoo and video of the encounter that was posted online.
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Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey's Account Hacked
The official Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of the social media platform, was hacked on Friday. One of the first tweets sent was the N-word. Another, sent minutes later, praised Hitler. Dorsey has more than 4.2 million followers.
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Tech Firms Struggle to Police Content While Avoiding Bias
Take the post down. Put it back up. Stop policing speech. Start silencing extremists. That’s just a sampling of the intense, often contradictory demands facing tech companies and their social media platforms as they try to oversee internet content without infringing on First Amendment rights. The pendulum has swung recently toward restricting hateful speech that could spawn violence, following a...
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NBC 7's ‘Crawfish Interview' Photo Resurfaces as Meme on Social Media
A lighthearted photo of a crawfish being “interviewed” by an NBC 7 San Diego news crew in 2012 has clawed its way back into the weird world of internet fame, making its mark as a meme.
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GOP Freezes Twitter Spending After McConnell Account Locked
The Republican Party, the Trump campaign and other GOP organizations said Thursday that they are freezing their spending on Twitter to protest the platform’s treatment of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Twitter temporarily locked McConnell’s campaign account Wednesday after it shared a video in which some protesters spoke of violence outside his Kentucky home, where he is recovering from a...
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Teen Shown Videos of His Beating at Chula Vista Restaurant
A South Bay teenager who was brutally beaten by about a half-dozen people inside a Chula Vista Mexican food restaurant faced two of the people suspected in the attack on Monday.
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Instagram Accounts Linked to Counterfeiting on the Rise
Instagram is failing to clamp down on the abuse of its platform by groups of organized criminals promoting counterfeit luxury products including shoes, handbags, clothes and sunglasses, according to research by analytics firm Ghost Data. The research, seen exclusively by NBC News, shows that the number of accounts involved in counterfeiting activities linked to brands including Gucci, Chanel, Balenciaga, Louis...
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Teens Face Judge in Connection With Beating at Chula Vista Restaurant
Four teenagers accused of being part of a group that brutally assaulted a teenager inside a Chula Vista restaurant will remain in custody until their next court date, a judge ruled in juvenile court Monday.
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2 Young Adults Suspected in Chula Vista Teen's Beating Plead Not Guilty
Two young adults suspected of brutally beating a teenager inside a Chula Vista restaurant are expected in court Thursday, as arraignments begin for the half-dozen suspects tied to the case.
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6 Arrests in Beating of Teen at Chula Vista Restaurant, Police Say
The Chula Vista community stood in solidarity with a teenager who was beaten up after coming to the defense of a bullying victim, and echoed his anti-bullying message at a rally outside the restaurant where the beating took place.
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Teenager Attacked and Robbed, Family Looking for Justice
A family says they want a group of boys captured in a video brutally attacking their 16-year-old son at a Chula Vista restaurant to be held responsible.
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Tom Brady Creates Twitter Account on April Fools' Day, Says He's Retiring
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady apparently created his own Twitter account just to give fans a scare on April Fools’ Day.
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Twitter Suspends Anti-Kamala Harris Accounts Suspected of Being Trolls
Twitter this week suspended at least two accounts suspected of troll-like behavior targeting presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris of California as well as other Democratic candidates. The accounts were created recently and had few followers. But they posted easily shareable content about the senator’s record as a prosecutor that earned an outsized audience on the platform.
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Israeli PM's Son Gets Temporary Ban on Facebook
Facebook has blocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair for 24 hours after he wrote a post criticizing the social media platform as “thought police” and sharing previously banned content. Yair Netanyahu blasted the website on Sunday for removing an earlier post in which he called for “avenging the deaths” of two Israeli soldiers killed last week by Palestinian...