By John McCarthy/V.I. Free Press Staff The “Pioneer” Perspective: The Iron Lady’s Foundation The 1,526-foot deep-water cruise pier in Frederiksted is officially known as the Ann E. Abramson Marine Facility. For decades, the name was…
By: JOHN McCARTHY/V.I. Free Press Staff FREDERIKSTED — While the USS Gettysburg (CG-64) sits at the Ann E. Abramson Marine Facility with its sensors trained on the Caribbean horizon, a different kind of surveillance is…
KINGSHILL — The Virgin Islands filed a lawsuit accusing Facebook and Instagram of intentionally designing its platforms to be addictive to children and teenagers while publicly downplaying the severe mental health risks they pose, Today’s…
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion…
When Thongbue Wongbandue began packing to visit a friend in New York City one morning in March, his wife Linda became alarmed. “But you don’t know anyone in the city anymore,” she told him. Bue,…
CHICAGO — A distraught employee went live on Facebook as she pointed a loaded gun at her bosses, Illinois officials said. Imani Nickson, 23, was initially meeting with the owners of Evans and Son Blacktop…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — All of a sudden, women contacting one of the biggest sources of information about abortion in Mexico through the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp were met with silence. The nongovernmental organization’s business account had…
MIAMI — The first email came in early September, around the time the Haitian-American Facebook page began posting about the Trump campaign’s falsehoods about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, eating their neighbors’ pets. Too busy to…
MENLO PARK — Facebook, Instagram and other Meta platforms suffered a significant outage on the morning of Super Tuesday that now appears to be resolved. Experts at three organizations that monitor internet traffic, Kentik, NetBlocks and ThousandEyes, confirmed…
MENLO PARK — Sheela Lalani is one of many small-business owners who depend on social platforms to generate extra holiday revenue. Her Instagram shop with unique, artisan-made children’s clothing—adorably modeled by smiling kids who joyfully…