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Facebook Launches a New TikTok Clone, Instagram Reels

August 5, 2020

NEW YORK — Facebook's Instagram is launching its answer to the hit short video app TikTok — Instagram Reels. The new Instagram feature will let users record and edit 15-second videos with audio, and will let users add visual effects. Users will be able to s...

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Holocaust Survivors Urge Facebook to Remove Denial Posts

AP News

July 29, 2020

BERLIN — Holocaust survivors around the world are lending their voices to a campaign launched Wednesday targeting Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove denial of the Nazi genocide f...

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Facebook Bans Violent ‘Boogaloo’ Groups, Not the Term Itself

AP News

July 1, 2020

OAKLAND — Facebook has banned an extremist anti-government network loosely associated with the broader “boogaloo” movement, a slang term supporters use to refer to a second Civil War or a collapse of civilizati...

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Central Unified Trustee Seat Will Stay Vacant Until Nov. Election

Nancy Price

June 26, 2020

The Central Unified Area 4 seat formerly held by Richard Atkins, who resigned this week in response to public outcry over his Facebook post that urged U.S. critics to "go back to your country," will remain vacant until the November election. The elected can...

School Board President Who Posted Confederate Flag, ‘Proud to be White,’ Resigns

Nancy Price

June 25, 2020

Sara Wilkins, the Madera County Board of Education president whose Facebook post of the Confederate flag and the phrase "I'm proud to be white" prompted community outrage, has resigned, Madera County Superinten...

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Madera Unified: ‘We’re Not Madera County School Board, and We Don’t Condone Racism’

Nancy Price

June 24, 2020

Madera Unified School District wants everyone to know that it opposes racism and that it's not the same entity as the Madera County Board of Education, whose president posted on Facebook last weekend "I'm proud...

Side by side images of resigned Central Unified trustee Richard Atkins and a 2020 ballot box

Friday Deadline to Add Picking Atkins’ Successor to November Ballot

Nancy Price

June 24, 2020

Richard Atkins submitted his written resignation from his Area 4 seat on the Central Unified School District board of trustees on Wednesday morning, Superintendent Andy Alvarado said. Atkins dated his resignation June 23, but it won't be official until it r...

‘Go Back to Your Country’ Central Trustee Abruptly Resigns

Nancy Price

June 23, 2020

Central Unified School District trustee Richard Atkins abruptly resigned his Area 4 seat Tuesday night in the midst of a special public meeting in which members of the public called for him to resign or be...

Madera County Schools Official on Facebook: ‘I’m Proud to Be White’

Nancy Price

June 23, 2020

The president of the Madera County Board of Education apparently posted an image of the Confederate flag overlaid with a message proclaiming "I'm proud to be white" on her Facebook page, prompting criticism Tue...

How Much is Our Personal Data Worth?

Opinion

June 23, 2020

Regulations proposed on June 1, 2020, to implement the recently enacted California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), provide that consumers will now have the right to know what personal information businesses collect, use, share or sell; the right to delete persona...

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Props to You, Californians: A Preview of What’s on Your November Ballot

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A’s Coach Apologizes for Apparent Nazi Salute

Walters: Budget No. 4 Won’t Be the Last

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Hit Hard by COVID-19, Where Do We Go From Here?

Legislature Should Support Climate-Change Goals, Not Gut a Tool Helping Ag & Our Planet

Eid al-Fitr Marks End of Ramadan, but COVID-19 Curtails Big Events

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COVID-19 Brings a New Kind of Ramadan for Muslim Community

As Crime Surges on His Watch, Trump Warns of Biden's America

No Mask Required to Vote This November in California

Playing Electoral Defense, Trump Claims Biden Opposes God

Joe Biden Suggests African American Community Not as Diverse as Latino Community

Facebook Launches a New TikTok Clone, Instagram Reels

Holocaust Survivors Urge Facebook to Remove Denial Posts

Facebook Bans Violent ‘Boogaloo’ Groups, Not the Term Itself

Central Unified Trustee Seat Will Stay Vacant Until Nov. Election

School Board President Who Posted Confederate Flag, ‘Proud to be White,’ Resigns

Madera Unified: ‘We’re Not Madera County School Board, and We Don’t Condone Racism’

Friday Deadline to Add Picking Atkins’ Successor to November Ballot

‘Go Back to Your Country’ Central Trustee Abruptly Resigns

Madera County Schools Official on Facebook: ‘I’m Proud to Be White’

How Much is Our Personal Data Worth?

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