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This July 16, 2013 file photo shows a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook said in a Thursday, May 23, 2019 report, it removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from the service in the October-March period, although it doesn’t say how many it also missed. The report comes as Facebook grapples with challenges ranging from fake news to its role in elections interference, hate speech and incitement to violence in the U.S., Myanmar, India and elsewhere. (Ben Margot/AP Photo, File)
Technology

Facebook: Fake account removal doubles to 3 billion in 6 months

Facebook also said Thursday that it removed more than 7 million posts, photos and other material because it violated its rules against hate speech.

6 years ago

(Facebook/Mighty Writers)
Philadelphia
Technology
Billy Penn

Philly nonprofit banned from Twitter for celebrating 10 years of helping kids

Twitter's algorithm apparently decided the account was guilty of violating the platform’s terms of service, which state that users must be at least 13.

6 years ago

(NOAA image)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

NOAA predicts near-normal Atlantic hurricane season, stresses ‘it only takes one’

The outlook, released by NOAA on Tuesday, anticipates nine to 15 named storms, of which four to eight will become hurricanes and two to four major hurricanes.

6 years ago

From left, Chefs Elijah Milligan, Carl Lewis, and Yusef McCoy at the Black Restaurant Week 2019 preview event held at Drexel University's Academic Bistro on May 20. (TrenaeNuri/WHYY)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Cooking for the culture: Philly’s 2nd annual Black Restaurant Week

Chefs mix African and Caribbean cultural influences, traditional American cuisine, and a taste of CBD oil as preparations for Black Restaurant Week get underway.

6 years ago

One of four current VisionQuest employees who described a lack of training and a hostile work environment. The company wants to open a 60-bed facility for unaccompanied immigrant youth in North Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Immigration
Philadelphia

VisionQuest employees: ‘It’s not safe for us … How would it be safe for the kids?’

Five staffers describe a lack of training, hostile work environment at VisionQuest. The company wants to open a 60-bed facility for unaccompanied immigrant youth in Philly.

6 years ago

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(Courtesy of Matthew McLaughlin, Philly Tango Festival)
Things To Do
Community Events
May 23 - 29, 2019

Trot on over to Devon, browse the wares of history and salute the service of fallen troops

Honoring fallen service members, Devon’s mane event and the art of tango are just a few of this week’s “Things To Do.”

6 years ago

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Greens grow at Five Loaves and Two Fishes community garden in Overbrook. (Angela Gervasi for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Environment
Philadelphia
PlanPhilly

More community gardens to bloom on city lots, Philly Land Bank czar says

City officials reaffirmed a commitment to protecting community gardens amid growing concerns about their tenuous hold in redeveloping neighborhoods.

6 years ago

McDonald's workers marching in Los Angeles in September 2018 as part of a multi-state strike seeking to combat sexual harassment in the workplace. (Richard Vogel/AP)
NPR
Gender

McDonald’s facing new charges of sexual harassment

For the third time in three years, McDonald's Corp. is facing allegations of rampant sexual harassment of female employees by male coworkers and managers.

6 years ago

Trish and Bill Kinkle at a recent meeting for supporters of a plan to create a supervised injection site in Philadelphia. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY)
The Why
Addiction
Changing Communities
Public Health

Why both sides of Philly’s supervised injection debate say it’s about life and death

A plan to create a supervised injection site in Philadelphia is faces fierce opposition from neighbors in Kensington, ground zero of the city's opioid epidemic.

Air Date: May 22, 2019

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Piping plover with chicks in Cape May, N.J. (Courtesy of Kevin Karlson)
Down the Shore
Biology
Environment
New Jersey

Endangered birds force buggy access closure on N.J. beach

New Jersey officials will soon temporarily prohibit beach buggy access in a portion of Island Beach State Park due to the presence of a nesting endangered shorebird. 

6 years ago

The Business Resource and Innovation Center is below the Heim Center for Cultural and Civic Engagement in the multi-level public space at the Parkway branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Changing Communities
Philadelphia

Why the Philadelphia Free Library is putting community before books

Modernizing the Philadelphia Free Library system has meant more than offering computer labs and e-books.

Air Date: May 21, 2019

Listen 12:06
The National Museum of American Jewish History opened at 5th and Market streets in Center City in 2010. Ivy Barsky is the museum's CEO. (Dana DiFilippo/WHYY)
History
Philadelphia
Religion

CEO of the National Museum of American Jewish History to step down

Ivy Barsky, head of the NMAJH since 2012, is stepping down. The museum has not performed as expected in its building on Independence Mall.

6 years ago

Damilla, a One Step Away vendor (ONE STEP AWAY)
Homelessness
Housing
Income Inequality
Billy Penn

What’s it like to be homeless in Philly? This podcast takes you there

“Heard” features stories from people who’ve lived on the street.

6 years ago

Two teams battle it out to advance to the next round of the 10th Annual John Marzano Half Ball Tournament. (Ximena Conde/WHYY)
Philadelphia
Sports

How to try your hand at half-ball, the old-school Philly street game

The game of half-ball has a local history spanning about 70 years that calls for a broomstick, a three-story building, and half of a squishy ball.

6 years ago

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Members of Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light board a recreational fishing vessel while conducting a living marine resources patrol and vessel safety inspection on Nov. 7, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Seth Johnson)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Patrols underway to enforce federal striped bass regulations in N.J.

As striped bass arrive in New Jersey waters, the U.S. Coast Guard is ready to issue fines to anglers who catch striped bass outside of the allowable boundary, officials say.

6 years ago

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