TikTok trend? Waynesboro Police respond to report of unprovoked punches
A social media post making the rounds this weekend led people in Waynesboro to believe that citizens were being randomly attacked by strangers.
A social media post making the rounds this weekend led people in Waynesboro to believe that citizens were being randomly attacked by strangers.
Social media and other forms of mass communication have played a major role in disseminating anti-vaccination sentiments. However, public health organizations can also harness these channels to counter misinformation and promote vaccination.
USMNT manager Gregg Berhalter apologized Monday for US Soccer Federation social media posts that removed the central image of Iran’s flag to show solidarity with millions of Iranians engaged in public protests over the treatment of women.
A North Carolina man who used the social media platforms Snapchat and Grindr to solicit sex and nude photos teenage boys from Southwest Virginia was sentenced last week to 151 months in federal prison on federal enticement charges.
Paper billionaire provocateur Elon Musk has officially taken over Twitter, leaving people who have endured the stench of the backed-up truck-stop toilet of social media to be able to connect with others to have to decide whether to continue to hang on despite having a working moral compass.

If you use social media, you see it every day. Puppies or kittens offered for free with a small rehoming fee. Or breeders saying they need to find homes for a recent litter.
“Influencers’ sentiment was mostly positive on the announcement of changes to the law on uses of marijuana in the U.S.,” said Smitarani Tripathy, a social media analyst at GlobalData.
Progressives are canceling Pat Sajak after photos surfaced on social media over the weekend of the “Wheel of Fortune” host posing with Marjorie Taylor Greene at a party, and conservatives are beside themselves over why.

A juvenile faces charges after posting a threat to Western Albemarle High School to social media in the early morning hours of Friday.
The AWARE Foundation published an unsolved cold case file this weekend on social media for Rachel Nicole Good who went missing on Oct. 18, 2003, from Elkton.
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