Facebook targets certain Alabamians for voter registration | #elections | #alabama
With the midterm elections less than a month away, Facebook has been pushing voting information to the top of social media feeds across Alabama. However, not everyone has been getting these notifications, and state election officials aren’t sure how Facebook picks its targets. “We have a dedicated team focused on the midterms and hundreds of […]
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‘It’s guilty by association,’ says City Council candidate who was in Washington on Jan. 6 | #citycouncil
By now, most anyone who follows Tulsa politics closely has seen the picture: It’s a close-up of Ken Reddick standing in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021. He’s wearing a hooded jacket and ballistic safety glasses. Behind him is a throng of people, some carrying American flags, others wearing […]
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Grand Forks, B.C. donkey runs for mayor
Lobo, a donkey in Grand Forks is making a run in the city’s mayoral election “As a joke, I put it on Facebook, ‘What do you think about Lobo for Mayor?’ Well the comments are still coming in, some people say ‘I’ll get behind Lobo’ or ‘I hope he takes a bite out of crime,’ […]
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Alabama GOP: County chair Shanon Terry apologizes for posting an elephant logo with KKK imagery. The local NAACP wants him off the school board | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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CNN — A county NAACP chapter in northern Alabama is calling for the resignation of a school board member and local Republican Party chairman, who says his sharing on social media of a GOP elephant logo that included KKK imagery was unintended. The Facebook page of the Lawrence County Republican Party had included in one […]
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Local Alabama GOP group apologizes after posting KKK imagery on its Facebook page | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
A local GOP group in Alabama has deleted its Facebook page after claiming it accidentally posted racist imagery on Tuesday. The post sparked outrage from local constituents, as well as state leaders. The Lawrence Country Republican Party shared the image — which depicted the Republican National Committee elephant logo and the figures of three hooded […]
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Lawrence Co. GOP party apologizes for posting KKK image | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
LAWRENCE Co., Ala. (WAFF) – The Lawrence County Republican Party is facing scrutiny from the Alabama House minority leader after posting a picture of the GOP elephant that had Ku Klux Klan symbolism in it. The Lawrence County GOP posted on Facebook thanking its county party chairman on Sunday night. In the post, the party […]
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4-year-old’s body recovered after drowning in Arkansas River | Accident-and-incident
From Staff Reports The body of a 4-year-old boy was recovered from the Arkansas River on Saturday after he was swept away from his family west of Sand Springs on Friday evening, the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office reported. The Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post late Friday that the boy’s father had reported about […]
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