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Northern Arizona Gazette leaving Facebook and META

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WILLIAMS — The editor has made the decision to remove from Facebook and META immediately. This will be the last story that will be posted on that platform. Northern Arizona Gazette will continue on it’s Mewe.com site, TruthSocial @gazette and the newly freed platform of Twitter @naz_gazette.

Facebook hackers (Ref. 1. & 2. below) have hacked two of the Facebook pages for our editor, Glen Davis. His current page is currently under attack. Facebook hackers locked out one account asking for a picture ID showing the birthdate. The editor sent a redacted JPG of his drivers license showing his birthdate and blacking out the drivers license number, address and other information that the hackers would use to steal identity. the requested picture and birthdate are clearly seen on the drivers license. Facebook hackers replied that it was not acceptable.

Facebook and META are popular platforms to spread hate against Americans and any media outlets that do not cow down to their behests. Therefore, the Editor of NAG decided to leave them and their adverstisers behind.

Northern Arizona Gazette has been on Mewe.com for about a year and finds it the best alternative to Facebook and META. There has been a rumor going around that you must pay to be on Mewe.com. That is not true. You can have one personal page for free. If you want other pages, they are $1.99 a month. If you want to support the site further, you can become a paid member for $5.99 a month. The advantages are no censorship and no ads.

Northern Arizona Gazette has also been on TruthSocial for several months and recently opened an account on Twitter. Unlike CNN and MSNBC, we have not seen a spike in hate speech on Twitter. Twitter has gone after child exploitation accounts, and that is probably why the left has attacked him.

We did not see them, but there were some compaints about hate speech from the left directed at Kirstie Ally after her death. We have not heard about any of these accounts being suspended or cancelled.

TruthSocial is the Twitter-like site started by President Donald Trump and you can find his posts there. He has not yet accepted the invitation by Twitter to return.

Unfortunately, this means that Facebook groups, such as Our Gang, will soon disappear from Facebook.

References:

1. The Wrap
2. MSN

Northern Arizona Gazette now on MeWe

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WILLIAMS — The Northern Arizona Gazette has made the move to MeWe.com. The staff has been using it on a personal level for several months and decided to move the news site from Facebook to the alternate social network MeWe.

There has been some misinformation about MeWe that has circulated. One point is that you have to pay for the service. MeWe is member supported and you can purchase various upgrades to the service. You are not required, however, to purchase membership for one personal page. There is a pop-up that you may see on occasion asking you to upgrade to premium to support the social media site. It carries no other advertising to pay for the service. Premium service costs $4.99 per month if you desire to use it. There are various other offers at the MeWe “store” on the site.

“Facebook just seems to have too much malware, including their own tracking routines,” said Northern Arizona Gazette editor Glen Davis. “My computer gets locked up every time I use it. So I authorized the move to MeWe which runs much smoother. It costs us $1.99 a month for the page versus free on Facebook, but with the censorship on Facebook and the spyware routines, we feel the move is worth it.

“I highly recommend that all of my Facebook friends at least try this alternate platform,” he added.

Northern Arizona Gazette may still use Facebook on occasion, but the main Social Media site will be MeWe. The news organization is also looking into how Parler.com may benefit it.

When is your sister not your sister?

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Earlier in the evening of November 25, I got an unusual friend request on Facebook. It was from my sister. Which is unusual because I did not know that we were on unfriendly terms. It was a particularly busy afternoon, so—presuming that she accidentally unfriended me and friended me again—I accepted.

“She” started to PM me, which is highly unusual since she has my phone number. No you cannot have it.

The “conversation” started off with how ya doin’, how’s your day kind of messages. Then she told me that the IMF is giving away grants for money that does not have to be paid back. All I would have to do is fill out an application and if approved, pay a delivery fee.

Bingo. The scam.

First of all, the IMF is presumably the International Monetary Fund. That IMF is hardly in the business of giving away money. They are a group of scumbag bankers whose function is to consolidate the wealth of countries—particularly the United States—for use by global elitist who believe it is their job to rule the earth. They are not nice, they are not friendly and they are hardly charitable.

The second point was the “delivery fee.” You are telling me that the IMF is giving away money and cannot pony-up 35-cents for a stamp? I have been contacted by overseas people by phone telling me that Obama was going to send me a million dollars, all I had to do was pay a $250 delivery fee.

I replied as much to my “sister.” I logged off because I had other things to do. When I logged back on, I received a message demanding that it was not a scam because the delivery fee was not much. When I went to look at the message, Facebook had, apparently, caught up with the scam and deleted the profile.

The point of the story is this was obviously not my sister. If you get caught up in a “free money” scam and go to any links attached to them, you might actually go to an official looking “application.” Meanwhile the web site is loading viruses and Trojans into your computer. If you fill out any application, you are giving them your personal information for identification theft.

So here are some Facebook tips.

If you receive a friend request from a friend and you have their phone number, call them and ask them if they “friended” you.

Click on the name of any person wanting to friend you. Check their profile. If they have very few posts or haven’t posted for awhile or if their posts are exactly what you would post and you do not know them, delete the friend request.

The government creates profiles and friends people they want to fry. Those profiles are not deleted by Facebook because they know about them.

So choose your friends wisely.

Check our Facebook page for events

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Did you know we are on Facebook?

As we move through the holiday season—and throughout the year, for that matter—we often post information about businesses in Williams and event fliers that we cannot post here.

We also post more photos on various events in northern Arizona. Check our Facebook page for more information.

Facebook Is About to Lose 80% of Its Users, Study Says

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Mark Zuckerberg during a Facebook press event to introduce 'Home' a Facebook app suite that integrates with Android in Menlo ParkFacebook’s growth will eventually come to a quick end, much like an infectious disease that spreads rapidly and suddenly dies, say Princeton researchers who are using diseases to model the life cycles of social media.

Disease models can be used to understand the mass adoption and subsequent flight from online social networks, researchers at Princeton’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering say in a study released Jan. 17. The study has not been peer-reviewed.

See more at Time

Representative Engel wants to make you Facebook safe.

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WASHINGTON—Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY-16) has submitted the Social Networking Online Protection Act to make your social network and e-mail accounts safe from prying eyes. At least, the eyes of your employer, potential employer or your school.

H.R. 537 would make it illegal for “employers and certain other entities” to demand that you provide passwords for them to access your private social network and email accounts. It would make it unlawful for employers or potential employers to discriminate against you, dismiss you or in anyway harass you for refusing to give this personal information.

The bill would add a section to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 which essentially provides the same limitations on educational facilities as to employers above.

The Department of Homeland Security and other alphabet agencies, of course, will still be able to employ face recognition software and spy techniques in their on-going effort to make us safe from persons who support the Constitution, veterans and those rabid Ron Paul fans.

The house is also considering H.R. 624—the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act—for just that purpose.