Facebook blocks 115 accounts ahead of US midterm elections
Facebook blocked 30 Facebook accounts and 85 Instagram accounts ahead of midterm elections, the company announced in a blog post. U.S. law enforcement officials contacted the company the evening of Nov. 4 about suspicious social media activity from “foreign entities.”
With poo on a pedestal, Bill Gates talks toilet technology
Bill Gates is not afraid to address sanitation. The billionaire kicked off the “Reinvented Toilet” expo in Beijing on Nov. 6 speaking about the importance of safe human waste disposal. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent $200 million on safe sanitation technology research.
Election Day tests Democratic resistance in Trump era
Tuesday, Nov. 6, is the first national Election Day of the Trump era. President Donald Trump said that, if Democrats took power, they would take “a wrecking ball” to the economy. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, chair of the Democratic Governors Association, said the last two years have served as “an awakening of the Democratic party.”
BYU women’s soccer team facing TCU in NCAA tournament
The BYU women’s soccer team found out it will be playing TCU in the first round of the NCAA tournament on the road.