September 30th, 20220With Michigan teens back in school, parents and teachers should be aware about online safety, as tech-savvy teens are falling for online scams at a higher rate than seniors, according to researchers behind a new study.
SocialCatfish.com released the study on the "State of Internet Scams 2022" using 2022 data from the FBI IC3 and...
December 17th, 20210Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. is calling out half a dozen private surveillance companies for hacking or other abuses, accusing them in a report published Thursday of collectively targeting about 50,000 people across its platforms.
The company's fight with the spy firms comes amid a wider move by American tech companies, U.S....
March 25th, 20210LANSING — Social media has been key to spreading dangerous misinformation about recent global and national events, including the deadly coronavirus, vaccines designed to combat it and the 2020 U.S. presidential elections.
Now a group of state attorneys general, including Michigan’s, are calling on these wildly popular platforms...
June 4th, 20201BEIRUT — Earlier in the week, Tania Saleh, a Lebanese singer and visual artist based out of Beirut, decided to show her support for international protests by photoshopping her face on that of another, presumably Black woman’s, face and posting it on her social media accounts.
The image, which may have been well-intentioned, was...
August 25th, 20180DEARBORN — A Lebanese American and Dearborn native hopes to travel to a long list of international destinations and has already checked many off her list.
31-year-old Malak Ouza said when she isn’t working as a case manager for a health insurance company, she travels internationally two to four times a year and has now been to 18...
July 7th, 20170By Stephen Martin
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — On July 5, local food blogger Zee Shami held the grand opening of her new culinary studio, ZeeTheCook. The studio offers cooking classes, etiquette coaching, unique culinary workshops and birthday parties, as well as fall, spring and summer camps for children.
It also offers adults a variety...
May 26th, 20173DEARBORN — For five years, Eater, a popular online magazine for foodies and restaurant obsessives, has been on the hunt for the best and brightest in the industry.
The publication holds an annual Young Guns competition that features rising stars under 30 or those who have less than five years' of experience, but "exhibit the...
