Too late for the U.S. presidential election, Facebook is going after 30,000 phony accounts used to distribute fake newsin France, ahead of the national vote there. The company is using automated methods to help screen out the fakes, such as finding content repeated on hundreds of the phony sites. Facebook said in a statement Friday that it’s taking “decisive action” against the accounts, presumably shutting them down.

Uber drivers in New York City may soon be getting a lot more tips from passengers. The city’s taxi and limousine commission agreed Monday to pursue a rule that would require ride-hailing companies to offer tipping as an in-app option for users. Unlike competitor Lyft, Uber does not currently enable passengers to tip through its app. People who support the rule hope it can make gratuities as common for New York’s Uber drivers as they are for the city’s taxi drivers.

Sally Sue used to be on your friends list, but now she’s on your blacklist. You can’t stand her. She’s full of drama. She’s not a good friend. She’s absolutely awful. Your fingers are itching to write the nastiest, most epic diss of Sally on Facebook. But I wouldn't be so quick to press “post”.

Jack Harold Jones Jr. was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a bookkeeper and the near-fatal beating of her young daughter.According to court documents , authorities were called to a Bald Knob accounting business on April 1, 1993, after the bodies of 34-year-old bookkeeper Mary Phillips and her 11-year-old daughter were found covered in blood.Phillips was found bound and naked from the waist down. An electrical cord had been wrapped around her neck.

Do you have the “courage” to work at a job where the “pace is fast”? Boy, do we have an opportunity for you! A listing for a United Airlines brand public relations manager,posted Wednesday to the D.C.-based jobs site District Daybook, says that at United, “The pace is fast, our standards are high and the opportunities are boundless.

The president of the United States is getting out of the modeling business:Trump Modelsis closing down. Revenues at the New York-based modeling agency were expected to take another hit with the defection this month of a key managerwho was taking several models to start up a new operation,The Washington Post reported. It’s the most recent loss of management and models that began last year as Trump’s presidential campaign heated up.

Uber’s top executive for communications has left the beleaguered company, continuing a wave of turnover in the highest ranks. Rachel Whetstone’s departure as head of communications was announced in an email Tuesday to employees from CEO Travis Kalanick. In 2015, Whetstone left Google to become the ride-hailing app’s senior vice president of policy and communications.

The CEO of United Airlines is facing heat for his response to a passenger being violently dragged off a flight over the weekend. Sunday’s flight to Louisville from Chicago was overbooked and the passenger was chosen at random to be booted off. A witness who posted video of the incident said the manrefused to leave because he said he was a doctor who needed to be home to see patients.

Airbnb says it has permanently banned a host from the platform after she canceled a guest’s reservation minutes before her arrival because the guest was Asian. And we know that was the host’s reason, because she said so. Airbnb told The Huffington Post the incident happened in February near Big Bear, California. It has gained traction now after a video taken of the tearful guest the night of the racist exchange has gone viral.

On Wednesday, Facebook unveiled a handful of new tools aimed at reducing the spread of so-called “revenge porn” on the site, a categoryMark Zuckerberg defined as “any intimate photo shared without permission.” To be clear, Facebook has never permitted this type of content, and generally restricts nudity of all sorts. These new tools simply enable Facebook to remove a photo faster when a user reports it.