While U.S. lawmakers press Twitter and Facebook to better police their platforms against Russian social media trolls and ponder tougher sanctions against Moscow, American voters remain vulnerable to divisive messaging and misinformation before midterm elections in November, experts told VOA. “All of us, left and right [politically], are all very susceptible to being fooled by […]
A quick-thinking citizen and a Carrs employee were instrumental in identifying a shoplifting Anchorage man who was ultimately charged with Forgery I and Theft III on Sunday, APD reported on Tuesday. Patrol officers responded to the Carrs on Gambell in reference to a shoplifter at 1:31 pm on Sunday. When they opened an investigation and […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May said Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump was wrong to retweet anti-Muslim videos from a far-right British group of ultranationalists that she described as “hateful.” “The fact that we work together does not mean that we’re afraid to say when we think the United States has got it wrong, and be […]
A Wasilla woman was arrested on forgery charges after troopers respondedx to the Holiday Gas Station at the Pittman and Parks Highways on Monday night, the trooper dispatch revealed. According to the report, Wasilla resident, 37-year-old Mandy L. Edelen had attempted to pass off a fake $20 bill to buy $16 worth of food items […]