The Reds were already out of the fifth round draw after succumbing to a shock 2-1 reverse defeat to Championship side Wolves by the time Chelsea took to the field in their home clash with Brentford on Saturday afternoon - a match Antonio Conte’s side won 4-0. ‘Chelsea’s cup run not hindering title bid ' Michy Batshuayi’s penalty was followed by goals from Willian, Pedro and Branislav Ivannovic as Chelsea eased into the last 16 of the competition they last won in 2012....

The post in question featured an meme calling on violence towards those who criticize Muslims. “The post also included hashtags referring to President Emmanuel Macron of France as the devil and calling for the boycott of French products,” the Oversight Board, which is made up of 40 legal and human rights experts, wrote in its blog entry. The Oversight Board explained that while the post in question was removed under its Violence and Incitement Community Standard, it noted that “considering the circumstances of the case, the majority of the Board did not believe that this post was likely to cause harm....

On Monday, Zuckerberg started Facebook’s quarterly earnings call by discussing the leaked internal documents and tried to downplay the impact of the papers’ revelations. “Good faith criticism helps us get better, but my view is that we are seeing a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company,” Zuckerberg said. “The reality is that we have an open culture that encourages discussion and research on our work so we can make progress on many complex issues that are not specific to just us....

Facebook broke down the data to figure out which team was most popular in each county across the United States (and the census divisions in Canada). The map Facebook created is based on number of “Likes” for each team. MORE: Add beards and afros on Baseball Reference | Best promo for each team | Cubs to honor Ernie Banks Here’s what we learned: the Yankees have fans everywhere, from New York to North Carolina to Nevada....

MORE: How ESPN personalities fared after they left the network Every ill-advised post, every rush to judgment and every horrible hot take lives forever. It’s the world we live in. It’s hard out here for a sports journalist. That’s why you have to tread lightly, especially when letting one of the biggest athletes in the world have it prematurely. Colin Cowherd, who’s had to eat crow, plenty of times in his career from firing off at the mouth only to be proven to be wrong as two left shoes might be feeling the heat now after a Facebook user recently put together a video to highlight just how wrong Cowherd was about LeBron James in the Finals....

The social media giant’s former product manager launch a fresh attack on CEO Mark Zuckerberg over his alleged complacency on online hate, following a series of bombshell media interviews and testimony before a Senate committee. Zuckerberg has dismissed recent criticism as “deeply illogical.” “I came forward now because now is the time to act,” Haugen said. “The failures of Facebook are making it harder to act.” Haugen said Facebook cis “unquestionably” making hate speech online worse as groups push people towards extreme content....

Guy Rosen, the company’s vice president of integrity, accused the Biden administration of “finger pointing” by choosing to “blame a handful of American social media companies” for misinformation amid a rise in COVID-19 case numbers. In a blog post on Saturday, Rosen wrote that “facts — not allegations — should help inform” efforts to overcome misinformation. He said the company does “take action” and has removed more than 18 million instances of “COVID-19 misinformation” and reduced the visibility of more than 167 million pieces of COVID-19 content debunked by its fact-checking partners....

Unlike local prostitution, the trade in foreign women is relatively new to Europe. In 1989, the fall of the Soviet Union created a region of economic chaos in which criminals found it easy to dupe desperate young women into the sex trade. The estimated number of women trafficking into or within Western Europe exploded from near zero to 80,000 per year by 1995, and has continued rising steadily to 120,000 today, says the IOM....

While the U.S. military has denied any role in the attack that took place late Saturday, local time, unnamed U.S. officials cited in major outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have placed the blame on Israel, a U.S. ally and Iran’s top foe, which has neither accepted nor denied involvement. No other entity has come forward with claims of responsibility. But with President Joe Biden halting efforts to revive participation in the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), administration officials including Secretary of State Antony Blinken have asserted that “every option remains on the table” in ensuring that Tehran could not produce a nuclear weapon....

In an effort to close an ongoing investigation by the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), Apple announced today that it would allow “reader apps,” like Netflix, Spotify, and Kindle, to link away from the app store to their own websites and payment processing systems. While the deal was struck in Japan, Apple said in a Wednesday statement that it’ll apply to users across the globe in early 2022. The move will allow these companies to avoid the up to 30 percent commission charge Apple applies to developers that sell their services through its App Store....

Before this current outbreak, monkeypox was only usually recorded in areas of rural Africa. And it appears to be spreading differently than before. Direct, physical contact is believed to be the main source of transmission, however there have been queries as to whether it could spread through different routes. And as with any outbreak, there is an onslaught of information online. Particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic, people are eager to know how exactly it can be transmitted, in order to take preventative measures....

Yet with scientists discovering a growing number of exoplanets all around the universe, many new candidates to be the perfect Earth 2.0 have emerged. For example, in February 2022 Newsweek reported that astronomers have spotted two mini-Neptune exoplanets, which, as they lose their puffy atmospheres, are possibly transforming into so-called “super-Earths”. But have we actually found any exoplanets that we could live on, and, if so, how can we tell from so far away?...

Legislators on both sides of the aisle have called for additional stimulus to help Americans struggling with the economic fallout of the pandemic. Democrats and Republicans put forth plans of their own, but they’ve yet to see eye-to-eye on the best path forward, with Democrats criticizing Republicans’ packages for being insufficient, and Republicans balking at the price tag of Democrats’ plans. One thing the two sides seem to agree on is that the other is to blame for the delay in getting relief into the pockets of their constituents....

The Claim Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tweeted that Biden had said on December 4, 2020, that he did not think the COVID vaccine should be mandatory, He shared a video of Biden, which he said was from December 2020, in which the then president-elect was asked: “Do you want vaccines to be mandatory?” To this, Biden said: “No I don’t think it should be mandatory, I wouldn’t demand it be mandatory....

Allies like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorn and Rand Paul have each made dramatic statements slamming the investigation, echoing Trump’s own condemnation. The DOJ has since unsealed the Mar-a-Lago search warrant citing grounds related to the “retrieval, storage, or transmission of national defense information or classified material.” But, irrespective of how the case develops, the outcry can also make ripe material for parody and misinformation too, no matter the side of political discourse it’s mined from....

The decision has sent a wave of mixed reactions. Some people applauded the company for holding Trump accountable, while the president’s supporters were outraged by Twitter’s alleged censorship and violation of free speech. German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Twitter’s move, calling it “problematic” because freedom of opinion is a fundamental right of “elementary significance.” “This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators—not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms,” said a spokesman on behalf of Merkel....

This distinct secretiveness was perhaps invaluable during his career as a KGB spy in Dresden, Germany, during the Cold War. However, of what little information we have of his time in the secret service, one particularly unusual rumor appears to have slipped his grasp. The Claim A tweet published on October 1, 2022, claimed that after the end of the Cold War, Putin (who was working in east Germany as a KGB spy) returned to what is now Saint Petersburg with a washing machine....

The spread of new variants means it is easier for people to catch COVID twice. One of those people was U.S. billionaire Elon Musk. The Claim On March 28th, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he “supposedly” has COVID after having caught it once before in 2020. Musk stated that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, is “the virus of Theseus”—a reference to the philosophical thought experiment called the Ship of Theseus, which asks whether an object can still be considered the same object if all of its components are replaced....

The Claim Images of designs for an “Official Trump Card,” intended to be carried by supporters of former President Donald Trump, have been shared widely on social media. Memes related to these and people’s proposed alternate designs for the cards, which look somewhat like credit cards, also spread on Twitter. The phrase “Trump cards” was the number 7 Twitter trend in the United States at time of writing. Posts related to this topic had garnered thousands of interactions by Thursday morning....

The Claim A number of Twitter users claimed that Greene had officially declared income from AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson in August. Business Insider’s Dave Levinthal tweeted that the Georgia Republican had “decried ‘vaccine Nazis.’ She says she’s not vaccinated against COVID-19 and won’t get vaccinated. “Greene is, however, an investor in Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson — like many of her congressional colleagues,” Levinthal said. Political commentator Lindy Li tweeted to 157,000 followers that Greene had invested in “the three companies whose vaccines she repeatedly attacks: Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson....