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☆ He thought the guy he met on vacation was just a fling. He turned out to be the love of his life
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

Guillermo was looking forward to meeting Larry, expecting “some casual fun.”Then, when Guillermo and Larry met, there was “chemistry” right away. “Palm Springs had seats, so I booked my standby flight, got to Palm Springs, checked into this resort. Then, a few days after meeting Larry, Guillermo got an unexpected phone call from his mother in Costa Rica. Guillermo’s love of flying meant that, for him, the four-hour journey across the country was part of the fun. The last piece of the puzzleGuillermo and Larry love to travel together, here they are in Florence, Italy.

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☆ Elon Musk laid him off. Now he’s aiming to build a social network that’s better than X
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

They wanted it to be everything most social media struggles to be: positive, safe and inclusive. And as the user base of the platform now known as X splinters, so does Black Twitter, the community of Black users that was a big part of Twitter’s growth and culture. Legacy social media platforms have repeatedly failed to anticipate how their products might be manipulated or misused until something goes wrong. Alphonzo Terrell, co-founder of the social media app Spill, demonstrates how the platform works during an interview with CNN. CNNEven with AI content moderation models, other social media companies often fail to catch harmful content that makes it onto their platforms.

Persons: Alphonzo Terrell, he’d, Terrell – who’d, –, Elon Musk, Terrell, DeVaris Brown, “, ‘, ’ ” Terrell, who’s, Brown, Musk, ”, Maya Umemoto Gorman, …, ” Terrell, Brown —, Kenya Parham, weren’t, Elon, Maya Iman ‘, they’ve, “ That’s, Alphonzo Terrell “, Paul Barrett, they’d, it’s, — don’t, Jalaiah Harmon, Taylor Lorenz, Latoya Lee, ” Lee Organizations: New, New York CNN, Twitter, Elon, CNN, Spill, Washington Post, HBO, Showtime, YouTube, Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, NYU Stern Center for Business, Human, Apple, Kapor Center, Social, Mac Venture, Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime, VH1, Pew Research Center, New York Times, California State University Fullerton Locations: New York, Los Angeles, Kenya, Spill, Georgia

☆ Fyre Festival 2 tickets are now on sale – and selling out – according to embattled founder Billy McFarland
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Founder of the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival Billy McFarland appears ready for round two. “Since 2016 FYRE has been the most talked about festival in the world. Many of the musicians who were expected to perform ended up backing out of the festival because of the chaotic planning. Prosecutors said in a statement at the time that McFarland defrauded Fyre Festival investors and ticket vendors of about $26 million, and that he’d participated in a separate “sham ticket scheme” in which he sold bogus tickets to fashion, music and sporting events while out on bail. McFarland was released from prison in 2022 after serving nearly four years of his six-year sentence.

Persons: Billy McFarland, McFarland, ”, FYRE, Major Lazer, – who’d, –, he’d Organizations: CNN, Southern, of New, Prosecutors, Fyre Locations: McFarland, Caribbean, Exumas, of New York

☆ This woman used an AirTag to track her lost bag -- and fly to get it
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Three months earlier, Shuster had bought an AirTag – Apple’s tracking devices – to know where her daughter’s bag was. “It had moved maybe 50 feet, and the AirTag was embedded in the bag – I doubted someone stole it,” she says. A day off work and a trip to ChicagoThe bag was at Chicago, in exactly the place the AirTag had said it was. ‘We never heard of that’While United staff said the bag was in Baltimore, the AirTag showed its correct location: Chicago. Why couldn’t the guy at baggage claim in Denver call Chicago?

Persons: Sandra Shuster, Shuster, Ruby, –, didn’t, “, ’, ’ ”, we’re, they’d, ”, Barhydt Ruby, ‘ Mam, Nam, she’d, “ We’ve, ORD, I’d, It’s, Shuster –, ” United, we’ve, ” Shuster, she’ll, that’s, She’ll, ’ “ Organizations: CNN, United, Denver, Airlines, Chicago, United’s Twitter, Twitter, ” Staff, ”, ‘ Airlines Locations: Denver, Chicago, Baltimore, O’Hare, San Francisco, California

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