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Tamara Greene’s daughter claims police killed her mother because of Kwame Kilpatrick affair
Ashly Jackson revived the unsolved mystery in a viral TikTok video
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit, News, Crime, Tamara Greene, Kwame Kilpatrick, stripper, Manoogian Mansion, social media, TikTok, Ashly Jackson, Detroit police
Thanedar blames hack for social media post that called Israel a ‘terrorist state’
The initial post prompted some to question whether the Detroit Democrat has once again changed his position on Israel
Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Hacked, social media, Twitter, X, Shri Thanedar, Congress, Hamas, Israel, Palestine
Hamtramck City Council candidate doubles down on comments about Holocaust, child marriage, and homosexuality
Nasr Hussain suggested the Holocaust was ‘advance punishment’ for Israel’s brutality toward Palestinians
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, LGBTQ+, Politics & Government, Hamtramck, Hamtramck City Council, politics, Holocaust, Anti-Semitism, Palestinians, Nasr Hussain, Facebook, social media
Charlie LeDuff says he’s no partisan hack
The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter insists he’s just a man of the people
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Media, Charlie LeDuff, Dana Nessel, social media, No Bullshit News Hour, Podcast, ML Elrick, ML's Soul of Detroit
Detroit News fires Charlie LeDuff over c-word insult
In an interview with Metro Times, LeDuff was defiant and said he has “nothing to apologize for”
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Media, News, Charlie LeDuff, Detroit News, media, Dana Nessel, Michigan, Attorney General, No BS News Hour, social media
Growing neofascist group spreads hate in metro Detroit, trains to become ‘white warriors’
The Great Lakes Active Club has been noticeably active as its members continue to recruit white supremacists
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Active clubs, Great Lakes Active Club, racism, hate group, Telegram, social media, Detroit, Michigan, Southern Poverty Law Center, Counter Extremism Project
‘Bimbo’: Text messages reveal internal outrage over Michigan State Police’s ‘Barbie’ post
Metro Times obtained messages from top MSP leaders about a deleted social media meme that some officers found controversial
Tags: Michigan News, News, Media, Politics & Government, Barbie, Michigan, Michigan State Police, movie, women, texts, Freedom of Information Act, social media, Twitter, Facebook
‘Verified’ account spreads misinformation on X, claiming to be ‘Detroit News’ fact-checker
The user behind the imposter account blamed a spelling mistake on his bowel movement
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Twitter, X, social media, Detroit News, Detroit, fact-checker, media, Elon Musk
Livonia police criticized for response to racist attack on Black teen
An adult severely assaulted a 13-year-old Black child while yelling racial slurs
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Livonia, Livonia Police Department, Assault, racism, Facebook, social media, police
Ex-state Rep. Cynthia Johnson goes on transphobic rant
The Detroit Democrat drew strong criticism for her comments
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Cynthia Johnson, Democrat, Detroit, State House, transphobia, LGBTQ, social media, Facebook
Jack White deactivates Twitter after Musk’s ‘asshole move’ to restore Trump’s account
And really, who can blame him?
Tags: Music News, Music, Music, Jack White, Twitter, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, social media
Birmingham family sues Snapchat after son died from fentanyl-laced pill he bought on app
Snapchat features, such as disappearing messages, makes the social media platform popular among children and young adults for illicit drug deals, the suit alleges
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Social media, Snap, SnapChat, Birmingham, drugs, fentanyl, opioids, drug overdose, lawsuit
Detroit cop’s suspension for posting porn online is ‘sexist and dramatically puritan,’ activist says
Officer Janelle Zielinski resigned from the force after her superiors discovered an OnlyFans account where she was posting porn
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, Detroit police, Janelle Zielinski, Instagram, social media, OnlyFans, pornography
Sterling Heights students mock George Floyd’s death in racist video
‘Shoot him in the head,’ white students exclaim as they aim water guns at a Black classmate
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Social media, TikTok, Instagram, video, racism, football, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Sterling Heights, Macomb County
Current and former Flint city officials call Black council members ‘ghetto’
‘This is just wrong. I am so offended,’ one councilwoman responded
Tags: Politics & Elections, News, Racism, Flint City Council, Eva Worthing, social media, Facebook, Jerri Winfrey-Carter
Detroit native covers war in Ukraine with a big heart and unique perspective
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Terrence Jermaine Starr, journalism, race, Ukraine, war, international, reporting, University of Illinois, Detroit, social media
Michigan AG joins nationwide investigation into TikTok’s impact on mental health of young people
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Michigan News, Facebook, Meta, TikTok, Dana Nessel, Michigan, mental health, social media
How social media drives a ‘regression to the extremes’
By Abdul El-Sayed
Tags: The Incision, social media, Facebook, Twitter
Wayne County Executive Evans kind of apologizes for joking about sexist gag gift
Tags: Wayne County, Warren Evans, Stephen Grady Muhammad, sexism, Facebook, apology, social media
Michigan woman won’t be charged for outing anti-mask nurses on Twitter
Tags: Livingston County, Livingston County Sheriff's Office, Livingston County Prosecutor's Office, Kasey Helton, Mike Murphy, COVID-19, masks, anti-maskers, social media, Twitter, first amendment
Netflix is still looking for Detroit ‘Love is Blind’ contestants
Tigers fixing up run-down Comerica Park ahead of Opening Day with $30M investment
Royal Oak’s Hideaway has been transformed into the bar from ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’
By Layla McMurtrie