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Facebook is a great tool, but it isn’t without its issues.

Facebook is a great tool, but it isn’t without its issues. Anyone can create a Facebook Group for any purpose. While lots of sports teams and clubs use Groups to organize things, there are also Groups that are used to coordinate abuse, sell illegal substances, and generally just violate Facebook’s Terms of Service . If you find one, here’s how to report it to Facebook.

Head to the offending Group and click on the three dots. You don’t need to be a member to see them.

From the dropdown, select Report Group.

Select the reason you’re reporting the Group and click Continue.

Facebook will offer you a range of possible actions. To place a report, select Submit to Facebook for Review.

On mobile, the process is similar. Visit the group. If you are a member tap Info and then Report Group.

If you ware not a member, tap View Group Info and then Report Group.

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You should only report a Group if the whole thing is breaking Facebook’s Terms of Service. If there’s just one or two posts, you can report them individually  instead.

Communities can only thrive as places to connect when they are safe. Th ese new tools will help admins prevent the spread of misinformation and manage interactions in their group: 

• Adding the ability through Admin Assist to automatically decline incoming posts that have been identified as containing false information. Incoming posts that contain content rated by third-party fact-checkers as false are declined before they are seen in the group, which helps reduce the visibility of misinformation. 
• Expanding the functionality of “mute” and updating it to “suspend,” so admins and moderators can temporarily suspend group members and participants from posting, commenting, reacting, participating in a group chat, and creating or entering a Room in a group.

More Easily Manage a Community

To help make it easier for group admins to manage their communities, with these updates they can: 

• Use Admin Assist to automatically approve or decline member requests , based on specific criteria they set up, including whether the prospective member has completed all member questions.
• More efficiently manage their group with new updates to Admin Home . This includes an overview page on desktop to quickly review things that need attention, a layout update to more easily sort and search tasks, and an insights summary on mobile to help admins understand the growth and engagement of their groups.

Grow Groups with the Relevant Audiences

These new tools will help admins who want to grow their communities by reaching the relevant people: 

• To help make sharing groups and connecting with a specific community a more seamless experience, we’ve added QR codes which admins can download or copy and paste from the Share menu and share as they like. When scanned, people will be directed to the group’s About page where you can join or request to join.
• We’ve also added the option for admins to send invites via email to invite people to join their groups.

Read more about these new tools and features on the Facebook Community website .

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Foxtrot, Dom’s Kitchen & Market Closing All Locations

The move comes five months after the company merged to form Outfox Hospitality

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Five months after Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market merged, the new company appears headed to bankruptcy and all its stores in Illinois, Texas, and the D.C. area are closing on Tuesday, April 23.

Corporate workers were informed Tuesday morning via a conference call with management that the stores would be closing by noon. Store workers were left in the dark and instructed not to talk to customers about the matter. Their emotions ranged from frustration to fear about losing their jobs. Dom’s locations in Lincoln Park and Old Town closed Tuesday morning, with one account claiming staff had to kick out Lincoln Park shoppers to close the store.

Outfox Hospitality — the combined venture of the two Chicago-based entities — is filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to Substack newsletter Snaxshot . A meeting was called for Tuesday evening, as confirmed by Eater, to discuss the company’s future with workers. Outfox has yet to return an official request for comment, though employees are scrambling after Snaxshot’s Monday afternoon scoop. No filings have shown up in court records, as of Tuesday morning. About 1,000 staffers work at Outfox across several states, with about 100 full-time workers in Chicago. No notices were made on Illinois ’ or Texas’ WARN report pages, which track notices of mass firings. In Illinois, that covers companies with 75 full-time workers; they’re legally mandated to submit layoff notices with a 60-day warning. WARN still applies if a company files for bankruptcy.

The company posted an announcement around 11:30 a.m. Central Time. Here’s a portion of the statement. There was no mention of bankruptcy:

This decision has not been made lightly, and we understand the impact it will have on you, our loyal customers, as well as our dedicated team members. We want to express our sincerest gratitude for your support and patronage throughout the years. It has been our highest honor to elevate the everyday and create a remarkable shopping experience for people who love food as much as we do. It has been a privilege serving you and being a part of your everyday lives.

Snaxshot reports that last week Dom’s didn’t make its routine purchase orders; the grocer has two Chicago-area locations in Lincoln Park (near the border of Lakeview) and Old Town. On a Monday visit to the Old Town location, the produce section was picked over, with several staples missing. Some items, like cucumbers, were already rotting. Several key members of Outfox C-Suite began jumping ship last week, Snaxshot reports.

In February, the company hired a new CEO, Rob Twyman, a 27-year vet of Whole Foods. Foxtrot debuted in 2016 in Chicago as a delivery-only app, capitalizing on liquor delivery. Sales boomed during the pandemic, with bars closed due to COVID precautions. But as the company matured, it grew into a modern alternative to corner stores, partnering with esteemed restaurant brands like Pretty Cool Ice Cream and pasta restaurant Tortello . It provided another place for restaurant owners to sell their goods and build their brand while giving Foxtrot an edge over traditional corner stores.

While growing its footprint, it began raising millions. In 2023 alone , the company raised $18.6 million in debt financing while expanding to 33 locations primarily in four markets: Chicago, Austin, Texas, Dallas, and the Washington, D.C. area. The company invested in stores in prime locations including Fulton Market and Wicker Park’s Four Corners and tapped Karen Herold — a restaurant designer who’s worked on trendy venues like GT Fish & Oyster , Maple & Ash , and the Guinness Open Gate Brewery — to create Foxtrots. There are 15 Foxtrots in Chicago in locations including Wilis Tower and the former Tribune Tower. Aside from the Willis, all are on the North Side . In January 2023, they brought in Chicago Bulls star Zach LaVine to hype up a candy collaboration . Foxtrot reps visited Chicago earlier this year and said the brand was interested in New York expansion.

Dom’s has historic Chicago grocery store connections. Bob Mariano was the chain’s co-founder and co-chair. Mariano was a friend of Dominick DiMatteo, of Dominick’s Finer Food fame. He worked through the ranks and eventually became CEO, but left after Safeway bought the chain. He would start a new brand, Mariano’s, which debuted in 2010 ( pending federal approval , Mariano’s is set to combine with Chicago’s iconic Jewel-Osco).

After Kroger took over Mariano’s, Bob Mariano left the company in 2016 and would eventually co-found Dom’s. Dom’s was supposed to open a location in summer in River North , plus a location in Fulton Market . Another location was headed to suburban Vernon Hills .

Dom’s, a store that toed between a basic grocery and a gourmet vendor, debuted in 2021 at the southwest corner of Diversey and Halsted in Lincoln Park. A second location opened in November 2022 in Old Town , and a ribbon cutting was attended by former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who listened as the company talked about expanding throughout Chicago; Dom’s goal was to open 15 stores in Chicago by 2025.

Lightfoot lauded Dom’s food court, which had an agreement with Bonci pizza, a famous Italian pizzeria endorsed by Anthony Bourdain, to sell pies. In Lightfoot’s eyes, stores like Dom’s were key to providing affordable prepared food options as inflation made restaurants costly for many people.

The Old Town location was controversial. Dom’s arrival pushed out Plum Market , a Michigan-based retailer that had found a comfortable home along Wells Street for nine years. Plum’s ownership was angry about the deal, saying it was done in secret, and didn’t allow them to negotiate. Apparently, according to Snaxshot, the Lincoln Park location was making money while Old Town struggled. Neither Bonci nor Pretty Cool Ice Cream’s owners knew about the shutdown when reached by phone on Tuesday morning.

In the last two weeks, workers were worried about the future of Outfox, which was a stark contrast to the image that ownership wanted to project. The company had shown ambition early in the year when it switched coffee roasters, bringing in La Colombe — Foxtrot’s coffee bar was considered competition with neighborhood coffee shops. They planned a pop-up dinner to drum up interest for a new snack. They saw potential in their private label chips and other snacks, including its Chicago-Style Hot Dog Chips . But in the last two weeks, workers sensed trouble for the once-promising company.

The story is developing and will be updated if more information becomes available.

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Israel gave no evidence UNRWA staff linked to ‘terrorism’: Colonna report

Report from former French foreign minister finds Israel has not backed up claims it made against refugee agency operating in Gaza.

Israel has not presented credible evidence to support its claims that UNRWA staff were members of “terrorist” groups, an independent review for the United Nations led by a former French foreign minister has said.

The claims against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) led to a massive funding deficit as several donor countries announced cuts.

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The independent review into the relief agency’s practices was also commissioned, as well as a separate investigation into the October attack itself, by the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services.

The review, headed by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and supported by three Nordic research institutes, makes clear that Israel failed to support its claims about UNRWA staff belonging to either Hamas’s military wing or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

In January, Israel accused UNRWA staff members of abetting the October 7 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,139 people and the capture of an unknown number of people, thought to be in excess of 200.

In the original six-page dossier, seen by Al Jazeera, Israeli intelligence provided a number of accusations against UNRWA without evidence, including that the agency’s facilities had been used by Hamas in its October attack. Moreover, according to the dossier, 12 staff members had participated directly in the attack, with 190 others offering intelligence and logistical support.

In March, the Israeli military claimed it had evidence implicating four more UNRWA staff members.

However, the Colonna report notes that Israel has not expressed any concerns about the UNRWA employee vetting process since 2011, making its first complaints about the process in January 2024.

A more detailed report produced by the Nordic research groups supporting Colonna wrote: “Israeli authorities have to date not provided any supporting evidence nor responded to letters from UNRWA in March, and again in April, requesting the names and supporting evidence that would enable UNRWA to open an investigation.”

The groups are the Swedish Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the Norwegian Chr Michelsen Institute, and the Danish Institute for Human Rights.

International backtracking

Based solely on the Israeli accusations, 18 donor countries, including UNRWA’s principal donor, the United States, suspended funding to the agency.

Nevertheless, while some – such as the United Kingdom – chose to wait on the findings from the Colonna report, the majority of donors had already reversed their initial positions and resumed funding, with some, such as the European Union, increasing their spending.

Only Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and the US have maintained funding suspensions. The US will maintain its suspension until March 2025, despite its own intelligence services in February expressing “low confidence” in the Israeli allegations.

Contacted by Al Jazeera, a US Department of State spokesperson confirmed it was “important the allegations made against [UNRWA] are thoroughly investigated”, although the ban on funding was implemented before any such investigation.

A spokesperson for the UK’s Foreign Office told Al Jazeera that it was “appalled” by the Israeli allegations and was exploring other avenues of getting humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Germany, one of Israel’s most steadfast allies, confirmed it had resumed funding for UNRWA activities in all areas except Gaza.

Impact in Gaza

“We have enough funding to carry us through till June. After that, it’s not clear how we’ll fund our work,” said Juliette Touma, director of communications for UNRWA. “No other agency can do what we do.”

“We previously operated throughout Gaza. However, in late March, Israel said it would block UNRWA food convoys into the north,” she added, referring to the area where experts have declared famine is imminent.

Famine now threatens millions of people in the Gaza Strip, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system, which is used by aid agencies to determine threat levels.

According to an IPC report, roughly 210,000 people living in northern Gaza and Gaza City are likely already experiencing famine.

The south and centre of Gaza, including Deir el-Balah, Khan Younis, and the governorate of Rafah, are classified as “emergencies” and expected to succumb to famine by July if no intervention or ceasefire comes.

“I’ve never known an area enter the IPC system so quickly,” Touma continued. “In Yemen, it took years before the IPC was activated. In Gaza, it took three months. Gaza is under siege.”

“Make no mistake: Hunger is being used as a weapon of war,” she said.

“Living conditions within the Strip are appalling. We have thousands of people living on top of each other. Many are living in the kind of tent you might set up in a garden. There are massive queues, just for the toilet. As you’d imagine, hygiene is abysmal.” she added.

Exacerbating matters has been a halt in the import of commercial supplies as a consequence of the fighting, meaning that toothpaste, soap and basic hygiene items are difficult to obtain.

“In terms of disease, we’re lucky that there was a high vaccination rate among the population. However, you can’t vaccinate against hunger,” Touma said.

Israeli opposition

Israel’s objection to UNRWA’s work among the Palestinian population has long been a bone of contention.

Last week, the head of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, told the UN Security Council that Israel sought to end the agency’s operations in Gaza.

“The agency’s requests to deliver aid to the north are repeatedly denied. Our staff are barred from coordination meetings between Israel and humanitarian actors,” Lazzarini said.

Continuing his comments, he told the 15-member body that the agency was the victim of “an insidious campaign to end” its activities, with “serious implications for international peace and security”.

Israel has suggested that other agencies, such as the UN World Food Programme, could fill the breach should UNRWA’s work in Gaza be halted.

But given the extent of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, no other agency appears to have the capability to replace UNRWA’s team of 30,000, many already deployed in Gaza, with workflows and systems in place.

Alternatives to the kind of access UNRWA has utilised throughout the war have only had a limited impact on alleviating the crisis.

Despite claims in recent days from both the US and Israel that additional aid had been allowed in, the UN has still reported that flows are painfully lower than those needed to sustain the population trapped in Gaza.

Backers therefore argue that UNRWA urgently needs to be allowed to work in Gaza without restrictions and with the full support of the international community.

It’s a position also held in the Colonna review, which notes that the agency’s work was “indispensible”, and that UNRWA “remains pivotal in providing life-saving humanitarian aid and essential social services, particularly in health and education, to Palestinian refugees in Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank”.

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