© 2024 Public Radio East
Public Radio For Eastern North Carolina 89.3 WTEB New Bern 88.5 WZNB New Bern 91.5 WBJD Atlantic Beach 90.3 WKNS Kinston 88.5 WHYC Swan Quarter 89.9 W210CF Greenville
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
89.3 WTEB operating at reduced power
US

Social Media Buzz: From 'Tech Bro' To Dolphin Selfie

An endangered baby dolphin died after beachgoers in Argentina passed it around to take photos. (Hernan Coria/Facebook)
An endangered baby dolphin died after beachgoers in Argentina passed it around to take photos. (Hernan Coria/Facebook)

A San Francisco tech worker is getting criticism online after he sent an open letter to the city’s mayor and police chief complaining that homeless people are turning the city into a “shanty town.” Justin Keller wrote, “we live in a free market society” and “I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people to and from my way to work every day.”

Femi Oke, host of “The Stream” on Al Jazeera English, joins Here & Now’s Robin Young to look at that and other stories on social media today, including a dolphin selfie in Argentina and an app to avoid the morality police in Iran.

Guest

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

US