Arkansas Gov needs to explain
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe is defending his plans to pardon his son for a 2003 marijuana conviction, saying he's receiving the same type of second chance hundreds of other nonviolent offenders have had.
Beebe appeared Tuesday on his monthly call-in show on the Arkansas Educational Television Network. He said he's not going to treat his son any better or any worse than others who have sought pardons during his administration.
Beebe last week said his next round of intended pardons, due in December, would include one for his son Kyle, who was convicted in 2003 of felony marijuana possession with intent to deliver.
Beebe, a Democrat, is leaving office in January due to term limits. He's being succeeded by Republican Gov.-elect Asa Hutchinson.
Besides the groups-only notifications section, the only thing this app adds is the ability to create groups with preset themes, as seen in the image below. Users must still manually select participants, however. Contrary to what the screenshot suggests, the app does not integrate with Facebook lists to allow one-tap creation of groups based on those lists.
Facebook also attempted to induce group discovery by adding a "Discover" tab to the app that will suggest groups based on a user's interests. While the function is hardly revolutionary, it would be a departure from how people are currently using Groups. Looking for groups to actively participate in without any real-life prompting would be new, and very much what sites like Meetup and Yelp do.
Don't worry about losing Groups functionality in the main Facebook app. The company isn't pulling a "full Messenger," and it says it will "continue to make those experiences faster and better, too."
