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Troubleshooting issues with your Facebook and Instagram connection? Here are 4 possible solutions

I can’t link my Instagram and Facebook accounts. What now?

Our support team often hears from clients who are having trouble connecting an account to Reportei. Many of these reports are about issues regarding Instagram and Facebook integration.

There are several factors related to these two social media platforms that may be causing errors. Because of this, we can’t always predict, monitor, or have complete control over an issue.

In any case, you must link the accounts to generate reports with Reportei. So, we’re here to offer any support our clients might need to recover that connection as efficiently as possible.

With this in mind, we’ve done lots of research, looking for references among international tools with which people have reported the same issues. We’ve reached several conclusions about the most frequent causes and identified four possible steps to help you out if you’re experiencing any of these problems as well. Ready?

What might be causing the issue?

Before we get to the solution, it’s important to understand possible scenarios that could be causing errors in the connection of your Instagram and Facebook accounts. Among the most common, you may come across:

• integration errors between your accounts, which cause the “Review Account Connection” banner to pop up in your Facebook’s business page settings; • the Instagram profile and Facebook page were not linked correctly. In other words, the person who linked the accounts did not have access to the Facebook page. It’s important to remember that you must be the page admin to connect accounts; • the person who switched the account to a Business profile and linked it to Facebook is no longer the page admin; • you attempted to link Instagram and Facebook through the Facebook page settings, which doesn’t always work as expected.

First, you should determine if any of the items above are causing the problem. Then, try these solutions.

1.Review your Facebook account’s connection

If you are running into the first error listed above, you’ll find the “Review Account Connection” message in your page settings. To view it, all you have to do is:

• access the Facebook business page linked to your Instagram profile. Click “Settings” then “Instagram”; • You will immediately receive the option to review your account’s connection. Click the button to start; • follow the step by step for recovering a link between accounts; • after the process is complete, return to Reportei and try connecting your account again, making sure all connections are active.

If you’re still having trouble after checking your connection, we suggest trying some of the following alternatives. Or, get in touch with Facebook’s support center as the issue might require specific attention.

2. Try reconnecting your Instagram account and Facebook page

Our clients have also tried disconnecting and reconnecting the Instagram account and Facebook page. The only way to do this is to be the administrator of the Facebook account, got it? So, before attempting this step, make sure you’re logged into your page on the Facebook app as well. Then, follow the next steps:

• open the Instagram app and tap the “Settings” tab; • then, select “account” and “linked accounts” to view the Instagram/ Facebook link; • try disconnecting and then reconnecting the page. Facebook will understand it has permission to authorize your Instagram account; • once you’ve done this, go back to Reportei and try connecting your Business Instagram again.

3.Switch your account back to a personal profile

If you are still having problems with account connections, here is something else that might work. Switch your account to personal, then switch it back to a business account. This solution is not the best, as you may lose account information during the process, but it is generally efficient. Before starting, we suggest using Instagram Insights to save your essential data so you can access it later. Next, follow the step by step below:

• check if you remain logged into your Instagram on a web page. If you are, log out; • access your Facebook page settings, and open the “Instagram” tab; • scroll down and click “Disconnect Instagram Account” and confirm to disconnect your Instagram profile; • once you’ve done this, open the Instagram app, tap “Settings” then “Account”; • at the bottom of the tab, select “Switch Account Type” then “Switch to Personal Account”; • return to your Facebook page settings, add your Instagram account, confirm that you would like to switch your profile to a business account, and fill out the necessary info; • finally, return to the Instagram app and make sure your account has switched to Business (a notification should show up on your screen); • if everything is in order, all you have to do now is try connecting to Reportei again.

In some cases, you might receive a notification informing you that you have reached the limit of Businesses you are allowed to create. This issue could stop you from switching back.

One possible cause is Facebook now requires that any Business profile be associated with a Business Manager account, and each is allowed only two.

When you switch to a business profile without associating it to an existing Business Manager account, Facebook creates a new one automatically. Because of this, you might reach the limit for the number of Businesses you can create, further complicating the process. But don’t worry! There’s another step you can try, and we’ll walk you through it below.

4. Connect your profile to an ad account

Before you go through the next step by step, follow the instructions outlined above for switching your account from Business to Personal. But, before switching it back to a business account, link it to Business Manager by following these steps:

• In your Manager account, select the “Business settings” tab; • Click on “Accounts” then “Instagram Accounts”; • tap “Add” and fill in your Instagram username and password; • next, select your Ad account and the page you would like to link it to; • finally, return to your Facebook page settings and wrap up the linking process following the steps outlined in the previous topic; • if everything is in order, return to Reportei to connect your account and create reports.

What if the issue continues?

As we have said above, errors in the connection of Instagram and Facebook accounts may happen due to several factors beyond our technical team’s reach.

If none of these steps our clients have tried worked for you, it’s essential to contact Facebook’s support team. That way, you can report the problem and look into alternative solutions. Facebook’s support team can address your needs in detail and provide help for less common errors.

Now, if any of these steps worked for you, or you found another effective solution for solving problems in your account, share them with us in the comment section. Your experience might help lots of other users link their Instagram accounts to Facebook successfully!

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11 Common Facebook Problems and Errors (and How to Fix Them)

Facebook has lots of problems and frustrations. Here are fixes for the most annoying Facebook issues and errors you'll come across.

Even though nearly everyone uses Facebook, there's plenty wrong with the platform. For every great story or picture you see on Facebook, you have to put up with a dozen low-quality memes, annoying posts, and frustrating user interface elements.

We'll help you put a stop to these Facebook annoyances. Let's look at solutions for some common Facebook problems and errors, so you don't have to put up with them anymore.

1. Require Reviews for Tags

Facebook tagging is a fun feature on the surface, but it's also a privacy risk. If someone takes an embarrassing picture of you and tags you in it, all your friends will be able to see that picture. There's also a risk that someone could use a tagged post to obtain too much personal information about you.

In 2021, Facebook discontinued its facial recognition feature, meaning that the service will no longer recognize your face and suggest it as a tag in photos for your friends. Manual tagging for photos and posts is still an option, however.

You can't completely block photo tags on Facebook, though you can prevent others from seeing tags. Click your profile at the top-right, then go to Settings & privacy > Settings > Privacy > Profile and tagging to see the relevant options.

Here, change the Who can see posts you're tagged in on your profile? to Only me , if you don't want tags to appear at all. You can also change the options under Reviewing to require your approval before tags appear to your friends.

If Facebook Tagging Isn't Working

If it seems like Facebook tagging isn't working, meaning that typing @ followed by someone's name doesn't function, the reason is likely that your friend disabled this option on their account. Try tagging someone else and see if that works. If you still have problems, refer to sections #10 and #11 below for tips on troubleshooting deeper Facebook errors.

2. Mute Excessive Posters on Facebook

We all know someone who posts all the time on Facebook:

• An uncle shares too many political rants.
• Your grandpa has no idea how to use Facebook and posts nonsense every day.
• That one friend shares too many pictures of their pet.
• A friend from college copies and pastes a blurry JPEG riddled with grammatical errors to let you know that they really hate cancer.

These scenarios result in a Facebook friend dilemma. You don't want to unfriend these people and hurt their feelings, but you're also sick of seeing their posts. The solution is to unfollow them; you won't see their updates anymore, but will still remain friends.

To unfollow someone on Facebook , visit their profile page. On the right side below their cover photo, you should see a box that says Friends . Click that, then select Unfollow .

Now, you won't have to suffer from that person's posts anymore. You'll still be friends, so you can visit their timeline when you want to check out what they're up to. And if you change your mind, just click the Follow button to start seeing their posts in your feed again.

For a short-term solution, you can also click the three-dot Menu button on any post, then choose Snooze [Name] for 30 days . This will hide their posts for a month, so you can take a break from that person.

Unfollowing someone doesn't send them a notification, so don't worry about them knowing. If you ever want to see everyone you've unfollowed in one place, click your profile photo at the top-right of Facebook and choose Settings & privacy > Feed .

From the resulting menu, pick Reconnect and you'll see everyone you've unfollowed. Click the Plus button to follow any of them again.

3. Keep Important Friends First

On the opposite end of the posting spectrum are friends whose posts you don't want to miss. Facebook's always-changing algorithms mean you might not ever see certain updates from friends. To combat this, you can mark your closest friends to see their updates at the top of your Facebook feed.

Visit the friend's page whose posts you want to prioritize. Click the Friends box again, but this time, select Favorites . Facebook will then put updates from that person closer to the top when you refresh your feed. You're able to add up to 30 people to the Favorites list.

To see who's on your Favorites list, visit the same Feed panel as above and choose Favorites . This will show all your friends; click All at the top-right and change the box to Favorites Only to see who's on the list and easily remove people if needed.

4. Opt Out of Targeted Ads on Facebook

Facebook makes most of its money from advertising. Thus, the platform spends a lot of time trying to serve you the most relevant ads in the hopes you'll interact with them. By default, Facebook tracks you everywhere you go and uses your browsing habits to influence what ads you see. You can opt out of these personalized ads and see more general ones based on your public characteristics.

To do so, click your profile photo at the top-right of Facebook's interface and select Settings & privacy > Settings . On the left sidebar, click the See more in Accounts Center link, as this setting is now applied to all your Meta accounts. Once on this new page, click Ad preferences > Ad settings .

Here, you'll see a few categories. Choose No under Activity information from ad partners and Facebook won't use your activity on other sites to show ads on Facebook.

Open the Categories used to reach you and you can prevent Facebook from using information like your employer, education, and relationship status to show ads. Pick Other Categories at the bottom to see what Facebook thinks you're interested in; choose Remove for any topics you don't want to influence ads.

Next, Audience-based advertising lets you see advertisers that include you on their lists, based on your information or activity. You can check each of these lists, see why you're on it, and prevent that list from being used to show you ads here.

Setting Social interactions to Only Me prevents Facebook from using pages that you like to show ads to your friends.

Finally, if you disable the slider in Ads shown off of Meta , websites that use Meta's ad services can't use your profile to affect the ads you see outside of Facebook.

5. Stop Sharing Posts With Everyone

Just like you get sick of seeing other people's posts on Facebook, sometimes you don't want to share your own updates with certain friends. Maybe you don't want your boss to see what you were up to on your day off, or don't care for another round of commentary on your life from your sister. Using a few methods, you can easily hide your posts from certain people.

If you only want to hide a post from someone once, click the audience selector button in the Create Post window. This appears under your name and probably says Friends or Public . The audience menu has many options to let you control exactly who sees your updates.

One option is to choose Friends except and search for any friends you don't want to see the post. Click the red Remove button to keep them from seeing the post, then Save Changes to finish.

Conversely, you can pick Specific friends to only share with certain people you pick. To get even more granular, try the Custom option, which lets you share with specific people or lists while preventing certain people or lists from seeing the post.

To keep someone from seeing your posts all the time, you can add them to your Restricted list . People on this list won't see anything you post unless it's set to Public or you tag them in it. To add someone to this list, visit their page, select the Friends button, and then click Edit Friend List . Scroll down and click the Restricted list.

In this panel, you can also add that person to the Close Friends group. This list also provides an easy way to share posts exclusively with your most trusted friends, and is an option in the audience selector.

6. Block Annoying Auto-Playing Videos

Very few people like videos that play as soon as you scroll past them. They're loud and can catch you off-guard if you thought your volume was muted. Plus, if you're on a metered connection, they're a waste of data.

To turn off auto-play for videos on Facebook, click your profile picture again and choose Settings & privacy > Settings . Click the Videos tab on the left, then set the Auto-Play Videos option to Off .

7. Block Annoying App Invites

Facebook features hundreds of games, nearly all of them designed to waste your time and//or take your money. If you're sick of friends pleading for extra lives in Facebook games, you can block all Facebook invites and requests by game or by person.

To do this, take another trip to Settings & privacy > Settings > Privacy and pick the Blocking tab on the left this time. Find the Block app invites section, click Edit , and enter the name of any friend who's invited you incessantly. You'll automatically block all game requests from them in the future. This won't affect any other interactions with them on Facebook.

If you'd like, you can also enter an app's name in the Block apps field. This will prevent it from contacting you and using your non-public Facebook information. If desired, use the other fields here to granularly block people on Facebook through various channels.

8. Change the Facebook Interface to Your Liking

You can't change many interface elements of Facebook through the default options. If you want to take your Facebook customization to the next level, you'll need to install a Facebook-transforming browser extension .

The best one is Social Fixer . It's available as a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Once you install Social Fixer, it makes several improvements out of the box.

To tweak how it runs, click the wrench icon that it shows in the upper-right corner of every Facebook page, followed by Social Fixer Options on the resulting menu, to customize your Facebook experience.

Social Fixer offers too many options to cover here, but the highlights include:

• Automatically enable Most Recent view in your News Feed ( General tab).
• Use Ctrl + Enter instead of Enter to submit comments ( General tab).
• Enable the Friend Manager to get alerts when people unfriend you ( General tab).
• Use the Hide Posts tab to hide any updates with certain words.
• Try some pre-made Filters to weed out politics, spoilers, and more.
• Check Display Tweaks to hide some annoying interface elements.

Dig into the Social Fixer options and you'll find many more ways to change the most annoying parts of Facebook.

Solutions for Common Facebook Errors

To wrap up, let's go over some tips for common Facebook errors you might run into.

9. You Forgot Your Facebook Password

Forgetting your Facebook login information is one of the most common issues people run into. We've written a full guide on recovering your Facebook account if you can't log in . And if you think your Facebook account was hacked , you need to act quickly.

10. You Can't Connect to Facebook

Since Facebook is one of the biggest sites on the web, it rarely experiences an outage. So the next time you can't get on Facebook, the problem likely lies on your end. You should follow a few steps if you think Facebook is down :

• Check a website like Down for Everyone to see if Facebook is really down. If it is, you can't do much more than wait.
• Visit another website to make sure your connection is working. If not, follow our guide to fixing internet connection problems .
• Clear your browser cache and cookies , or try to open Facebook in an incognito window or another browser. If this works, there may be something wrong with your current browser.
• Disable any VPNs or tracker-blocking extensions you're using, then try to connect to Facebook again without them.
• Reboot your PC and router.

These tips also come in handy for loading errors, like when the "see more" button is not working on Facebook, or a search says "More results may be available; see more when you're back online". Chances are that you have a problem with your browser or internet connection. Try rebooting your PC and signing into Facebook with another browser when this happens.

11. Facebook Says "There Was a Problem..."

A lot of Facebook's common errors start with "there was a problem," such as There was a problem following this profile or Sorry, there was a problem tagging someone in this post . Most of the time, these errors have to do with the privacy settings of the other account.

If you see these warnings, the other person might have blocked you on Facebook , turned off tagging, or otherwise changed their privacy options. You can check with them if you're not sure, though that might be awkward.

When you get messages like this, make sure you've done basic Facebook troubleshooting too. Refresh the page, try logging out and back in, and make sure you don't have a network issue, as described above. If you're comfortable with it, try asking a mutual friend if they have the same problem. This can confirm your suspicions that you've been blocked or otherwise restricted.

How to Fix Facebook Problems Easily

We've shared fixes for some of the most common Facebook problems and errors. By flipping the right settings or using powerful extensions, you can make Facebook a more pleasant experience for yourself.

There are lots of other aspects of Facebook to master, so make sure you know how to put its various elements to use.

Connect your Instagram account to a Facebook page to unlock features including scheduling capabilities!

Unlock the full potential of your Instagram account by connecting it to a Facebook page and gain access to incredible features, including the ability to schedule your posts with Hopper HQ!

At Hopper HQ , we understand the importance of streamlining your social media strategy.

That's why we offer a powerful scheduling tool that allows you to effortlessly create, plan, and publish your content in advance. While you work, sleep, eat, or play, Hopper HQ will automatically publish your flawless content at the perfect time. It's like having your very own social media assistant! ✨

In this article, we'll guide you through:

How to connect your Instagram and Facebook accounts in the Instagram app.

How to connect your Instagram and Facebook accounts on the Facebook website.

Troubleshoot common hurdles and provide quick fixes for any account connection difficulty.

How to connect your Instagram and Facebook in the Instagram app

If your Instagram account is a Personal account type, follow these simple steps:

Go to your Instagram profile and tap the ⚙️ Settings and Privacy.

Tap 'Account type and tools', and then tap 'Switch to Professional Account'.

Follow the workflow to select the category of your Instagram account and check the Business or Creator box.

Review your contact info and connect your Instagram account to your existing Facebook Page or create a new one within the Instagram app.

Already have a Business account type? No worries! Here's how to connect your Instagram and Facebook:

Open the Instagram mobile app and go to your profile page.

Press 'Edit Profile'.

Under Public business information, select 'Page'.

Follow the instructions to connect or create a Facebook page for your Instagram account.

Fantastic! Now that you're connected, head over to Hopper HQ and experience the ultimate time-saving solution for your social media management.✅

How to connect your Instagram and Facebook on the Facebook website

Facebook Page Connection on Classic Facebook Pages

Open your Facebook Page.

Select Settings from the left menu.

Click on Instagram.

To connect an Instagram account, choose Connect account. Ensure that "Allow access to Instagram messages in Inbox" is toggled on, and then click Continue. Enter your Instagram account's Username and Password, and select Log in.

Once done, it may take up to 1 minute for Facebook to update. Congratulations, you're connected! 🎉

Facebook Page Connection with the New Pages Experience

Switch to your new Page.

Click on Settings.

From the Professional dashboard in the left menu, select Linked accounts.

To connect an account, click Connect account. Enter your Instagram account's Username and Password, and select Log in.

Voilà! Did you know that Hopper HQ offers a 14-day free trial for new users? Start your free trial now and discover the game-changing features of our platform!

Troubleshooting Account Connection Difficulties

Encountering issues with connecting your account? We've got you covered! Here are some common hurdles and quick fixes:

Remove Hopper HQ from your Facebook Business Integrations

If you're unable to find the option to connect your account via Facebook, it's possible that you need to remove Hopper HQ from your business integrations and start fresh.

Here's what you can do:

1. Log into your Facebook account and visit this page where you can manage your business integrations. Look for Hopper HQ in the list.

2. Once you've located Hopper HQ, simply click on the remove button to remove it from your integrations. Afterward, return to your dashboard and attempt to connect your account again.

If removing Hopper HQ from your business integrations doesn't resolve the issue, there may be other factors preventing a successful connection with your business or creator profile. Let's explore some of these potential issues and their solutions.

Ensure Facebook Access role on Facebook Page

To connect your Instagram and Facebook accounts, which enables analytics and additional great features on your Hopper HQ account, it's important that your Instagram account is a business or creator account type and your personal Facebook profile has 'Facebook Access' for the corresponding Facebook page.

If you're unable to see the Instagram account you're trying to connect on Hopper HQ, it could indicate that you don't have 'Facebook Access' permissions for the associated Facebook page. You can easily verify this by following these steps:

How to check your page role in Classic Pages

1. Go to the Facebook page linked to your Instagram business or creator profile. Click on "Settings" at the top of the page, then navigate to the "Page Roles" tab in the left-hand menu.

2.  Ensure that your personal Facebook profile is listed as an admin for the page. Note that any other permissions won't be sufficient.

How to check your page role in New Page Experience

1. To check your page role settings, head over to the Facebook page connected to your Instagram business profile.

2. Ensure you are Managing the page.

3. Click on settings

4. Click on New Pages experience

Here you will see a list of Facebook profiles with Facebook access and task access . Only profiles with Facebook access can manage access.

If you do not hold Facebook access , you will need to contact the page owner and ask them to grant you an admin role, or alternatively, you can have them connect the account to Hopper HQ instead.

Your Instagram isn’t a Business or Creator Profile

If your Instagram isn't connected to Facebook, don't worry! You just need to have an Instagram business or creator account type to establish the connection.

Converting your profile to a business or creator profile is a breeze, and we've got you covered with a step-by-step guide. Check it out here and get ready to unlock the full potential of Hopper HQ's features!

How to check your Instagram is linked to Facebook

No worries, we've got you covered with simple steps to check the connection:

Grab your iOS or Android device and open up Instagram. Head to your profile and tap on "Edit Profile."

Look for the "Public business information" section. Here, you'll find out if your Instagram account is linked to a Facebook page. You may need to confirm the connection.

If you see a Facebook page listed, great job! Your Instagram profile is correctly linked. However, if you don't see any page listed, it means that your profile isn't linked to a Facebook page yet. This can happen if you connected your account via Facebook instead of Instagram. But worry not, we've got the steps to fix that right below 👇

Your Facebook page is in review with Facebook

Your account might currently be under review with Facebook. This review process is conducted by Facebook and may limit your access to certain features on Instagram and Facebook, including the ability to connect to third-party services like Hopper HQ.

Here's how you can address this situation and successfully re-connect your account to Hopper HQ:

Locate to the Instagram Connection page on Facebook.

Open your connected Facebook page

Click Professional dashboard in the left menu, and then click Linked accounts.

Select Instagram

If you see a button labeled 'Review Connection', click on it.

Follow the steps provided by Facebook for the review process

Once the review is complete, return to Hopper HQ and refresh your Instagram and Autopost account connections. You can find this option in your Account Settings.

Simply return to your Hopper HQ dashboard and attempt to reconnect your account again.

Remember, this review process is managed by Facebook, so it's essential to take any necessary actions or follow-up alerts from Facebook to complete the review successfully. If you encounter any difficulties or have further questions, don't hesitate to reach out to our dedicated support team. We're here to help you through the process!

Does my Facebook Profile or Page(s) have any restrictions?

If it appears your Meta accounts may be being restricted. Please open this Facebook link - https://www.facebook.com/business-support-home/ and follow the steps in this video:

Every Facebook Profile who has access to the Facebook page will need to check for any restrictions!

Now you're connected, what are you waiting for? ✨

Any issues, please reach out to our support team and we'll check for any known issues with Facebook's system.

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How to Fix a ‘Your Connection Is Not Secure’ Error

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In This Article

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• What Does This Error Mean
• Causes of the Error
• Troubleshooting
• Should You Ignore It?

If you've ever visited a website and seen an alarming message stating, "This site is not secure," or "Your connection is not secure," there are some simple methods for diagnosing the problem, gauging your level of risk, and mitigating any potential security hazards .

Users encounter error messages warning about connections that aren't secure in all browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and more.

What Does 'Connection Is Not Secure' Mean?

Browsers will return a "connection not secure" error when they can't verify a website's SSL certificate . SSL is a secure data-encryption method that keeps transmitted data private and safe. If a browser detects a problem with a site's SSL certificate, it won't load that site because it might be unsafe.

While all this can sound very alarming, it's likely that nothing is wrong.

What Causes This Error?

Many things can cause these errors warning about a connection that isn't secure, some of which are problems on the site's end.

The website could have an expired SSL certificate, no SSL certificate, or one that wasn't set up correctly. Setting up SSL certificates is hard, especially if a site's administrators bought a higher-end certificate, and not everyone always gets it right. It's also possible that a trusted organization didn't issue the certificate.

To see if the site's SSL certificate is expired, select  Not Secure  on the top of the error window, and then Select  Certificate . Check the  Expires On  date to see if the certificate is expired. If so, you can't fix the problem, but you can email the site owner to let them know.

Troubleshoot Insecure Connection Errors

There's nothing you can do if the problem is on the website's end. But if the problem is coming from your computer or device, there are some easy fixes to try.

Reload the Page

This is a quick and easy troubleshooting option to try. Close and reopen your browser and try to load the page again. Something may have been off with your browser, or the site owner might have been reissuing their SSL certificate.

Update Your Browser

Outdated browsers may have security holes that updates will fix. Check to see if you're using the latest version of your browser by going to the browser's main website. Download any updates available.

Clear Your Browser Cache and Cookies

Clearing your browser cache  and cookies is another quick, easy troubleshooting method that may solve the problem.

Use an SSL Certificate Checker

Third-party SSL certificate checkers, such as SSL Server Test , will tell you everything about the flagged site, from its IP address to the certificate issuer to the expiration of its certificate. What you find will tell you if the site's problem is simple or more complicated.

Use HTTPS Everywhere

If the above check reveals only a minor error for a site you're familiar with that ordinarily has a valid certificate, take some quick precautions before proceeding as usual. For desktop computers running Firefox, Chrome, or Opera, install the HTTPS Everywhere extension to make sure all your connections are encrypted. This way, even if the certificate doesn't match exactly, you should still have an encrypted connection.

Check Your Antivirus Software

As antivirus software becomes more advanced, it adds new features to protect against the latest threats. One such feature is a firewall that blocks sites not secured with SSL. While this is usually good, it can sometimes conflict with your network settings and mistakenly block some SSL certificates and connections.

To see if this is the problem, try temporarily disabling your antivirus software's SSL scanning feature.

Check Your Computer's Date and Time

An incorrectly set date and time on your device can prevent your browser from verifying the SSL certificate of the site you're visiting. This is because when the browser checks the expiration date of an SSL certificate, it compares it to the time on your computer's clock. Take a look at your computer's date and time to make sure it's accurate.

Make sure you've typed the site's URL correctly. Any small typo could result in the wrong site trying to load, which could lead to a "connection not secure" error.

Should You Ignore the Error?

If you feel confident that the error is on the part of the website, and the website is known and trusted, and if the site doesn't include any functionality where sensitive personal data passes back and forth, you can choose to ignore the error and proceed like normal.

But if you've gone through all these troubleshooting steps and there is still an error, understand that the site may have a serious security problem, and you should exercise extreme caution. If the site isn't one you have to visit, don't go there for a while. The admins may need time to sort out any serious issues.

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Nellie Bowles’s Failed Provocations

By Molly Fischer

The journalist Nellie Bowles writes a column called “TGIF” for the Free Press, a new media company she started with her wife, Bari Weiss. Both women previously worked at the New York Times : Bowles was a tech reporter, and Weiss was a right-leaning opinion writer and editor before resigning with an open letter lamenting that the paper was now ruled by a “mob” enforcing a “new orthodoxy.” The Free Press styles itself as an antidote to the woke excesses of mainstream institutions, and “TGIF” provides a weekly roundup of headlines on its pet concerns, garnished with Bowles’s jesting commentary. “I’m wearing my old Columbia sweatshirt and a Hamas headband—the look of the season,” one recent installment , covering the protests at her alma mater, begins.

When Joan Didion died , in December, 2021, “TGIF” included a tribute to her influence. Didion had “inspired a generation of young writers including this one” with work that “skewered the trendy movements around her,” Bowles wrote . “The Didion I read would quietly find the flabbiest bits of American culture. She was ruthless and funny. She was not on your side. She wasn’t on anyone’s side. If Didion had been working these past few years, I have no doubt who she’d be writing about.”

With a new book called “ Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History ,” Bowles seems to be making a bid for Didion territory. Her title evokes “On the Morning After the Sixties,” Didion’s 1970 meditation on her fundamental alienation from the previous decade’s idealism. Weiss declared her wife “the lovechild of Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion.”

Bowles’s subject in “Morning After the Revolution” is what she variously refers to as “the revolution,” “the movement,” and “the New Progressive”—more or less what Elon Musk would call “the woke-mind virus”—and she presents herself as an apostate of left-wing orthodoxy. “I owe a lot of my life to political progressivism,” she writes, of her evolution. “I bristled at the alternative, which certainly wouldn’t want me.” She volunteers bona fides:

I ran the Gay-Straight Alliance at my high school, and I was the only out gay kid for a while, sticking rainbows all around campus. After college, I fit in well with the Brooklyn Left. I’ve been to a reading of The Nation writers at the Verso Books office, and, my God, I bought a tote. When Hillary Clinton was about to win, I was drinking I’m With Her-icanes at a drag bar.

No inveterate outsider à la Didion, she was, if not a fellow-traveller of the revolution, at least a fellow-commuter, generally on board for her cohort’s quotidian habits and conventional wisdom. But she began to harbor doubts about its growing fervor, and the social opprobrium she experienced after meeting Weiss, “a known liberal dissident,” in 2018, exacerbated those doubts. She saw her peers in the media business adopting new jargon and publishing stories that identified potential racism in everything from Alzheimer’s drugs to organic food; she felt that questioning these developments was impermissible. Around 2020—amid the pandemic, George Floyd’s murder, and the responses, both cultural and political, that each provoked, including Weiss’s resignation—things, in Bowles’s estimation, “went berserk.” When protesters established a police-free “autonomous zone” in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood that summer, she wanted to check it out, but colleagues discouraged her. Her reportorial instincts were being squelched, she felt. (She eventually made it to CHAZ , the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where she wrote a story on unhappy business owners.) In 2021, she left the Times , and set out to report a forbidden truth—that the left can be somewhat goofy. She writes, in the introduction to “Morning After the Revolution,” “The ideology that came shrieking in would go on to reshape America in some ways that are interesting and even good, and in other ways that are appalling, but mostly in ways that are—I hate to say it—funny.”

No one who remembers the day that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer wore kente-cloth stoles could argue that the past four years have lacked episodes of dazzling absurdity. Periods of social change come with shifting codes of behavior, exposing individual foibles and institutional ineptitude; people caught in the undertow of history flail revealingly. All this has made rich fodder for nonfiction prose since the days when the New Journalism took shape in the sixties and seventies, wielding novelistic detail and authorial subjectivity to capture that era’s tumult. Wolfe, the form’s self-appointed promoter, framed the New Journalism as a project of depicting status—minute gradations of subcultural hierarchy—long before anyone talked about “virtue signalling.” In “Radical Chic,” Wolfe crashes a party at Leonard Bernstein’s Park Avenue penthouse thrown to benefit the Black Panthers; he describes the nut-covered Roquefort morsels circulated on trays, and also the special frisson of supporting a cause that, guests were warned, might not be tax deductible. His anthropological scrutiny of manners and ritual make the scene indelible.

Didion’s writing on the counterculture circled an apocalyptic dread that lay beyond Wolfe’s status jockeying—but her own unsparing discernment sliced through cliché and attuned her to nuances of style and character. In a withering report on Joan Baez’s Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, she portrays its founder not as a vacuous-hippie stereotype but as “an interesting girl, who might have interested Henry James,” clad in Irish lace and serenely confident at a county-board meeting as she faces down her irritated neighbors. Didion and Wolfe brought skepticism to writing about their era’s would-be revolutionaries, but they also brought a novelist’s eye for character—a basic interest in understanding why human beings behave the way they do. Their critique rested on an acute perception of their subjects’ particular vanities.

Bowles is going for something similar. “I want you to see the New Progressive from their own perspective, not as a caricature,” she writes, near the beginning of her book. “Morning” starts with the protests in the summer of 2020 and follows a loosely chronological structure. She discusses privilege workshops and puberty blockers, the anti-racism guru Robin DiAngelo and the viral-recipe master Alison Roman, CHAZ in Seattle and the Echo Park homeless encampment in Los Angeles and the progressive former district attorney Chesa Boudin in San Francisco.

It is difficult, though, to see Bowles’s subjects as more than caricatures when her descriptions of them are so generic. She writes that Seattle’s sixtysomething mayor has “hair perfectly blown out into the helmet that’s popular for successful women of that age.” Protesters in their teens and early twenties, meanwhile, possess “that coiled squirrely energy men have then.” At such moments, Bowles is not identifying and describing types; she is gesturing toward them, relying on readers to supply a portrait they already have in mind. Her characterization of emergent activist groups that collected donations and attention in 2020 and 2021 is similarly blank: they are “the flashiest new organizations with the best names and the sharpest websites,” or “cool, flashy nonprofits,” or “trendy groups”; in any case, they have “chic websites.” The incrementalist old-guard organizations have “basic websites.” What constitutes a flashy nonprofit, and, when you visit its Web site, what appears onscreen? Bowles doesn’t say. And “Morning After the Revolution” is a book that involves a good deal of staring at screens. Several set pieces—courses Bowles takes called “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness” and “Foundations of Somatic Abolitionism,” a panel for Times staffers on asexuality, a Columbia event on police abolition, all of which occurred online—amount to summaries of Webinars.

It’s not Bowles’s fault that events in 2020 and 2021 often happened via videoconference. But, for the reader, there is a dispiriting flatness to the results. Imagine “Radical Chic” with no penthouse, no eavesdropping, no combustible social chemistry, no outfits, no Roquefort morsels—just a transcript of unknown people, identified by a first name and maybe a hair style, addressing a group and saying cartoonish things. It’s a truism that humor dwells in specificity, and this principle works against Bowles’s efforts at bitingly observed social commentary. Instead, she resorts frequently to blunt-force sarcasm: according to the media, violent protesters are “good, very good”; according to clinicians, gender-dysphoric teens are “very wise.” She writes, “The movement makes new moral rules so fast that ‘brown-bag lunch’ and ‘trigger warning’ are actually bad now. You’re probably bad.”

You can picture a writer following up with her somatic-abolitionism classmates post-Zoom to discuss whether they have persisted in the practice (it involves humming and swaying), and fleshing out a sketch of who pays for such a class in the first place. But Bowles seems hesitant to engage personally or at length with the revolution’s foot soldiers. The people she speaks with instead tend to be the irritated neighbors, bewildered bystanders, disillusioned allies, proponents of moderate alternatives, and officials with talking points. The voice of the revolution comes from public statements, whether quoted in the media, posted on the Internet, or shouted at protests. The primary voices in a chapter on trans children (“Toddlers Know Who They Are”) are doctors and medical administrators whose quotes seem to come from lectures and videos available online.

Some figures whom Bowles considers (such as Tema Okun, the author of a widely circulated guide to “white supremacy culture”) decline to be interviewed. At demonstrations, protesters regard her warily and sometimes block her view of their activity with umbrellas. Bowles regards this as proving a point—that the revolutionaries are insular and refuse to talk to skeptics—and takes it as an excuse not to change their minds. Her account of a trans-rights protest leans on quoting things yelled by a person Bowles calls “Green Shorts,” who was wearing green shorts and yelling. Didion described herself as “bad at interviewing people”; still, she managed to sustain a level of intimacy with her subjects sufficient to get behind closed doors and see, say, a child on LSD (as in one famous scene in “ Slouching Towards Bethlehem ”). “Writers are always selling somebody out,” Didion warned, but Bowles never gets close enough to expose anything sensitive to public view. You can’t sell out a stranger on the street.

In the absence of such fine-grained scrutiny, Bowles is left rehearsing the conservative commentariat’s greatest hits of left-wing piety run amok—stuff like the “progressive stack,” a method of prioritizing speakers based on their degree of oppression, which has found greater purchase as an anti-woke punching bag than as an actual practice. “It gets messy,” Bowles writes. “Would a white gay guy go ahead of a straight Asian man? Is a trans teenager more oppressed than someone in a wheelchair?” (“Think of the sticky moral quandaries,” the Times columnist Pamela Paul mused last month on the same subject. “Who is more oppressed, an older disabled white veteran or a young gay Latino man? A transgender woman who lived for five decades as a man or a 16-year-old girl?”)

Perhaps, given that Bowles counts herself a former member of the revolution’s social milieu, she’s reasoned that her voice represents it sufficiently. Yet even when discussing her own experiences she can be coy to the point of evasiveness, to the detriment of her credibility. “All the smart people are buying guns,” her chapter on police abolition begins. “That’s what I told myself waiting in line for one.” She never thought that she’d buy a gun, she writes—but she starts hearing about crime in her neighborhood, and then she finds out she’s pregnant. “Almost as soon as I peed on a stick, I got in the car and found myself holding an AR-15, getting a sense of the heft.” Would a shotgun or a pistol be better, she wonders, and where should she put a gun safe? Though she goes on to detail the brand of her home alarm system and the monthly cost of her neighborhood’s private security patrol, she never says what kind of gun she bought, if indeed she bought one.

The early pandemic was a time when countless people were trying to navigate the biggest disruption to American life since the Second World War, and they did it while peering into their phones, where brands, radicals, charlatans, eyewitnesses, experts, and hapless civilians all jumbled together in the same feeds. Bowles is not wrong—it’s funny that there was an interlude when the C.I.A. felt compelled to share a recruiting video touting intersectionality. Indeed, there is an abundance of material within easy reach: corporate lip service to racial justice, viral news stories, videos of lectures and street confrontations, provocations of all sorts on Twitter. Her book raises a question that Wolfe and Didion, working in the sixties and seventies, never had to face. How does a writer make use of such material in a way that takes into account the peculiar perspective—at once vividly proximate and remote—that online detritus affords?

It seems impossible to extricate the revolution that Bowles wants to describe from the context of social media—the realm of cancel-culture callouts, virtue signals, subcultural warrens at once noisy and arcane. (“Twitter has become [the Times ’] ultimate editor,” Weiss wrote in her resignation letter.) But, despite Bowles’s past reporting on tech culture, this isn’t an aspect of the period she ever brings into focus. The book just reflects, unexamined, an experience—hers—of being caught in the online slipstream. “The transition from Black Lives Matter to Trans Lives Matter was seamless,” she writes. “The movement simply pivoted: The conversation about racism was now about transphobia. Done! Go!” Maybe this was how it felt scrolling through Instagram at the time; on the page, it reads as incuriosity, even credulity. Surely a book premised on a united and overpowering new movement ought to offer some account of how the people, the institutions, and the ideas it encompasses came into concert. Lacking that, the main thing that B.L.M., pediatric gender clinics, and San Francisco NIMBY s appear to have in common is that they began to vex Bowles around the same time.

In “Morning After the Revolution,” Bowles writes dismissively that her reporting on Silicon Valley for the Times “fit right in” with the Trump-era resistance mind-set that prevailed at the paper. The revolution, she suggests, was happy to look askance at the tech-bro sexism and wacky élite fads that she was then covering. Bowles may feel that she’s moved on to bolder work now, but she found more texture and nuance in her reporting about tech than in anything that appears in her book. The stories she was writing just before the pandemic about screens and human connection have a prescient ambivalence: she conveyed both technology’s power as a lifeline and her own misgivings about what it might portend. But, around the time she remembers the world going berserk, something changed. “Now I have thrown off the shackles of screen-time guilt,” she wrote , in spring of 2020—in retrospect, perhaps a touch ominously. “My television is on. My computer is open. My phone is unlocked, glittering.” ♦

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More than two decades after her body was found at the side of a road, the RCMP has agreed to apologize to an Indigenous woman's family for failing to properly investigate her death.

The apology follows a probe by the Mounties' watchdog body — the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC) — which pointed to gaps in two separate investigations into the woman's disappearance.

The CRCC, an independent agency that handles complaints about RCMP members' conduct, said the investigations were unreasonable and the officers' conclusion that there was no evidence of foul play was premature.

"Any death is tragic, but a death replete with unanswered questions is undoubtedly even more painful," wrote CRCC chair Michelaine Lahaie in her final report, obtained by CBC News through an access to information report

"A more thorough investigation may have been able to answer some or most of these questions." 

The report is heavily redacted for privacy reasons — names, locations and even some dates are blacked out. 

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The report says the woman's family filed a complaint with the CRCC after testifying at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).

Their concerns date back to 2001 when the body of their elderly relative — who had been reported missing to a non-RCMP police service — was discovered down an embankment at the side of a road near her abandoned truck. 

The RCMP then took over the investigation.

Family members located items missed by police 

After reviewing the family's concerns, both the CRCC and the RCMP agreed the 2001 investigation was fraught with shortcomings.

The CRCC report says that after the woman's body was found, the lead RCMP investigator concluded the case with a theory — that the deceased woman had gotten her truck stuck, fell down an embankment while walking to get help, and eventually succumbed to the elements.

After the scene investigation was completed, the 2001 investigating team agreed to guide the woman's family members to the site to conduct a traditional ceremony.

When family members arrived on site, they found some of their dead relative's belongings — including a missing sock and shoe, the key to the truck and one of her dentures.

"It is disconcerting that family members were able to readily locate many items that could have been key pieces of evidence, yet were missed by trained investigators," said the CRCC report.

None of the 30 family members at the scene that day were interviewed, said the report. Neither was the person who reported the woman missing.

The CRCC also said it believes the investigator misapprehended the medical examiner's conclusion that the cause of death was "undetermined."

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According to his police notes, reviewed by the CRCC, the constable concluded the "cause of death has been classified as 'undetermined.' Writer feels this file can now be concluded."

"This classification should have led to further questions and investigation, not the conclusion of the file," wrote the CRCC.

In a letter to Lahaie, RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme agreed that the 2001 investigation into the woman's death was unreasonable, and that the lead investigator failed to request sufficient resources for the investigation, failed to conduct a proper search of the crime scene and failed to conduct appropriate interviews.

He also agreed with the CRCC that the RCMP came too soon to the conclusion that there was no evidence of foul play.

The CRCC stressed that the evidence documented by police in 2001 did not in and of itself constitute evidence of foul play.

However, "the commission cannot determine if a more thorough investigation would have changed the outcome. Many questions remained unanswered," it said.

"It is not possible to determine what information might have been uncovered had a thorough and comprehensive investigation been conducted at the time of the incident. Unfortunately, many sources of evidence have been lost through the passage of time."

Wallet found a decade later 

The report says that more than a decade after the woman's body was found, her wallet and ID were found under the floorboards of a skating rink shack and reported by the family to police.

New constables were assigned to the case in 2012 and were made aware of several outstanding concerns from the family. 

The family members told police that their relative's purse, cane and walker had never been found. They also said that when her truck was returned to them, it contained cigarette butts — the family said she didn't smoke.

This time, the Mounties took statements which "raised the spectre" of intimate partner violence, said the CRCC. 

The CRCC said that after making some inquiries, the 2012 investigating officers concluded that although some questions remained, "these issues had no clear answer, there was no further investigation that could be done to clear them up."

The watchdog disagreed and ruled the second investigation was also unreasonable and ended prematurely.

It said no efforts were made to learn how the deceased's wallet ended up under the floorboards and the officers failed to consider the possibility of intimate partner violence, which was suggested by some family members.

"Police are not expected to carry out perfect investigations or conduct every inquiry demanded of a complainant," said the watchdog.

"Nevertheless, the public rightfully expects the police to thoroughly investigate human deaths, which are amongst the most important of police investigations."

Duheme disagreed with the CRCC about the 2012 investigation, arguing there were no reasonable avenues of investigation open at the time.

In his letter to Lahaie, he did acknowledge the gaps in the 2001 investigation were "great hindrances" to the 2012 investigation.

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The CRCC also looked at whether the investigations were discriminatory. The watchdog said that while there was no evidence of intentional discrimination, multiple factors "paint a picture of a deficient investigation into the death of an Indigenous person."

Lahaie's report called the initial decision not to interview witnesses, many of whom lived on a reserve, a "profoundly disturbing gap." 

"Both the 2001 and 2012 investigations into [her] death fell well below the expected standards for police investigations and were inconsistent with RCMP policies. In the absence of a non-discriminatory explanation, they amounted to a discriminatory practice," said the report.  

The RCMP rejected that finding. 

In his letter to Lahaie, Duheme said the case should be framed as one of "individual performance resulting from significant misunderstandings of his investigative role and responsibilities."

He did commit to sending a "comprehensive apology" to the family for the gaps in the 2001 investigation. 

While the report makes some recommendations, it notes that some officers involved with the case are no longer with the RCMP, witnesses have died and the evidence is long gone.

"With the loss of so much evidence, it is unclear whether further investigation would be fruitful," it said.

The RCMP reviewed the case after the woman's family filed a complaint in 2021 following their testimony at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).

The CRCC reviewed those findings and its final report was finished earlier this year.

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