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Sun Country Airlines is planning to offer seasonal service from its home base in Minneapolis to Honolulu next year with a brief stopover in Los Angeles.
The privately held airline said Wednesday that the flights will be offered May 19 through Aug. 19. The new service will fly four times a week, Friday through Monday.
“The addition of Honolulu to the family of Sun Country destinations gives our travelers the opportunity to experience the unique culture and history of Hawaii,” Sun Country President and CEO Jude Bricker said.
Sun Country flies to more than 40 destinations across the U.S., Mexico, Costa Rica and the Caribbean.
Facebook to stop flagging possible fake news
Facebook Inc. said it will stop showing “disputed” flags on news that third-party fact checkers mark as false — a system it started earlier this year to try to curb the spread of fake news on its site.
The social network instead will show related articles to try to give more context around the potentially false story. Facebook is changing its response to fake news because academic research has shown that marking a story as false may “entrench deeply held beliefs,” the company said in a statement.
Facebook, with more than 2 billion average monthly users, has been criticized along with Twitter Inc. and Google’s YouTube for letting misinformation spread across their platforms.
The company has altered its algorithm for the news feed to punish sites that use inflammatory language associated with fake news and tried to reward higher-quality content.
ON THE MOVE
Anthology Marketing Group has announced the following promotion and new additions to its integrated marketing and communications company:
>> John Williamson has been promoted to senior vice president from vice president in the firm’s Public Relations Group. Williamson has more than 25 years of communications experience, helping clients plan public information and public involvement programs as well as developing messaging dissemination through digital, written and broadcast channels.
>> Lauren Armendariz is the new Public Relations Group’s social media strategist. Armendariz previously served as a senior inbound marketing strategist for Kansas-based Keypath Education.
>> Tiffany Huynh has joined Anthology’s Advertising Group as a senior account executive. Huynh previously served as a marketing manager at FINSIA in Sydney, Australia.
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