PITTSBURGH — In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs who took a knee or officers who marched ...

UM, SO THAT’S WHERE IT ALL STEMS FROM. CURIOSITY IN FEBRUARY, TCHAIKOVSKY’S OWN PITTSBURGH STORY GREW TROUBLING. HE ANNOUNCED ON FACEBOOK THAT DOCTORS DIAGNOSED HIM WITH GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME.

Facebook came to Pittsburgh in 2015 and has offices in Oakland and on Carnegie Mellon University’s campus. The Strip District and Oakland facilities focus exclusively on virtual reality research.

A May 26 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) urged residents of a major Pennsylvania city to be aware of a deadly threat in the area. “PITTSBURGH HAS A SERIAL KILLER,” reads the post.

If you’re from Pittsburgh and you’re on Facebook, you probably saw the much-shared “fantasy map” of the city patterned after those of Middle Earth included in J.R.R. Tolkien books.

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