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9 July 2016 / SF News / Eve Batey

Saturday Morning Special: Islamic State Flees Twitter


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  • A San Francisco march against police violence culminated peacefully at City Hall last night. [SFist]

  • A former Richmond police school resource officer is the latest person to be placed on administrative leave as part of a widespread police sex abuse and corruption scandal investigation. [Bay City News]

  • Though it's just Elizabeth Holmes who's been banned from the Theranos lab, [Slate] argues that the company's mess isn't her fault alone.

  • Former San Francisco Chronicle society columnist Grace Eaves Prien died in her sleep Thursday at home at the San Francisco Towers. She was 101. [SF Chronicle]

  • The Islamic State group's Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years. (Insert joke about how even terrorists are turned off by Twitter's trollish culture here.) [Associated Press]

  • Six displaced in Richmond District fire Friday. [Bay City News]

  • Is gender why Twitter’s CEO gets back pats, Yahoo’s CEO gets backlash? [SF Chronicle]

  • If you're going to successfully argue that Y Combinator's plan to build a new city is "not actually crazy," perhaps you should reconsider closing with "What is Airbnb, if not a more streamlined way to facilitate house rentals?" [Wired]

  • UC Berkeley renewed the contract of a football strength coach mired in a controversy related to the death of one player and the hospitalization of another. [SF Chronicle]

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