Business & Tech Despite Bans, QAnon Exploding in Popularity Facebook, Google, and Twitter QAnon posts are now dominating Facebook’s daily ‘top ten,' while Youtube is unwittingly allowing the peddlers of satanic pedophile pizza conspiracy theories to monetize small fortunes.
Business & Tech Self-Driving Car Engineer Anthony Levandowksi Gets 18-Month Sentence For Stealing Waymo Technology One time Google/Alphabet employee Anthony Levandowski, who jumped ship to take a generous offer from Uber in 2016 that included $680 million for his self-driving truck startup Otto, has just been sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing trade secrets.
Business & Tech Alaska and American Airlines Announce Bay Area Layoffs Joining the series of layoff notices sent to airline employees at multiple companies in the last month, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines have given the heads-up to hundreds of local staff that their jobs could be on the line.
Business & Tech Feds Announce Charges Against Three People In Twitter Hack, Including Florida Man and Juvenile The major hacking and data breach at Twitter two weeks ago has already produced three alleged culprits, and federal authorities on Friday announced charges against the three, as well as the online moniker of a hacker still at large who is believed to have been the mastermind.
Business & Tech While National Economy Tanked Last Quarter, Apple, Alphabet, and Facebook Made Bank Despite a historic economic downturn in which the American economy contracted more than it ever has in one quarter, four big tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook — saw huge profits and extremely healthy second quarters.
Business & Tech Twitter Mulls A Paid Subscription Model, As Congress Calls Jack Dorsey In To Testify Fresh off a highly embarrassing data breach, Twitter would like your credit card information — but Congressional Republicans want to grill Jack Dorsey first.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Twitter Hack Was 'Coordinated Attack' Three Tenderloin building owners are suing the city over homeless encampments, the SF Police Commission voted to support the Black Lives Matter movement, and Airbnb says it is still planning to IPO soon.
Business & Tech Airbnb Gets Dragged For Asking People To Donate Cash To Homeowner Hosts It certainly isn't the first utterly tone-deaf thing that Airbnb has done as a company, but amid a global pandemic and recession, it seems wildly inappropriate and dumb to be asking customers to pad the pockets of hosts — i.e. homeowners — who are suddenly out their side income.
Business & Tech Facebook Gets More Bad News Via Final, Scathing Report From Yearslong Civil Rights Audit Facebook has repeatedly failed the civil rights community and had a "deeply troubling" response to the ongoing problem of President Trump's posts, according to a final report from a two-year-long civil rights audit.
Business & Tech United Airlines Sends Furlough Notices To Almost Half Its U.S. Employees In a sign of growing trouble for the airline industry, United Airlines has sent mandated 60-day job-cut warnings to 36,000 of its employees — or nearly half of its U.S. staff.
SF News Update: SF Tech CEO Outed as Culprit in Racist Viral Video Rant; He Issues Lazy Apology Cancel culture and Twitter did their thing, as a local “cloud solution” CEO is identified as the fellow who yelled “Trump’s gonna f*** you” and “You Asian piece of s***” in a Monterey incident.
Business & Tech Ellen Pao Says Ghislaine Maxwell Was Invited To Silicon Valley VC Party In 2011 Despite Sex Trafficking Claims The Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking fallout appears to have officially reached Silicon Valley, and now Ellen Pao is accusing Kleiner Perkins personnel of inviting Ghislaine Maxwell to a major event despite accusations against her.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg and Sandberg Blasted For Delivering 'Same Old Talking Points' In Meeting With Ad Boycott Organizers Facebook's CEO and COO, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, "expect[ed] an A for attendance" just for agreeing to meet directly with civil rights groups that have spurred a massive boycott by major advertisers, according to one meeting attendee.
Business & Tech Controversial Short-Term Rental Company Sonder Sues To Get Out Of Lease At Church and Market Sonder, the company that offers corporate-style rentals of furnished units for several months at a time and which controversially took control of a building at the intersection of Church and Market Streets last summer, is now suing to get out of its lease at the property, citing the pandemic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Further Restricts Party House Rentals Accused 'Boogaloo' shooter Steven Carrillo pleaded not guilty today in the fatal shooting of a federal officer, the SF City Attorney is coming after Walter Wong's money, and Six Flags Marine World is partially reopening in Vallejo.
Business & Tech Senators Call Out Facebook's Role in Amplifying Extremism Just As Company Bans More Boogaloo Accounts Facebook announced that it was removing more groups associated with the antigovernment Boogaloo movement just as three Democratic senators sent a letter to the company calling out its poor track record on racial justice, tamping down hate, and giving voice to far-right extremists.
Business & Tech Uber Is Now Trying to Buy Postmates San Francisco-based Uber, in a bid to secure Uber Eats as a major player in the future of food delivery, is courting another rival for a possible acquisition — and like with the recently failed courtship of Grubhub, they are not Postmates' only suitor.
Business & Tech Reddit Finally Bans 'The_Donald' Subreddit One of President Trump's most ardent online fan clubhouses, the subreddit called "the_donald" on Reddit, has been once-and-for-all shut down as Monday, with the SF-based social media company citing multiple policy violations.
Business & Tech Lo and Behold, Zuckerberg Decides to Slap Labels On Trump's Lies Just As Unilever and Major Advertisers Revolt Zuck just announced that Facebook will — after months of mush-mouthed justifications otherwise — begin to label posts by politicians that spread misinformation or otherwise violate Facebook policies.
Business & Tech Devin Nunes Loses Lawsuit Over Twitter Cow, Is Now Telling Everyone to Get on Parler The hilarious case of a parody account on Twitter that took pleasure in trolling Republican California Congressman Devin Nunes has (probably) come to a close over a year after Nunes filed one of many frivolous lawsuits.
Business & Tech Local Attorney Sues Facebook for Blocking His Account Over and Over Again After the fifth time Facebook classified his sardonic jokes as hate speech and shut down his account, a gadfly Bay Area lawyer tries to zing Zuckerberg’s algorithm.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Adds a Little COVID-19 Widget to List Restaurants’ Safety Precautions The voluntary listing of precautions, like whether they provide hand sanitizer, is a new feature that restaurants can list on their Yelp page if they choose to.
Business & Tech Facebook Is — A Little Late — Banning the Term 'Boogaloo' and Shutting Down Affiliated Groups Facebook seems to be learning about these fringe groups along with the rest of the country in the wake of several violent incidents — including two fatal shootings in Oakland and Santa Cruz.
Business & Tech Self-Driving Car Company Cruise Using Food Bank Deliveries To Get Around Shelter-In-Place Restrictions In the long list of business operations now allowed in San Francisco, autonomous-vehicle testing isn't included. But Cruise, a self-driving car service headquartered in SOMA, is using their cars for an essential service — food delivery — to sidestep current shelter-in-place restrictions.
SF News Sure Enough, COVID-19 Outbreak Hits Tesla Plants After Elon Musk Defies Local Orders We don’t know how many of the 10,000 workers at the Fremont Tesla plant tested positive for coronavirus, but media reports describe the number as “several.”
