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Conspiracy Theorists Now Promoting Rumor That George Floyd Didn't Die On YouTube and Twitter

George Soros, a "riot manual" given to antifa by Democrats, and a conspiracy theory that George Floyd's death was faked are all part of the current YouTube/Twitter/Facebook cesspool.

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Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walk-Out To Protest Zuckerberg's Handling of Trump

Mark Zuckerberg may have a mutiny on his hands this week as a significant number of Facebook employees are reportedly protesting the company's stance on President Trump and the inflammatory messages he has cross-posted on both Facebook and Twitter.

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Twitter Doubles Down On Labeling Trump's Tweets After He Suggests Shooting Looters In Minnesota

For the second time this week, Twitter has applied its content moderation policies to the president's tweets, this time putting a Trump tweet one click deep behind a warning about glorifying violence.

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Trump Issues Order to Punish Twitter for Fact-Checking Him; Zuckerberg Says They Shouldn't Be Fact-Checking Him

Once again social media platforms are getting dragged onto center stage in the 2020 election, and if President Trump had his way, he'd like to unleash the full wrath of the federal government's regulatory powers on them to keep them doing his bidding.

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Protesters to Project Messages About Disinformation On Facebook's SF Offices

A protest action is planned for Tuesday evening that will bring projected messages onto 181 Fremont Street, the tower that is home to Facebook and Instagram's SF offices.

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Uber Lays Off Another 3,000 Workers, Bringing This Round to 6,700

Twelve days after announcing the slashing of 3,700 jobs, Uber says it is laying off another 3,000 workers and closing one of its San Francisco offices entirely.

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Fast-Tracked Vaccine From Moderna Shows Promise In Initial Trial

The news of a confirmed effective vaccine, while still many months away, has from the start of this pandemic been the awaited panacea for economic recovery. And some very preliminary but promising news about one such vaccine has just arrived, and caused the stock market to bounce.

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Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million to Give Laptops to Oakland Schoolkids

As part of his ongoing philanthropic effort to distribute $1.5 billion of his own money during the pandemic crisis, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey announced Friday that he's giving $10 million to the Oakland Unified School District to provide laptops and internet access to schoolchildren.

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Former Google Engineer Fired Over Sexist Memo Drops Lawsuit

James Damore, the widely reviled former Google engineer whose 2017 firing became a cause célèbre for conservatives and far-right pundits who hate diversity quotas, has abruptly dropped his lawsuit against the company, possibly because of some quiet settlement.

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Facebook Agrees to Pay $52 Million to Settle Class-Action Suit Brought By Moderators With PTSD

Facebook is settling a lawsuit brought by third-party content moderators who say they were traumatized after being exposed to graphic imagery of violence, child sex, and more working for Facebook.

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Alameda County Backs Down, Lets Tesla Plant Reopen Fully Next Week

Following a couple of contentious days in which Tesla CEO Elon Musk was loudly complaining on social media and asking to be arrested, Alameda County authorities have relented and said they will allow Tesla's Fremont plant to reopen for production under a new safety plan.

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Uber Reportedly In Talks To Acquire GrubHub

As the pandemic has shifted Uber's business thinking in the direction of more food delivery, the company has reportedly made an offer to acquire GrubHub, the app-based meal delivery rival of Uber Eats and parent company of the Seamless, MenuPages, and Eat24 brands.

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Elon Musk Prepares Showdown With Alameda County, Reopens Tesla Plant Against Orders

After calling stay-at-home orders "fascist" a couple weeks back, Musk is now openly asking to be arrested as he announces the immediate reopening of his Fremont manufacturing plant.

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Uber Lays Off 3,700 Workers In Customer Support and Recruiting

Following on big layoff announcements in recent days by Airbnb and Lyft, Uber announced Wednesday that it is letting go of 3,700 employees due to the pandemic lockdown.

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Airbnb Lays Off 1,900 People, Or 25 Percent of Its Workforce

As the global travel industry remains decimated with little hope of a fast turnaround, Airbnb is cutting jobs much like other big SF tech companies and startups have been doing in recent weeks.

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Juul Relocates Headquarters to D.C.

A week after we learned of layoffs at Juul Labs that were set to slash nearly a third of the company's workforce, news arrives that Juul is officially moving its headquarters out of San Francisco to Washington, D.C.

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Newsom Says Some Retail Businesses Can Reopen With Curbside Service Friday

Bookstores, florists, and clothing stores are among the kinds of retail businesses that get to open in California later this week as part of a Phase 2 in a four-phased reopening of the economy.

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Apple iOS Update To Include Fix For Face ID With Masks, New Contact-Tracing Software for COVID-19

The next iOS update for the iPhone is set to include new software being developed with Google that uses Bluetooth signals to help identify if you've been in close contact with someone who's tested positive for COVID-19.

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Elon Musk Joins Chorus Of Anti-Lockdown Folk, Calls Sheltering Orders 'Fascist'

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is showing his libertarian streak and jumping on the "Liberate" train, saying that pandemic lockdown orders are akin to "forcibly imprisoning people in their homes."

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Day Around the Bay: Salesforce Cancels Dreamforce

The SFPD was reportedly enforcing a curfew at a Civic Center tent encampment, the name of the guy who barricaded himself in Glide last week has been released, and the city is reimbursing workers who have money tied up in medical savings accounts.

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Lyft Is Laying Off Nearly 1,000 Workers, Furloughing 300 More

Lyft just announced that it will lay off 17 percent of its workforce, or 982 people, in order to address losses that it faces due to pandemic lockdowns. And employees say they were mistakenly all sent an email earlier this week using an insensitive name for the cost-cutting project.

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Results of First Federal Double-Blind Study of Remdesivir In COVID-19 Patients Shows Quicker Recoveries

The results of a federal study of the use of remdesivir to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients were announced Wednesday, and shares of Bay Area-based Gilead Sciences were trending up as a result — as was the rest of the stock market.

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Facebook Hastily Launches a Zoom Video Conferencing Copycat

Since Mark Zuckerberg cannot stand seeing another tech company enjoy major growth, Facebook is Zoom-bombing the current reigning champion of video conference platforms.

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For Pandemic Safety, Airbnb Launches New Cleaning Protocol and 3-Day Buffer Rule Between Guests

Airbnb just announced a new set of standardized cleaning protocols for its hosts, and instituted a new rule that mandates 72 hours in between checkout of one guest and check-in for another if strict cleaning rules are not adhered to.

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Facebook Launches County-by-County Coronavirus Symptom Reporting Tool

In an effort to help get ahead of potential hot spots, Facebook has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to produce a county-by-county map of the U.S. showing the percent of the population reporting coronavirus symptoms.

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