Business & Tech Elon Musk Suspends Several Journalists From Twitter, Claims They Posted ‘Assassination Coordinates’ A bizarre chain of events unfolded on Twitter Thursday night, starting with the suspension of journalists who cover Musk, Musk himself joining (then shutting down) a live chat about this, and the platform being jimmied so users couldn’t post links to a rival social media network. Free speech!
SF News Former Twitter Employee Sentenced to Three and a Half Years In Saudi Espionage Case A former Twitter media partnerships manager who took bribes from a representative for the Saudi royal family in exchange for sensitive data about dissidents has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison.
Business & Tech The Twitter Account That Was Tracking Elon Musk's Private Jet Has Been Shut Down Shockingly, it took just over six weeks for "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk to suspend the automated Twitter account that has been tracking the movements of his private jet for the last year.
Business & Tech Twitter Reportedly Not Paying Rent as Musk Lawyers Up For That and Other Legal Battles Twitter has reportedly not been paying rent at its San Francisco headquarters, or any of its offices, in the six weeks since the start of the Elon Musk regime, and Musk has shaken up his legal team in anticipation of an avalanche of lawsuits from jilted creditors.
Business & Tech United Airlines Planning to Hire Thousands More SFO Employees Next Year The contraction of the air travel industry in 2020 has been followed by a steady rebuilding, and now United Airlines says it's planning for a major expansion at San Francisco International Airport and other hubs.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Twitter Dissolves Trust & Safety Council Elon Musk's Twitter abruptly dissolved the company's Trust & Safety Council last night, Joe Biden will sign same-sex marriage rights into law today, and parts of the Bay Area saw freezing temps this a.m.
Business & Tech Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab Prepare Big Announcement About Advance In Nuclear Fusion Nuclear physicists from the Bay Area will be center stage Tuesday at a Department of Energy announcement about a breakthrough in fusion technology that could ultimately lead to clean energy plants without hazardous nuclear waste.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Elon Musk Joins Dave Chappelle On Stage At SF Show, Gets Booed Lustily The Twitter and Tesla CEO bizarrely joined standup comic Dave Chappelle on stage at the Chase Center Sunday night to a loud chorus of boos, yet the “free speech absolutist” Musk has apparently removed the videos of this from Twitter.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Echo Chamber Busy Trying to Manufacture More ‘Twitter Files’ Scandals Musk has another underemployed Substacker trying to dig up dirt on the previous Twitter regime, as right-wing hack Bari Weiss serves up another batch of “Twitter Files” revelations that don’t deem to reveal much.
Business & Tech Elon Musk No Longer World’s Richest Man, Which Is Maybe Why a Blue Check Might Cost $11 On iOS Twitter’s vaunted, re-revised $8 blue-check system is supposedly coming out within the next 24 hours, and because of Apple’s App store fees, Musk will reportedly charge iOS users $11 for a blue check instead of the normal $8 price.
Business & Tech Sunny Balwani Sentenced to 13 Years In Theranos Fraud — 2 More Years Than Holmes A federal judge has deemed the actions of former Theranos President and COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani to be a little bit more egregious than his partner in fraud Elizabeth Holmes — two years' worse, to be exact.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Gets Fully In Bed With Conservative Media, Lashes Back About Twitter 'Bedroom' Investigation With Tweet About Fentanyl-Exposed Baby It's another day of maturity and gravitas at Musk Twitter, as Elon Musk defends "providing beds for Twitter employees" by turning this back on San Francisco and its other problems, via tweet. Also, ICYMI, this "Twitter Files" thing...
Business & Tech Legal Problems Galore at Elon’s Twitter: Janitors Striking, Ex-Employees Suing, DBI Investigation Into Office 'Bedrooms' The world’s richest man is facing the wrath of jilted workers on several fronts, with janitors picketing the Market Street headquarters, and canned employees lawyering up as their promised severances are not being paid out.
Business & Tech Meta Threatens to Pull Journalism Content From Facebook Over Congressional Bill That May Cost Them Meta is putting up a stink in the face of a bill that's working its way through Congress, and is currently folded in to a defense-spending authorization package, which would give journalistic content creators the ability to seek payments from Meta for using their content.
Business & Tech The Facebook-OnlyFans Bribery Lawsuit Is On, Claims Meta Took Cash to Label Adult Sites as ‘Terrorist Content’ A long-simmering allegation that Facebook execs took bribes from OnlyFans is now a lawsuit that will move forward, as several OnlyFans creators say rival adult sites were literally blacklisted onto a terrorist list.
Business & Tech Uber and Lyft Drivers Are Being Carjacked and Thieves Are Then Robbing Passengers They Pick Up Another thing to fear in your late-night ride! Uber and Lyft are cooperating with an investigation that's happening in Baltimore into a series of carjackings of rideshare drivers that subsequently turn into robberies of rideshare riders.
Business & Tech Reportedly and Predictably, Twitter Seeing ‘Unprecedented’ Rise in Hate Speech Under the Elon Musk Regime It’s apparently open season for hurling racist and homophobic slurs on Elon Musk’s “free speech absolutist” Twitter, and even ISIS is back in the game as banned accounts galore get reinstated.
Business & Tech Musk Drops Twitter's COVID Misinformation Policy, Because Of Course He Did In another stellar move celebrating unfettered free speech in the Twitterverse, Elon Musk has jettisoned another redeeming guardrail that was keeping the rabid anti-vaxxers in check.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Declares ‘War’ on Apple, In Tweets Clearly Marked as Being Sent From ‘Twitter for iPhone’ Apple is the biggest advertiser on Twitter, but Elon Musk is picking an attention-seeking public feud with Apple, though all of Musk’s tweets on the topic are plainly labeled as being sent from an iPhone.
Business & Tech AG Rob Bonta Calls On Apple to Shore Up Privacy on Reproductive-Related Data After Vice managed to buy the location data of people who visited 600 Planned Parenthood clinics (for a mere $160!), California AG Rob Bonta is urging Apple to better protect users’ private information in App Store third-party apps.
Business & Tech After Layoffs and Resignations on Trust & Safety Team, Twitter Faces Challenge With Chinese Propaganda, Protests China's state-run propaganda machine appears to be working overtime to flood Twitter searches with porn and escort ads, whenever anyone searches for the name of a Chinese city where protests might be occurring.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Shuts Down Hateful Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweet After Her Account Was Reinstated Elon Musk's decision to reinstate the personal Twitter account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is going super well!
SF News Elizabeth Holmes May Be Shipped to Texas For Her Prison Sentence, Likely at Her Own Attorney’s Request The disgraced Theranos founder’s legal team has seemingly swayed her judge to recommend she serve her time at a Texas correctional facility described as “heaven,” but it’s ultimately up to the Bureau of Prisons where she goes.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Now Allegedly Stiffing Vendors, Not Paying Bills at Twitter A new report finds Twitter’s vendors and suppliers are “owed millions of dollars in back payments” which Musk is suddenly trying to weasel out of paying.
Business & Tech Oof: Trump's Twitter Account Is Back Online After Millions Vote in Poll About Its Reinstatement After Elon Musk's posted a Twitter poll that showed around eight million votes in favor of allowing former President Donald J. Trump back on the platform, Musk tweeted "the people have spoken" Saturday night.
