SF News Trump Administration To Bypass CDC With COVID-19 Data, Raising Alarm Bells About Distortion of Numbers The Trump administration has issued an order to hospitals to begin reporting their COVID-19 patient data directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), bypassing the politically neutral Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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.
SF Politics Trump Threatens to Imprison Attempted Statue Topplers; Twitter Labels Tweet In Which He Threatened Protesters With every passing day you get the sense that our ever-unraveling and re-raveling President might be hitting a new low point even for him — but how many times have we all said this in three years? It's like we're all in a support group for children of narcissistic parents.
SF Politics Steve Kerr, Pelosi, Other Notables Pile On Trump’s Bible Photo-Op After tear gas was fired at clergy to create the Proverb-ial photo with a Bible, Trump critics are doing Numbers on his hamfisted attempt to create the illusion of Christianity.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Sends Military Troops Into D.C. to Aid Law Enforcement Trump is invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, Gov. Newsom is calling for an end to protest chaos, L.A. is under a 4 p.m. curfew today, and another Tesla worker is speaking out about a lack of safety at the Fremont plant.
Business & Tech 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.
Business & Tech 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.
Business & Tech 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.
SF Politics Trump Will Burn Down The Internet If It Keeps Calling Him a Liar (But Not Really) In a fresh dustup, President Trump has publicly threatened to punish Twitter and "strongly regulate" or entirely "close down" all social media after Twitter tried to fact-check something he posted about mail-in ballots leading to rigged elections.
SF Politics Trump Spends Morning Tweeting About Transit Funds That Were Announced a Month Ago In an effort to change the conversation away from his moronic decision to take the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to fend off the coronavirus, President Trump was on Twitter this morning "announcing" month-old transit funding allocations from the CARES Act.
SF News Trump Just Claimed He's Been Taking Hydroxychloroquine For Over a Week In a misguided and possibly fictional effort to guard against symptoms "in case" he contracts COVID-19, President Trump just told reporters on Monday that he's been taking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for about ten days now.
SF Politics Trump Is Already Trying to Lie About the COVID-19 Death Count; Kamala Harris Hopes to Stop Him We've watched as Trump has treated a global pandemic with the same casual dishonesty as he would his own poll numbers, so it should shock no one that the White House is already maneuvering to deflate the American death toll from the coronavirus in order to protect the president's reelection chances.
SF Politics Eager to Point Fingers, Trump Orders Spies to Push China Lab COVID-19 Theory U.S. intelligence officials have been directed to “hunt for evidence” that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab, though spies and scientists cite zero evidence for this claim.
SF News Blue Angels to Fly in Honor of Healthcare Workers, Who Clearly Did Not Ask for This How will these air demonstration squads honor frontline essential and healthcare workers? By wasting $60,000 an hour over SF and at least 30 U.S. cities to “champion national unity.”
SF Politics Texas Man Arrested For Making Death Threats Against Nancy Pelosi and Other Democrats on Facebook A 27-year-old man in Wichita Falls, Texas was taken into custody Wednesday after making multiple criminal threats on his Facebook page in response to the coronavirus stimulus package negotiations.
SF Politics Democrats Call on Twitter and Facebook To Remove Doctored Pelosi Video Posted By Trump Facebook and Twitter are being asked to stand up to President Trump and abide by their own rules against deepfakes after the president posted a misleadingly edited video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ripping up of the State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, and Nancy Pelosi Weigh In On Trump's Historic Senate Acquittal Welp, the inevitable has come to pass. Senate Republicans are immoral partisan loyalists (except for Mitt Romney). And President Trump shall remain in office until (hopefully only until) next January.
SF Politics Op-Ed: Whatever You Think Of Nancy Pelosi's Lack of Decorum, Ripping Up That Speech Was Everything SF's own Nancy Pelosi yet again made one for the meme history books on Tuesday night when she used her on-camera moment behind President Trump to rip her copy of his State of the Union address in half. And this is what makes her a badass bitch.
SF News Pelosi Presides Over Impeachment Day; New York Times Mulls Her Unwanted Legacy The satisfying paydirt of watching the House vote to impeach Donald Trump comes after 4 p.m. Pacific Time, but in the meantime we can agree that this isn't something the House Speaker is relishing. At all.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Gets Grilled By Gayle King About Political Ads, That Secret White House Dinner Monday on CBS This Morning, Gayle King aired the first half of a two-part interview she did with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan — the first joint television interview the couple has ever done.
SF News Trump Calls San Francisco a 'Dangerous and Disgusting Slum' President Trump has been tweeting up a storm Friday morning as the House holds its second televised day of impeachment hearings, and in one tweet attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi he refers to her "District of San Francisco" as a "dangerous & disgusting Slum."
SF News Saturday Links: Trump Attacks San Francisco On Twitter While California Continues To Burn Fires continue to scorch California, Trump sent some very presidential tweets regarding San Francisco this morning, San Jose is knee-deep in a street art renaissance, and more Saturday headlines.
SF Politics Another Giuliani Associate Arrested in SF Over Alleged Marijuana Scheme The Ukraine scandal comes to San Francisco (and Livermore!), as Giuliani associate Andrey Kukushkin was arrested by the FBI for his alleged role in a marijuana bribery scheme.
SF Politics SF Judge Threatens Betsy DeVos With Jail For Violating Court Order Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ignored a court order to stop collecting certain student loan payments, and a San Francisco federal judge threatened to throw her in the slammer.
