SF News Federal Judge Rejects Attempt By California Elector To Vote Against State's Majoritry At least in the case of California's electors, it won't be so simple to upend custom and cast votes for anyone but Hillary Clinton, who won the statewide majority in November's election. A
SF News Former Mrs. Newsom, Kimberly Guilfoyle, In Line To Be Trump's Press Secretary A former first lady of San Francisco in talks to be part of the Trump Administration? This is a topsy-turvy, upside-down world we are in, folks, and indeed the Chronicle has it that
SF News Tech Executives Yuck It Up At Private Trump Tower Meeting As initial photos emerged from Wednesday's gathering of the tech elite at Trump Tower in New York City, the most apparent reaction from those gathered appeared to be one of bewildered frustration. However,
SF News Facebook Asks Users To Tell It What Is And Is Not 'Fake News' Did Facebook and so-called "fake news" give us president-elect Donald Trump? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't think so, and called any suggestion to the contrary "a pretty crazy idea." However, facing a chorus
SF News Day Around The Bay: Tech Leaders Look Ready To Vomit During Trump Summit Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Did you know there are a bunch of ships
SF News Elon Musk And Travis Kalanick Just Joined Trump's Advisory Team It looks like Facebook board member Peter Thiel will now have some company in his late-night cram sessions with President-elect Donald Trump. The Washington Post reports that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Tesla
SF News Facebook, Silicon Valley Engineers Pledge Never To Build A Registry Of Muslims Recently, pressure has mounted on technology firms and their workers to publicly vow that they will not help create a registry of Muslims even if asked by the US Government to do so,
SF News Peter Thiel Poised To Profit Off Trump's Promised Crackdown On Immigrants While many residents of Silicon Valley are smarting over the election of Donald Trump, Peter Thiel is sitting pretty. The Trump-supporting Facebook board member secured a position on the president-elect's transition team, and
SF News Twitter Reinstates Account Of Literal Nazi Richard Spencer It seemed marginally possible last month that Twitter might not unilaterally suck at curbing hatred and abuse on its platform when it banned the accounts of several major "alt-right" trolls. Among the group
SF News As Calls To Ban Trump Grow, Twitter Provides Window Into President-Elect's Mind Supporters of Donald Trump were sent into an internet frenzy last week when Twitter officials stated that they would consider banning the president-elect should he violate the site's rules. But as the #BanTrump
SF News Anti-Trump Demonstrations Planned In SF And Oakland Saturday And Monday Several local demonstrations are planned this weekend and Monday in a show of resistance against President-Elect Donald Trump, and in support of any faithless (or "moral", as they've been recast) electors who would
SF News 'Silicon Valley' Star TJ Miller Arrested Following Altercation With Uber Driver Over Trump In a move that sounds more befitting of actor TJ Miller's character on Silicon Valley, the oafish Erlich Bachmann, Miller was arrested in Hollywood early this morning according to the venerable source of
SF News Jack Dorsey Blames America For Trump's Ascendancy, Says President-Elect's Use Of Twitter Is 'Fascinating' A little more than a week after a Twitter spokesperson failed to rule out the possibility that President-Elect Donald Trump could one day be banned from the platform for abuse violations, the company's
SF News Donald Trump To Host Tech Summit Next Week -- But Who's Going? The cyber, as we all know, is very, very tough. Perhaps with that in mind, USA Today reports that President-Elect Donald Trump's transition team has invited a group of tech luminaries to New
SF News Nancy Pelosi Calls Ben Carson 'Disturbingly Unqualified' For HUD Appointment As President-Elect Donald Trump continues to make cabinet appointments, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has stepped into the fray by highlighting his latest appointment as particularly egregious — even for Trump. The Associated Press
SF News Aggressive Breitbart Idiot Milo Yiannopoulos Coming To Speak At UC Berkeley, Davis You can expect some protests to erupt this winter as Breitbart editor and accused Twitter racist Milo Yiannopoulos arrives in the Bay Area on his ongoing to tour of college campuses, dubbed the
SF News Reddit Will Crack Down On Its 'Most Toxic' Trolls; CEO Still Apologizing For Editing Comments Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced Wednesday that the site plans to take action against its "most toxic" users in a sweep that could end up being a virtual bloodbath in the Trump-supporting subreddit
SF News Fear Of Trump Spurs Internet Archive To Create Canadian Backup The internet is moving to Canada — well, a backup of its history is, anyway. The San Francisco-based Internet Archive announced yesterday in a blog post that following the election of Donald Trump, the
SF News Twitter Says It Would Consider Banning Donald Trump's Account The president-elect of the United States is a notorious troll — a fact which his promise to ban Muslims from entering the country, threat to imprison and strip Americans of citizenship for exercising their
SF News Day Around The Bay: Someone Vandalized A Concord Home With Pro-Trump Messages Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Noted investor Marc Andreessen gave a long interview in
SF News Twitter Tax Break And Proposed Free City College On Chopping Block Following Trump's Win San Francisco's liberal bubble is potentially facing serious strains under the looming presidency of Donald Trump. As we noted earlier, and as the Chronicle reports again, if the president-elect follows through on his
SF News UC, Cal State & Other Colleges Tell Undocumented Students Abroad To Come Home Before Inauguration University officials around the country, including those in California, are urging students living abroad who have DACA residency status as the children of immigrants that they should return to the U.S. before
SF News CA Secretary Of State Burns The Hell Out Of Trump's 'Absurd' Voter Fraud Allegations "Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California," President-Elect Donald Trump fumed on Twitter yesterday, "so why isn't the media reporting on this?" Easy answer: Because it didn't happen. Spreading Trump's statement,
SF News Artist Arrested In Bayview Vandalism Involving Swastika Apologizes, Says He Was Drunk An incident of what appeared to be racist graffiti on a business in the Bayview, complete with a swastika and charges of a hate crime, turns out to have been just the misguided
SF News Reddit CEO Admits To Editing Comments In Trump-Related Subreddit Stoking the flames of conservative rage, conspiracy theorist exasperation, and Trump supporter ire, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman admitted Thursday to secretly editing a series of comments attacking him in the r/the_donald
