SF News Two California Men Charged In Phony PAC Robocall Scheme That Targeted Both Trump and Clinton Voters In 2016 Three men, two from California and one from Texas, were indicted by the federal government last week in an alleged $3.5 million fraud scheme in which they collected small donations via robocalls targeting American voters in 2016.
SF News Facebook Details Moves To Increase Transparency In Political Advertising On Its Platform After Senators introduced new legislation intended to regulate advertising on social networks, Facebook has unveiled more details about their own attempts to enforce transparency in advertising on their platform. Per TechCrunch, Facebook will
SF News Twitter Apparently Pitched Russian Media Outlet RT On Spending Millions In Ads Last Year Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT revealed in FULL https://t.co/flh9GLg4f0 pic.twitter.com/ZKOntGvTat— RT (@RT_com) October 27, 2017 Pushing back against Twitter, which announced this
SF News Twitter Details 'Industry-Leading' Changes To Increase Transparency In Political Advertising On Its Platform In response to several US Senators announcing potential legislation to regulate advertising on Twitter, the tech company revealed that they have a new plan to greatly increase transparency for all advertisements on their
SF News Senators Aim To Regulate Political Ads On Social Media With 'Honest Ads Act' A group of United States senators is looking to lead the charge on creating legislation that would ensure full transparency when it comes to buying political ad space on the internet. Senators Amy
Arts & Entertainment Russians Apparently Also Used Pokemon Go To Create Division, Promote Black Lives Matter Well, this is insane. In addition to creating fake Facebook and Twitter accounts, creating events, and buying Facebook ads to sow division and influence the 2016 election, Russian agents apparently also created a
SF News Trump Digital Strategy Director Asked For Pro-Trump Facebook Employees To Help Teach Them How To Use Facebook Trump's director of digital strategy, Brad Parscale, explained that he called on pro-Trump employees at Facebook to help the Trump campaign maximize its impact on the social networking platform. According to Bloomberg, Parscale
SF News Zuckerberg Asks For Forgiveness Regarding Facebook's Role In 'Dividing People' Mark Zuckerberg continued on a trend of public statements regarding Facebook's role in "dividing people," apologizing for the trouble his work may have caused. CNet points out that Zuckerberg's apology came on Saturday,
SF News Senator 'Deeply Disappointed' In Twitter's Efforts Regarding Russian Influences On 2016 Election Twitter recently suspended two dozen accounts and investigated many more for their links to Russian interests which may have influenced the 2016 presidential election. Unfortunately, as the Associated Press reports, that wasn't enough
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Details Facebook's Plan To Fight Future Election Interference After admitting that Facebook may have played a role in allowing Russian interests to influence the 2016 election, the social media company has begun to lay out its plans for how to stop
SF News Hillary Clinton And Her Book Tour Come To SF's Opera Plaza In October Too bad for all the neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and based stickmen who just allegedly left town, because lordy would they have had a field day with this one. Democratic Party nominee for President,
SF News In First Big Post-Election Speech, Clinton Calls Health Care Bill Failure 'A Victory For All Americans' Speaking to the Professional Businesswomen of California conference in San Francisco Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton gave her first major speech since the November election, and she spoke on topics ranging from Trumpcare, to
SF News 'A Sanctuary From Trump's Hate': San Francisco Reacts To Executive Order Punishing Sanctuary Cities Sanctuary city rally on the steps of city hall #ICEoutofCA pic.twitter.com/qb2sGU0Ds7— gio (@giobannnaa) January 25, 2017 A rally formed on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall Wednesday afternoon shortly
Arts & Entertainment Eight SF Antidotes To The Inauguration (Besides Drinking Actual Poison) Tomorrow is going to be hard. Simply knowing that a certain person with a comically smug demeanor and rodent-like pinholes for eyes is going to be on television and smartphone screens and dominating
SF News Women's March Using The Same Route, Meeting Place As Anti-Abortion March on Saturday There is a notable difference between the Women’s March San Francisco and virtually every other Women’s March taking place across the country on Saturday. Every other Women's March starts on Saturday
SF News Far-Right Flips Out Over Obviously Fake Company Claiming To Pay Trump Protesters A website that claims to represent a San Francisco-based company called Demand Protest supposedly paying "operatives" as much as $2,500 a month "on top of standard per-event pay of $50/hr" for
SF News SF Women's March Expects 60K Turnout As More Inauguration-Related Demonstrations Planned This week, Bay Area groups have planned a slew of demonstrations that vary from fundraisers to protests to simple showings of solidarity surrounding Friday's inauguration of President Trump. The largest of them is
SF News In Bizzaro Interview With Maureen Dowd, Peter Thiel Says Fake Wrestling Is Real And No One Cares About The Supreme Court Over "a four-hour dinner of duck and chocolate dessert" New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd interviewed Trump transition team player Peter Thiel, the Paypal co-founder and early Facebook investor who still serves on
SF News In Preparation For Trump Presidency, Dianne Feinstein Gets Pacemaker Senator Dianne Feinstein is said to be "working from home and resting comfortably" after undergoing a voluntary operation to have a pacemaker installed Tuesday afternoon, just hours after the 83-year-old senator was grilling
SF News Trump May Be Helping Kill Twitter's Brand As President-Elect Trump wraps up his first news conference since July, and maybe the last he'll give until we're at war with someone, the San Francisco Chronicle gives us a somewhat speculative piece
SF News Martin Shkreli Trolls Female Journalist, Gets Suspended From Twitter Consistently awful person and pharma-bro Martin Shkreli continued his relentless campaign of awfulness last week by coming after freelance reporter Lauren Duca, who recently made a name for herself with this barn-burning op-ed
SF News Twitter In The Time Of Fascism: Lindy West Calls It 'Unusable For Anyone But Trolls, Robots, & Dictators' Much like Mark Zuckerberg, in a quest to defend his utopian vision of friends sharing birthday candle photos with friends, has struggled to accept that he now runs the world's biggest group-think and
SF News Facebook Bans Local Writer For Calling Trump Supporters 'Fascistic', Then Apologizes For 'Mistake' Facebook is once again having to apologize for the actions of one of its community policing operatives after San Francisco-based writer Kevin Sessums was issued a 24-hour suspension for referring to Trump supporters
Arts & Entertainment SF Poster Syndicate Gives Out Anti-Trump Posters In Clarion Alley Enough with the @twitter Come out on the street January 20, 2017 Free #Trump #j20 poster in #ClarionAlley #j20resist pic.twitter.com/BdpskkJb4T— Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) December 30, 2016 The SF Poster Syndicate,
SF News A Dozen Russian Diplomats In SF Are Part Of Obama's Ouster; Reporters Shooed Away At Local Consulate San Francisco has one of four Russian consulates in the US, but only ours can claim to have intelligence operatives included on a list of 35 that President Obama ordered out of the
