SF News Facebook Pledges $20 Million To Build Affordable Housing On Peninsula Facebook is trying to show up other big tech companies once again in terms of corporate citizenship as the company announces the creation of a fund to back the building of affordable housing
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 To Bridge The Digital Divide, Tech Companies Need To Act Like People, Not Algorithms If it's the case that technology has divided rather than united the majority of people who rely on it — the popular argument that we're all "Alone Together," hyperconnected but isolated — the problem begins
SF News NPR Takes Dive Into Facebook's Content Management Process, Says It's 'Set Up To Fail' Late Friday, Mark Zuckerberg sought to quell the angst about Facebook losing the election for Hillary Clinton by posting a pledge to try harder, as a company, to combat the proliferation of fake
SF News Zuckerberg Walks Back His Dismissal Of Fake News Problem, Says Facebook Will Take Steps To Combat Bulls**t Just a week ago, Mark Zuckerberg was calling it a "crazy idea" that a proliferation of fake news stories on Facebook, most of them favoring a conservative bias, helped Donald Trump win the
SF News Inside Facebook, Worries Persist That The Site Helped Trump While Zuckerberg Continues To Reject That Concerns were reverberating around the internet last week that by aiding in the spread of fake news stories, many of them spreading falsehoods that were in Donald Trump's favor, Facebook may have had
SF News Facebook Reverses Course, Will Stop Allowing Advertisers To Exclude Users Based On Race Facebook ran into trouble late last month when a ProPublica report revealed that the social media company allowed advertisers to exclude people from their ad campaigns based on their race. Such practices could
SF News Are We All Dead? Facebook Bug Makes 'Memorial' Pages For Users Who Are Still Alive, Even Mark Zuckerberg On Facebook, I see dead people. Do you? Although the times might feel apocalyptic, I'm happy to report your friends aren't all dead (probably, unless you're a dinosaur). Or, at least, they're not
SF News Is Facebook To Blame For President-Elect Donald Trump? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg frequently talks about making the world "more open and connected," but what if his service, used by roughly 170 million Americans every day, is having the exact opposite effect?
SF News Day Around The Bay: Zuck Named Business Person Of The Year Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. So in which precincts in SF did the most
SF News Instagram Stories Update Lets Users Embed Links, Tag People Love the new Instagram Stories feature, but bummed you can't tag your friend in that video of him drunkenly weeping at the election of Donald Trump? Think the Snapchat rip-off is great, but
SF News SFMTA Issues Final Report On Proposed Tech-Shuttle Hubs Ahead of a November 15 SFMTA Board of Directors meeting to discuss the predicted effects of reducing the number of tech-shuttles stops across the city and changing the existing model to that of
SF News Stockton Mom Could Go To Jail For Selling $12 Worth Of Homemade Food On Facebook One Stockton single mother of six is potentially facing up to two years in jail after she sold $12 worth of leftover food via a neighborhood Facebook group. Yes, you read that correctly.
SF News Insurance Company To Offer Rate Discounts Based On Your Facebook Posts A UK auto insurer is seeking to get quick insights into your personality via snapshots of Facebook posts that would, they say, make people eligible for discounts, or cause them to get higher
SF News Why Your Facebook Friends Are Checking In At Standing Rock, North Dakota As part of a viral Facebook status update, some Facebook users are showing their support for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline by using the site's "check in" tool to "confuse" authorities who
SF News Facebook Allows Advertisers To Exclude Users Based On Their Race When we learned earlier this year that Facebook allows advertisers to target users based on their race, it appeared to simply be just another attempt by the social media giant to allow for
SF News Peter Thiel To Speak Publicly About His Trump Support As Silicon Valley Battle Lines Harden Contrarian that he is, noted libertarian Trump lover Peter Thiel has decided that the controversy surrounding his support for the Republican presidential candidate demands his response. And so, as Bloomberg reports, the billionaire
SF News Robert Downey Jr. Wants To Be The Voice Of Mark Zuckerberg's AI Butler "This just got real." So wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday after Robert Downey Jr. offered to record the voice of the tech titan's personal AI butler. As one of his always interesting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Grill Like A Billionaire With Mark Zuckerberg's Backyard BBQ Tips Have you ever wondered how the other half, or, in this case, the other .000001 percent live? What with their private-island hideouts, meetings with heads of state, and quirky hobbies, it's not far
SF News ACLU: Facebook, Instagram, And Twitter Provided Data Access To Surveillance Company Used By Police To Track Protesters Chicago-based Geofeedia, a "location-based intelligence platform" that analyzes social media posts to deliver them as surveillance information to 500 law enforcement agencies, is often used to target protesters such as Black Lives Matter
SF News Facebook Marketplace Already A Silk Road-Style S**tshow, Shortly After Launch Facebook Marketplace Goes Wrong: Sex, Guns and Baby Hedgehogs https://t.co/BiUSOGz1Wa— Varun Baker (@varunbaker) October 6, 2016 Facebook stepped into Craigslist territory Monday with the launch of Facebook Marketplace, a formal
SF News Yahoo Secretly Created Spyware To Scan All Incoming Email For Feds At the request of the US government, Yahoo engineers last year secretly built custom software to scan all of its users' incoming email in real time — and then made that data available to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Chinese Uber Drivers Pull Zombie Scam Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Oakland police officer Brian Bunton appeared in court today
SF News Oculus Founder Secretly Funding Pro-Trump Troll Army While Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump doesn't draw a lot of support from Silicon Valley, that which he does tends to be, well, unique. We now have an Exhibit B is the
SF News In Blow To Zuckerberg's Real-Life Privacy Settings, Palo Alto Rejects Plan To Demolish Nearby Homes All he wanted was a little privacy. Alas, it is not to be. According to CBS 5, the Palo Alto Architectural Review Board rejected Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to demolish the four
