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
SF News Day Around The Bay: Teen Sues Parents Over Facebook Posts Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. An Austrian teen is suing her parents for posting
SF News SpaceX Rocket Carrying Facebook's First Satellite Explodes On Launchpad For anyone who wondered why launch prep takes weeks & why no one is allowed near, this is why #Falcon9 #SpaceX pic.twitter.com/ukCPmAhOhD— Hunter Blaeser (@MinnesotaLoving) September 1, 2016 A SpaceX
SF News Instagram Is Finally Letting You Zoom In On All Those Brunch Pics Everyone loves Instagram — the social media platform's algorithmically ordered feed and ripping off of Snapchat makes it the perfect place to view days-old photos of brunch or videos of people's dogs. However, ceaselessly
SF News Day Around The Bay: President Obama Lands In Tahoe Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. One man is responsible for 28 percent of the
SF News Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan Sell Off $95 Million In Facebook Stock For Charity, Or Similar Inspired by the birth of their daughter, Dr. Priscilla Chan and husband Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's first family, pledged last December to give away 99 percent of their extremely valuable company stock during their
SF News Study: Facebook Employees Rank Last In 'Curiosity And Adventurousness' Among Top Tech Companies A study published today looking at worker personality traits across the tech sector has some bad news for Facebook. Its employees were found to rank dead last in "curiosity and adventurousness" — qualities which
