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
SF News Facebook To Block Ad Blockers Starting Today Get ready for your Facebook experience to become even more cluttered — uh, relevant, I mean relevant. According to Facebook, starting today the social media giant will disrupt ad blockers across its platform — rendering
SF News Facebook To Relegate Clickbait Headlines To Special Place In Timeline Hell Thank you for clicking on this meaningful headline and welcome to an article with useful information. There were other options, I would presume, like "you won't believe what this one social network is
SF News Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Do We Want A 'Drayzilla'? Three-tenant retail property at 1720-1790 Fulton Street sold for $4,595,000. [The Registry] Murder suspect busted for alleged attempt to smuggle phone into SF Jail. [SF Examiner] Alameda County settles a lawsuit
SF News Does Facebook Owe $5 Billion In Back Taxes? The manner in which some of Facebook's assets were valued by a third-party company was "problematic" according to court documents filed by the IRS: Those assets may have been undervalued by "billions of
SF News [Update] Facebook Eyes San Francisco Office, Maybe Menlo Park-based Facebook is considering a major expansion into San Francisco barely a month after reports that CEO Mark Zuckerberg would not bow to employee pressure to do just that. According to three
SF News Facebook Releases (Low) Diversity Numbers, Adds LGBTQ Stats, Appears To Blame Public School System If everyone has a Facebook account, in order to best represent all of these peoples' interests, Facebook employees should look like — and have had the experiences of — as many people as possible. Right?
SF News Criticizing Police On Social Media Leads To Arrests Following Dallas Shooting With police departments in San Francisco and around the country still working out how to best respond to the July 7 mass shooting in Dallas, some officers have taken to proactively arresting people
SF News Facebook Engineer Fights For Gun Groups After Company Bans Sales Between Users Facebook is great for so many things. Finding out about cool events, posting articles about your political beliefs to people who already share them, or watching your exes make compromises in their personal
SF News Poll: More And More Tech Workers Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs To Go Elsewhere In The Country Home to Apple, Facebook, and Google, Silicon Valley is considered by many to be the center of the tech world. And while people travel from all over both to work for and visit
SF News Here's What Facebook, Google, And Apple Employees Really Think About Tech-Shuttle 'Hubs' A significant number of tech employees responded to a recent anonymous SFMTA survey seeking to determine possible locations for new tech-shuttle hubs that would decrease the impact the much maligned shuttles have on
SF News Facebook Employee Arrested For Alleged Rape, Knifepoint Imprisonment A man who identified himself to police as an employee of Facebook was arrested Tuesday morning, following allegations of a June sexual assault in the suspect's home. According to a press release from
SF News Day Around The Bay: Israel Calls Out Facebook As A 'Monster' In Fight Against Terror According to one metric on one apartment listing site, SF one-bedrooms are back to being a tiny bit cheaper than one-bedrooms in New York for the first time in over a year. [Curbed]
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Is Building A Giant Wall In Hawaii, And His Neighbors Are Pissed The man who wants to make it easier for you to share every detail of your life keeps taking steps to wall off his own. This time around, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's adjustment
Arts & Entertainment Tourists Flocking To Silicon Valley On 21st Century Tech Pilgrimages Would you travel halfway around the world to take a photo in front of the Facebook sign? No? How about the Android mascot? Well, according to The Mercury News, a lot of people
SF News Everyone Wants To Work At Bay Area Tech Companies, Says New LinkedIn Report No, it's not just their employees' inflated sense of ego — everyone does really want to work at Bay Area tech companies. Or so says a new LinkedIn report, which notes that jobs at
SF News 'Family' Support Page For Convicted Rapist Brock Turner Argues That Victim Should Show Her Face A bizarre Facebook support group has popped up purporting to be from the voice of convicted sexual assailant Brock Turner's family though it may have been created by a misogynistic troll simply looking
SF News Facebook Employees Actually Hate Commuting, Beg For SF Office In what will come as a surprise to no one, it turns out that fancy tech shuttle or no, the employees of Facebook are pretty sick of the commute to the Menlo Park
SF News California Parent Of Paris Attack Victim Suing Twitter And Facebook For Providing 'Material Support' To ISIS Reynaldo Gonzalez, the father of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez who was killed in November's terrorist attacks in Paris, is now suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for the roles they played
SF News Inspired By Spate Of Palo Alto Deaths, Facebook Makes Suicide Prevention Tools Available To All Users Some cries for help are clearer than others, and sometimes there are no cries to be heard at all, but even when a so-called "red flag" is (metaphorically) held aloft by someone contemplating
