SF News Facebook 'Spam King' Sentenced To Two Years In Prison By San Jose Judge A prolific Facebook spammer was sentenced yesterday to two-and-a-half years in prison by a federal judge in San Jose and ordered to pay $310,000 in restitution. The Associated Press reports that the
SF News More Facebook Employees Commuting By Car And Some Blame Tech Shuttle Regulations With the tech shuttle pilot program a permanent fixture on San Francisco streets since February of this year, and with a corresponding decrease in protests, we might expect the number of tech employees
Arts & Entertainment Day Around The Bay: Social Media Is Making You Dumb Police in San Ramon arrested a male suspect Wednesday night who allegedly sexually assaulted a female Lyft driver while getting a ride. [CBS 5] Facebook is making its Safety Check feature more stable
SF News Sheryl Sandberg Says Peter Thiel Will Remain On Facebook Board Despite Attack On Gawker Providing an answer to a question asked by us and other news organizations last week, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg today confirmed that Peter Thiel will remain on Facebook's board — despite the recent revelation
SF News Will Peter Thiel's Secret Funding Of Gawker Lawsuit Jeopardize His Facebook Board Seat? Peter Thiel has divided Silicon Valley. In the ongoing story of the Paypal co-founding billionaire and Facebook board member who has been secretly funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media — in what he
Arts & Entertainment 'Happy Chewbacca' Viral Video Star Visits Lucasfilm, Facebook The Star Wars fan whose Facebook Live video streamed from a Kohl's parking lot made her a star visited California this week, hitting up both Lucasfilm in the Presidio and Facebook's Menlo Park
SF News Concerned Over Real Life Privacy Settings, Zuckerberg To Demolish Four Homes That Surround His Concerns over privacy have led Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to file plans to demolish four homes that neighbor his Palo Alto residence. So reports The Mercury News, which further notes that the he
SF News Facebook's Internal Probe Finds No Evidence Of Bias In Trending Topics A week after CEO Mark Zuckerberg's meetings with conservative leaders in a conciliatory action following reports that Facebook's news curators were instructed to suppress conservative news articles, Facebook, which initially denied the allegations
SF News NYT: Facebook's News Curators May Have Shown Bias, But Not On Purpose After holding a summit with conservatives this week at Facebook headquarters to prove they did nothing wrong, Zuck and company are kind of let off the hook in a new piece by the
SF News Zuckerberg Talks Liberal Bias With Glenn Beck, Other Prominent Conservatives Making good on a last week's promise to hash it out, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday met with conservative leaders from around the country who have accused the advertising company of suppressing conservative
Arts & Entertainment Is Vine Dying On The, Uh, Vine? There are rumblings among Vine stars, ad execs, and "influencers" that Vine isn't, like, all that hot anymore, and the Wall Street Journal picks up on the story in an effort to convince
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Will Meet With Conservative Leaders Following Allegations Of Censorship Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced plans to meet with conservative leaders to address allegations that his website's Trending Topics section suppresses conservative news and news outlets. Before that, it seems Zuck will
SF News Facebook Denies Allegations About Cherrypicking News As Senate Opens Inquiry The scandalous tale about Facebook's news "curators" and allegations that the Trending Topics section took on some anti-conservative bias at the hands of those curators has blown up Tuesday with CEO Mark Zuckerberg
SF News [Update] Facebook's 'News Curators' Choose Trending Topics, Suppress Conservative News, Say Former Employees Gizmodo's been blowing the door open on Facebook's increasingly influential Trending news area, in which topics popular at any given moment on the network are shown, typically the top three of them anyway,
Arts & Entertainment Facebook Plans $4.4 Million Solar Canopies, $1.3 Million Noodle Bar For HQ After a year at its new, Frank Gehry-designed headquarters, Facebook looks to be making their house a home. As Curbed reports on building permits sleuthed by Buildzoom, the company, which often leaves areas
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Zuckerbergs' Dog Blends Perfectly With Rug You know that new parents Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan also have a dog, their first born, a five-year-old Puli named Beast. Pulis are Hungarian sheepdogs whose white hair naturally forms dreadlocks
SF News Things Could Get Messy At Facebook And Google As Janitors Mull Strike Wild cheers as SEIU-USWW janitors hear contract has $15 an hour starting May 1 to $16.50 by 2019. pic.twitter.com/0GPHhloMgO— Beth Willon (@bethwillon) May 2, 2016 The union representing thousands
SF News It Has Come To This: Wall Street Journal Suggests Zuckerberg Run For President US politics are effed — this much we know. With crazy on the right, and discord on the left, the idea of someone, anyone, above the fray swooping in to make it all better
SF News Facebook May Let You Add A Tip Jar To Your Posts In a move that looks like it's both an effort to compete with user-revenue-generating platforms like YouTube and to boost sharing on the platform overall, Facebook appears to be considering options for allowing
Arts & Entertainment Video: Mark Zuckerbro Explains 'The Facebook' In 2005 In 2005, Facebook was in its infancy and Mark Zuckerberg was in his early '20s — a period of young nerdbro-dom he signifies with a traditional red solo cup. Of course, the Facebook we
SF News Trump, Coming To Bay Area, Tells Zuckerberg To Leave Donald Trump is coming to the Bay Area later this month, and perhaps in anticipation of his visit, Trump presidential campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson is suggesting that Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg
SF News Facebook Using Artificial Intelligence To Add Photo Captions For The Visually Impaired Facebook yesterday announced a new service designed to assist the millions of visually impaired people who use one of its many products on a daily basis. Called automatic alternative text, according to the
SF News Instagram Celebs Panic As Algorithmic Feed Reordering Looms Instagram feeds are usually very personal things — a mixture of friends, celebrities, and brands that, for whatever reason, you have decided to follow on the social media giant and consequently pop their pics
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sorry Catfishers, Facebook Testing Anti-Impersonation Tool Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Should you have to show an ID in order
SF News Oculus Rift To Be Released Monday, Nerds Rejoice Get set, nerds! In a determined step toward a digital future, Facebook is set to release its first round of Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets early next week. The Rifts differ from the
