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
SF News Facebook Knows Your Race, Sends You Targeted Ads It's a tale of two trailers, as Business Insider juxtaposes them. Both are for Straight Outta Compton, but one is for audiences presumed familiar with NWA and one is for audiences who presumably
SF News Zuck's Jog Through Smog-Filled Beijing Mocked By Chinese In addition to running one of the largest advertising companies on the planet, Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg does a lot of goofy stuff — remember the only eating what he kills thing?
SF News Facebook Users Report Over A Million 'Violations' Every Day With over 1.5 billion users, Facebook is a teeming digital place. And so it is perhaps unsurprising that it teems with posts that piss other users off. This fact, which likely comports
SF News Instagram Mucks Up Your Feed With Algorithmic Timeline Instagram intends to go the way of its parent company Facebook, and will soon switch your timeline from a chronological display to one ordered by an unknown algorithm, a.k.a. something to
SF News Officer Cleared In Alex Nieto Shooting Gloats On Facebook (Allegedly) Roger Morse, one of four officers cleared last week when a federal jury found the SFPD quartet did not use excessive force when they shot and killed Alex Nieto in 2014, allegedly reacted
Arts & Entertainment Artist Protests Facebook Ban After She Reposts 'Baby Dick' Trump Painting Artist Illma Gore has been, like many of us in the anti-Trump camp, amused by the ongoing joke about Donald Trump's penis size spurned in part by John Oliver dredging up an old
Arts & Entertainment Video: Stephen Colbert's Idea For Facebook Goes Way Beyond Reaction Buttons Stephen T. Colbert may not be a CEO, but the Late Night host has an instinct for innovation. His reaction to Facebook's new reaction buttons? He'll take those, Mr. Zuckerberg, and raise you
SF News Zuck Is Not Too Worried About ISIS Threats That threat video ostensibly posted by ISIS/ISIL last week which made direct mention of Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg as well as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doesn't concern Zuck too much.
SF News Facebook Employees Keep Crossing Out 'Black Lives Matter' And Writing 'All Lives Matter' At Company HQ Something is rotten in Menlo Park. On the public wall slash internal message board thing at Facebook headquarters, modeled on the digital "wall" of the social network, Facebook employees have taken to crossing
SF News ISIS Threatens Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey A video surfaced today that appears to show the faces of Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook respectively, riddled with bullet holes. The alleged group behind the threat?
SF News 'Likes' Are Passé: Facebook's 5 New 'Reaction' Buttons Are Here Social media and advertising giant Facebook today rolled out its long-in-the-works update to one of its defining features: The "Like" button. After limited testing in select countries, Facebook settled on five new reaction
SF News According To Facebook Likes, Californians Love Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump (And Ben Carson) As we approach this potentially disastrous but no doubt entertaining election this fall, the folks over at FiveThirtyEight the statistics-obsessed blog started by Nate Silver following his huge success in predicting the results
Arts & Entertainment As Facebook Turns 12, It Reminds Us We Are Only 3.5 Degrees Separated From Everyone Else Six degrees of separation? That theory is long dead. As we mark the 12th (!) birthday of the social network that rules too many of our lives, Facebook tells us that with each passing
SF News Facebook And Instagram Now Ban Gun Sales Between Users Certain corners of Facebook and Instagram have for some time acted as would-be online gun shows, ones from which background checks have been noticeably absent, but now the social network and its photo-sharing
SF News Facebook Unveils 5 New 'Reaction' Buttons To Accompany 'Like', Still No 'Dislike' Facebook has announced that it's finally ready to change a fundamental part of the way people can communicate on its platform, but in a very Facebook-like manner the company is doing it in
SF News Sheryl Sandberg Thinks Facebook Can Help Defeat ISIS Well this is a new one. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has unveiled the latest tool in civilization's fight against ISIS: Facebook Likes. Sandberg, not one to underestimate the influence of her company's platform,
SF News Techies Spending $4K A Pop On 'Rationality' Seminars That Sound Vaguely Culty It's time for a bunch of self-proclaimed "rationalists" — a group of mostly technologists in their 20s — to start acting like it and stop paying the Berkeley-based Center For Applied Rationality. I say this
