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
SF News Chronicle Publishes Photos Of Zuckerberg's Completed SF House Zuckerberg’s S.F. neighbors miffed by security team parking https://t.co/u6Z87s84BA— SFGate (@SFGate) January 14, 2016 The location of Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan's recently completed manse on historic
SF News Zuckerberg Neighbor Wages War Over Liberty Hill Parking Spots At least one of Mark Zuckerberg's San Francisco neighbors is not having it with the boy-billionaire, and has started a campaign to get SFMTA involved. The neighbor, who apparently lives near the Facebook
SF News Regarding The Mystery Of Who And What Controls Your Facebook News Feed Facebook needs us. It needed us at the beginning to create the "network effect": friends flocking together to see and be seen. But now it needs us more than ever, as Slate writes
SF News 2016's Prospects 'Less Optimistic' After Tech Stocks Take Market Hit The stock market's first day of trading for 2016 did not go so well for several local tech companies, with Alphabet, Facebook and Netflix all taking big hits in a trend that left
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Resolves To Spend Free Time Building AI Butler To Watch Over His Child Unbounded by petty day-to-day concerns like making rent or paying off student loans, America's super rich are free to "think big." That appeared exactly Mark Zuckerberg's intention when he announced his 2016 New
SF News Possible Explosive Found In Home Of Trump-Obsessed Richmond Man Who Allegedly Threatened Muslims A device that may have been an actual bomb was detonated yesterday by a Walnut Creek bomb squad after being found in the house of a man who had allegedly threatened to harm
SF News Facebook Offers Employees $10K Incentive To Stop Taking Shuttles, Move Closer To Office Trying to stem the tide of its workforce fleeing the Peninsula to live in SF, Facebook is offering its employees a one-time bonus of $10,000 to $15,000 to move closer to
SF News You Can Now Call An Uber Via Facebook Messenger Uber and Facebook have finally teamed up, but the merger. The two companies announced yesterday that you can now hail an Uber via Facebook's Messenger. "Powered by Uber’s API, Messenger now enables
SF News Facebook Introduces Special Circumstances, Human Oversight To 'Real Names Policy' Enforcement Recently SFist ran two stories about Facebook users who reported outrage at that company's "real names policy" — really a policy of disabling accounts when they're reported by other users as fake. The first
Arts & Entertainment The Irony!: Three Big Tech Companies All Had <i>Great Gatsby</i>-Themed Holiday Parties This Year A lot of people, including SFist, were quick to call 2014's bubble-riffic round of tech company holiday parties "excessive," which has perhaps prompted them to be a little more low-key about talking about
SF News Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will 'Fight To Protect' Rights Of Muslims Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday announced that his company would work to protect the rights of Muslims that use the global social network. His statement can be read as a rebuke
SF News The First Of Many Zuckerbaby Photos Arrives To Annoy Us On Facebook (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=
SF News Dianne Feinstein Is Kind Of Blaming Facebook For Not Warning Of San Bernardino Attack Senator Dianne Feinstein is happy that Facebook saw fit to delete the status update of Tashfeen Malik that reportedly pledged her allegiance to ISIS shortly before the gun massacre she allegedly carried out
SF News Average SF Tech Wages Up 12.8% To $176K (With Bonuses, Stock Options) The average wages for industries in the United States went up by 3.1 percent for 2014 to reach $51,364 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Chronicle ran last
SF News New Dad Mark Zuckerberg Already Bragging On Facebook, Pledges To Give Away His Fortune After a long, carefully Facebook-documented pregnancy, Dr. Priscilla Chan has given birth to Silicon Valley's royal baby, a girl named Max, as she and husband Mark Zuckerberg proudly posted to the social network
