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
SF News Phuc Dat Bich Is A Phake I should have known better from the quotes he gave, but the story of the Australian-Vietnamese man named Phuc Dat Bich being repeatedly banned from Facebook turns out to be a hoax. The
SF News Man Named Phuc Dat Bich Repeatedly Banned From Facebook Is it juvenile to laugh at the story of a Vietnamese-Australian man named Phuc Dat Bich (pronounced like foo da beak, sort of) who's been repeatedly banned from Facebook for what the social
SF News Facebook Disables SF Woman's Account Because Her Name Is Isis Isis Anchalee, the female platform engineer who was at the center of the #ILookLikeAnEngineer campaign earlier this year, made a public outcry via Twitter this week about the fact that Facebook had locked
SF News Ugh: How Companies Are Using Facebook To Determine Your Creditworthiness What you say and post online can have a profound impact on your life. We all know this. This is not news. However, that the frequency with which you use specific, inoffensive words
SF News Facebook Finally Kills Off Game Invites And 'Other' Mailbox Facebook announced two changes to their platform this week, both of which are intended to make the experience of using the service slightly less annoying. The company is doing away with the "other"
SF News Menlo Park House Rental So Expensive Even Facebook Employees Say It's Rent Gouging It reads like the setup to a bad joke: When is a Menlo Park house so expensive that even Facebook employees can't afford it? Well, one would-be landlord found out the answer a
SF News A Huge Number Of Americans Have Come Out As LGBT On Facebook This Year Maybe because of June's Supreme Court ruling on marriage, or maybe because of Caitlyn Jenner, or just because of the tidal wave of mainstream support in general for the LGBT cause, nearly a
SF News Facebook Will Now Stop Showing You Photos Of Your Exes And Dead Pets, If You Tell It Not To In addition to testing six new reaction buttons that will let you at least show your empathy for a friend who's in the hospital without using a thumbs-up button, Facebook is finally rolling
SF News Facebook Testing Six New Reaction Emoji But No 'Dislike' Button Welp, despite implying last month that Facebook would be getting a Dislike button to go with the Like button, it appears that the site is instead testing a range of six reaction buttons
SF News In Further Simulacrum Of Life, Facebook To Add Moving Profile Pictures New, GIF-like Facebook profile pictures will be able to move for 7 seconds and then revert to stationary images, as you might have known if you or a friend work at Facebook and
SF News Facebook Goes Down For Second Time In Four Days, Nation Weeps #facebookdown descripción gráfica: pic.twitter.com/pDB7QJJWG8— Cosme fulanito (@EsquivoAlexis) September 28, 2015 You may have noticed that Facebook crashed today right around noon Pacific Time/3 p.m. Eastern, only to hobble
SF News How Many People Does It Take To Protect Mark Zuckerberg's New House? Two years after Mark Zuckerberg snapped up a home at 21st and Dolores Streets, the Facebook founder and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have finally moved into the $10 million fixer-upper. That means
SF News Tech Companies Already Recruiting Boy Arrested For Bringing Homemade Clock To School While Muslim I expect they will have more to say tomorrow, but Ahmed's sister asked me to share this photo. A NASA shirt! pic.twitter.com/nR4gt992gB— Anil Dash (@anildash) September 16, 2015 As everyone
SF News Facebook Will Get A Dislike Button As Zuckerberg Admits The World Is Not All Like-able For years, as the popularity of Facebook has exploded as not only a space for sharing enviable photos of your beach vacation but also as a place to vent about current events, mourn
SF News Facebook Rolling Out Temporary Profile Pics You know how half your friends made their profile pics rainbow in support of gay marriage 26 million Facebook users did, anyway and at least half of those still haven't changed them back
Arts & Entertainment Mark Zuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair List Of 'The Most Important Cultural Leaders,' Poses For Cover Photo Dolores-Park-goer Mark Zuckerberg is featured on the cover of glossy rich person chronicler Vanity Fair this October, homilized by the publication's editor as "an elder statesman" and "brilliant." And, by the looks of
Arts & Entertainment Tech Company A Cappella Groups To Perform In Relative Safety Of Atherton Tonight via GIPHY Though some might consider the performance of cappella pop music to be an inexcusable offense after (if not during) college, at least some employees from leading technology companies like Twitter and
Arts & Entertainment Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Is Kicking It With Mark Zuckerberg If you are not following actor, wrestler, and international inspiration to millions Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson on Instagram, you are doing yourself a disservice. The Rock posts to his "fav" social media platform
