Business & Tech Trump Issues Order to Punish Twitter for Fact-Checking Him; Zuckerberg Says They Shouldn't Be Fact-Checking Him Once again social media platforms are getting dragged onto center stage in the 2020 election, and if President Trump had his way, he'd like to unleash the full wrath of the federal government's regulatory powers on them to keep them doing his bidding.
Business & Tech Protesters to Project Messages About Disinformation On Facebook's SF Offices A protest action is planned for Tuesday evening that will bring projected messages onto 181 Fremont Street, the tower that is home to Facebook and Instagram's SF offices.
Business & Tech Facebook Agrees to Pay $52 Million to Settle Class-Action Suit Brought By Moderators With PTSD Facebook is settling a lawsuit brought by third-party content moderators who say they were traumatized after being exposed to graphic imagery of violence, child sex, and more working for Facebook.
Business & Tech Facebook Hastily Launches a Zoom Video Conferencing Copycat Since Mark Zuckerberg cannot stand seeing another tech company enjoy major growth, Facebook is Zoom-bombing the current reigning champion of video conference platforms.
Business & Tech Facebook Launches County-by-County Coronavirus Symptom Reporting Tool In an effort to help get ahead of potential hot spots, Facebook has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to produce a county-by-county map of the U.S. showing the percent of the population reporting coronavirus symptoms.
Business & Tech Facebook Cancels Company Gatherings of 50 or More Until Next Summer, Plans To Hire 10,000 Employees This Year In a post published earlier today by Mark Zuckerberg himself, Facebook announced that company gatherings of 50 or more people are officially canceled until June of 2021.
Business & Tech Facebook Will Give $15 Million In Grants to Struggling Bay Area Businesses; Twitter CEO Pledges $1 Billion In Aid Facebook has pledged to give $100 million in small-business grants to help struggling businesses emerge from this pandemic — and $15 million in grants will be reserved for the Bay Area.
Business & Tech Facebook Pulls Down Trump Campaign Ads That Refer Confusingly to Census Facebook has made good on its policy barring ads that mislead users about the upcoming U.S. Census and removed a set of Trump campaign ads that created some confusion and referred to a "Congressional District Census."
SF News Facebook Announces Funding for Ad Outreach to Help SF's Struggling Chinatown Businesses According to some anecdotal reports, foot traffic in SF's Chinatown is down over 50 percent because of concerns over the coronavirus. But the Eye of Sauron-like social media giant hopes to turn that around by helping those affected businesses create and run ads to buffer dwindling sales.
Business & Tech Facebook Cancels Its Biggest Event of the Year, the F8 Developers' Conference, Over Coronavirus Concerns After canceling a couple of smaller events in San Francisco in recent weeks over coronavirus travel caution, Facebook announced Thursday that it is canceling its biggest industry conference of the year, the F8 developers conference set to take place in San Jose in May.
Business & Tech Protesters Swarm Zuckerberg’s SF Home to Condemn Facebook Political Ad Policy Mark Zuckerberg was not home to see this morning’s demonstration, but maybe he’ll see the phrases ‘Facebook is a Russian asset’ chalked on his sidewalk when he's back in town.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Calls Facebook ‘Lame,’ Encourages His Twitter Followers to Delete It Little rocket man Elon Musk set his targets on Facebook over the weekend, though the ‘Friendship Ended With’ animosity on this one goes back years.
SF Politics Democrats Call on Twitter and Facebook To Remove Doctored Pelosi Video Posted By Trump Facebook and Twitter are being asked to stand up to President Trump and abide by their own rules against deepfakes after the president posted a misleadingly edited video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ripping up of the State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
SF Politics Pelosi Slams ‘Irresponsible’ Facebook Disinformation; Hands Out Impeachment Pens As the Senate impeachment trial technically started this morning with the swearings-in, the partisan food fight sees Pelosi take unexpected jabs at Facebook.
Business & Tech Small Oregon Coast Town Pushes Back On Facebook Plan To Land Trans-Pacific Cable There Residents of the tiny Oregon beach town of Tierra del Mar were attempting to go to battle with Facebook as the company moves to begin drilling a landing spot there for a fiber-optic cable from Asia, but Facebook won out with the county because there was no legislation against such projects.
Business & Tech Facebook Bans Some Deepfakes, But Not Those Made for 'Satire' In a seemingly cynical and tactical move ahead of another congressional hearing, Facebook announced today that it is officially banning intentionally manipulated video aimed at misinforming the public, a.k.a. deepfakes.
Business & Tech The 2010s: When Tech Transformed How We Think, Talk, and Consume Media Companies based in the Bay Area are largely to thank — and blame — for how much the American psyche has changed. And as we close out this tumultuous decade, let's take account of the impacts the local tech industry has had on the world in a short span of time.
Business & Tech Twitter and Facebook Remove Falun Gong, Saudi Disinformation Campaigns Both Twitter and Facebook announced Friday that they were removing hundreds of inauthentic accounts with links to the Falun Gong spiritual movement — of Shen Yun fame. And Twitter also admitted it just had to remove 88,000 fake accounts linked to Saudi Arabia.
Business & Tech Smash-and-Grab Thief Takes Facebook Hard Drives With Sensitive Employee Data A thief broke into the car of an employee in the payroll department at Facebook last month and made off with hard drives that contained banking and salary information for 29,000 Facebook employees.
Business & Tech Google and Facebook Slip Out of Top Ten In Glassdoor Ratings By Employees Two of the Bay Area's big tech companies that have long been evangelized by their employees and praised as places to work are steadily slipping in their popularity rankings on Glassdoor.
Business & Tech Facebook Says It Will Fight Disinformation About the 2020 Census It's not only an election year next year, it's also a census year, and Facebook is saying that it plans to treat the census like a high-profile election — only in this case it will actually take down ads that spread lies.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Gets Grilled By Gayle King About Political Ads, That Secret White House Dinner Monday on CBS This Morning, Gayle King aired the first half of a two-part interview she did with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan — the first joint television interview the couple has ever done.
Business & Tech California Sues for Zuck’s Emails as Growing Scandal Reveals More About Facebook Data Dealings A four-pronged scandal-palooza is rocking Facebook’s world today, the worst of which is probably the “Switcharoo Plan” where recent user privacy measures did not apply to choice advertisers.
Business & Tech Hold On To Your Peaches: Facebook, Instagram Ban The 'Sexual Use’ Of Emoji For those who fancy employing emojis in suggestive fashions — which, let’s be honest, is every person with an internet-connected device — using them in such ways on Facebook and Instagram could (potentially) cause you to get banned from either platform.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Hosts Off-the-Record Dinner Party With Critics To Discuss Facebook's Political Ad Policy He invited civil rights leaders and other staunch critics of the policy for an intimate dinner at his Palo Alto home Monday evening, because he wants to look like he cares.
