SF News Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Remove Video of 'Doctors' Who Were Denouncing Masks, Promoting Hydroxychloroquine A video of some doctors broadcasting from in front of the Supreme Court building and making spurious claims about the COVID-19 pandemic — which the president of course retweeted — has been removed by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube citing their policies on misinformation.
SF Politics Facebook Loophole Allows Climate Change Deniers to Have a Misinformation Field Day By labeling blatant lies as “opinion,” fossil fuel industry pundits have found “a loophole that you can drive a Mack truck through.”
Business & Tech Facebook Gets More Bad News Via Final, Scathing Report From Yearslong Civil Rights Audit Facebook has repeatedly failed the civil rights community and had a "deeply troubling" response to the ongoing problem of President Trump's posts, according to a final report from a two-year-long civil rights audit.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg and Sandberg Blasted For Delivering 'Same Old Talking Points' In Meeting With Ad Boycott Organizers Facebook's CEO and COO, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, "expect[ed] an A for attendance" just for agreeing to meet directly with civil rights groups that have spurred a massive boycott by major advertisers, according to one meeting attendee.
Business & Tech Senators Call Out Facebook's Role in Amplifying Extremism Just As Company Bans More Boogaloo Accounts Facebook announced that it was removing more groups associated with the antigovernment Boogaloo movement just as three Democratic senators sent a letter to the company calling out its poor track record on racial justice, tamping down hate, and giving voice to far-right extremists.
Business & Tech Lo and Behold, Zuckerberg Decides to Slap Labels On Trump's Lies Just As Unilever and Major Advertisers Revolt Zuck just announced that Facebook will — after months of mush-mouthed justifications otherwise — begin to label posts by politicians that spread misinformation or otherwise violate Facebook policies.
Business & Tech Local Attorney Sues Facebook for Blocking His Account Over and Over Again After the fifth time Facebook classified his sardonic jokes as hate speech and shut down his account, a gadfly Bay Area lawyer tries to zing Zuckerberg’s algorithm.
Business & Tech Facebook Is — A Little Late — Banning the Term 'Boogaloo' and Shutting Down Affiliated Groups Facebook seems to be learning about these fringe groups along with the rest of the country in the wake of several violent incidents — including two fatal shootings in Oakland and Santa Cruz.
Business & Tech Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walk-Out To Protest Zuckerberg's Handling of Trump Mark Zuckerberg may have a mutiny on his hands this week as a significant number of Facebook employees are reportedly protesting the company's stance on President Trump and the inflammatory messages he has cross-posted on both Facebook and Twitter.
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.
