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.
Business & Tech Facebook Pledges $1 Billion For CA Housing As 45 States Join Antitrust Probe Facebook has one positive PR item to tick off today and a couple of negatives as the New York attorney general announces that 45 states and the District of Columbia and Guam have joined her antitrust probe into Facebook.
Business & Tech #DeleteFacebook Trending Again After News That Zuckerberg Met With Tucker Carlson, Other Right-Wing Loons Mark Zuckerberg has given the non-conservative half of the country a new reason to hate him this week as it's come out that he secretly met with groups of right-wing pundits, professional firebrands, and journalists in order to appease their cries of liberal bias.
Business & Tech Warren Campaign 'Intentionally' Posts Ad On Facebook Claiming Zuckerberg Endorsed Trump Senator Elizabeth Warren has again upped the ante in her war on Facebook, and her campaign recently tried to make a bold point about the company's controversial policy to allow political ads that contain falsehoods.
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Says Capitalism ‘Is Dead,’ Calls Facebook ‘The New Cigarettes’ The Salesforce CEO unloaded on his tech brethren at a TechCrunch Disrupt event last week, and said Facebook is “the new cigarettes.”
Business & Tech Elizabeth Warren and Mark Zuckerberg Face Off In War Of Online Words After some comments by Mark Zuckerberg at an internal Facebook meeting in July leaked out Tuesday in which the CEO spoke candidly about his concerns for a possible Elizabeth Warren presidency, Warren responded pointedly on Twitter — and it didn't end there.
Business & Tech This Photo Of Mark Zuckerberg Looking Trump In the Eyes Is Everything Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — whom I'd be inclined to call beleaguered if it weren't for the willfully monotonous way in which he's weathered all of his company's scandals over the last two years — went to D.C. this week to mend some fences.
Business & Tech Facebook Will Now Let You Opt Out Of Having Your Every Move Tracked Online Over a year after the Cambridge Analytica debacle showed Facebook users how insidious the practice of personal data-collection has become, Facebook is giving users a new way to control how much data it's collecting on your activities outside Facebook.
Business & Tech FBI Seeks Contractor To Harvest Facebook and Twitter Data To Identify Potential Shooters, Terrorists The FBI put out a request for proposals last month seeking a contractor that will trawl social media to identify potential threats to American interests — something that Facebook and Twitter explicitly prohibit any third party from doing.
SF News Facebook Faces Uphill Battle In Washington For Its Libra Crypto Project It's not looking like it will be an easy road for Facebook in Washington with its launch of Libra, now that they've decided to move into FinTech in a year in which distrust of Facebook is at an all-time high.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Facebook Fined $5 Billion By The FTC Mayor Breed says she'll be "monitoring the situation" with the pending ICE raids, a Muni train collided with a car and injured some passengers, and a homicide investigation shuts down a neighborhood in San Jose.
SF News Sarin Scare At Facebook HQ Apparently A False Alarm The major hazmat response and drama Monday in Menlo Park was allegedly much ado about nothing, but what would cause a screening machine to come back with a positive test for sarin?
SF News Facebook Evacuates Several Buildings After Possible Sarin Gas Exposure In Menlo Park A suspicious package mailed to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park was flagged by a screening machine as possibly containing sarin gas.
Business & Tech Facebook Unveils Details On Its Crypto Coin, Libra, And Its Plan To Track Every Dollar We Spend It's been the buzz of Crypto Twitter and tech blogs for months, but today we have details of Facebook's next step toward world domination — and the next move that's most definitely going to raise eyebrows among regulators in Washington.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pelosi And Clinton Slam Facebook Over Altered Videos Some more details on that rampaging vehicle in the 'Loin yesterday, a San Mateo County couple is accused of human trafficking, and the Transbay Transit Center won't be opening until July.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Zuckerberg Needs The Winklevoss Twins' Crypto Help Dismemberment suspects were arrested in China, Berkeley is cleared in homeless civil rights case, and Glass Door is moving into downtown SF.
Business & Tech Facebook and Twitter Sign On With 'Christchurch Call' To Quash Extremist Content; White House Refuses The White House is signaling to white nationalists that it wants to protect their free speech rights by refusing to sign on with multiple Western governments to a non-binding pledge to stem the tide of extremist content.
