Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Experience Simultaneous Server Issues It ain't so great having three major social platforms served from the same place when the servers go down!
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Suddenly Thinks Facebook Should Be A 'Privacy-Focused Platform' After a year in which his company's unscrupulous depths were revealed when it comes to mining and monetizing users' data, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided that the future is about privacy.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Reportedly Receiving Mounds of Sensitive Health Data Via Third-Party Apps Without Your Knowledge After a year of especially terrible press, growing government scrutiny, and eroding public affection, Facebook is staring down yet another potential scandal involving sensitive user data.
SF News Tech Companies Come Out In Force Against Trump's DACA Decision Many of tech's biggest companies are banding together to resist President Trump's stated decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. Per CNet's report, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are
SF News Facebook, Twitter, And Google Testimony Leaves Senators Visibly Dissatisfied To put it in the simplest terms: Senators are unhappy with what they've been hearing from Facebook, Twitter, and Google executives, who are currently being questioned about how their platforms were exploited by
SF News The 14 Stereotypes That Facebook Assigns To All Of Us The company that invented the motto “Move fast and break things” certainly managed to break things pretty good during the 2016 election, promoting Russian troll-farm fake news content to as many as 126
SF News Facebook Details Moves To Increase Transparency In Political Advertising On Its Platform After Senators introduced new legislation intended to regulate advertising on social networks, Facebook has unveiled more details about their own attempts to enforce transparency in advertising on their platform. Per TechCrunch, Facebook will
SF News An Alleged MySpace 'Resurgence' Was Fueled Mostly By Ad Fraud The running tech industry joke that is the continued existence of early stage social networking site MySpace just turned into even more of a joke. Once valued at $12 billion, the forgotten MySpace
SF News Op-Ed: Facebook Wouldn't Be As Big Of A Problem For The News If People Actually Clicked And Read Stories The ongoing villainizing of Facebook for its role as a disseminator of fake news and Russian-fed propaganda in the 2016 election necessarily leads to a discussion of another very significant villain: the laziness
SF News Senators Aim To Regulate Political Ads On Social Media With 'Honest Ads Act' A group of United States senators is looking to lead the charge on creating legislation that would ensure full transparency when it comes to buying political ad space on the internet. Senators Amy
SF News Google, Facebook, Trump Pledge Aid For Fires The scope of the wildfire disaster in Northern California continues to widen Wednesday, and as they did with recent hurricane-related natural disasters, Google and Facebook have each pledged aid to help victims. Facebook
Arts & Entertainment Yes, Facebook And Instagram Are Down. You'll Be OK. [Update: They're Back] This is how Facebook loaded when I tried to open it just now -- my computer telling me to take a fucking break pic.twitter.com/BCoiyM0MKB— Lilly Dancyger (@lillydancyger) October 11, 2017
SF News Trump Digital Strategy Director Asked For Pro-Trump Facebook Employees To Help Teach Them How To Use Facebook Trump's director of digital strategy, Brad Parscale, explained that he called on pro-Trump employees at Facebook to help the Trump campaign maximize its impact on the social networking platform. According to Bloomberg, Parscale
SF News Google And Facebook Under Fire For Spreading Hoaxes During Las Vegas Attack Immediately following the first announcements that a terrorist had opened fire on Las Vegas concert-goers, people took to the internet for answers. Instead, what they found was Google and Facebook turning up some
SF News Zuckerberg Asks For Forgiveness Regarding Facebook's Role In 'Dividing People' Mark Zuckerberg continued on a trend of public statements regarding Facebook's role in "dividing people," apologizing for the trouble his work may have caused. CNet points out that Zuckerberg's apology came on Saturday,
SF News Department Of Justice Presses Facebook For Information On 'Anti-Administration Activists' The Department of Justice is digging deep into the private accounts of a few Facebook users, as it was revealed today that they're currently probing for information on several "anti-administration activists who have
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Responds To Trump's Tweets Accusing Him Of Colluding With Media Earlier this morning, Donald Trump accused Facebook of being "anti-Trump," suggesting that they had colluded with The New York Times and the Washington Post regarding the ongoing investigation into Russian efforts to influence
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Details Facebook's Plan To Fight Future Election Interference After admitting that Facebook may have played a role in allowing Russian interests to influence the 2016 election, the social media company has begun to lay out its plans for how to stop
Arts & Entertainment 'Day Of The Dead' Rave Racks Up Accusations Of Appropriation, Insensitivity A Day of the Dead-themed party scheduled for November 3 has earned the ire of San Franciscans as people lobbed accusations of cultural appropriation and insensitivity on the event's Facebook page. It's described
SF News NorCal Police Chief Abruptly Retires After Offensive Facebook Posts Come To Light A recently hired police chief in the town of Seaside, in Monterey County, has fallen victim to what's becoming a strangely common pitfall of public figures with insufficient social media skills and controversial
SF News Facebook Finally Comes To SF, Leases Entire Office Portion Of 181 Fremont It's confirmed! We reported the rumor in June, denied by Facebook at the time, that the social media giant was in talks with real estate brokers to lease a large amount of office
SF News Mueller Forces Facebook To Cough Up More Details On Russian Meddling President Donald Trump will be none too pleased that the “single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history” just got greater. In the wake of last week’s revelation that Facebook
SF News Facebook And Google AdWords Allow 'Jew Hating' Target Categories For Advertisers Yet again this week Silicon Valley PR people are being roiled by news that some of their un-monitored algorithms have allowed for the spread of hate, and in this case, overt anti-Semitism. The
SF News Day Around The Bay: Zuck Sits Down With DACA Dreamers Today at his house in Palo Alto, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down for a Facebook Live video (above) with three DACA amnesty recipients to talk about Trump's repeal and the ramifications. [Facebook]
SF News Facebook Ad-Reach Numbers For Key Demographic Exceed Census By 10 Million People An analyst recently discerned a potentially key flaw in the numbers that Facebook is using to draw advertisers to its platform, and it could be a big one. Facebook claims that it reaches
