SF News Facebook And Google Pledge Matching Funds For Hurricane Harvey Disaster Relief As Hurricane Harvey continues to wreak havoc and leave Greater Houston under many feet of water, two Bay Area tech giants are pledging matching funds to encourage private citizens to donate to the
SF News The Zuckerberg-Chans Announce Birth Of New Baby Daughter Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced on Facebook a few hours ago that they have just welcomed new daughter August to the family. This means that the couple's nearly two-year-old daughter Max, born
SF News Racist, Sexist Internal Facebook Forum Surfaces As Zuck Vows To Remove All Hate Speech From Facebook It's tough out there for a Jewish CEO whose online empire has become a potent messaging and organizing tool for neo-Nazis and anti-semites. While the spread of online hate is not unique to
SF News Reddit And Facebook Ban Neo-Nazi/Hate Groups It took the events in Charlottesville, apparently, to get platforms like Reddit and Facebook to wake up to the real threats of neo-Nazi groups, and like a number of other tech companies taking
SF News YouTube, Google, Facebook, Twitter, And GoDaddy Take Stands To Shut Down White Supremacist Site Daily Stormer Tech giants Google and Facebook, as well as Twitter, web hosting company and domain registry GoDaddy, and Google subsidiary YouTube, have all taken stands against the white supremacist site The Daily Stormer, effectively
SF News Conservative Street Artist Sabo Has Facebook Page Taken Down, Blames Anti-Zuckerberg Posters A street artist known for sensational, sometimes racist, and politically incorrect poster campaigns ridiculing everything from Black Lives Matter to Lena Dunham is blaming Mark Zuckerberg for being "thin-skinned" after his Facebook fan
SF News Are Smartphones Making A Generation Of Kids Isolated And Depressed? Adults know well enough how depressing it can be to see your friends cavorting about some beautiful international locale on Facebook while you're stuck at work too poor to travel. And we've also
Arts & Entertainment Step Aside, YouTube: Facebook To Launch Its Own TV Shows In August Staying on FB while watching TV is about to get even easier. Next month or maybe later because it's already behind schedule social media giant Facebook will launch its own television section, mercifully
SF News Facebook Cafeteria Workers Unionize, Say They're Not Sharing In The Tech Wealth A decision by about 500 cafeteria workers at Facebook's Menlo Park campus to unionize led the Guardian to do this piece profiling a husband and wife who work in the cafeteria and are
SF News Pot Shops' Facebook Pages Going Up In Smoke A few Facebook bigwigs and executives are rolled up in the totally legal California cannabis industry, including former Facebook president Sean Parker who donated to the California recreational marijuana ballot measure. But Facebook
SF News Reddit, Facebook, Other Tech Giants Rally For Net Neutrality In 'Day of Action' Today is a day of protest and calls for action from major players in the tech industry as the FCC prepares to roll back two-year-old protections for net neutrality. CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and
SF News Facebook Now Officially Used Monthly By More Than One Quarter Of Earth's Population As of Tuesday, according to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has hit the two billion mark for monthly active users i.e. more than a quarter, and nearly a third, of all of humankind uses
SF News Fresno Man Arrested For Streaming 'Deadpool' To 5 Million People Before It Was Released The 2016 wise-cracking superhero action flick Deadpool remains the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, ‘pool’-ing in a staggering $363 million domestically. But it could have made even more money had five
SF News Facebook May Also Be Looking At Offices In The Chronicle Building Following news last week that Facebook and/or its subsidiary Instagram was eyeing office space in the new 181 Fremont tower with one rumor suggesting they might want to take the entirety of
SF News Facebook Reportedly In Talks To Take Over All, Or Just A Piece, Of New Downtown SF Tower The sleek new Heller Manus-designed glass tower going up downtown next door to Salesforce Tower, known until now as 181 Fremont, could end up becoming Facebook Tower if one real estate rumor proves
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Rejected A Proposal For Better Facebook Transparency It's totally possible for Facebook to be even more upfront about "fake news" that appears on the social media site, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't think that's necessary. KPIX 5 reports that "activist
SF News Facebook Experiences Wide West Coast Outages While Mark Zuckerberg Speaks At Harvard Commencement While Facebook still appears to be functional for much of the country, the social media giant appears down for much of the western US Thursday, with the first reports of outages beginning this
SF News Facebook's 'To Delete Or Not To Delete' Internal Training Manuals Revealed How exactly do Facebook's moderators decide what is and is not appropriate to keep on the site these days? The Guardian knows and they just made it all public. 100 internal training manuals,
SF News More Details From Mark Zuckerberg's Surprise Dinner With That Random Ohio Family 32-year-old Facebook CEO and Mission District resident Mark Zuckerberg recently announced plans to travel to the 30 American states he's never visited and like, connect with the flyover people. In preparation for his
SF News Finally, Your Life Is Complete: You Can Now Add Emoji Reactions To Facebook Comments OMG! WTF! <3 Remember when Facebook changed the "thumbs up" likes on posts to little emoji hearts and moody faces? Of course you do, it was a decisive moment in history. Now
SF News Facebook Will Add 3,000 Employees To Prevent Further Live-Streaming of Murders Facebook has faced a flurry of angry-face reaction buttons in recent weeks, after the uploading of a video of a murder in Cleveland made international headlines and the genuine killing of a human
SF News Exorbitant Tech Company Intern Pay Appears, Tragically, To Drop It's no secret that the "unpaid internships" even the most qualified of us might have been offered in years past have been replaced at many tech companies by rates nearly twice America's median
SF News Facebook: Gender Bias Allegations Hurt 'Recruiting Brand', Makes It Harder To Hire Women According to an internal message shared with the Guardian, Facebook's head of HR is telling employees that a public allegation of gender bias against female coders at the company is part of the
SF News Leaked Facebook Document Suggests Plan To Target Ads To Teens Feeling 'Worthless' And 'Insecure' A leaked document from Facebook's Australia office, marked confidential and authored by two Australian Facebook executives, purported to show potential advertisers how to target to teens as young as 14 when they were
Arts & Entertainment Mark Zuckerberg Shows Up At Random Ohio Family's House For Dinner Remember Zuck's early January announcement that he planned to visit with people in all 30 states that he'd never been to this year? Well, over the weekend he made a campaign stop in
