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
SF News Man In Thailand Kills Infant Daughter On Facebook Live, Video Stays Up For 24 Hours Thai man films himself killing his 11-month-old daughter on Facebook Live before committing suicide https://t.co/BuoFZ7nXXQ— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) April 25, 2017 Just a week after a Cleveland man
SF News [Update] Facebook May Have To Change Its Video Review Process In Wake Of Ohio Murder Authorities are still on the hunt for 37-year-old Steve Stephens, the suspect in the Sunday murder in Cleveland, Ohio that was recorded on video and posted to Facebook. The video depicted Stephens seemingly
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Talks, At Length, About The Flaws Of Facebook And How He Still Wants Everyone To Have A Voice Fast Company just scored a sit-down with Mark Zuckerberg, and in the interview they discuss the 32-year-old Facebook CEO's 6,000-word mid-February open letter about building a global community, whether or not money
SF News Facebook, Craig Newmark, And Mozilla Funding New Non-Profit To Combat Fake News "In high school US history, I learned that a trustworthy press is the immune system of democracy," says Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. "As a news consumer, like most folks, I want news we
Arts & Entertainment UGH: The Average Person Is Going To Spend Five Years Of Their Life On Social Media Well this is depressing: A new study, albeit one by a marketing agency that may have reason to pump up the numbers, suggests that the average, connected, modern human is going to waste
SF News They've Done It Again! Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan Expecting Second Child Zuckerdad is a daddy again and all I can say is "wow!" On his carefully managed Facebook page a crafty mix of self-adulation, general PR, and business thoughts maintained by 12 employees the
