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
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
