SF Politics Russian Troll Farms Blamed for Fake Viral Story That Kamala Harris Ran Over a 13-Year-Old Girl A story from a fake and supposedly SF-based news site claimed that VP Kamala Harris had hit a 13-year-old girl with her car and left her paralyzed. The site has since gone offline, and Microsoft analysts have determined it was run by a Russian influence campaign.
Business & Tech Facebook Still Grappling With How Misinformation and Hate Speech Are Very Profitable for Them Engineers at Facebook reportedly labeled certain types of posts internally as “bad for the world,” and when limiting them led to less engagement on the platform, the baddies got boosted back.
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 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 Shady Websites Suggest Wildfires Were Started By Mexican Drug Cartels, Illegal Immigrants Citing no actual evidence, a website known for floating conservative-leaning conspiracy theories has reported that Mexican drug cartels are suspected of deliberately setting the multiple wildfires that ravaged wine country and beyond last
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 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 Berkeley Police Fight Fake News Regarding Stabbing At Shapiro Protest A rumored story that was being perpetuated last week by Kyle "Based Stickman" Chapman regarding a Ben Shapiro supporter getting stabbed in the neck by "Antifa terrorists," and which was subsequently spread around
SF News Report: People Don't Care If Their Facebook News Is Fake The bulls**t is hitting the fan down at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, on the heels of Monday’s Daily Beast report that the Kremlin has been organizing right-wing rallies remotely on
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 Rolls Out 'Disputed' Tag For Fake News Stories, Rather Than Calling Them Fake In an effort to be as non-partisan and kid-gloves-ish as possible with both the far left and far right, Facebook is making good on its pledge to combat the epidemic of fake news
SF News Facebook Hosts Trump Inauguration Party With Fake News-Pushing Website The Daily Caller, Martin Shkreli Attends At the Daily Caller's inauguration party, featuring Martin, 5k% drug hike, Skreli #Trump #VIPs pic.twitter.com/RBkbbQRWWX— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) January 18, 2017 Facebook may now profess to combat fake news,
SF News Far-Right Flips Out Over Obviously Fake Company Claiming To Pay Trump Protesters A website that claims to represent a San Francisco-based company called Demand Protest supposedly paying "operatives" as much as $2,500 a month "on top of standard per-event pay of $50/hr" for
SF News Facebook Asks Users To Tell It What Is And Is Not 'Fake News' Did Facebook and so-called "fake news" give us president-elect Donald Trump? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn't think so, and called any suggestion to the contrary "a pretty crazy idea." However, facing a chorus
SF News To Bridge The Digital Divide, Tech Companies Need To Act Like People, Not Algorithms If it's the case that technology has divided rather than united the majority of people who rely on it — the popular argument that we're all "Alone Together," hyperconnected but isolated — the problem begins
SF News [Update] Google's Top Search Result For Final Election Results Is Pro-Trump Site With False Vote Count Fact: No one cares about facts anymore, especially on the right and alt-right. As Americans increasingly prefer what Stephen Colbert once dubbed "truthiness" to truth itself, it's not respected news sources citing verified
misc News Websites Re-Post Fake News Story About An S.F. Man Orgasming During a TSA Pat-Down If only because it sounds like something that really might happen here, and not unlike a scene from the Folsom Street Fair, a fake news item went around yesterday about a sexually dysfunctional
