Business & Tech Facebook and Instagram are Deleting Posts About Abortion Pills, Sometimes ‘Within Seconds’ Big Brother is declaring it’s a thoughtcrime to mention the availability of abortion pills on Meta’s Facebook or Instagram platforms. But the exact same posts are staying up if they substitute the words “guns” or “weed” for “abortion pills.”
Business & Tech Instagram and Facebook Experience Second Outage In a Week; Twitter Is Gleeful It may not be the worldwide meltdown of Monday, but Instagram and Facebook were not loading properly for some users on both coasts of the U.S. today, and the company has confirmed there's a problem.
Business & Tech Facebook Employee ID Badges Weren’t Working Today, So They Couldn’t Get In to Fix the Outage Facebook is coming back online, but new details from today's massive worldwide outage are emerging, including the fact that employees couldn’t fix server hardware because their ID badges wouldn’t even let them enter company buildings.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Facebook Pauses Development of 'Instagram Kids' Facebook is pausing development of its controversial 'Instagram Kids' app as it faces scrutiny in Washington, one Afghan family describes their harrowing journey to get back to the Bay Area, and the Grand Princess cruise ship is back at sea.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg, American Hero on a Dork's Surfboard? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a strange but totally on-brand Instagram video on July 4th of himself holding a big American flag riding an electric foil surfboard on a lake, set to the tune of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
Arts & Entertainment Instagram Trap Off-Brand Lego 'Brick Bar' Pop-Up Coming to SF This Fall The Brick Bar, billed as "the most talked about pop-up bar," is heading to an undisclosed location in San Francisco this October.
SF News ‘Instagram Wine Influencer’ Accused of Throwing Pig’s Blood On Chauvin Witness’ Former Home In Santa Rosa First we learn there is such a thing as an “Instagram wine influencer.” Then we learn one of the Bay Area’s leading practitioners in this field was arrested for her alleged involvement in a pig's head vandalism incident related to the Derrick Chauvin trial.
Business & Tech 44 Attorneys General Are Kindly Asking Facebook Not to Launch Instagram For Kids 44 U.S. attorneys general are asking the company to please, kindly, not launch an Instagram for kids, because of all the significant legal, safety, welfare, and privacy concerns this will raise.
SF News Instagram Account That Posts Pretty Photos Of SF Posts Trump Video On Coronavirus Whoever is running the Instagram account @sanfrancisco.city, which has otherwise been a fairly innocuous account that sticks to pretty photos of San Francisco, just revealed that they reside somewhere far from San Francisco and in a land that is still listening to Donald Trump. Or maybe Russia.
Business & Tech Instagram Chief Adam Mosseri's SF Home Got Swatted In just one of multiple incidents in the last year in which a high-profile tech executive saw their home descended upon by police and SWAT teams, Facebook's head of Instagram Adam Mosseri had both his homes in New York and San Francisco swatted in November.
Business & Tech Hold On To Your Peaches: Facebook, Instagram Ban The 'Sexual Use’ Of Emoji For those who fancy employing emojis in suggestive fashions — which, let’s be honest, is every person with an internet-connected device — using them in such ways on Facebook and Instagram could (potentially) cause you to get banned from either platform.
SF News Instagram-Famous Pug Stolen From Mission District Apartment, Found After Owner Offers $15K Reward This pug who has more followers on Instagram than you probably have (over 16,000) was apparently stolen out of his human's apartment in the Mission District on Wednesday night, and the dog has now been safely returned after a frightening ordeal.
Business & Tech Screen Time Takes Worldwide Dip As Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Suffer Outages Can't load your friend's Insta Story? Guess what! There are major outages worldwide on all of Facebook's social properties.
Business & Tech Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Shut Off In Sri Lanka Following Terror Attacks After Sunday's deadly suicide bombings that killed nearly 300 people, the government of Sri Lanka shut off nationwide access to most social media sites and apps citing safety concerns and the spread of false news reports.
Arts & Entertainment Museum of 3D Illusions Provides Wharf-Adjacent Instagram Pitstop The newest in SF's array of ticketed Instagram traps is the Museum of 3D Illusions, which is not a museum so much as a series of painted backdrops, but you should be used to these things by now.
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 Berkeley High School Investigates Racist, Offensive Student-Run Instagram Account Berkeley High School is currently investigating a student-owned Instagram account that shared racist, discriminatory images of BHS students. According to the Daily Californian, the account first drew the attention of one senior, Uma
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food TV Personality Andrew Zimmern Says Instagram Has Replaced Yelp We've heard it all before when it comes to gripes about Yelp, why many in the food scene hate it, and why many avid diners think it's indispensable nonetheless. But here's one more
SF News 18-Year-Old Who Live-Streamed Her Sister's Death Pleads Not Guilty To DUI, Vehicular Manslaughter A Stockton woman who on Friday live-streamed a car crash and the subsequent death of her 14-year-old sister on social media has been charged with multiple felony counts including driving under the influence.
SF News Stockton Teenager Live-Streams The Fatal Crash That Killed Her Sister 18-year-old Obdulia Sanchez was allegedly intoxicated and live-streaming a Friday evening car ride to her over 7,000 followers when she reportedly lost control of the car and crashed. According to BuzzFeed and
Arts & Entertainment Strangely Fascinating Website Makes Your Instagram Account The Star Of Odd Video Instagram is enjoyable, don't get me wrong — but it is also very weird! The amount of time we spend looking at others' photos* (especially those we don't know) is kind of eyebrow raising
SF News Albany High Expels Teen Over Racist Instagram Posts, Parents Vow Lawsuit Deplorable teens will be deplorable teens, but an East Bay school district has drawn the line at racism and veiled threats of violence. You may recall the saga of 13 Albany High School
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
Arts & Entertainment Instagram Copies Snapchat Again, Adds Face Filters It's been nine months since Instagram unabashedly jumped into the Snapchat realm of "stories," i.e. ephemeral 10-second video and photo montages that disappear after 24 hours, and just six months since they
SF News Albany Teens Sue School For Right To 'Like' Racist Memes In the East Bay community of Albany, four students are suing the school district over being disciplined for commenting on or ‘Liking’ images on a racist Instagram account. According to ABC 7, the
