Business & Tech US Surgeon General Wants Warning Labels on Social Media Sites, Just Like the Ones We Put On Cigarettes Saying Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok are causing “significant mental health harms for adolescents,” US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling for public health warning labels on social media sites and apps, not unlike the warnings placed on packs of cigarettes.
Business & Tech San Mateo County School Board Sues Social Platforms Over 'Monetizing Misery' of Kids — But Leaves Out Instagram The San Mateo County Board of Education has filed suit against the parent companies of YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok citing evidence that they were designed to be addictive and are harming the mental health of children. But where is San Mateo County resident corporation Meta in all this?
SF News Police: Louis Vuitton Smash-and-Grab Was Coordinated on Snapchat The gang of thieves in the infamous November 20 Union Square flash-mob robbery apparently didn’t even know each other, as law enforcement officials now say the crew was recruited via the disappearing message app Snapchat.
SF News Berkeley Teenager Arrested for Alleged Widespread Revenge Porn and Blackmail Scheme Involving Snapchat A 19-year-old former Berkeley High School student was arrested earlier this week in connection with an alleged hacking and blackmail scheme involving nude photos of underage girls, some of whom he went to school with.
SF News Oakland-Based Snapchat Gun Dealer Gets Eight Years In Federal Prison A man who was trafficking in weapons that he purchased in Nevada, where he lived part of the time, and sold via Snapchat in the East Bay, has received an eight-year prison term.
SF News Feds Bust Oakland Gun Trafficker Who Was Using Snapchat To Sell Illegal Weapons A 22-year-old Nevada resident who grew up in Oakland was recently busted in an undercover sting after selling 35 illegal handguns to a federal officer — and he was marketing the weapons entirely on Snapchat.
SF News Google Glass Be Damned, Amazon Is Reportedly Working On Alexa-Enabled Glasses Looks like Amazon's going to try to succeed where Google and Snapchat have more or less failed. Alexa, remind me to tell Bezos to cool it for a minute. According to a report
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 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 Alleged Jägermeister-Swilling Prowler Keeps Coming Back To SF Home It's a scene we've all played in our heads: What do you do if you come home and discover a stranger inside? If you're San Francisco resident Pavan Gupta, you call the cops
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 Day Around The Bay: Judge Throws Out Snapchat-While-Driving Suit Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. It appears that Twitter has banned the account for
Arts & Entertainment Apple Reportedly Looking To Kill It Where Google Couldn't With iPhone-Connected Glasses Can Apple succeed where Google couldn't in bringing a wearable face computer to market? Bloomberg reported Monday that while this is "still in an exploration phase," sources within or close to Apple say
SF News Instagram Stories Update Lets Users Embed Links, Tag People Love the new Instagram Stories feature, but bummed you can't tag your friend in that video of him drunkenly weeping at the election of Donald Trump? Think the Snapchat rip-off is great, but
SF News Snapchat Unveils Its Own Cheaper Google Glass, Called Spectacles Snapchat releases first hardware product, Spectacles https://t.co/M0krS3Q1JO via @WSJ— Snapchat (@Snapchat) September 24, 2016 Snapchat has entered the hardware market, everyone, and late Friday they unveiled Spectacles, a set of
Arts & Entertainment Snapchat Once Again Proves Its Racial Cluelessness, Removes Slanty-Eyed Filter @Snapchat @snapchatsupport idk if u realize, but this filter is yellowface and u should take it down pic.twitter.com/MLSHz0Bbkl— lia (@limb_light) August 9, 2016 Much like they did on 4/
SF News Instagram Introduces 'Stories,' Essentially Copying Snapchat If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is absolutely fawning over rival Snapchat, whose ephemeral photo and video sharing service has grown into a
Arts & Entertainment Draymond Green Flips, Flops Over Snapchat Penis Pic It's been a year of ups and downs for Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green. Up: He's one of the starring players for the Warriors, one of the winningest teams in NBA
SF News Couple Sues Snapchat Alleging 'Speed Filter' Caused Car Crash A Georgia couple is suing Snapchat after a September 10, 2015 car accident seriously injured the husband — leaving him permanently brain damaged. The Verge reports that Wentworth Maynard was driving in a 55-mile-per-hour
Arts & Entertainment 4/20 Fail: Snapchat's Bob Marley Filter Puts Everyone In Blackface UPDATE: Snapchat says Bob Marley blackface filter was approved by his estate to use on 420 https://t.co/6dEoisUIAQ pic.twitter.com/B3CJ2VfeDU— The Next Web (@TheNextWeb) April 20, 2016 Interesting choice,
SF News Supervisors Use Self-Deleting Message App To Bypass Public Records Laws Former Mayor Willie Brown once joked to a colleague, or so the New York Times writes, that the "e" in "email" stood for "evidence." Only, he probably wasn't joking. Now, in the political
Arts & Entertainment Eff-ing In SF, Vol. 3: What He's REALLY Saying When He Sends A Dick Pic Sex, love, and other mysteries in the city your mother warned you about. Since he isn't exactly using his words when he sends you one, interpreting a so-called "dick pic" can be a
SF News Snapchat's Frat Boy Founder Has A Gross Messaging History The innuendo surrounding Snapchat's rise to ubiquity always veered towards conversations of sexting and deleting the evidence. Unfortunately for Snapchat's CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel, there wasn't a similar feature for emails sent
