Business & Tech Facebook Is Letting Trump Back On the Platform After Two-Year Suspension Two years and change after inciting an insurrection and showing no remorse or sympathy for the deaths and injuries of Capitol Police personnel, former president Donald Trump is being allowed back on Facebook and Instagram. But the big question: Will he be invited into the Metaverse!!?!
Business & Tech TikTok Parent Company Admits It Spied On Two U.S. Journalists Who Exposed the App‘s Surveillance TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance admits it spied on two Buzzfeed journalists, though the journalists say at least four people were spied on and tracked after breaking stories about the seemingly innocuous app’s surveillance of U.S. users.
Business & Tech Twitter to Charge $20/mo Subscription For Blue Checkmarks; Musk Polls Users About Bringing Back Vine As we await word on how swift and widespread layoffs may be at Twitter, Chief Twit Elon Musk is making moves and hinting at others — and still acting like a child with a new toy he may break any second.
Business & Tech Kanye West is Buying Right-Wing Social Media Site Parler, What Could Go Right? Increasingly incoherent and unraveling rap star Kanye West’s latest bid for attention has him buying the wingnut-haven social media site Parler, though financial terms were not disclosed, and might not even exist.
Business & Tech Yes Indeed, Twitter Is Finally Getting That Edit Button Starting Today (For Some) The long-demanded, recently rumored edit button is finally a reality on Twitter, though it’s going to roll out slowly, and you’ll only be able to edit the tweet within the first 30 minutes after you post it.
Business & Tech Sheryl Sandberg Steps Down As Facebook/Meta COO, Ending an Era Longtime Facebook/Meta executive Sheryl Sandberg announced Wednesday afternoon that she is leaving her role as COO of the company after 14 years, which is probably an indicator that she's no longer interested in defending the company against storms of its own creation.
Business & Tech Twitter CEO Ousts Two Top Execs, Freezes Hiring, Cuts Spending Ahead of Musk Takeover In what may be a bid to right the ship after a disappointing quarter, or a gesture toward trying to hold on to his job when Musk's purchase of the company closes, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal fired two top executives and laid out cost-cutting measures in a memo to employees this week.
Business & Tech Trump's Truth Social Platform Takes Another Step Toward Implosion With Two Key Resignations Donald Trump's much touted social media platform that he hoped would be a new conservative alternative to Twitter, Truth Social, has just reportedly lost two key executives six weeks after its launch.
Business & Tech Facebook and Twitter Attempt to Stifle Russian Propaganda Campaign; Russia Turns to Chinese-Owned TikTok Social media is again being used as a battleground by Russia as it continues to try to "sell" its invasion of Ukraine to the Russian people, and to sympathizers abroad.
Business & Tech The Trump vs. Twitter Lawsuit is Happening in San Francisco, And It’s Not Going Well for Trump In a lawsuit literally named Trump v. Twitter, the former president is suing Twitter to allow him back on the platform, but his arguments are going fruitlessly in a San Francisco district court.
Business & Tech Trump's Twitter-for-Bigots, Truth Social, Launches Without a Working App Remember how Trump's new media company was launching its own social network, dubbed Truth Social, and Devin Nunes left his job in Congress to help lead this company and this new thing they imagine will go toe to toe with Twitter?
SF Politics Devin Nunes Bets It All On Trump and His Twitter Knockoff, Quits the House California Congressman Devin Nunes has served a reliably Republican district in Tulare County for 19 years, but that was likely coming to an end with redistricting, so he's jumping onboard the Trump train.
Business & Tech Oversight Board Unhappy That Facebook Hid How It Handles VIP Accounts, Says It Will Review 'XCheck' System The ostensibly independent Facebook Oversight Board is pointing back to a Wall Street Journal story last month and basically saying Facebook employees concealed a vital detail from them in the Trump suspension case, and this whole policy around VIP accounts needs to be audited.
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 Reddit Moderators Revolt Over Company’s Lax Misinformation Policy Some of the most popular subreddits on Reddit have “gone dark” this week in protest of the company’s hand-off policy with misinformation and anti-vaxxer online bullying, and Wednesday, Reddit did at least ban one of the worst offenders.
SF Politics Trump Is Now Suing All the Tech Companies Who Banned Him Donald Trump is busying himself with a new crusade that is likely to fail, and it's a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
Business & Tech Facebook's Market Cap Tops $1 Trillion for the First Time After Antitrust Case Is Dismissed Facebook has now joined the ranks of trillion-dollar companies, alongside the only other companies to reach such a market capitalization, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft.
SF Politics ROFL: Trump Shuts Down His Blog After One Month Because No One Is Reading It In an entirely predictable turn of events, our former president has abruptly shut down his "From the Desk of Donald Trump" weblog, barely a month after it launched.
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 Facebook 'Supreme Court' Verdict Is In: Trump Ban Stands (But Maybe Not Forever) Facebook's appointed Oversight Board has just issued its most notable content moderation decision to date, and they say that the ban of President Trump in the wake of January 6th was justified.
Business & Tech LOL: Trump Is Going to Launch His Own Version of Twitter Oh this should be fun and embarrassing. Serial shyster Donald Trump, who used to hold some kind of government job, is reportedly planning to launch his own social media platform now that he's been banned from Twitter and Facebook.
Business & Tech Facebook Oversight Board Issues Its First Rulings On Misinformation, Hate Speech The nascent Oversight Board established by Facebook last year to serve as a "Supreme Court" or final arbiter for thorny content moderation questions has just issued its first five rulings.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Thomas Keller Flees Twitter After Series of PR Gaffes, Criticism Over Huge PPP Loans and Trump Ties It's been a rough year, PR-wise, for French Laundry chef and restaurant empire-builder Thomas Keller, and it looks like he's finally decided to abandon Twitter on account of the fact that he can't stop saying things there that piss off large swaths of the American public.
Business & Tech Boom — President Trump Has Been Permanently Banned From Twitter With only 12 days left in his presidency, the sitting American president has been permanently removed from his favorite late night, all-caps messaging platform.
Business & Tech Facebook Locks Trump's Account Indefinitely; Will Twitter Be Next? Following temporary locks on Donald Trump's Twitter and Facebook accounts that began Wednesday night, Facebook has escalated its crackdown on the president's lies and decided to suspend his access to the platform indefinitely.
