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 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 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 Former CIA Agent Valerie Plame Launches Symbolic Campaign To Buy Twitter, So She Can Ban Trump Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, who was famously put in harm's way by former president George W. Bush in 2003 after his administration leaked her identity as an agent as a way
Arts & Entertainment #HappyBirthday! The Hashtag Turns 10 It might seem like just yesterday that you were explaining how it worked to your mom, but it was ten years ago today that the hashtag was born. #Hashtag10 New York Magazine regales
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
SF News Elon Musk Tweets That He's Bipolar, 'Maybe Not Medically' In an exchange with a stranger on Twitter, serial entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was speaking out about his sometimes rocky emotional life on Sunday yet again illustrating how weird it is
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
Arts & Entertainment Kanye Kardashian Krew Visits San Francisco, Overdresses Your social media newsfeed might have already informed you, but Kanye, Kim, Khloe, and one of the Kleveland Kavaliers spent this past weekend in San Francisco. People, America's premier news source, reports that
SF News A Majority Of Americans Wish Trump Would Get Off Twitter While President Trump shows no signs of weaning himself off his near daily Twitter habit, six months into office, a new poll shows that a majority of Americans find his tweets inappropriate, insulting,
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 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 Experiences Wide West Coast Outages While Mark Zuckerberg Speaks At Harvard Commencement While Facebook still appears to be functional for much of the country, the social media giant appears down for much of the western US Thursday, with the first reports of outages beginning this
Arts & Entertainment Sean Parker Wants You To Buy This Communication Robot For Your Kid Everyone agrees that it's never too early to begin a child on social media. The San Francisco Business Times brings us news of ELFKINS, a Sean Parker-backed toy robot designed to safety introduce
SF News Facebook's 'To Delete Or Not To Delete' Internal Training Manuals Revealed How exactly do Facebook's moderators decide what is and is not appropriate to keep on the site these days? The Guardian knows and they just made it all public. 100 internal training manuals,
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 Leaked Facebook Document Suggests Plan To Target Ads To Teens Feeling 'Worthless' And 'Insecure' A leaked document from Facebook's Australia office, marked confidential and authored by two Australian Facebook executives, purported to show potential advertisers how to target to teens as young as 14 when they were
SF News Bloomberg Is Launching A 24-Hour News Channel On Twitter This Fall Enjoyed sitting down w/@jack today to announce @Bloomberg's new global 24/7 live news network w/@Twitter https://t.co/zEY9jnUHss #TheNewNews pic.twitter.com/wwkoxNQm5b— Mike Bloomberg (@MikeBloomberg) May 1, 2017
Arts & Entertainment [NSFW] Short Film Explores The Awkward Workplace Of Indian Content Moderators For Dating Sites Who exactly is performing the thankless task of poring over the photos that eager American singles upload to dating sites, and that people all over the world upload to Facebook? The Moderators, a
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Talks, At Length, About The Flaws Of Facebook And How He Still Wants Everyone To Have A Voice Fast Company just scored a sit-down with Mark Zuckerberg, and in the interview they discuss the 32-year-old Facebook CEO's 6,000-word mid-February open letter about building a global community, whether or not money
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 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 Should Sex Offenders Be Permitted On Facebook? Supreme Court To Decide A case stemming from an innocent 2010 Facebook post about a victory in traffic court has made its way to the Supreme Court because it involves a convicted sex offender and a North
