SF News 'Coordinated Attack' on Twitter Affected 130 Accounts, Raises Concerns Over Hackable System Functions In an unprecedented series of events, 130 "high-profile" Twitter accounts — two of which belong to the likes of Elon Musk and Kanye West — were hacked in waves on Wednesday, leaving cybersecurity experts worried about some of Twitter’s vulnerable system functions.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Twitter Hack Was 'Coordinated Attack' Three Tenderloin building owners are suing the city over homeless encampments, the SF Police Commission voted to support the Black Lives Matter movement, and Airbnb says it is still planning to IPO soon.
Business & Tech Lo and Behold, Zuckerberg Decides to Slap Labels On Trump's Lies Just As Unilever and Major Advertisers Revolt Zuck just announced that Facebook will — after months of mush-mouthed justifications otherwise — begin to label posts by politicians that spread misinformation or otherwise violate Facebook policies.
Business & Tech Devin Nunes Loses Lawsuit Over Twitter Cow, Is Now Telling Everyone to Get on Parler The hilarious case of a parody account on Twitter that took pleasure in trolling Republican California Congressman Devin Nunes has (probably) come to a close over a year after Nunes filed one of many frivolous lawsuits.
SF News Conspiracy Theorists Now Promoting Rumor That George Floyd Didn't Die On YouTube and Twitter George Soros, a "riot manual" given to antifa by Democrats, and a conspiracy theory that George Floyd's death was faked are all part of the current YouTube/Twitter/Facebook cesspool.
Business & Tech Twitter Doubles Down On Labeling Trump's Tweets After He Suggests Shooting Looters In Minnesota For the second time this week, Twitter has applied its content moderation policies to the president's tweets, this time putting a Trump tweet one click deep behind a warning about glorifying violence.
Business & Tech Trump Issues Order to Punish Twitter for Fact-Checking Him; Zuckerberg Says They Shouldn't Be Fact-Checking Him Once again social media platforms are getting dragged onto center stage in the 2020 election, and if President Trump had his way, he'd like to unleash the full wrath of the federal government's regulatory powers on them to keep them doing his bidding.
SF Politics Trump Will Burn Down The Internet If It Keeps Calling Him a Liar (But Not Really) In a fresh dustup, President Trump has publicly threatened to punish Twitter and "strongly regulate" or entirely "close down" all social media after Twitter tried to fact-check something he posted about mail-in ballots leading to rigged elections.
SF Politics Report: Half of the #Reopen Crowd on Twitter are Probably Bots A Carnegie Mellon University analysis found that 82 percent of the most influential COVID-19 retweeters are bots, and that bots comprise about half of the Twitter accounts that are crowing “Reopen America.”
Business & Tech Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million to Give Laptops to Oakland Schoolkids As part of his ongoing philanthropic effort to distribute $1.5 billion of his own money during the pandemic crisis, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey announced Friday that he's giving $10 million to the Oakland Unified School District to provide laptops and internet access to schoolchildren.
SF Politics Democrats Call on Twitter and Facebook To Remove Doctored Pelosi Video Posted By Trump Facebook and Twitter are being asked to stand up to President Trump and abide by their own rules against deepfakes after the president posted a misleadingly edited video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ripping up of the State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
Business & Tech The 2010s: When Tech Transformed How We Think, Talk, and Consume Media Companies based in the Bay Area are largely to thank — and blame — for how much the American psyche has changed. And as we close out this tumultuous decade, let's take account of the impacts the local tech industry has had on the world in a short span of time.
Business & Tech Twitter and Facebook Remove Falun Gong, Saudi Disinformation Campaigns Both Twitter and Facebook announced Friday that they were removing hundreds of inauthentic accounts with links to the Falun Gong spiritual movement — of Shen Yun fame. And Twitter also admitted it just had to remove 88,000 fake accounts linked to Saudi Arabia.
Business & Tech Twitter Gets Pushback On Its 'Minefield' Of a Political Ad Policy Twitter fleshed out its rather convoluted new policy for political ads on Friday, and it was met with immediate criticism, skepticism, and outright bafflement from both sides of the political spectrum.
Business & Tech Two Former Twitter Employees Accused of Spying For Saudi Arabia The U.S. government has accused two former Twitter employees of spying on behalf of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia via their access to sensitive Twitter user data.
Business & Tech Twitter Takes a Stand Facebook Won't And Says No To Political Ads Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made a major announcement Wednesday that is a clear response both the current political climate in the U.S. and to the public outcry over competitor Facebook's policy surrounding political advertising.
SF News Time Magazine Posts Fake-News Tweet About San Francisco Being On Fire The digital-media staffers over at Time Magazine just illustrated the perils of reporting on breaking news via Twitter, without fact-checking, via a mislabeled and mis-captioned video. And ironically, Marc Benioff owns Time now!
SF News Saturday Links: Trump Attacks San Francisco On Twitter While California Continues To Burn Fires continue to scorch California, Trump sent some very presidential tweets regarding San Francisco this morning, San Jose is knee-deep in a street art renaissance, and more Saturday headlines.
Business & Tech Kamala Harris: Twitter Should Suspend Trump's Account Over Whistleblower Threats Senator Kamala Harris has upped the ante in her campaign rhetoric targeting the president, calling on Monday night to have Twitter suspend Trump's account over comments he made regarding the Ukraine scandal whistleblower.
Business & Tech Acknowledging Recent Hacks, Twitter Turns Off Ability To Tweet Via Text Twitter is addressing a potential vulnerability that has been abused by some hackers in the last week, and the company announced on Wednesday that it is temporarily shutting off the ability to tweet via SMS.
Business & Tech Hackers Seize Jack Dorsey's Twitter, Make Bomb Threats, Praise Hitler Some hackers compromised Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account on Friday and used the platform to make racial slurs, bomb threats, and otherwise be grossly offensive.
Business & Tech FBI Seeks Contractor To Harvest Facebook and Twitter Data To Identify Potential Shooters, Terrorists The FBI put out a request for proposals last month seeking a contractor that will trawl social media to identify potential threats to American interests — something that Facebook and Twitter explicitly prohibit any third party from doing.
SF News Twitter Co-Founder Ev Williams Says Fox News Is Way More 'Destructive' Than Twitter Speaking at a tech conference in Toronto on Tuesday, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams sat down with CNN to talk about Donald Trump's Twitter habit.
Business & Tech Kamala Harris Wants To Make Twitter and Facebook Accountable For Hate Speech Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris said over the weekend that she wants to hold social media companies responsible for allowing radicalization and hate speech on their platforms.
SF News Facebook, Twitter, And Google Testimony Leaves Senators Visibly Dissatisfied To put it in the simplest terms: Senators are unhappy with what they've been hearing from Facebook, Twitter, and Google executives, who are currently being questioned about how their platforms were exploited by
