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
SF News Twitter Apparently Pitched Russian Media Outlet RT On Spending Millions In Ads Last Year Twitter’s multi-million dollar US election pitch to RT revealed in FULL https://t.co/flh9GLg4f0 pic.twitter.com/ZKOntGvTat— RT (@RT_com) October 27, 2017 Pushing back against Twitter, which announced this
SF News Twitter Details 'Industry-Leading' Changes To Increase Transparency In Political Advertising On Its Platform In response to several US Senators announcing potential legislation to regulate advertising on Twitter, the tech company revealed that they have a new plan to greatly increase transparency for all advertisements on their
SF News Ex-Twitter Engineer Sets Out To Prove Company's Alleged Discrimination Against Women Two years after suing Twitter for gender discrimination, engineer Tina Huang is looking to renew her fight against the tech giant, this time coming at them with data regarding pay from her peers
SF News Senators Aim To Regulate Political Ads On Social Media With 'Honest Ads Act' A group of United States senators is looking to lead the charge on creating legislation that would ensure full transparency when it comes to buying political ad space on the internet. Senators Amy
SF News Trump Finally Tweets About California Wildfires, Has No Plans To Visit After pledging aid on behalf of the federal government to California Governor Jerry Brown, ABC 7 reports that Trump has yet to make any plans to visit any of the areas in Northern
SF News Twitter Outlines New Policies To Combat Rampant Harassment, Hate, And Abuse In an e-mail sent to Twitter employees, obtained by the Associated Press, the Trust and Safety team at the beleaguered tech company laid out their plans for combating harassment, hate speech, and abuse
SF News #MeToo Campaign Highlights The Widespread Commonality Of Sexual Harassment On Twitter over the weekend, women began sharing stories of sexual harassment and assault using the hashtag #MeToo in an effort to illustrate the magnitude and commonplaceness of the problem across many corners
Arts & Entertainment Jack Dorsey Is Sorry Twitter Is So Terrible This year, says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, harassment and abuse was the company's "top priority" and they've "made a lot of progress." This was part of a mini tweet storm Friday that Dorsey
Arts & Entertainment Rose McGowan's Twitter Suspension Inspires #WomenBoycottTwitter Protest As a response to Rose McGowan's brief suspension from Twitter yesterday for sharing the private phone number of a Hollywood executive's assistant, people have joined together to protest Twitter and the spotty enforcement
SF News [Updated] Twitter Says Rose McGowan Suspended Over Tweeted Phone Number, Lifts Ban TWITTER HAS SUSPENDED ME. THERE ARE POWERFUL FORCES AT WORK. BE MY VOICE. #ROSEARMY A post shared by Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) on Oct 11, 2017 at 9:19pm PDT Please scroll down for
SF News Twitter Suspends GOP Congresswoman's Anti-Choice Political Advertisement One GOP congresswoman's anti-choice campaign advertisement was suspended from being promoted on Twitter's advertising platform yesterday. Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee) created a campaign video wherein she detailed her work against Planned Parenthood. In
SF News Democrats In Congress Pressure Twitter To Do Something About Their Rampant Racism Problem It seems like Congress is now also criticizing Twitter for its seeming inaction with regards to the racism running rampant on its platform. According to Adweek, Representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) and Emanuel
