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
SF News Senator 'Deeply Disappointed' In Twitter's Efforts Regarding Russian Influences On 2016 Election Twitter recently suspended two dozen accounts and investigated many more for their links to Russian interests which may have influenced the 2016 presidential election. Unfortunately, as the Associated Press reports, that wasn't enough
Arts & Entertainment OH NO: Twitter Is Testing A 280-Character Limit For English Speakers And Others Can’t fit your Tweet into 140 characters? 🤔We’re trying something new with a small group, and increasing the character limit to 280! Excited about the possibilities? Read our blog to find
SF News Twitter Says Trump's North Korea Threat Tweet Is 'Newsworthy,' Not A Violation Twitter's Public Policy Department has made a judgement call about a tweet from President Trump that has been called a "declaration of war" by North Korea, marking perhaps the first time that a
SF News Is Trump's 'Declaration Of War' Tweet About North Korea Grounds For Getting His Twitter Account Suspended? Now that a North Korean diplomat has said that one of President Trump's tweets about the country and its leader is equivalent to a "declaration of war," can Twitter as a company continue
SF News SF-Based App Maker Creates Hurricane Harvey Relief Aid San Francisco-based science media specialist Jessica Decker, who works at the California Academy of Sciences, jumped into the fray of volunteers looking to help victims of Hurricane Harvey and to help volunteers coordinate
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
SF News YouTube, Google, Facebook, Twitter, And GoDaddy Take Stands To Shut Down White Supremacist Site Daily Stormer Tech giants Google and Facebook, as well as Twitter, web hosting company and domain registry GoDaddy, and Google subsidiary YouTube, have all taken stands against the white supremacist site The Daily Stormer, effectively
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
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 Nancy Pelosi Calls DC Shooting 'Despicable And Cowardly' House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Bay Area politicians have responded to this morning's shooting at a baseball diamond outside Washington, DC that involved several Republican members of Congress. Among those injured
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
SF News Twitter Sues Trump Administration For Ordering It To Unmask Anti-Trump Account In March, Twitter received a US Department of Homeland Security summons asking it to help identify the user or users behind one of the many "ALT" or resistance Twitter accounts that proliferated to
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
