SF News Twitter In The Time Of Fascism: Lindy West Calls It 'Unusable For Anyone But Trolls, Robots, & Dictators' Much like Mark Zuckerberg, in a quest to defend his utopian vision of friends sharing birthday candle photos with friends, has struggled to accept that he now runs the world's biggest group-think and
SF News Edit Capability Could Be Coming To Tweets, Says Dorsey Rather than spend Christmas evening eating and drinking with family and friends, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky took to Twitter to solicit suggestions from the general public about what the company should launch next
SF News Epileptic Reporter Comes After Twitter Over Troll Who Sent Him Tweet Designed To Induce A Seizure A new wrinkle in the battle for internet civility has arrived in the form of a legal petition filed this week by reporter and avid Twitterer Kurt Eichenwald asking that Twitter disclose the
SF News Families Of Three Orlando Shooting Victims File Suit Against Twitter, Google, And Facebook The families of three of the people killed in the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June Tevin Eugene Crosby, Juan Guerrero, and Javier Jorge-Reyes filed suit this week in federal
SF News Twitter To Release Vine Camera App In Apparent Effort To Please No One When Twitter announced in October that it was shutting down Vine, fans of the six-second video-looping service lamented the forthcoming loss and various potential buyers — including Pornhub — came out of the woodwork. While
SF News Twitter Reinstates Account Of Literal Nazi Richard Spencer It seemed marginally possible last month that Twitter might not unilaterally suck at curbing hatred and abuse on its platform when it banned the accounts of several major "alt-right" trolls. Among the group
SF News As Calls To Ban Trump Grow, Twitter Provides Window Into President-Elect's Mind Supporters of Donald Trump were sent into an internet frenzy last week when Twitter officials stated that they would consider banning the president-elect should he violate the site's rules. But as the #BanTrump
SF News Jack Dorsey Blames America For Trump's Ascendancy, Says President-Elect's Use Of Twitter Is 'Fascinating' A little more than a week after a Twitter spokesperson failed to rule out the possibility that President-Elect Donald Trump could one day be banned from the platform for abuse violations, the company's
SF News Twitter Says It Would Consider Banning Donald Trump's Account The president-elect of the United States is a notorious troll — a fact which his promise to ban Muslims from entering the country, threat to imprison and strip Americans of citizenship for exercising their
SF News Twitter Tax Break And Proposed Free City College On Chopping Block Following Trump's Win San Francisco's liberal bubble is potentially facing serious strains under the looming presidency of Donald Trump. As we noted earlier, and as the Chronicle reports again, if the president-elect follows through on his
SF News CA Secretary Of State Burns The Hell Out Of Trump's 'Absurd' Voter Fraud Allegations "Serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California," President-Elect Donald Trump fumed on Twitter yesterday, "so why isn't the media reporting on this?" Easy answer: Because it didn't happen. Spreading Trump's statement,
SF News Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Briefly Suspended On Twitter, Account Reset After 'Internal Mistake' Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had his Twitter account suspended briefly Tuesday evening, sometime around 6 p.m. PST. The suspension lasted just minutes, but was not resolved fast enough to avoid lots of
SF News Twitter Reportedly Bans Several Major 'Alt-Right' Trolls Twitter may have adjusted its hearing and could even be listening to the longstanding demands of its users. After releasing new muting tools today intended to curb online abuse, the company has reportedly
SF News Twitter Unveils New Ways To Mute The Racist Trolls Who Ruined Twitter Though they admit they can't keep up with the flood of hatefulness and abuse that flows from a large swath of their user base especially the anonymous ones! Twitter announced Tuesday that they
SF News Vine Might Live On After All As Twitter Looks To Make A Deal Like an 11th hour call from the Governor, video-looping service Vine may have just received a last-minute stay of execution. TechCrunch reports that parent company Twitter is currently entertaining numerous offers and term
SF News Pornhub Just Offered To Buy Vine When news arrived yesterday that Twitter intended to shutter the video looping service Vine, the internet loudly lamented the impending loss. The 6-second repeating videos have become a pop-culture staple since the company
SF News Twitter Confirms Layoffs Of About 350 Employees Twitter confirmed rumors Thursday that the company would be making significant staff cuts — cuts that are actually deeper than expected. As previously reported, Bloomberg got early word that for the second year in
SF News Twitter Is Cutting Vine, Which Will Be Discontinued Vine, the 6-second looping video format introduced by Twitter more than three years ago as its rough video equivalent of a 140-character tweet, will soon be no longer. The company posted to Medium,
SF News As Rumors Of Second Massive Round Of Layoffs Swirl, Twitter Reschedules Its Earnings Report Alas, poor Twitter. Once upon a time, it was fun and useful, helping foment political change and providing a home for succinct quips. But those days are long gone, it appears, and the
SF News Anti-Defamation League: 2.6 Million Anti-Semitic Messages Posted On Twitter Over Past Year Twitter, the proverbial bridge under which trolls can spawn and spew, has been a particular hotbed for anti-Semitism, so much so that the nonprofit Anti-Defamation League Task Force on Harassment and Journalism has
SF News [Update] Greg Gopman, Former AngelHack CEO Who Called Homeless People 'Hyenas', Fired By Twitter Update: TechCrunch writes that Greg Gopman has been fired by Twitter. “Anddd I’m fired. Thanks TechCrunch,” he reportedly wrote to his Facebook page, adding that “[TechCrunch] wrote a smash piece on me
SF News Disney And Salesforce Dropped Twitter Bids Because Of Trolls At least in the case of two high-profile suitors that briefly explored the possibility of acquiring Twitter, it was the platform's infamous culture of bullying, trolls, and generally aggressive idiocy that turned them
SF News Nobody Wants To Buy Twitter As Salesforce Is Latest, Last Suitor To Walk Away Wanna buy a lightly-used (maybe that's the problem) microblogging platform? Salesforce doesn't, as CEO Marc Benioff informs the Financial Times that his cloud computing company has walked away from a potential bid on
SF News ACLU: Facebook, Instagram, And Twitter Provided Data Access To Surveillance Company Used By Police To Track Protesters Chicago-based Geofeedia, a "location-based intelligence platform" that analyzes social media posts to deliver them as surveillance information to 500 law enforcement agencies, is often used to target protesters such as Black Lives Matter
Arts & Entertainment Now Disney's Talking About Buying Netflix, Which Would Be Good For Both Of Them The latest merger rumor, first floated Friday and continuing into Monday, is that Disney is in discussions to possibly buy Netflix outright, in a deal that would provide the media giant with its
