Business & Tech Twitter Is Talking About Jack Dorsey's Goat Beard, As Seen During Today's Congressional Hearing No one should be surprised that he showed up for a bit of Republican political theater today with a truly guru-esque goat beard, and a nose ring.
Business & Tech Twitter Suspends Trump Campaign Account for Three Hours, as Trump-Twitter Battle Escalates Trump is threatening a “big lawsuit” after his campaign account was given a three-hour timeout on Twitter, and Senate Republicans have subpoena'd Jack Dorsey because they think this is the equivalent of Pearl Harbor.
Business & Tech Facebook Actually Removes Trump Post Containing False COVID Claim; Twitter Temporarily Freezes Trump's Account Facebook manned up and actually took down a post that Trump put up on Tuesday in which he, egregiously and falsely, claimed that COVID is less lethal than the flu.
Business & Tech As Trump Reverses and Recommends Mailing In Ballots and Voting Twice, Twitter Slaps Label On Tweet The President continued his unhinged lunacy on Thursday, changing course in his rhetorical war on mail-in voting by recommending that voters — presumably only those who vote for him — to mail in ballots and then show up in person at polling places as well.
Business & Tech Twitter Says It Is Adding 'Context' to Trending Topics; Facebook and Google at War With Australian Government Ahead of the latest U.S. election, Twitter is responding to criticism that one of its defining features, the Trending Topics sidebar, tends to promote misinformation and conspiracies.
SF News Once Again, BART's Twitter Persona Gets Real, But This Time About Farts It's a been a minute since we had the pleasure of BART's Twitter account coming alive with some honest and/or sassy commentary. But whoever's in charge over there this summer, kudos.
Business & Tech Now Twitter Is Looking Into Acquiring TikTok Amid Looming Trump Ban Twitter is in the mix with Microsoft to acquire the video app, as the clock is ticking on the September 15 deadline of a mandatory TikTok sale.
Business & Tech Feds Announce Charges Against Three People In Twitter Hack, Including Florida Man and Juvenile The major hacking and data breach at Twitter two weeks ago has already produced three alleged culprits, and federal authorities on Friday announced charges against the three, as well as the online moniker of a hacker still at large who is believed to have been the mastermind.
SF News Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Remove Video of 'Doctors' Who Were Denouncing Masks, Promoting Hydroxychloroquine A video of some doctors broadcasting from in front of the Supreme Court building and making spurious claims about the COVID-19 pandemic — which the president of course retweeted — has been removed by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube citing their policies on misinformation.
Business & Tech Twitter Mulls A Paid Subscription Model, As Congress Calls Jack Dorsey In To Testify Fresh off a highly embarrassing data breach, Twitter would like your credit card information — but Congressional Republicans want to grill Jack Dorsey first.
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.
