SF News Right-Wingers Accused of Inciting Fights, Pepper Spraying Silicon Valley Shoppers For YouTube Views A Costco shopper in Mountain View is suffering from vision loss after he was pepper sprayed during an altercation with a right-wing instigator/YouTuber from Southern California.
Business & Tech Meta and Google Found Liable In Landmark Social Media Addiction Case; Meta Also Found Liable In Child Exploitation Case It's a bad week in the courts for Meta, and also for Google and YouTube, after juries in two states came back with verdicts against the companies in high-profile cases about the dangers of social media.
Business & Tech Meta and YouTube Now On Trial Over Claims They Are Addicting Kids With ‘Digital Casinos’ Opening statements started Monday in a trial where plaintiffs allege that Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube are acting as ‘digital casinos’ designing their platforms to addict kids, and Zuckerberg will be forced to testify.
Arts & Entertainment YouTube to Become Exclusive Broadcaster of the Oscars, Starting In 2029 The Academy Awards will be departing network television and heading to YouTube under a new deal struck with the Alphabet-owned, San Bruno-based company, marking a major shift for the nearly 100-year-old awards show.
SF News YouTube Accounts Previously Banned for Misinformation Could Soon Be Reinstated YouTube’s parent company Alphabet announced Tuesday it’s allowing creators who received permanent bans over misinformation relating to COVID-19 and the 2020 election to apply to be reinstated. This likely includes Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Steve Bannon.
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Star IShowSpeed Hits SF, Meets Mayor Lurie, Has People Pushed Around, Watches a Sideshow Gen Z YouTube icon IShowSpeed drew Beatlemania-level excitement and received a dignitary’s welcome from Mayor Daniel Lurie in the Bay Area Thursday, though he and his fans were not always on their best behavior.
SF News In-N-Out Sues YouTube Prankster for Vulgar Video Where He Impersonated a Store Employee, Made Condom Jokes Apparently the In-N-Out burger chain will sue you if you make YouTube videos impersonating one of their employees and saying there are condoms and cockroaches in their food, as one SoCal YouTuber has discovered this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Officials Say Stay Out of Water at Ocean Beach Over the Weekend At least 12 people were stabbed at a Hamburg train station; Stanford students are on day 11 of a hunger strike over the school’s ties to Israel; and officials warn residents to stay out of the water at Ocean Beach following recent deaths and multiple rescues.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 87-Year-Old Woman Injured In Fillmore Hit-and-Run An 87-year-old woman was seriously hurt and a hit-and-run collision in the Fillmore; the parents of the 19-year-old girl killed in that Piedmont Cybertruck crash are suing; and YouTube turns 20 years old.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Deals Second Blow This Term to Republicans Seeking to Punish Social Media Platforms Over Censorship The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision Monday tossing two cases back to lower courts, stymieing a Republican-led effort to litigate their feelings about social media platforms' handling of the 2020 election, and of Donald Trump after January 6th.
Business & Tech Judge Allows Suits to Go Forward Charging That Facebook, YouTube and Reddit Profit From Extremist Content Several lawsuits stemming directly from a 2022 mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York grocery store, which contend that social media platforms actively engage and profit from individuals spreading and consuming hate speech with deadly consequences, can move forward, a judge has ruled.
SF News YouTuber Who Deliberately Crashed Airplane In 2021 Sentenced to Six Months YouTuber Trevor Jacob made a poor example of himself and YouTube stunt artists in general two years ago when, while promoting a wallet for a sponsor, he filmed a video in which he deliberately crashed a small plane in Santa Barbara County.
Business & Tech Google Will Begin Mass-Deleting Unused Accounts on Friday, Purging Accounts Not Used In Two Years If you have an old Gmail account you haven't used in two years, be warned it is on the chopping block, as on Friday Google will start deleting accounts that have not been used in two years or longer.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Hands Big Tech a Big Win In Content Moderation Cases Two separate lawsuits against tech companies Google and Twitter both went in favor of the tech titans Thursday, as the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that neither were responsible for terrorist acts that were linked to content on their platforms.
SF News SoCal YouTuber Admits He Crashed An Airplane Just for the Clicks, Faces 20 Years In Prison A 29-year-old YouTuber from Lompoc has pleaded guilty to crashing an airplane on purpose for the pageviews, then lying to federal investigators and clandestinely disposing of the wreckage.
Business & Tech Detestable L.A. Tesla Owner Performs 50-Foot Jump on Public Street, Damages Multiple Other Cars In a hit-and-run fiasco that a crowd of Tesla fans clearly delighted in, a Tesla owner in L.A. performed a massively dangerous 50-foot leap on city streets, and damaged a few other cars with this stupid stunt.
SF News YouTube Troll of ‘Change My Mind’ Meme Fame Airs Racist Tirade on KPIX’s Betty Yu A two-bit Howard Stern wannabe who gained brief internet fame over the “Change My Mind” meme in hot water again over a racist segment targeting KPIX reporter Betty Yu. ]
Business & Tech YouTube Isn't Taking Down 'Citizen Journalist' Video of Boulder Shooting In Progress YouTube says it won't remove a video of the mass shooting in Boulder on Monday, despite the fact that it shows bodies on the ground, because it has documentary or journalistic value.
Business & Tech Google Employees Have Formed a Union, But Only A Tiny Percentage Have Signed Up A smattering of Googlers, YouTubers and Waymo staff have formed the Alphabet Workers Union, in a move that could revolutionize the tech industry — or merely result in about 200 Google employees getting fired for vague “performance” reasons.
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 Eight LGBTQ YouTubers Sue Over The Company's Alleged Discrimination Against Them In an ever-evolving uproar around the tech-gargantuan that gave rise to viral makeup tutorials, eight LGBTQ YouTubers are suing the Google-owned video platform, saying, per court-released documents, that they’re being illegally discriminated against.
SF News Wife Of Maine Man Arrested For Threats Against YouTube Actually Deleted His Channel, Lied To Him About It The story about the jilted YouTuber who took a cross-country trip just to have a word with Google about his deleted channel has taken a darkly funny new twist.
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Star PewDiePie Again In Trouble For Racist Speech, This Time With SF Game Company 27-year-old Swedish vlogger PewDiePie, who for reasons I can't even wrap my head around made $15 million last year for essentially rambling like a crazy person and taking video
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
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This Award-Winning, Locally Shot 'Choose Your Own Adventure' Short Film A groundbreaking new short film shot in San Francisco’s Ingleside District recently won the Student Filmmaker prize at National Association of Theater Owners CinemaCon, and the winning film “Sirens” is now available
