SB 680 aimed to hold social media companies accountable for content that promotes eating disorder, suicide and drug addiction.
Social Media Bill Expected to Return to California Lawmakers in 2024 Read More »
BAY AREA — PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoff events left nearly one million customers across Northern California without power, and knocked out nearly 60% of cell towers in certain counties. It also highlighted critical gaps in communication infrastructure that local government agencies are now scrambling to address.
PG&E shutoffs highlight the usefulness — and uselessness — of technology in emergencies Read More »
Last month, tech writer Kate O’Neill sparked a debate online, with a sarcastic tweet speculating that Facebook’s “Ten Year Challenge” was really a ploy by the social media company to fuel it’s facial recognition machine learning algorithms. Her subsequent
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Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi calls on the Indian community to take the lead in eliminating child slavery from India and around the world
Consumerism and youth culture are taking on a new form in food-driven social media and it is thriving in tech-driven Silicon Valley.
For Palo Alto young eaters, posting pictures of food is part of the experience Read More »
San Jose hosted its fifth annual Pillow Fight in February with costumed participants and lots of flying feathers.
Mass ‘Pillow Fight’ takes over the streets of downtown San Jose Read More »
The transit service’s social media outreach is proving to be an important means of communication to commuters — especially in a year where there have already been 10 fatalities on the Caltrain tracks.
Commuters turn to Caltrain’s tweets for immediate delay updates Read More »
Especially during a moment when police departments nationwide are re-examining their connection to their citizens, Mountain View is an example of how social media can be harnessed to help police do so.
@MountainViewPD becoming a social media model for police outreach Read More »
