SF Politics South Lake Tahoe Mayor Faces Up to Six Months in Jail After Bar Fight Last Year South Lake Tahoe Mayor Cody Bass was convicted of misdemeanor harassment Thursday over a confrontation with a bar bouncer in October amid a turbulent year for the city’s leadership, and he faces up to six months in jail.
SF News SF Transit Group Launches Platform to Report, Track Harassment on Muni Muni riders can now report and track harassment through a new tool called “Eyes on Board,” designed to give victims a voice and provide the public with resources on supporting fellow riders and improving transit safety.
Business & Tech East Coast Bloggers Awarded $56 Million In Cyberstalking, Harassment Case Against eBay A Massachusetts couple who publish a tech newsletter have been awarded $56 million in a settlement with eBay and three former executives over an alleged cyberstalking and harassment campaign sparked by their coverage of the company.
SF News Saturday Links: Historic SF Mansion Sells for Half Its Original Price, Despite ‘Mansion Shortage’ A shredded cheese recall has expanded to include 1 million bags from major retailers nationwide; the Oakland community packed the venue at a memorial for Laney College coach John Beam Friday; and an 1899 mansion on “Billionaires’ Row” sold for $17.75 million.
SF News Notorious Tenderloin Twitter Provocateur Accused of Tire-Slashing, Harassment, Making Online Threats The Twitter personality "jj smith" is suddenly hiding his tweets after making a series of pretty violent threats, and there is at least one tire-slashing incident in which he was allegedly somehow involved.
SF News SF Mosque Attendees Harassed With Hateful Acts on Christmas Eve Some character spent his Christmas Eve standing outside a Bernal Heights mosque, ripping pages out of the Quran, and menacing Muslims with a Thor-style giant hammer, in the latest incident of Muslim harassment in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Twitter Now Says You Can’t Share Other People’s Images Without Their Consent, Confusion Abounds The new post-Jack Dorsey Twitter immediately freaked people out with a “more robust” privacy policy update, and they’re still posting threads to unspool exactly what this all means.
SF News Tesla Faced With Yet Another Lawsuit As Worker Alleges He Was Harassed For Being Gay Another former Tesla factory worker has come forward with a lawsuit against the car manufacturer, accusing them of doing nothing regarding alleged bullying and threats of violence from supervisors, then retaliating against him
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
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
SF News SFO Staffer Who Creeped On Church While Clad In Fake ICE Jacket Loses Job The San Francisco International Airport employee who freaked out congregants at a Marin County church by photographing them while wearing a jacket that bore a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement logo has lost
SF News Twitter's New 'Quality Filter' Will Let You Shut Out The Trolls Twitter has a troll problem. That the social-media service has become a tool for those wishing to harass others is well documented, as are the company's seemingly ineffective attempts to
SF News Now Everybody Can Apply For A Verified Twitter Account, So Why Would Anyone? @oprah was one of the first Twitter accounts to boast a blue "verified" check, a useful indication that Ms. Winfrey's account did, indeed, represent her. But that onetime sign
SF News Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao 'Rooting For The Humans Over The Trolls' In Washington Post Opinion Piece Less than a week after resigning "by mutual agreement" from her post as Interim CEO of the popular Internet forum network Reddit, Ellen Pao has penned a thoughtful opinion article in
Arts & Entertainment K-Pop Star Bobby Kim Goes Berserk On Flight To SFO South Korean gossip headlines Saturday were all about Bobby Kim, a famous Korean pop star who was escorted off a flight at SFO by FBI and airport security following some drunken lunacy on
SF News SF Man Is Alleged Parking Lot Creeper Police say they've arrested the man who's been creepily harassing teen women as they walked outside San Mateo High School. But the students of San Mateo shouldn't
SF News East Bay Express Fuels Prop 8 Harassment Myth Ever since Prop 8 donor names were revealed, those who donated to allow discrimination in the California state constitution have feared retaliation from angry citizens. Problem is, we have yet hear one example
