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Greenberg: No, Mayor Lurie, Twitter Didn’t Cause San Francisco’s Woes

May 22, 2025 11:20 amMay 22, 2025 11:20 am

San Francisco, once a shining beacon of innovation and culture, is grappling with a harsh reality: shuttered storefronts, rampant drug use, persistent homelessness, crime, and a fiscal mess. Previous Mayor London Breed and now Mayor Daniel Lurie have both pointed...

X Suppressing ‘Freedom of Reach’

January 31, 2025 3:30 amJanuary 31, 2025 3:31 am

Three years ago, a revolution swept through Big Tech demanding an end to censorship and a commitment to freedom of speech in the name of the ability to exchange information and ideas online. Elon Musk bought Twitter and rebranded it...

X/Twitter Announces all Remaining San Francisco Employees to be Moved To Palo Alto, San Jose

August 6, 2024 12:47 pmAugust 6, 2024 12:47 pm

According to an internal e-mail from X CEO Linda Yaccarino, X’s San Francisco office is to close in the coming weeks, with all offices being moved to sites either in San Jose or Palo Alto. Since 2020, Elon Musk has...

X/Twitter To Sublease 800,000 Square Feet Of San Francisco HQ

July 12, 2024 1:14 pmJuly 12, 2024 1:14 pm

Multiple media sites confirmed on Thursday that X, formerly Twitter, is looking to sublease its 800,000-square-foot headquarters at 1355 Market Street and 1 Tenth Street, indicating a possible outside of San Francisco soon. X moving outside of San Francisco has...

Government Censorship on Trial: U.S. Supremes to Hear Arguments Monday

March 15, 2024 8:00 amMarch 15, 2024 11:49 am

The government-backed censorship-industrial complex goes on trial Monday when the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the most important free speech case in decades: Murthy v. Missouri. The lawsuit – brought by a pair of states and...

Google, Twitch, Discord Announce Massive Layoffs As Bay Area Mass Layoffs Continue

January 12, 2024 2:30 amJanuary 12, 2024 2:31 am

Multiple San Francisco tech firms such as Google and Discord instituted mass layoffs on Wednesday and Thursday, increasing the number of unemployed tech workers in the Bay Area in a year where the region had been projected to begin to...

Unity Gaming Company Announces Mass Layoff of 1,800 In San Francisco

January 9, 2024 2:30 amJanuary 9, 2024 2:31 am

Unity, a San Francisco video game company specializing in game engines, let go 1,800 employees on Monday, becoming the Bay Area’s first major mass layoff a little more than a week into 2024. In the last few years, San Francisco...