Facebook’s decision to expand its campus in Menlo Park, California, is causing a major increase in rent for surrounding buildings. Longtime tenants, and especially low-income Latinx tenants, continue to be priced out as landlords hike up rent prices based on proximity to Facebook’s campus, according to The Guardian.…
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Activist group Avaaz has placed 100 cardboard cutouts of Mark Zuckerberg on the Capitol lawn to put pressure on the Facebook boy-god as he prepares to testify in Congress regarding the massive Cambridge Analytica data breach that happened on his watch.
Thought experiment: Would you rather have your Instagram hacked, OR have your ex hacked and your nude photos leaked on their account? Something to debate around the dinner table tonight, but unfortunately, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber didn’t get to choose—Gomez’s account was infiltrated on Monday, and Bieber’s…
Cool, more people weighing in on whether or not Amber Heard hit herself in the face or whatever.
Though I have watched several Facebook Live streams—and even appeared in a few alongside my on-again/off-again nemesis Madeleine Davies—I didn’t full comprehend what Mark Zuckerberg was trying to achieve with his company’s latest attempt to maintain our attention until watching Keith Urban lip sync his new single…
Though Wednesday evening’s reports of her death were premature, Angela “Big Ang” Raiola’s family and friends have confirmed that she passed away early Thursday morning while “surrounded by family members.” Ang, who shot to fame in 2012 after landing a role on the second season of VH1's Mob Wives, had been battling…
As we ease into September and yet another New York Fashion Week, Vanity Fair has unveiled its latest cover, this one featuring none other than Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and entrepreneur and, more importantly, Style Icon.
Love Facebook or hate Facebook, you’ve got to respect the company’s commitment to inspiring everyone else in America to do worse.
When you cut a newborn's umbilical cord, what do you think of? (It's a rhetorical question, btw; I don't want kids but just think about it for a second.)
Facebook has released its first diversity report this week which shows that about 90% of it's U.S. staff is white and Asian while women only make up 31% of its global staff.
American Apparel CEO Dov Charney, aka the guy pictured in the wikipedia's definition of "sleazy," recently said that he’s not so into the one thing that makes his company redeemable — the practice of making his clothes in America. For the most part, sans that immigration scandal.
In case you missed it, Facebook gave you a present for its own birthday: a photo slideshow of all your best moments on the site. It's decided to upgrade that gift by basically letting you exchange its original present for a slightly new, more personalized present.
You use Facebook to keep up with old friends/obsessively hate-click through their photo albums and stalk your exes. But Facebook uses you to sell your professed "likes" to marketers. Many of us have a vague understanding of how this symbiotic relationship works, but figure that Mark Zuckerburg's minions only grab our…
All those Antique Roadshow marathons seem to have poured some glitter gas back into Robert Pattinson's PR sparkle tank and gotten him through two major New York appearances. First, Rob visited Jon Stewart, who played a spirited round of Very Concerned Camp Counselor on the Daily Show. ("What are we doing here? Are you…
Who is Priscilla Chan, other than married to Mark Zuckerberg and casually not interested in a New York Times interview? She's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, at least, she is if you're trying to figure out where she pops up in The Social Network, which is where I've acquired all of my deepest insight…
Research has shown that companies with female board members heavily outperform companies with "boy's club" boards. So when it comes to Facebook's board, where the ladies at? Yeah, well, about that...
You almost certainly use Facebook, and maybe you would even say out loud to another person, "I love Facebook." But you probably wouldn't ever write and record a song about how glorious the site in honor of its IPO... Well, you'll be very glad these people did, because the result is AMAZING. It's like "We Are the…
While you were waiting for Riggs and Murtaugh to have a fifth go of it in a glorious bid to remind everyone that Mel Gibson can't be a vitriolic bigot because his longtime cop buddy is a black guy, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy handcuffed themselves together for what sounds like a hilarious romp through the…
It's hard to believe, but there was a time, less than a decade ago, when Facebook didn't even exist. There was no way to immediately tell everyone you've ever met that you just ate some delicious ribs or that your kid is finally used the big girl potty. (Finally! We all breathed such a sigh of relief on that one.) But…