Inside SF's private surveillance state
Ian Firstenberg @ 48 Hills
Phoenix Project
How Google organized opposition to a California privacy proposal
Khari Johnson and Yue Stella Yu @ CalMatters
San Francisco Doom Loop Map
This map highlights the astroturf connections present between the various groups that are responsible for weaponizing the San Francisco doom loop narrative against progressives for conservative political gains from 2021-2025. The map flows down from billionaire-backing and national political figures, to local astroturf organizations, media, and conservative influencers, and then
Meet your new Neighbors (for a Better San Francisco)
Adam Shanks @ SF Examiner
The Rise and Fall of the San Francisco Doom Loop
An Astroturf Network channeled anxiety created by the COVID-19 pandemic to ratchet up fears surrounding crime. The narrative was a ruse: San Francisco crime had been on a downward trajectory for decades. What the Astroturf Network wanted were candidates sympathetic to their narrow and selfish interests. They spent vast amounts
San Francisco Astroturf Map
The SF Astroturf Network Map represents the interconnected corporate real estate, tech and right-wing billionaires that have backed dark money-funded political pressure groups to push for specific gentrification, privatization, and big business-friendly ends.
Dark Money is Flooding SF Politics. These People are Exposing It.
Bunny McFadden @ Broke-Ass Stuart
Trump's techbros want to pave over left-wing San Francisco
Merijn Rengers @ NRC
The next move for one of S.F.’s wealthiest political groups? A new ‘blueprint’ (and podcast).
Margaret Kadifa @ Mission Local
S.F. moderate group comes back with a new mission to fight progressives
J.D. Morris @ The San Francisco Chronicle
Oakland Astroturf Map
The Oakland Astroturf Network Map lays bare how an interconnected group of mostly tech venture capital and real estate billionaires spent $6.1M on a small collection of political pressure groups and conservative democratic candidates in the Oakland and Alameda County November 2024 election.
San Francisco's new mayor calls on A-list CEOs to shape city's recovery
Dustin Gardiner @ Politico