21 August 2025

Scott Alan Lucas on San Francisco, misinformation, and the killing of Bob Lee

In his new book “Last Night in San Francisco,” journalist Scott Alan Lucas exposes how Silicon Valley’s elite turned a tragedy into a lie. When the Cash App founder Bob Lee was murdered on a San Francisco street in 2023, many tech leaders immediately blamed the city’s liberal politics. The truth was far different, revealing not urban decay but the dark underbelly of tech culture itself. Lucas unravels how misinformation spreads when it confirms our biases, and what the lives of Lee and his assailant reveal about Silicon Valley’s broken promises.

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