By Jana Kadah. San José Spotlight.
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is asking social media companies for help in solving the city's growing fight over sideshows.
Mahan wants big-name platforms like Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok, to temporarily suspend accounts that post about local entertainment activities. He said at a news conference Thursday that the companies are willing to meet to discuss whether this is possible.
Sideshows are a Bay Area phenomenon that was born in the 1980s, where hosts would meet