https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/03/coronavirus-facebook-intel-twitter-drop-out-of-sxsw-as-disease-spreads/ > The South by Southwest conference set to start next week in Austin, Texas is going to be missing some big Bay Area companies that have pulled out of the multimedia event due to fears about the spread of coronavirus. . > Facebook and Intel have both said they will not attend SXSW because of the rise in coronavirus cases in the United States. Those companies are following the lead of Twitter, which said on Monday that it will also not appear at SXSW this year.