Let’s start off with two from NBC News.
The first one’s about Facebook. This is not surprising to learn, but it turns out Facebook was weaponizing all our personal information to bludgeon advertisers and app developers into playing nice with Facebook. SurprisedPikachu.jpg, right? Basically Facebook was all, “Hey, we have a metric shit ton of personal information we’ll give you… if you do what we want.” And what they wanted was more money and/or access to whatever data various apps were drumming up. If you didn’t do what they wanted, or didn’t spend enough in advertising, Facebook cut you off. Seems like they destroyed some businesses that way, too. Shocking.
The second one’s about all the White House officials who answered Mueller’s questions during his investigation. A (probably heavily and wrongly) redacted version of the Mueller Report’s supposedly coming out this week, and now White House folks are worried that all those questions they answered for Mueller because they thought we and/or their boss, Trump, wouldn’t find out, might get made public. Pardon me while I savor this schadenfreude.
The Daily Beast has a big expose on billionaire pedophile Jeffery Epstein and the semi-secret foundation he used to try to repair his reputation after we found out he was a giant pedophile. There’s all kinds of sordid, horrifying stories about Jeffery Epstein and the people he was friends with. Some of his friends include Trump, Bill Clinton, Woody Allen and Kevin Spacey.
Meanwhile, the Hill is reporting that Roy Moore, hate monger, alleged sexual assaulter, and known religious weirdo is leading the pack of potential GOP opponents of Doug Jones in Alabama. Because of course he is. WTF, Alabama, Moore is garbage, support better candidates.
And to wrap things up, the ridiculous conspiracy theories about the Notre Dame Cathedral fire are flying thick and fast and most of them are anti-Muslim, because we live in the darkest timeline and everything is going to hell in a handcart on greased rails. BuzzFeed News has a roundup of the bullshit.
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