Facebook was down basically all day Monday, which was fun. Here’s Brian Krebs’ blog post about it, and Facebook’s explainer of what happened. Also, here’s a funny meme that absolutely everyone made a version of:
- Washington Post: As Trump hints at 2024 comeback, democracy advocates fear a ‘worst-case scenario’ for the country
- NPR: Texas’ abortion law is back in court
- Bloomberg: Police Violence Deaths Are Twice As High As Official U.S. Count, Study Finds
- The Atlantic: We’re Already Barreling Toward The Next Pandemic
- NBC News: Covid is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of people in urban areas
- RightWingWatch.org: The Right-Wing Political Machine Is Out to Take Over School Boards by Fanning Fears of Critical Race Theory
- Washington Post: A Trump lawyer wrote an instruction manual for a coup. Why haven’t you seen it on the news?
- Scientific American: Why We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks—and Where to Get Them
- Vox: Why this Facebook scandal is different
- NPR: What the ‘Pandora Papers’ show about how the powerful hide money from public view
- NPR: Ex-Facebook manager alleges the social network fed the Capitol riot
- 60 Minutes: Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation
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