(2021-10-05). Facebook platforms shut down by worldwide outage. wsws.org The social media apps Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, which are used by billions of people internationally each day for critical business and personal activities, were shut down for more than five hours on Monday.
(2021-10-05). Facebook services almost completely recover from crash. tass.com WhatsApp has announced fully returning to normal mode, while Facebook and Instagram are still continuing repair works…
(2021-10-05). Facebook outage named largest in history — Downdetector. tass.com The Facebook outage has become the largest outage on Downdetector with over 10.6 million problem reports from all over the globe…
(2021-10-05). Progressives Respond to Facebook Outage With Simple Call: 'Break Them Up'. zcomm.org "It's almost as if Facebook's monopolistic mission to either own, copy, or destroy any competing platform has incredibly destructive effects on free society and democracy"
(2021-10-05). Impact of Facebook Outage Minimal, Raises Questions About Whistleblower Reports – Expert. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – An hourslong outage that affected Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp will have minimal impact, however, the timing of the incident raises questions because it coincides with whistleblower reports that exposed the company engages in unethical practices, University of Florida social media professor, Andrew Selepak, told Sputnik.
(2021-10-05). Trump, Twitter and the Digital Town Hall. dissidentvoice.org The merits are hard to stomach for partisans long jaundiced by presumption and dislike, but the cheer at the deplatforming of Donald Trump by a range of social media platforms said as much about the nature of any sentiment about democracy as it did about those claiming to defend it. For one, it shut off …
(2021-10-05). When they say, 'The Reds are coming!'. workers.org 
In the course of the battle over Biden's "build back better" bill, the ugly specter of anti-communism has raised its head, most prominently in the U.S. Senate and from the right-wing media. No doubt this poison is also being spread in less open forums. Senator Marco Rubio infamously tweeted, "The . . . |
(2021-10-05). Merck announces promising new pill to treat COVID infections. wsws.org The new oral antiviral pills could reduce death and hospitalizations by 50 percent if taken early in the course of infection with the coronavirus.
(2021-10-05). Mayo Clinic Minute: What to do if your child has a bellyache. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Kids are back in the classroom, and a common back-to-school sickness is viral gastroenteritis, or stomach flu. It's an intestinal infection marked by watery diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea or vomiting, and sometimes fever. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/jwxQ2L4ZVXE Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (0: 58) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please "Courtesy: Mayo Clinic News Network." Read the script. If your child is showing symptoms of a stomach bug, such as vomiting…
(2021-10-04). Headlines for October 4, 2021. democracynow.org Rallies Across U.S. Call for Reproductive Justice Amid GOP Assault on Abortion, U.S. Tops 700K COVID Deaths; CA Announces Student Vaccine Mandate as NYC Educator Mandate Starts, Major Orange County Oil Spill Blankets Beaches, Kills Wildlife, Pandora Papers Expose Secret Financial Dealings of World Leaders, Billionaires and Other Elites, Facebook Whistleblower Says Co. Repeatedly Put Profit Over Safety, Calls for Regulations, Kabul Blast Kills Five People as Afghan Humanitarian Crisis Grows, 8 Killed at Indian Farmworker Protest, 4,000 Refugees, Including Children, Arrested in Raids by Libyan Authorities, 3 Millio…
(2021-10-04). Users Report Massive WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Crashes. telesurenglish.net On its Twitter account, Facebook wrote: "We are aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We are working to get everything back to normal as soon as possible and apologize for any inconvenience." | In their Twitter messages, Internet users echo the fact that the three social networks are down, posting numerous memes about the crash. | RELATED: | The Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA) simi…
(2021-10-04). Facebook Whistleblower Reveals Identity, Details How Platform Prioritizes Profit Over Public Safety. sputniknews.com Frances Haugen, a former product manager hired to combat election interference on Facebook, appeared on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday, outing herself as the whistleblower who supplied the Wall Street Journal with internal Facebook documents that became the framework for a wide-ranging investigative series.
(2021-10-04). Facebook Users Union Launches #FireZuck Campaign. counterpunch.org San Francisco Last night, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told 60 Minutes that Facebook is misleading the public about lies, hate and disinformation on its platform. We wish we were surprised. Time and time again, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has put Facebook's profits ahead of truth, safety, health and democracy. That's why today the Facebook Users
(2021-10-04). Blazing sideshows of Oakland and the Bay Area. indybay.org Oakland Sideshow: The attacks on the organizers of sideshows have become so extreme locally, that in San Jose recently, it has been reported that a judge ordered the promoters of sideshows to stop organizing them on social media, and violators could face a $1,000 fine and six months in jail if caught!
(2021-10-04). Trump Sues to Restore Twitter Account Ahead of Likely 2024 Presidential Run. truthout.org 
As former President Donald Trump makes plans to run for president a third time, his lawyers are taking steps to sue social media sites that have banned him over his incendiary speech. |
(2021-10-04). Kabul Diaries Part 16: After forbidding perfume for women, Taliban to ban inciteful kebab. greenleft.org.au The so-called "Taliban 2.0" has banned secondary education for girls, higher education for women students and teachers, protests and women's sports. Recent statements by Taliban figures banning perfume have been protested and derided in social media, reports Yasmeen Afghan.
(2021-10-04). Turkey & Azerbaijan Reply To Iran's Show Of Force In Border Regions (Videos). southfront.org 
Speedboats of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps | Amid the ongoing deployment of military reinforcement on its border with Azerbaijan, Iran did not forget about the propaganda tool while threatening the potential enemy. | On October 4, a number of epic video of the Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) were widely spread on social media. |
(2021-10-04). Six-Month Sentence For Lawyer Who Took On Chevron Denounced. popularresistance.org The sentence, delivered by U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in New York City, represents "an international outrage," tweeted journalist Emma Vigeland following its announcement. | Donziger's sentence came a day after the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said it was "appalled" by the U.S. legal system's treatment of the former environmental lawyer and demanded the U.S. government "remedy the situation of Mr. Steven Donziger without delay and bring it in conformity with the relevant international norms" by immediately releasing him. | Donziger represented a group of farmers and Indigenous peopl…
(2021-10-04). COVID-2021: a Plague of Mandates Odyssey. dissidentvoice.org "Does the White House think they have an Afghanistan problem or a COVID problem?"—"Chucky Doll" Todd question to Game Show Contestant-Panelists on NBC's "Meet the Press," September 5, 2021, seen on the Useful Idiots "Monday morning Sunday Morning News Shows" podcast review Clearly, there are many officially unanswered "Meet-the-Pressing" questions viraling around these COVID-dark days, …