When it goes dark: Facebook’s terrible week

The Intelligence from The Economist

• Episode: When it goes dark: Facebook’s terrible week
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• Duration: 00:21:05
• Published: 2021-10-05 12:15

Yesterday’s global outage is not even the worst of it: today’s congressional testimony will examine a whistleblower’s allegations that the company knows its products cause widespread harm. The modern food-industrial complex is great for eaters but appalling for the planet; we examine technological fixes, and whether consumers will bite. And how Afghanistan's embassies abroad are—or aren’t—dealing with the Taliban.

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