“The version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing ethnic violence around the world,” says former Facebook employee France Haugen. She points to Myanmar, where the military used Facebook to launch a genocide. cbsn.ws/3FdhPo4

Whistleblower Frances Haugen is a data scientist from Iowa with a computer engineering degree and a Harvard MBA. She told us the only job she wanted at Facebook was to work against misinformation because she had lost a friend to online conspiracy theories. cbsn.ws/2ZUZa0f

Nearly 30 years before the Capitol Insurrection, Giuliani led a riot of 10,000 furious, drunk NYPD officers outside New York City Hall. Their target? The city's first Black Mayor, David Dinkins. It's a story that's never been fully told—until now. 1/ nymag.com/intelligencer/…

That was a costly 60 Minutes interview. Facebook has lost $50 billion in market value so far this morning. $FB

Facebook and Instagram are both down worldwide one day after a damning "60 Minutes" segment that featured former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen taking the company's awfulness to task.

60 Minutes spills the tea on Facebook and now Facebook is down?

Facebook has been down for 60 Minutes.

Good News from Combatants for Peace Combatants for Peace: Local journalist reports that the community we've been working to bring water to, has been promised water and infrastructure equal to the surrounding settlements!

Since Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down coincidentally after a whistleblower from Facebook spilled the tea, a reminder that Mark Zuckerberg had a secret meeting in 2019 with Jared Kushner to strike a deal about not fact checking political speech during 2020 election.

Anyone else find it suspicious that Facebook is down the day after a major leak revealing that they’re not really mitigating harm on their platform.

Relax everyone. When Facebook’s done wiping its servers of incriminating evidence or enabling some horrific genocide it’ll pop back on. Don’t worry.

In observance of Facebook being down, let’s all share our favorite stories of democracy working in hopeful ways and coolest evidence-based reporting. Bonus points for uplifting others in comments 😌⬇️

All jokes aside FB/IG is literally costing creators money. That's why I work so hard to build @KevOnStream. Thee platforms be gone in an instant and with them your whole business model.

lot of top tier vaccine scientists going to have a tough time with their independent research now that facebook is down

Black Therapist Found Noose at Her Home After Reporting Racism at Her Job, Lawsuit Says dlvr.it/S8vmQ6

As an update, books are still working. lapl.org

It’s my time

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 🧐 Remember: WhatsApp wasn’t created by Facebook. It was an independent success. FB got scared & bought it 💬

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