While the glitches affected a number of popular social media platforms – among them Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and SnapChat – other more significant institutions also faced major tech issues on Monday, such as Bank of America, Southwest Airlines, the professional networking site LinkedIn and the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, all …
Read More »Democrat Senator Sinema accosted by protesters after Biden calls stalking of defiant lawmakers ‘part of the process’
A woman named Karina approached Sinema on board the flight from Arizona to DC on Monday, and demanded the senator’s commitment to amnesty for illegal immigrants. She was filmed by someone from the Arizona Dream Act Coalition (ADAC), a group advocating for granting citizenship to people brought into the US …
Read More »‘Self-regulation is not working’: White House uses Facebook whistleblower, outages to target Big Tech behemoth
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki added her voice to a flurry of critics targeting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as he deals with what has already shaped up as a very bad week. On Sunday evening, a former data scientist, Frances Haugen for the company came forward as the whistleblower …
Read More »Golden age or collapse? Snowden teases future without Big Tech after trolling Facebook throughout disastrous six-hour-long outage
“The internet giants go offline today and never return. What happens tomorrow?” Snowden tweeted on Monday afternoon, five hours or so into the outage affecting the Facebook-owned platforms. He even put up a little poll with two options, ‘A golden age dawns’ or ‘Collapse: we dine on rats.’ Four of …
Read More »Back from the dead: Facebook & Instagram online again for some users after massive 6-hour outage
Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer tweeted around 6:45 pm ET that company’s services were “coming back online,” noting that it may take time to get them in a fully functioning mode. “To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I’m sorry,” he tweeted apologetically. …
Read More »Disney+ debuts cringey trailer for Fauci documentary as doctor accuses media of ‘misinterpreting’ his Christmas-gathering comments
Those tired of the health official’s seemingly constant presence on television screens will need to brace themselves, as the Disney+ streaming service is debuting the National Geographic movie ‘Fauci’ on Wednesday. The company dropped a trailer on Monday in which the adviser was described as “one of America’s most vital …
Read More »Scraped data of 1.5 BILLION Facebook users offered for sale on the dark web – reports
User IDs, real names, email addresses, phone numbers, and locations are among the data of more than 1.5 billion Facebook customers that’s up for sale, according to a report on the cybersecurity news outlet Privacy Affairs on Monday. The going price has been quoted as $5,000 for a million names. …
Read More »Facebook plunged into chaos as employees ‘CAN’T ACCESS’ servers – or even their workspaces
As the major Facebook outage dragged into hours, a Reddit poster claiming to be a member of the “recovery/investigation team” wrote the companywide snafu was indeed a “global outage for all FB-related services/infra[structure]” and explained that while repairs were underway, “the people with physical access is [sic] separate from the …
Read More »Super-rich diners enjoying steak at a trendy ‘vegan’ New York City restaurant is a perfect metaphor for these hypocritical times
It would be difficult to imagine a better metaphor for these divisive times than a restaurant ingratiating itself with the climate-change doomsayers by publicly going ‘vegan,’ while, at the same time, serving foie gras, beef tenderloin and pork dishes to rich patrons as the carbon-rich planet burns just outside the …
Read More »Should a devout Christian web designer be forced by law to create work promoting same sex marriage?
Artists have long held a special status in the US. While Pope John Paul II labelled Madonna’s controversial Like A Prayer video “blasphemy”, the singer exercised her creative licence and caused a Christian backlash. Now web designer Lorie Smith is picking up the baton and taking her own fight to …
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