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Facebook's bad week: a 60 Minutes interview, a six-hour outage, and a Senate whistleblower hearing
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Alex Cranz, and Russell Brandom discuss Facebook's bad week: from a 60 Minutes interview, to a 6-hour outage, to a Facebook whistleblower hearing.
The crew also get into Android 12, Pixel 6 rumors, iOS 15.1, and more.
Further reading:
- Verge Tech Survey 2021
- Facebook encourages hate speech for profit, says whistleblower
- Locked out and totally down: Facebook’s scramble to fix a massive outage
- Facebook is coming back after a six-hour outage
- Facebook is back online after a massive outage that also took down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus
- Facebook explains the backbone shutdown behind its global outage on Monday
- What is BGP, and what role did it play in Facebook’s massive outage
- Everything you need to know from the Facebook whistleblower hearing
- The whistleblower hearing hits Facebook where the company is weakest
- The Facebook whistleblower hearing unearthed the danger of engagement algorithms
- Facebook’s whistleblower report confirms what researchers have known for years
- Facebook runs the coward’s playbook to smear the whistleblower
- What’s good, bad, and missing in the Facebook whistleblower’s testimony
- Mark Zuckerberg breaks silence to say the Facebook whistleblower’s claims ‘don’t make any sense
- Facebook reportedly slows feature development for ‘reputational reviews’
- Google just announced its Pixel 6 event on October 19th
- Android 12 review: it’s mostly about the looks
- Android 12 will be coming to Pixel phones in the ‘next few weeks’
- Pixel 6’s rumored 23W wireless charging stand and more details leak early
- iPhone 13 Mini and 13 Pro Max battery life: better, and a beast
- The latest iOS 15.1 beta includes iPhone 13 Pro camera features
- Halide’s latest update brings the iPhone 13 Pro’s Macro Mode to older iPhones
- After Epic v. Apple, a small developer is challenging Apple’s in-app payment system
- Apple is making it easier to delete accounts attached to third-party apps
- Apple’s healthcare division leaned on misleading data, report alleges
- Nintendo Switch OLED review: screentime
- Google’s latest Next doorbell and camera are not obvious upgrades
- Amazon is reportedly working on a smart fridge
- Twitch confirms major data breach after its source code and secrets leak out
- Taylor Swift fans are getting caught up in the Virginia gubernatorial race
- The Verge is now on your smart TV
- Announcing Springboard: The Verge’s documentary on the forgotten history of the Treo
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