đ¨ On Monday, more than a dozen news organisations including AP, CNN, USA Today and Fox (!) are planning to drop stories on Facebookâs head. Theyâve been coordinating on the whistleblowerâs documents through a private Slack group. Story with @SylviaVarnham https://t.co/h3rhoBjJD2
— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) October 22, 2021
Also Monday:
— Mark Di Stefano (@MarkDiStef) October 22, 2021
Whistleblower Francis Haugen appears before parliament in London.
Facebook reports earnings⌠amid a proper digital ad crisis.
Facebook documents show how the platform fueled rage ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol https://t.co/k7hKH7IfDQ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 22, 2021
New tonight:
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) October 23, 2021
Leaked Facebook documents shed new light on how the Stop the Steal movement flourished on the platform in the weeks leading up to the Capitol attack.
w/@Sarah_Boxer @tarasubramaniam @claresduffy https://t.co/lKMwZ3Xu9P @AC360 pic.twitter.com/trVAKGCjmS
The Facebook Papers: A consortium of 17 US news outlets, including CNN, obtained redacted versions of documents "provided by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen as evidence to support disclosures she made to the SEC." Stories are starting to come out https://t.co/EHyOCRAb4k
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 23, 2021
Six days after Nov. 3, a Facebook data scientist noticed as much as 1 out of every 50 US views (or 10% of all political views) on the platform were on posts alleging election fraud.
— Ryan Mac đ (@RMac18) October 22, 2021
Our story on how employees felt FB could have done more ahead of Jan. 6: https://t.co/bBJYdJ19R9
New from the Facebook leaks, by @BrandyZadrozny:
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) October 22, 2021
Facebook staffers created a Trump-loving, Fox News-watching fake identity.
The account went wherever the algorithm told it to go.
It went full-on QAnon in two days.
Facebook told nobody about this.https://t.co/8XonN3glrV
Meanwhile…
Breaking News: The Supreme Court again refused to block the Texas abortion law, but agreed to fast-track suits challenging it. Arguments are set for Nov. 1. https://t.co/Pfx7WjJLh5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 22, 2021
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear both challengesâone brought by providers, another brought by the Justice Departmentâto Texas' six-week abortion ban on Nov. 1. It will NOT block the ban in the meantime. pic.twitter.com/OTOYbvG0IZ
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) October 22, 2021
Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent on the Supreme Court taking up Texas abortion law, but declining to block it: "Every day the Court fails to grant relief is devastating, both for individual women and for our constitutional system as a whole." https://t.co/uxmeSDwldp pic.twitter.com/ZXrWGrqsQH
— ABC News (@ABC) October 22, 2021
IMO the Court declined the stay to be consistent with its prior decision on the same issue but ordered expedited briefing so they could address the merits – and they are going to strike the Texas law and uphold Roe on this go-around.
— Artie Larkin (@ArtieLarkin9) October 23, 2021
The reason why Clarence Thomas going to the preeminent Republican think tank to be lauded by the nationâs most powerful Republican isnât a bigger story, is that deep down we all understand that the Supreme Court is a partisan institution. Itâs just that only some of us admit it. https://t.co/q1yTPV5EfH
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) October 22, 2021
Supreme Court schedules hearing on Texas abortion case for Nov. 1âthe day before the #VAGov election. Hmm.
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) October 22, 2021
Also…
Internal U.S. government reviews into the handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal are multiplying, with inspectors general at five agencies now conducting audits https://t.co/VkSm0uKVma via @WSJ
— Toula Vlahou (@ToulaVlahou) October 22, 2021
This âright-wing euphemismâ originated with an NBC sports reporter mistaking what a crowd chanting âf**k Joe Bidenâ was saying. She was interviewing NASCAR driver Brandon Brown. https://t.co/HpNpFce6aJ
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 23, 2021
***
Cutting right to the chase…
Will we get a day off work when the Queen dies? https://t.co/uIGUAOSbuY
— The Independent (@Independent) October 23, 2021
What will happen when Queen Elizabeth II dies? pic.twitter.com/4a9ZDg7Nk2
— Insider (@thisisinsider) October 20, 2021
Part of me thinks Nicholas Witchell is playing hard ball with the Palace here, like: "OK, Palace, if you want to lie about the Queen, your shout, but that'll mean everyone is going to speculate, wouldn't want that, would we?"
— Owen Jones đš (@OwenJones84) October 22, 2021
And throws on a black tie to hammer it home https://t.co/qLvs83Jx3b
Just under 30 years ago when I was at university (how is it nearly 30 years?) and on student radio (I know), there was a stupid joke about the queen dying and a BBC spelling error leading to 24 hours of samba music and it still makes me laugh
— Robert Venes (@rowsdowser) October 22, 2021
My sincere hope for the Queen is that she lives long enough not to have her death announced by Boris Johnson
— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) October 22, 2021
Meanwhile, for now…
Did anyone seriously think that the EU was going to leave core banking functions in a country that has declared itself a competitor to the EU? Whinges that it is all politics carry little heft. Brexit was politics or it was nothing. https://t.co/lClj6GKZ5B
— Tom Hayes (@BEERG) October 22, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: The European Union is considering terminating the post-Brexit trade deal if its rift with the U.K. gets worse https://t.co/tXaOH8960H pic.twitter.com/HNEghBHRD8
— Bloomberg UK (@BloombergUK) October 22, 2021
Good but grim thread. So many problems caused by Brexit & now the desperate rush to sign sub-optimal 'deals' with countries on the other side of the world. Vote Leave government can't encourage behaviour that might mitigate problems because it still can't admit problems exist. https://t.co/nDMwMJ4ctS
— James OhBrien (@mrjamesob) October 22, 2021
"EU exports became impossible after Brexit took effect on January 1 because the UK was treated as a non-EU country" might be better rendered as:
— Chris Grey (@chrisgreybrexit) October 22, 2021
"EU exports became impossible after Brexit took effect on January 1 because the UK became a non-EU country" https://t.co/6koikJr8so
This one is a classic of UK government over-promise and under-delivery on trade, and of how… actually, no spoilers, because this is a tale that needs to be read to the end.
— David Henig (@DavidHenigUK) October 23, 2021
And at some point someone in government may realise we really need that trade strategy. https://t.co/xsQCAKZjhi
Oh, but hey…
Museum of Brexit to open. Just lots of empty shelves and a display case of Dom Cummings tweets. https://t.co/B0dlLDhOnP
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) October 22, 2021
Tempers fray as Tories fail to unite for Cop26 climate talkshttps://t.co/Z7pOW8PrdV
— Luke McGee (@lukemcgee) October 23, 2021