Technology
Coming up today… a fun week at Facebook and the end of the zero-Covid dream.
The stories we talked about this week:
Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today
https://www.wired.com/story/why-facebook-instagram-whatsapp-went-down-outage/
Whistle-Blower Unites Democrats and Republicans in Calling for Regulation of Facebook
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/10/05/technology/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen
New Zealand, Delta and the end of zero-Covid
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/new-zealand-zero-covid
Music by Filip Hnizdo
Produced and edited (remotely) by James Temperton
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