Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp down in global outage: THIS IS WHY

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Last night, the whistleblower who handed a trove of documents to Congress, the Securities Exchange Commission, and The Wall Street Journal appeared on 60 Minutes and revealed her identity. Frances Haugen, a former product manager in Facebook’s now-disbanded Civic Integrity Unit, said things were “substantially worse at Facebook than anything I’d seen before.” Her goal, in coming forward, is to “fix the company, not harm it.”

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Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law

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The new policies are in response to China’s new national security law in Hong Kong, which was first proposed in May. Hong Kong has traditionally enjoyed significant independence from mainland China, but the central Chinese government has tightened restrictions on speech in Hong Kong in recent months, bringing a gradual end to the “one country, two systems” principle. China’s push toward more control has led to widespread protests across Hong Kong, which began last year.

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