blackout. joe concha columnist for the hill. i immediately thought of you. we were on outnumbered 12:07 we saw the tweet from the coms director on facebook and i joked that s like calling in sick on another television network for you and me. they were in trouble. it is funny. i was thinking of you exactly 12:07 p.m. yesterday. oh, i forgot to turn on outnumbered. there you go on that. francis haugen says in her time with facebook she saw conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for facebook. and her testimony is one of the biggest threats facebook has seen in its history because the conversation as you mentioned before is about teenagers particularly teen girls. depression, suicide. facebook s own research on the matter in the leaked documents obtained by the wall street journal shows the company itself knows it has fallen way short and allocating the proper resources to the problem. not like they don t have the
this is bbc news with the latest headlines: social media giants facebook, whatsapp and instagram are back up and running, after a major global blackout lasting six hours the company says there is no evidence of user data was. was it nice to have some time of social media? please get in touch with me. the prime minister confirms that the government is struggling to fill lorry driver vacancies despite relaxing visa rules.
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they were joined today by a prominent conservative and brexit supporting retailer. the chief executive of next, lord wolfson, said cash alone cannot conjure up enough workers, and warned forcing a rise in wages could simply lead to a 1970s style spiral of rising prices. right now, even keeping the normal wheels of the economy turning requires some pretty extraordinary intervention. the path to the chancellor s high tech highways future may take some time. faisal islam, bbc news. hundreds of millions of people around the world, using some of the most popular social media sites facebook, instagram and whatsapp, have been forced offline, in a major global blackout. it s one of the longest outages, already lasted several hours, and facebook s share price has plummetted by nearly 5%. it s not known what s caused the problems, or when it will be fixed. our consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports.