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What a week already for Facebook. Its nearly six-hour outage of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Monday cost the company an estimated $79m in lost ad dollars. The blackout came on the tails of stinging accusations by whistleblower Frances Haugen on 60 Minutes and mere weeks after a Wall Street Journal story alleged that insider documents suggest Facebook knows about the negative effects of its platforms on mental health. Today, as Haugen testifies before the US Senate, The Drum checks in with media experts about the impact of these events on ad dollars. ....
TWO Musselburgh churches have been busy supporting local people with donations of food during the Covid-19 crisis. Musselburgh Baptist Church opens its foodbank every Thursday morning between 10am and noon, while St Andrew’s High Church members have been helping out East Lothian Foodbank. Ross McNab, assistant pastor at the baptist church, said it was “amazing” that the congregation was back together meeting in person since the end of March, adding that the church wanted to extend “a warm welcome to our wider community to come join us”. He added: “We are meeting together every Sunday and currently hold three services at 9am, 10.30am and noon. Each service lasts approximately one hour and contains a mixture of music, teaching and prayer. ....