Episode description

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