Outages, leaks and bad headlines: Facebook’s nightmare week | The Listening Post

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A whistleblower, a system crash and the United States Congress on its case; Facebook goes under the microscope, yet again.

Contributors:

Pranesh Prakash – Co-founder, Centre for Internet and Society; affiliated fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School

Siva Vaidhyanathan – Professor, University of Virginia; author, Antisocial Media

Marianne Franklin – Professor of global media and politics, Goldsmiths, University of London

Mahsa Alimardani – Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute

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Contributors:

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Joey Shea – Non-resident scholar, Middle East Institute

Dalia Fahmy – Associate professor, Long Island University, Brooklyn

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