Outages, leaks and bad headlines: Facebook’s nightmare week
With a whistleblower going public and a disastrous service outage, Facebook has had a week from hell. Plus, Egypt’s online influencers in the line of fire.
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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The Pandora Papers – the largest investigation in journalism history – are reverberating through the financial world of the rich and powerful. Producer Flo Phillips tells Richard Gizbert about the biggest ever leaks of offshore data and who they have exposed.
The case of Egypt’s jailed TikTok stars
The Egyptian government has been progressively tightening its grip on cyberspace and female social media influencers are the new targets.
Contributors:
Yasmin Omar – Egypt legal associate, The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy; human rights lawyer
Joey Shea – Non-resident scholar, Middle East Institute
Dalia Fahmy – Associate professor, Long Island University, Brooklyn