Update: For a minute I was part of the amplification of a widely-tweeted-but-mistaken report about Trump's FB/ Insta pages being newly visible (they've been so all along)
Whew I'm embarrassed...and grateful to a few ppl including @catthekin@find_evil who quickly flagged it.1/2
2. Here's how I got there.
1. Get a tip 2. Find a dozen other v. credible accounts featuring images of the 'restored' pages & the same report. 3. Checking myself to make sure pages were indeed up
What I didn't do is:
4. Check the wayback machine 5. Historic news stories.
3. An extra minute of googling would have surfaced historic stories that contradicted the reports I was seeing.
Kafkaesque nightmare: private jail kept a man in solitary for for 355 days after arrest.
No lawyer. No hearing.
@CoreCivic Staff strung him along while never flagging to the gov that he was still in custody. THREAD
2. After almost a *year* in solitary confinement he writes to the Federal Public Defender's Office... there is clearly panic and he gets a hearing the next business day.
Judge declared it "extreme" and egregious." All charges dismissed with prejudice...
But ordeal isn't over.
3. Mr Rivera then sues private prison company @CoreCivic for false imprisonment.
Somehow, a district court rules in favor of Core Civic.
Finds prison company could not *technically* schedule a hearing or release him, so they weren't liable.
Shutdown of a major pipeline *system is just the latest in a growing trend of ransomware attacks against operational & industrial systems as @RobertMLee points out.
Many cases have flown below the radar.
Here's a diagram of the massive Colonial Pipeline system that just got shut down by a ransomware attack.