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5 Oct, 12 tweets, 5 min read
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A few thoughts on the extended Facebook outage today.

First, as everyone has noticed, the timing is obviously suspicious.

"The outage came amid mounting difficulties for the company."

Facebook's services start coming back online after outage
cnn.com/2021/10/04/tec…
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Today's events were not good for the company or it's CEO, but...⬇️

"The news story that might actually impact Facebook's bottom line is the whistleblower."

Why Facebook's Hours-Long Outage Is Just a Financial 'Drop in the Bucket' for the Tech Company uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/why-faceb…
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See how well this all worked out.

Guess who's thrilled that THIS was the Facebook story on everyone's lips today, and the lead story on the evening news tonight?

Yeah. that's how it's done. They'd MUCH rather talk about this. News cycles are short.

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Who else was thrilled about today?

"With WhatsApp now down for hours, thousands of new users have signed up to Telegram at the same time...

Telegram, which says that it has more than 500m users worldwide, also urged users to delete WhatsApp..."

5/
Pavel Durov.

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"Some call the 36-year-old 'Russia’s Zuckerberg' because he founded the Russian Facebook clone VKontakte in 2006. But his latest investment is much more significant: Telegram, arguably the world’s most dangerous messenger service."

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See why pushing people to THIS app might be an issue?

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Is this starting to make sense yet?

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8/
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'Great migration'!?

[This isn't even the first time this scenario has occurred!?] 👀

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Notice a pattern?

10/
More 'Russian meddling' against the West via these same apps and platforms?

What could it all mean?🤔

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What about Ukraine, where so many RIS influence operations have been tested and fine-tuned prior to their use in the West?

Oh.

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That doesn't sound good either.

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Sisu Within 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🇳🇿 Profile picture
6 Oct
[See below]

"Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov said on Tuesday that his instant messaging app added a staggering 70 million users yesterday..."

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Yeah, OK.🤦‍♂️

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Missed this.

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