The Intelligence
“This crisis may mark ‘peak Facebook’”—outed, then outrage, then an outage
Also on the daily podcast: how to fix the food industry’s environmental footprint and the travails of Afghanistan’s embassies
YESTERDAY’S GLOBAL outage is not even the worst of it: today’s congressional testimony will examine a whistleblower’s allegations that the company knows its products cause widespread harm. The modern food-industrial complex is great for eaters but appalling for the planet; we examine technological fixes, and whether consumers will bite. And how Afghanistan’s embassies abroad are—or aren’t—dealing with the Taliban. Runtime: 21 min
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