Here is some news that isn't about the collapse of social networks:

🎥 IATSE members in tv and film production voted to authorize the first nationwide strike in the trade union's 128-year history.

The walkout is reportedly intended to convince studios to provide film and tv crews with reasonable rest periods, meal breaks, sustainable benefits, better pay and other needs.

INSTAGRAM SAYS COMING BACK ONLINE

Guess who didn’t stop working

Skype, as well as Telegram, didn't let us down tonight. The platform was functioning the entire time the internet was experiencing sweeping outages.

⚡Zuckerberg apologizes for disruption of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp

🙃Round 2: User reports indicate Facebook is having problems...again

🚋 Gunfire on Amtrak train: DEA agent, gunman killed, second agent is critically wounded in Amtrak train shooting in Arizona.

The incident happened when a passenger opened fire as officers were doing a routine inspection for illegal contraband on an Amtrak train in Tucson, Arizona, authorities said.

The team sent to Facebook’s data centers needed physical access to the servers to bring the site back up but were reportedly locked out, as their cards and access were also down.

Data engineers reportedly used an angle grinder on server cage access panels to get inside, according to sources.

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🏎 Let's go!
Bubba Wallace makes history in Talladega, Alabama, as the second Black driver to win a top NASCAR race.

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💡The Facebook engineering center said the teams had learned that configuration changes on backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between data centers were causing issues that interrupted communications.

The network traffic disruption had a cascading effect on the way data centers communicate, bringing services to a halt.

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'There's no reason to yell': Jen Psaki vs reporters saga

Reporter presses Psaki with questions over Hunter Biden

🇺🇸 🇫🇷 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets French President Emmanuel Macron in the wake of the recent AUKUS rift

❗️ URGENT | Blinken tells Macron US supports European defence initiatives in first talks since submarine crisis

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❗ U.S. Treasury's Yellen says it's up to Pelosi, Schumer to figure out how to raise debt limit in Congress - CNBC interview

😮 Democrat Senator was confronted in the bathroom!

Democrat Senator Kyrsten Sinema was given a hard time by activists for stalling Joe Biden’s agenda.

A group of protesters confronted Sinema at Arizona State University where she was teaching and followed her to the bathroom, blasting her for allegedly breaking her promises.

⚡️🇺🇿🇺🇸Tashkent and Washington are not discussing providing the United States with military bases where it could deploy equipment for operations in Afghanistan, Sodyq Safoev, the first deputy chairman of Uzbekistan’s Senate, told Sputnik.

The US Senate is expected to open up the floor to Frances Haugen, a former product manager at Facebook. The whistleblower has claimed the following:

🔸Facebook put its immense profits before people

🔸FB is operating in the dark, and is accountable to no one

🔸The regulators of the social network can see some problems, but not what is causing them

🔸Facebook wants people to choose between connecting with others online and personal privacy

🔸It has the resources to "destroy her"

#BREAKING | US Capitol Police investigating suspicious vehicle outside Supreme Court

#LIVE | Facebook whistleblower testifies before US Senate day after global blackout https://sputniknews.com/20211005/facebook-whistleblower-testifies-before-us-senate-day-after-global-blackout-1089681594.html