⚡ Facebook's algorithms are not able to “adequately” identify dangerous content, and a lack of staff makes it difficult to respond to detected cases, an ex-FB manager says

❗Driver of "suspicious" Capitol Hill vehicle arrested

⚡️ The Senate hearing with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has returned from recess

❗ NATO chief urges 'interaction' with Russia to avoid another Cold War

😉 Telegram registers over 70 million new users in the wake of Facebook's services failure, the messenger's CEO Pavel Durov says

Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone tweeted that Haugen "did not work on child safety or Instagram or research these issues and has no direct knowledge of the topic from her work at Facebook"

❗ US National Security Advisor Sullivan will meet with senior chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi in Zurich this week - State Dept.

Foreign informants hired by the CIA to spy for the US are being captured, killed and compromised by rival agencies at an alarming rate, the New York Times reported citing a top secret cable sent to agents around the world.

❗ US senators in letter to Biden urge to expel 300 Russian diplomats in case Moscow fails to cooperate to increase staffing at US Embassy

🤪 Russian Foreign Ministry's reaction to US senators' proposal to expel 300 Russian diplomats: 'There is no such number of Russian diplomats in Washington'

⚡️ Facebook says maintenance error caused 6-hour outage

Facebook's engineering team determined that "configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication"

The recent Pandora leaks have revealed reputational issues for the 🇺🇸US, Matti Kohonen, an executive director of the Financial Transparency Coalition told Sputnik.
"This is a reputational issue, and the US needs to tackle it, along with other global cooperation at the UN and FATF [Financial Action Task Force] to close down other tax havens across the world," Kohonen explained.

🕵️‍♂️ CIA is urging its officers to not underestimate foreign spy agencies, as a large number of CIA informants reportedly have either been killed, arrested or otherwise compromised over the last several years.

According to sources, the cable accused CIA officers of placing “mission over security” by being too quick to trust new sources and moving too quickly to recruit them, while at the same time underestimating the spycraft of rival intelligence agencies.

Biometric scans, facial recognition technology, artificial intelligence and improved hacking tools were all mentioned as new challenges for the CIA to overcome, which had made it easier to track the movements of CIA officers and to uncover their sources’ identities.