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Reason

Facebook and Instagram were down for thousands of people — live updates

The Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram platforms went down for thousands of people. Here are live updates from the outage.

Tom’s Guide

Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger all got hit by a big outage – but they're back up again

Facebook and Instagram suffered an outage due to technical difficulties, but we've yet to hear the full details.

TechRadar

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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 720

As the war enters its 720th day, these are the main developments.

Al Jazeera

Russia places Meta spokesperson on wanted list

Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director, is wanted by Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs on unspecified terrorism charges

The Independent UK

Russia puts spokesman for tech giant and Facebook owner Meta on wanted list

Russia's interior ministry has added the spokesman of U.S. tech giant Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, to a wanted list, according to its online database

The Independent UK

Russian troops continue attempts to advance near Avdiivka in effort to encircle city – as it happened

Russia has conducted airstrikes in support of ground operations as it aims to surround city on outskirts of Donetsk

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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 641

Ukraine says Russia launches most intensive drone attack on Kyiv since start of the war; former Russian PM added to Kremlin’s list of ‘foreign agents’

The Guardian - AU

Mariah Carey shows that she can still hit the vocal heights in Billboard Music Awards performance of All I Want For Christmas Is You, a song she says she started writing “on a little DX7 or Casio keyboard”

It's only November, but we may have already have hit 'peak Christmas'

MusicRadar

Christmas arrives in UK charts earlier than ever with entries for Wham! and Mariah Carey

Christmas classics enter at No 37 and No 40 respectively, ahead of increasing ubiquity over the festive season

The Guardian - UK

Mariah Carey sued again over ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’

For the second time in as many years, singer-songwriter Vince Vance has lodged a lawsuit against Carey alleging she stole the holiday song from him.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mariah Carey sued for alleged copyright infringement over ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’

Carey is yet to respond to the lawsuit

Evening Standard

Mariah Carey sued for copyright infringement over All I Want for Christmas Is You

Carey faces second lawsuit from songwriter Andy Stone over huge holiday hit, after he filed to dismiss his own 2022 claim

The Guardian - UK

Mariah Carey hit by $20m lawsuit over Christmas anthem

Andy Stone claims that Carey’s 1994 hit ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ copies elements of his 1989 song of the same name

The Independent UK

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Al Jazeera

Are social media giants censoring pro-Palestine voices amid Israel’s war?

Users and activists say the world’s largest social media platforms are censoring content about Palestine.

Roll Call

House panel backs away from Zuckerberg contempt vote - Roll Call

A House committee scrapped a Thursday meeting to vote on whether to hold social media mogul Mark Zuckerberg in criminal contempt of Congress.

The Independent UK

House Republicans plan to hold Meta's Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being threatened with contempt of Congress

WEKU

Twitter threatens to sue its new rival, Threads, claiming Meta stole trade secrets

An attorney for Twitter accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees with the intention of creating a "copycat" platform, implying a lawsuit could come next.

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The Guardian - US

Meta threatens to pull news content in California if law to pay publishers passes

Proposed bill would require ‘online platforms’ to pay a fee to state news providers whose work appears on their services

WEKU

Facebook, Instagram to block news stories in California if bill passes

From Australia to Canada, Big Tech has resisted lawmakers' efforts to force them to pay news publishers for carrying their articles. Now, that battle is playing out in California.

Salon

FTC watchdogs are coming for Facebook

Accused of breaking its $5 billion promise, Facebook is on the backfoot

360info

India’s Wire scandal a lesson for media

A scandal involving a fake email, two computer cryptographers and a politician is a lesson for all media before India’s run of elections.

WEKU

The attack on Brazil's Congress was stoked by social media — and by Trump allies

The Independent UK

All I Want for Christmas co-songwriter calls Mariah Carey’s story behind song a ‘tall tale’

‘She doesn’t know chord changes and music theory or anything like that,’ the music producer claimed about Carey

The Independent UK

Facebook parent Meta threatens to remove news from platform

Facebook parent Meta Platforms says it will be forced to consider removing news content from its platform if Congress passes legislation that could require social media companies to pay news outlets

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