Facebook went down for six hours today. The outage happened a day after a former employee went on national television saying the company has put profits above, well, everything else. We’ll talk about how this could’ve happened and what it meant for global commerce. Plus, the federal debt limit debate is at DEFCON 2, and New Zealand gives up on its yearlong, zero-COVID strategy. And, it’s Fat Bear Week! Here’s everything we talked about today:

• “Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook” from The New York Times

• “Battling Delta, New Zealand Abandons Its Zero-Covid Ambitions” from The New York Times

• Signs the debt limit has turned into DEFCON 2 

• “Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked” from Vice  

• “Hollywood Crew Union Votes to Authorize Strike Against Studios” from The New York Times

• It’s Fat Bear Week 

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