The Weekly Whatever: Never Early
The worst site on the Internet
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Facebook accepted bribes from OnlyFans to get adult entertainers put on a terrorist watch list.
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Instagram and Facebook put embedded browsers in their iOS apps so they can bypass tracking protections.
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Facebook ran ads on searches for white supremacist groups, and automatically generated pages for groups that didn't have a page yet.
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Facebook gave cops a Nebraska teen's direct messages so they could prosecute her for seeking an abortion.
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Even Facebook's chatbot says the company exploits people.
Other corporate misbehavior
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AirBnB apologizes after vacation listings turn out to be slave cabins.
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Whole Foods fires employees for wearing Black Lives Matter apparel. Whole Foods' lawyer responds that President** Trump called BLM "A symbol of hate".
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In tests, Teslas's "full self driving" software seems happy to mow down children.
Reasonable people
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Man attempts legitimate political discourse at FBI office in Cincinnati.
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Indian man overcharged 20 rupees (25¢) for a train ticket gets a refund after a 22 year legal battle.
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Trump's White House doctor, Ronny Jackson, says he once ate a whole plate of dog penis, and definitely won't do that again.
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Mental health nurse in Edinburgh is cautioned for knocking on a paranoid patient's door and then hiding.
Science
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The Mandela Effect is real — there are widespread shared false memories.
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Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab's expensive vinyl LPs are revealed to be sourced from digital masters, and vinyl fetishists are not happy.
Politics
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Massachusetts decides it's time to get rid of the state's flag, which features a native American underneath a broadsword held by an upraised arm.
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Texas school district votes to require that students get parental permission before borrowing books from the library.
Crapto
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Another cryptocurrency lender freezes withdrawals.
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As prices crashed, Coinbase quietly stopped sending price alerts to customers.
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With Tornado Cash sanctioned for laundering money for North Korea, someone is trolling prominent cryptocurrency boosters by sending them small amounts of money from the service, which they have no way to refuse, implicating them in illegally transacting with the company.
Climate
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More than 100 municipalities in France have no drinking water.
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French climate activists fill golf course holes with concrete, because golf must be abolished.
Miscellany
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ShitExpress web site hacked, identities of people who sent feces to others are leaked.
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Baltimore Bureau of Revenue Collections accidentally sent a check for $2m to the wrong person.
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