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Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage

FILE – In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York’s Times Square. Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 elections in a moneymaking move that a company whistleblower alleges contributed to the deadly…

Whistleblower: Facebook chose profit over public safety

In this Sept. 16, 2021, photo provided by CBS, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen talks with CBS’ Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes,” in an episode that aired Sunday, Oct. 3. (Robert Fortunato/CBS News/60 Minutes via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in last year’s…

First Broadway Production of TKAM Opens This Week

Stars Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch

A lawsuit by the estate of Alabama native Harper Lee and a counter-suit by producer  Aaron Sorkin were settled earlier this year, clearing the way for the production, which opens on Thursday. From the 60 Minutes interview with Daniels: Jeff Daniels: “I wish I could’ve told that 21-year-old kid back in 1976, “It’s going to happen for you. But you’re…

A Broadway Production of TKAM Opens Next Month…

Watch a 60-Minutes Preview on Sunday 11-25 After Football on CBS 8

Read about the production of Alabamian Harper Lee’s Masterpiece.   Categories: Statewide Tags: “To Kill a Mockingbird”, 60 Minutes, Broadway, Jeff Daniels

In Case You Missed It: 60 Minutes Story on Confederate Monuments

What should happen to those taken down?

Workers prepare to take down the statue of former Confederate general Robert E. Lee, which stands over 100 feet tall, in Lee Circle in New Orleans, Friday, May 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)   New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu: Really what these monuments were, were a lie. Anderson Cooper: A lie in what sense? Mitch Landrieu: Well, in the sense…

CBS 8 Viewers Get First Look at Lynching Memorial in Montgomery

60 Minutes Exclusive airs this Sunday

  Alabama News Network anchor Darryl Hood got the chance to sit down for an Exclusive one-on-one interview with Oprah Winfrey when she visited Montgomery to do a story on the new lynching memorial for the CBS Newsmagazine “60 Minutes”. The memorial will be dedicated later this month to the thousands of victims of lynchings that took place over a…