Global outrage or Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram amid revelations; Biden slams GOP for “reckless” refusal to raise debt limit; COVID cases, hospitalizations, deaths trending down in U.S.

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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WH: Facebook revelations “make clear self-regulation is not working”; Whistleblower: Facebook knows Instagram is harming teenagers; Failure to raise debt limit could have catastrophic results; Congress feuds while U.S. runs out of money; Fighting between GOP & Dems could leave the U.S. unable to pay its debts for the first time in history; Biden to SOP: stop playing “Russian roulette” with U.S. economy; After hectic week, Democrats go back to negotiating table; WH: Biden holding virtual meeting with progressive Dems today; Protesters follow Sen. Sinema into bathroom, demanding her support for Dem spending bill; Fauci: “too soon to tell” if holidays will be normal; Analysis: fear is a stronger motivator for vaccination rates than FDA full approval; Planning for the next virus: can we become “pandemic proof”?; “Catastrophe” unfolding in southern CA after massive oil spill; 126,000 gallons of crude oil leaked off California coast; Beaches closed, wildlife washing up dead as crews race to clean 126K gallons of crude oil off California coast; Probe reveals money moves of world leaders & the super-rich; Florida governor’s wife diagnosed with breast cancer; To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A little ironic, Facebook was down all day today, right?
0:05.6	The lead starts right now.
0:08.1	Facebook and Instagram, WhatsApp mysteriously go dark after a former employee blows the
0:13.1	whistle on the biggest social network in the world, accusing Facebook of profiting off
0:18.2	hate and division and the exploitation of teens.
0:22.5	Well President Biden is telling Republicans to get out of the way with America on the
0:26.8	brink of running out of money to pay its bills, which could trigger a financial armageddon.
0:32.4	Plus, 126,000 gallons of oil mass-creened environment off the coast of California right now.
0:41.2	The race to clean it up and find the source.
0:49.7	Welcome to the lead on this Monday, I'm Hamla Brown in for Jake Tapper.
0:53.5	And we begin today with breaking news in our tech lead, a worldwide outage for Facebook,
0:59.7	Instagram, and WhatsApp, the longest in company history.
1:04.0	All of this coming on the hills of those damning allegations about the social media
1:08.0	empire.
1:09.0	The company's stock plummeted today down about 5%.
1:13.0	And Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth fell by more than $6 billion.
1:18.6	And now the White House is weighing in, calling for, quote, fundamental reforms.
1:25.4	This is just the latest in a series of revelations about social media platforms that make clear
1:30.6	that self-regulation is not working.
1:33.1	That's long been the president's view and been the view of this administration.
1:38.2	All of this is the result of a whistleblower who released thousands of documents showing
1:42.0	the inner workings of the social media empire.
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