The Purple Palace

This twitter trending summarizes it quite well. This is the biggest undercover investigation since the Panama papers and it covers the same premise. It uncovered large quantities of unreported wealth and spending by the richest people in the world. The cyber attacks against these large social media and communication apps are most likely an attempt to divert attention away from this. For more information look at the articles I linked below:

Twitter: We are the only social media around 🤠

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In case you were wondering what had happened…

ETA: There’s some discussion suggesting this event is secondary to the 60 Minutes “whistleblower” interview last night. (For more info on that: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-misinformation-public-60-minutes-2021-10-03/)

Somebody out there, it would seem, is… cranky. (And perhaps understandably so…)

ETA2: this via Twitter just now: