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Hours before the almost 7-hour Facebook outage took place, whistleblower and former Facebook employee, Frances Haugen revealed her identity and addressed that the social media giant went ahead with misinformation despite being aware of it. HIGHLIGHTS Facebook faced an outage of over 6 hours on Monday evening. This happened after whistleblower and former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, revealed her identity on air. Haugen noted that Facebook would not change its problematic algorithm as people would spend less time on the platform. Hours before Facebook’s almost 7-hour long outage, the social media platform had hit the headlines as a former employee and whistleblower had revealed her identity and gone on air to speak about everything that is wrong with the social media giant. Haugen had presented internal documents that went to Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and The Wall Street Journal. She decided to reveal her identity and noted that Facebook realized that if they...

Image source: Pinterest It's so astonishing how little things demolish the high rising buildings, whereas, on the other hand, they can fill the world with glory and grace. The same goes with full stops(.) The thing which we know as just being a punctuation mark since the very beginning of learning grammar sometimes either makes a conversation the happily ever after stuff or a once upon a time dream. I guess, its importance grew as we grew up.  The dot has seen so much that we are hiding not from the world but from ourselves. It knows the true us, not the one that's painted across the world. It has seen how sometimes we thrive to make a sentence as polite as possible because, in the end, the mark is the decider of what the receiver is gonna think.  It has seen our desires to conquer everything to our beliefs of destroying everything. It has seen our triumphs as well as terminations. Our beliefs as well as betrayal. Our determination as well as devastation. Our journ...

  This Independence Day, we asked our members, a simple question, What does Freedom mean to you? We got numerous submissions, all so good. It's amazing to see how a simple word can mean so much to each and everyone, and yet it's meaning different from person to person.  If you don't follow us on Instagram (which you should totally do btw), here's a small glimpse of all the entries we got. View this post on Instagram A post shared by SOA ENGLISH CAFE (@soaenglishcafe) We also wanted to share, what we think, were the Top 3 entries. And so starting with No #3, written by Suchitra Satapathy : Freedom is an open expression of thoughts and feelings. To feel enlightened with one's thoughtful notations is what we term as freedom. The freedom to utter whatever is radiating in your mind that could satisfy your inner soul and release all the stress and thoughts conquering your mind. As humans, there's always an overflow of emotions. Voici...