HEADS UP: What if Facebook Stayed Down Forever? (Oct. 6)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, Oct. 6:

PIXEL WORLD

• Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp crept back to life after an overnight outage in this part of the world that disconnected millions from their favorite social media platforms.
• Netizens wished that apps like MS Teams and Zoom go down too to give them a break from the electronic leashes of work and school.
• What if Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp stayed down for good? Here’s what the planet could look like.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• These banks are extending free transfers via InstaPay and PESONet until the end of 2021.

NEWS EXPLAINED

• Here’s why newly-crowned Miss Universe Philippines Bea Gomez is proud, but not exactly loud about her historic feat as the first member of the LGBTQIA+ community to hold the title.

2022 ELECTIONS

• Former senator Bongbong Marcos is running for president in 2022. Haters gonna hate, he is out to rebuild the name of his late dictator and namesake father.
• Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio has rebuffed suggestions of a presidential run under her father’s PDP-Laban Party.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• President Rodrigo Duterte said he was working on his defense at the International Criminal Court, which is investigating him for alleged crimes against humanity in connection with his drug war.
• Tropical Depression Lannie made landfall nine times over two days, drenching large parts of Luzon and the Visayas.
• The Pfizer COVID vaccine can protect against severe COVID for up to six months, that includes infections with the Delta variant.
• Bali in Indonesia is reopening to select foreign travelers.
• The invisibility cloak and quantum physics are tipped for Nobel Prizes this weekend.