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Hong Kong Protests, Obama on '60 Minutes,' Facebook's New Ad Platform
Here's what I'm reading up on this morning:
- Pro-democracy protestors in China's semi-autonomous Hong Kong are met with arrests, tear gas and rubber bullets; their social media posts are being censored.
- Afghanistan inaugurates Ashraf Ghani as president, a post for which he'll be expected to share power with rival Abdullah Abdullah.
- Obama appears on "60 Minutes" and makes it even more evident that he's a war president.
- Ferguson is charging journalists and civil rights groups $135 an hour for simple records requests.
- The average out-of-network ATM fee hits $4.35 per transaction--although there are tips for how to avoid paying so much money just to get your money.
- Meet Atlas, Facebook's new ad platform that will track users in new ways. It's so scary that you can opt out of it (except opting out constantly expires and you can't really opt out anyway because Atlas makes clear it's still collecting information about you).
- K-Dot's 53-second snippet from "I'm the Man" is everything right now.
- Ooh. "The Walking Dead" prequel characters are revealed.
- The spread of enterovirus may be linked to paralysis, which isn't usually associated with the virus.
- Look up. The crescent moon is about to line up with Mars and Antaras tonight.