Daily Crunch: A bad month for the internet

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1. It was a really bad month for the internet

In the past month, there were several major internet outages affecting millions of users across the world. Sites buckled, services broke, images wouldn’t load, direct messages ground to a halt and calendars and email were unavailable for hours at a time.

What can we learn? For one, internet providers need to do better with routing filters. Secondly, perhaps it’s not a good idea to run new code directly on a production system.

2. Twitter and Facebook reportedly not invited to White House ‘social media summit’

Trump’s White House is hosting what it calls “a robust conversation on the opportu