Axios

Last week, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, announced major changes to its app. Instead of the Facebook feed we’re all used to -- with posts from friends and family -- the app will look a lot more like TikTok. As Axios’ Scott Rosenberg writes, this marks the end of almost two decades of social networking as we knew it.

• Plus: Pope Francis makes a historic apology to the Indigenous people of Canada.
• And: civilian defense training in Taiwan, as tensions with China grow.

Guests: Axios' Scott Rosenberg and Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian.

Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Alex Sugiura, and Ben O'Brien. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893.

Go Deeper:

• Sunset of the social network
• View from Taiwan: China's threats shouldn't dissuade Pelosi from visiting
• Pope Francis asks Indigenous victims for forgiveness during Canada trip

There are now more than 16,000 cases of monkeypox outside Africa, where the spread began, including nearly 3,000 cases in the US.

• Plus: Trump’s revenge mindset.
• And: a milestone for Indigenous people in India.

Guests: Axios' Adriel Bettelheim and Jonathan Swan.

Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Alex Sugiura, and Ben O'Brien. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893.

Go Deeper:

• Monkeypox declared a global emergency by WHO
• CDC confirms first U.S. cases of monkeypox in children
• Trump's revenge
• Jan. 6th committee drives home its case against Trump