Facebook, 3-D Guns, Apple: Your Wednesday Briefing

as informed in (Want to get this briefing by email? Here's the sign-up.) Here's what you need to know:Facebook uncovers plot to disrupt elections• The social media giant announced on Tuesday that it had removed 32 pages and fake accounts that were part of a potential effort to influence this fall's midterm elections. The company did not definitively link the campaign to Russia but said some of its tools and techniques were similar to those used by the Kremlin-linked group accused of interfering in the 2016 election. The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said he would make Facebook's disclosure a central part of a previously scheduled hearing today, when lawmakers plan to press outside experts about foreign influence on social media networks.

Facebook, China, Paul Manafort: Your Wednesday Briefing

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here's the sign-up.) Good morning. A rare rebuke in China, threats of a shutdown in Washington and disappearing penguins in the Indian Ocean. Here's what you need to know:

Facebook, Greece, Extreme Heat: Your Wednesday Briefing

according to • Greece has received financial bailouts for nearly a decade, but that's about to end. This month, Greece will become the last country to exit financial bailouts extended by the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Many are painting the country's economic rebound as a comeback story. Despite some economic "successes," including falling unemployment and a slowly growing economy, the I.M.F. warned that Greece faces an uphill battle against its mountain of debt and rising poverty after years of austerity.

collected by :Roy Mark