Meta plans to link 5 continents to the internet with the world's longest undersea cable
by editors@theworld.org (Joshua Coe) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6VEPJ)
Meta - the company behind Facebook - just announced an ambitious plan to link five of the world's continents to the internet with a data cable stretching over 30,000 miles along the ocean floor. Known as Project Waterworth, Meta says the cable will link the US, Brazil, South Africa, India and other countries along the way. Elisabeth Braw, who looks into the security concerns around undersea data cables, told The World's Carol Hills that risks of damage run along the circumnavigating cable route. Braw is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Transatlantic Security Initiative.