Obama-produced ‘Leave the World Behind’ trends amid huge cellular outage in US: They ‘tried to warn us’
nypost.comLeave the World Behind.”Callers on the Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile networks have experienced a drop in service and the reason has yet to be determined.
Many AT&T customers reported that they were stuck in “SOS Mode,” a system used for emergency services, and some police departments have been unable to receive 911 calls.
Amid the chaos, the first feature film from High Ground, the production company founded by former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama in 2018, has gone viral.Why?In the disaster flick starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke, mobile devices, TVs and other technological communication go down after a cyber attack.The story is based on a 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam, and directed, written and produced by filmmaker Sam Esmail.Social media users — who still have service — are finding parallels between the movie and the outages, which has affected New York, Boston, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco.
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