Our picksHack & leak new normal; soaked Midwest; people who pay people to kill people, and more

Former Facebook security chief: hack and leak campaigns are the new normal (Derek B. Johnson, FCW)
Facebook’s former chief information security officer Alex Stamos said political campaigns must grapple with a new normal where hack and leak campaigns are commonplace. He called on governments to put legal guardrails in place for disinformation and misinformation online.

YouTube’s bad week and the limitations of laboratories of online governance (Evelyn Douek, Lawfare)
The techlash has well and truly arrived on YouTube’s doorstep. On June 3, the New York Times reported on research showing that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm serves up videos of young people to viewers who appear to show sexual interest in children. In any other week this might have been a huge public controversy, but the news was consumed instead by a very different content moderation blow-up. Centering around the meaning of YouTube’s harassment and hate speech policies and whether a right-wing commentator with nearly four million subscribers had violated them, the week-long saga illustrates how different platforms are developing very different approaches to handling high-profile disputes about what they allow on their services.

The severe floods soaking the Midwest and Southeast are not letting up (Umair Irfan, Vox)
Forecasters predicted the massive floods months ago.

Trump’s conspiracy theories about intelligence will make the CIA’s job harder (John Sipher, Washington Post)
President Trump’s attempts to craft a public narrative that a government conspiracy was aimed at his presidential campaign moved off Twitter and into the real world of official documents last month. Trump issued a directive assigning Attorney General William P. Barr to probe the origins of the Russia investigation, giving Barr the authority to declassify secret intelligence. As the president stated, “We’re exposing everything.”
The order directly undercuts Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, who is responsible for both protecting and potentially releasing intelligence. And it suggests that Trump is still disputing the fact that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
The president hardly needs to create a public furor to determine what the intelligence community knew about Russian interference, when they knew it or how they learned it. The CIA would gladly provide detailed briefings to him, the attorney general or anyone Trump might request one for. There are well-established means of sharing information within the executive branch. If the president wants to see the specific intelligence, he can.
But a private inquiry would not provide Trump with the political weapon of a public scapegoat.

Facebook bans health and conspiracy site Natural News (Beth Mole, Arstechnica)
Conspiracist founder compares Zuckerberg to Hitler, urges Trump to declare war.

People who pay people to kill people (Rene Chun, The Atlantic)
The twisted logic behind hiring a hit man

Europe has not faced up to the threat of Hezbollah (Matthew Levitt, Telegraph)
Iran’s primary terrorist proxy group, Lebanese Hezbollah, has been deploying operatives to Europe for many years. 
In July 2013, after the group was blamed for the 2012 bombing of a tour bus in Bulgaria, the European Union finally made its move.  The EU designated Hezbollah’s military and terrorist wings, copying a model adopted by the UK.
But, critically, it did not designate the entire organization. 

Feds: D.C. man arrested on drug charges turned out to be ISIS sympathizer (Julia Arciga, Daily Beast)
Jeremy Stevenson allegedly spoke with ‘ISIS-connected individuals’ who asked him if he was interested in completing a ‘mission in Washington, D.C.’