Infidel Dog Posted October 4, 2021 Report Posted October 4, 2021 Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram have been down for more than five hours in a widespread outage Monday, disrupting communications for the company's roughly 3 billion users. [clip] Outages are nothing new in the online world, and services often go offline or experience slowdowns. Facebook's outage on Monday, however, was unusual in that it struck a suite of the company's products, including its central site and WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging service used widely around the world. Facebook is deeply enmeshed in global infrastructure and the outage disrupted communications for the company's billions of users. [clip] The outage creates another headache for Facebook, which is battling a massive public relations nightmare in the wake of a whistleblower's allegations that the social network is aware of harm that content on its services causes. The allegations were detailed in a series of stories published by The Wall Street Journal based on research leaked by the whistleblower that said the company ignored research about how Instagram can harm teen girls and that an algorithm change made users angrier. The whistleblower, a former Facebook product engineer named Frances Haugen, is scheduled to testify to Congress on Tuesday. She detailed some of her allegations in a televised interview on Sunday. Full story Here: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/facebook-whatsapp-and-instagram-go-down-for-hours-in-widespread-outage/
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