

And this wasn’t some small or regional issue - this was every service, in every location, completely dead. The outages hit the websites, apps, and related services of everything in the Facebook network. PT, the services had for the most part returned to working order, albeit with some cobwebs left to shake out, leaving everyone collectively scratching their heads and wondering how an outage of this scale happened. PT, Downdetector started to show a sharp spike in reports of outages - though as we look back, users were discussing unsent messages and broken apps even earlier.Īs of 4 p.m. Well, here’s one way to start a week off on the wrong foot: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram were all down for several hours on Monday. 6, in which pro-Trump advocates stormed the Capitol. She alleged that as a result, Facebook played a significant role in sowing the seeds of the violent riots on Jan. Haugen alleged in the interview that Facebook prematurely deactivated certain safeguards intended to prevent the spread of misinformation and offensive content soon after the 2020 U.S. Haugen publicly revealed herself on the show as the whistleblower who leaked a series of explosive internal Facebook research to the Wall Street Journal and to lawmakers detailing the extent to which the social media giant knew that its services were used for spreading misinformation and that they contributed to negative mental health issues for some teenage girls.

The outage comes a day after a blockbuster interview with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was aired on the television news show 60 Minutes. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.- Andy Stone October 4, 2021

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