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Back from the dead: Facebook & Instagram online again for some users after massive 6-hour outage

Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer tweeted around 6:45 pm ET that company’s services were “coming back online,” noting that…

3 years ago

Scraped data of 1.5 BILLION Facebook users offered for sale on the dark web – reports

User IDs, real names, email addresses, phone numbers, and locations are among the data of more than 1.5 billion Facebook…

3 years ago

Facebook plunged into chaos as employees ‘CAN’T ACCESS’ servers – or even their workspaces

As the major Facebook outage dragged into hours, a Reddit poster claiming to be a member of the “recovery/investigation team”…

3 years ago

Zuckerberg loses OVER $6 BILLION as Facebook empire outage drags into HOURS

After mass complaints about the various platforms being down and users getting error messages, Facebook said it was working to…

3 years ago

‘Betrayal of democracy’? Whistleblower blasts Facebook for prioritizing profits over fighting ‘hate speech & misinformation’

In the ‘60 Minutes’ interview with CBS on Sunday, Frances Haugen, 37, came forward as the whistleblower behind a recent…

3 years ago

‘Big Tobacco’s playbook’: Senator rips Facebook-owned Instagram for harming children, hiding products’ toxicity

“Facebook has taken Big Tobacco’s playbook,” Blumenthal said at a Senate hearing on Thursday regarding the mental health impact of…

3 years ago

Facebook could face millions of dollars in fines from Russia for failing to delete banned content, Moscow’s media regulator warns

On Thursday, the country's digital watchdog, Roskomnadzor, told Moscow daily Vedomosti that it was preparing the charges ahead of a…

3 years ago

CNN denies Australians access to its Facebook pages, citing defamation risk after court says publishers responsible for comments

On Wednesday, CNN, which is owned by AT&T Inc., became the first major media firm to remove its Facebook presence…

3 years ago

Facebook steps in to provide high-speed internet to broadband-starved rural Virginia – what could go wrong?

Already constructing enormous high-speed fiber networks to connect its sprawling data centers in Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina, Facebook plans…

3 years ago