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Not again?! Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp offline for second time in a week

Facebook and its subsidiaries have crashed mysteriously for users all around the world on Friday, according to outage tracker DownDetector.…

3 years ago

Kidd on the deck: US Navy ship’s Facebook page streams ‘Age of Empires’ in apparent hacking incident

A Facebook page of the USS Kidd (DDG-100) which typically posts updates from the ship’s deployments in international waters, such…

3 years ago

January 6 committee to hear from Facebook ‘whistleblower’, who all but accused platform of letting ‘insurrection’ happen – media

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 events in Washington, DC may meet Haugen as soon as Thursday, CNN…

3 years ago

Bringing Facebook to heel: A system-connected ‘whistleblower’ and a ‘for the children’ narrative mask a bid for political control

Haugen came seemingly out of nowhere to testify before the Senate on Tuesday, yet she revealed nothing besides well-rehearsed bromides…

3 years ago

Telegram’s popularity surges amid Facebook outage as 70mn new users flock to messaging app

Telegram founder Pavel Durov took to the platform on Tuesday to congratulate his employees on a job well done, noting…

3 years ago

Call me a luddite, but just imagine if Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp all crashed at the same time…and nobody gave a damn

On Monday evening at 16.44 BST – a moment that will live in infamy – Mark Zuckerberg’s electric kingdom suddenly…

3 years ago

Facebook is too powerful, morally bankrupt and in need of government oversight, ‘whistleblower’ Haugen tells Senate

Fresh off the ‘60 Minutes’ interview on Sunday and sporting a Twitter verification in record time, Haugen testified on Tuesday…

3 years ago

The revelation that Facebook puts profit before public good is no surprise, but the reality is it’s more fragile than ever

Problems can be like waiting for a bus – nothing comes, then two arrive simultaneously. Facebook experienced something similar this…

3 years ago

Facebook blames ‘faulty configuration change’ for massive outage amid calls to ‘break up’ tech giant

Facebook has confirmed that a routing problem throttled its services, bringing operations at its site, as well as that of…

3 years ago

‘Self-regulation is not working’: White House uses Facebook whistleblower, outages to target Big Tech behemoth

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki added her voice to a flurry of critics targeting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as…

3 years ago