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The timing of the widespread outages comes as a Facebook whistleblower will be testifying before Congress on Tuesday.

What caused the problems?

WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram have been down for over two hours in what the social media users believe could be a cyber attack. However, the cyber experts don't agree to any such speculations and point to a possible DNS related issue.

Sites appear to be working again several hours after outage.

WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram have been down for over two hours in what the social media users believe could be a cyber attack. However, the cyber experts don't agree to any such speculations and point to a possible DNS related issue.

>> you know, not -- i cant bring up the geek factor because its not fair, but the republican young breed arent even as cool as john mccain. mccain is pretty cool as a personality. these guys, this new crowd. the key word in what john mccain said there was another, another cudgel. >> yeah. >> theres been -- in other words, the democrats have had the upper hand now for weeks now, if not months, and hes just saying -- when he said theyve got more cudgels to beat us up with, that told me everything....

interesting that the highlighters were requested but no questions. i thought that perhaps it came from the fact that in california and in this case the jurors were allowed to take notes. so, rather than come back into the courtroom and ask for read-back of testimony, which was sort of the practice when i was practicing law in washington, d.c., as a prosecutor, perhaps they needed the highlighters to remind themselves of the most powerful evidence that came in front of them or perhaps t...

Does the president really want a result or does he want another cudgel to beat up republicans so he can get political advantage in the next election? >> leaking this out does set things in the wrong direction. look, the question that we always have to ask ourselves, particularly with this white house, is the president looking for a partisan advantage or is he looking for a bipartisan law? >> this is the president torpedoing his own plan and shows me that hes really not serious. there are many pe...