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Facebook's recent six-hour-long outage revealed just how dependent significant portions of the world are on social media services controlled by a handful of Big Tech companies – and how [...]

The whistle-blower Frances Haugen hoped that her revelations would prompt a reckoning. Instead, the company has doubled down.

Cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs says Facebook, as well as its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, are all suffering from ongoing global outages due to someone from inside Facebook updating the company's Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) records, which took away the map telling the world's computers how to find its online properties. According to a New York Times reporter, employees cannot even open doors with their security cards due to the catastrophic outage.

Facebook suffered a six-hour outage on Monday that spanned its WhatsApp messenger and photo-sharing platform Instagram, shutting out many of its 2.7 billion users worldwide.

Every Facebook-owned app was down in a widespread outage. The head of Instagram tweeted that it feels "like a snow day."

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This follows whistleblower leaking thousands of pages of internal research against Facebook.

SAN FRANCISCO, United States -- Facebook services were restored Monday afternoon after global users experienced outages on social networks Facebook owns, such as Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp for hours during the day. AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN "We've been working hard to restore access to our app

Six hours without Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp: how it was. The current situation affects the financial performance of Facebook.

Frances Haugen, who left the social network in May and leaked internal documents, gave senators rare insight into its inner workings.