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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down amid substantial updates and rising controversy about content curation on the social media websites. It seems they are finally back.

Over 1.4 billion video, voice calls made on WhatsApp on New Year's Eve 2020 WhatsApp users exchanged over 1.4 billion voice and video calls on New Year's Eve 2020, the most ever in a single day on the popular messaging app. Publish Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2021 04:32 PM IST File photo New Delhi | Jagran Tech Desk: WhatsApp users exchanged over 1.4 billion voice and video calls on New Year's Eve 2020, the most ever in a single day on the popular messaging app. A majority of people had celebrated the New Year while confined to their homes amid night curfew and other restrictions put in place to contai...

  The social distancing efforts amid the ongoing pandemic has led to an expected increase in social media usage for New Year's Eve, with Facebook claiming to have observed the most calls made in a single day on WhatsApp. For the holidays impacted by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook saw its typical high usage spikes over New Year's Eve. In a year dominated by people working from home and using technological means to stay in touch, the social network saw an increase of the use of its services for that night, prompted by people staying at home instead of going out socially.