While his apps deal with the outage, the man himself is dealing with a personal shock. Facebook Outage Hits Zuckerberg Where It Hurts We’ve pulled out some of the most interesting tidbits from Sunday’s interview that highlight this central point, and you can read them over here.

At the end of the day, things that are good for Facebook tend to be bad for the world we live in, according to Haugen. “It is simply not accurate that this research demonstrates Instagram is ‘toxic’ for teen girls,” Facebook says in a blog.īut over the weekend, we learned how the Journal obtained those documents: A whistleblower named Frances Haugen, who spoke with CBS News’ 60 Minutes about the ways Facebook is poisoning society.įundamentally, Haugen alleges there’s a key conflict between what’s good for Facebook and what’s good for society at large. These include the page where Facebook’s third-party developers publicly disclose potential platform issues as they emerge, and the page where Facebook’s own engineers do the same.įacebook tweeted an apology at 9:33 am and its status page was updated at 9:48 am to say it was recovering from disruptions. The usual channels that Facebook typically uses to report platform issues were also knocked offline. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.- Meta October 4, 2021 We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. Facebook was beat to the admission by WhatsApp, which posted four minutes prior that there were issues with its app. According to DownDetector, the outage started at around 11:40 am ET – that’s 2:40 am AEDT.Īs Facebook’s own services were rendered useless, the company had to take to Twitter to tell users it was onto it. The outage hit Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus VR. While you might think it sucks being unable to doom scroll before getting out of bed, the outage couldn’t come at a worse time for the company currently dealing with a pretty bad PR crisis. Australians waking up on Tuesday were hit with an outage across all of Facebook’s platforms, forcing the Mark Zuckerberg company to take to Twitter to share an update.

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