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Facebook Falls Amid Outage, Whistle-Blower Interview

Oct.04 — Facebook Inc. shares tumbled. The social-media company suffered a devastating outage that shut out many of its 2.7 billion global users. Apps, including the main social network, Instagram and WhatsApp, began to return online for some users about 5:45 p.m. New York time. Separately a whistleblower revealed herself for the first time and accused…

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Oct.04 — Facebook Inc. shares tumbled. The social-media company suffered a devastating outage that shut out many of its 2.7 billion global users. Apps, including the main social network, Instagram and WhatsApp, began to return online for some users about 5:45 p.m. New York time. Separately a whistleblower revealed herself for the first time and accused the social media giant of putting “profit over safety” of its users. Kurt Wagner reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Australia.”

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  1. Joel Bondurant

    October 5, 2021 at 12:26 am

    They should have used the USA Fact-Check Algorithm by the Science Ministry.

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  2. Kate Hanley

    October 5, 2021 at 1:09 am

    ????Dear God, thank you for the outage. As I write this they are back up.
    Please shut it down for good. No good comes from angry lies and hatred.
    It only brings out the worst of human nature and increases mark ZUCKERBERG’S BANK ACCOUNTS.
    Amen & Thanks.

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  3. pebre79

    October 5, 2021 at 1:15 am

    What a coincidence

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