PDT, Facebook is back up and user reports to Downdetector are declining.

PDT - The outage appears to be resolvedĪs of 3:30 p.m.

She ran Bumble’s IPO while being treated for breast cancer.Facebook is currently experiencing a rarely seen global outage that is taking out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.

Open letter from ex-employees at Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin alleges a “toxic” and “sexist” work environment.

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Update, Octoat 7:00 PM ET: Facebook and its family of services appear to be back online. “Social media has had a big impact on society in recent years, and Facebook is often a place where much of this debate plays out,” Facebook vice president of policy and public affairs Nick Clegg said in a memo to employees that was reported on by the New York Times. “But what evidence there is simply does not support the idea that Facebook, or social media more generally, is the primary cause of polarization.”įortune contacted Facebook for more information and will update this story if it responds. 6, in which pro-Trump advocates stormed the Capitol.įacebook has downplayed the significance of the whistleblower’s documents, arguably the company’s most significant crisis since the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018. She alleged that as a result, Facebook played a significant role in sowing the seeds of the violent riots on Jan. Haugen alleged in the interview that Facebook prematurely deactivated certain safeguards intended to prevent the spread of misinformation and offensive content soon after the 2020 U.S. Haugen publicly revealed herself on the show as the whistleblower who leaked a series of explosive internal Facebook research to the Wall Street Journal and to lawmakers detailing the extent to which the social media giant knew that its services were used for spreading misinformation and that they contributed to negative mental health issues for some teenage girls. The outage comes a day after a blockbuster interview with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was aired on the television news show 60 Minutes. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.- Andy Stone October 4, 2021 We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products.

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