Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage
Facebook's thumbs-up logo is seen on a sign outside the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., in this April 14, 2020, file photo. A federal judge has dismissed antitrust lawsuits brought against Facebook by the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of state attorneys general, dealing a significant blow to attempts by regulators to rein in tech giants. (Jeff Chiu/Associated Press)
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours.
Facebook said late Monday that "the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change" and that there is "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result" of the outage...
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