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Oct52021

Facebook outage: What happened, who is to blame and will it happen again?

Business5 October 2021

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were all down for nearly six hours on Monday after they were was hit by a major outage. But what went wrong and could it happen again? Why did Facebook go down? Facebook, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, has apologised for the disruption, which it blamed on a “faulty configuration…

Oct52021

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram crash in major outage

Business5 October 2021

Nearly $50bn (£36.7bn) was wiped off Facebook’s value after its social media platforms went down for several hours due to an apparent technical error. Facebook and Instagram were partially reconnected to users around the world around 10.45pm on Monday, nearly six hours into a global outage. Facebook issued an apology for the outage which impacted…