As you’ve probably heard by now, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down on Monday for what is, as of this writing, the company’s longest outage since 2008. The reason for the blackout is still unknown, but the longer it went on the more folks wondered if the sites were out temporarily… or gone entirely. As in, permanently […]
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know
Enlarge / Today’s global Facebook and Facebook-owned-services outage appears to be the result of a flubbed BGP configuration change pushed by a Facebook engineer this morning. (credit: Sean Gladwell via Getty Images / Jim Salter ) Facebook—and apparently all the major services Facebook owns—are down today. We first noticed the problem at about 11: 30 […]
Facebook “is tearing our societies apart, ” whistleblower says in interview
Enlarge / Fb whistleblower Frances Haugen’s 60 Minutes job interview aired on October 3, 2021. (credit: 60 Minutes / CBS) The Facebook whistleblower revealed her identity last night along with the girl plans to reform the embattled social media company from the outside. Frances Haugen , a data scientist by training and a veteran of […]
Senators slam Facebook, say it’s using Big Tobacco playbook to hook kids
Enlarge / Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) speaks as Facebook head of global safety, Antigone Davis, testifies before a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection focusing on Facebook, Instagram, and mental health harms on September 30, 2021. (credit: Patrick Semansky / POOL / AFP) Senators spent three hours yesterday grilling Facebook’s head of global […]
Facebook may have finally gone too far
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Global stocks, U.S. futures and crypto gain as investors close out a lousy September
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3 questions for Facebook ahead of its Senate hearing
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Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos
Enlarge / John Stossel speaking with attendees at the 2018 Young Americans for Liberty New York City Spring Summit at the Teaneck Marriott at Glenpointe in Teaneck, New Jersey. (credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2. 0) ) Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and […]
Peter Thiel is a protean powerbroker
Bloomberg’s Max Chafkin tries to decipher PayPal, Facebook, and Trump’s anti-national man of mystery. Read More
Facebook suspends plan to launch Instagram Kids app as critics circle
Enlarge (credit: Thomas Trutschel/Getty Images) Facebook has suspended plans to launch Instagram Kids, a version of its photo-sharing app for children under the age of 13, as criticism of the project gathered momentum in Washington. Adam Mosseri, who runs the Facebook-owned app, denied that the decision to “pause” development work on Instagram Kids was an […]