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Not again?! Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp offline for second time in a week

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Social media giant Facebook, along with its subsidiaries Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, is offline for the second time in less than a week, leaving competitors to rescue its customers from an existential crisis. … Read More >Not again?! Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp offline for second time in a week

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Telegram’s popularity surges amid Facebook outage as 70mn new users flock to messaging app

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Encrypted messenger platform Telegram gained more than 70 million new sign-ups in a single day as Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger all went dark for six hours, plunging users into existential crisis. … Read More >Telegram’s popularity surges amid Facebook outage as 70mn new users flock to messaging app

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Facebook blames ‘faulty configuration change’ for massive outage amid calls to ‘break up’ tech giant

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Facebook has issued a mea culpa after disrupting the business and social interactions of millions of users as a Facebook-owned social media trio lagged for over six hours, while blaming an engineering error for the web apocalypse. … Read More >Facebook blames ‘faulty configuration change’ for massive outage amid calls to ‘break up’ tech giant

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Golden age or collapse? Snowden teases future without Big Tech after trolling Facebook throughout disastrous six-hour-long outage

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While millions were wailing and gnashing their teeth over the outage affecting Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was having a bit of fun – daring to suggest the world would be better without them. … Read More >Golden age or collapse? Snowden teases future without Big Tech after trolling Facebook throughout disastrous six-hour-long outage