The outage comes after a whistleblower said that the world's largest social network is prioritizing profits over users' safety.įacebook's stock was down more than 5% on Monday afternoon. By Andrew Martonik OctoWell, here’s one way to start a week off on the wrong foot: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram were all down for several hours on Monday. Instagram's public relations team also tweeted about the outage, saying they were having 'a bit of a hard time right now.'įacebook said its engineers determined the problem originated with a networking issue that interrupted communications between its data centers.

Was data compromised after Facebook outage?įacebook said no user data was compromised across its platforms.įacebook previously said that they were aware of this issue and were working to get thing back to normal as quickly as possible. About 5:40 p.m., some users were able to access the platforms, but not all functions were back. 'We're here today because Facebook has shown us once again that it is incapable of holding itself accountable,' Blumenthal said in his opening remarks last week.The social network and the Facebook-owned platforms stopped working about 11:30 a.m.

The Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security convened the hearing in the wake of a Wall Street Journal investigation citing Facebook's own internal research, allegedly leaked by a whistleblower, that found Instagram adversely impacted mental health issues in teens, especially girls. Sorry for the inconvenience.'įacebook's safety head was questioned by lawmakers last Thursday over what the company knew about the potential for Instagram to be harmful to young users' mental health. 'We are aware that there is an ongoing issue impacting our service. 'Major disruptions: Platform Status,' it read. On Monday afternoon, the Facebook status page came back online with a message for users. Sorry about that!' Twitter Support tweeted. Some of you may have had an issue seeing replies and DMs as a result.

We prepare for these moments, but today things didn't go exactly as planned. 'Sometimes more people than usual use Twitter. Twitter users later on Monday reported some issues with the app due to an increase in users, but Twitter's support page said the matter was fixed.

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