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Maintenance error caused Facebook's 6-hour outage, company says

At a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday, a former employee turned whistleblower accused Facebook of putting profits before people's safety, which the company denies.

'Buck stops with Mark': Whistleblower blasts Facebook 'metrics-led culture'

"Facebook's products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy," the whistleblower said

Facebook whistleblower to say former employer an 'urgent threat' to US

Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team, says the social media giant keeps its algorithms and operations a secret

Zuckerberg loses $7 billion over Facebook outage; Telegram, Signal gain

The stock slide sent Zuckerberg's worth down to $120.9 bn, dropping him below Bill Gates to No. 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has had a terrible week. And it's only Tuesday

If the networking problem that brought down services aren't enough, whistle-blower Frances Haugen will appear before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday

Facebook employees were unable to log on to work amid outage

Facebook employees and contractors complained that they were unable to log on to their work accounts during the company's worst service outage since 2008.

Millions of users flock to Signal and Telegram after Facebook outage

Millions of new users joined the Edward Snowden-endorsed Signal on Monday, it said on Twitter

Here's what Facebook says triggered the massive outage on its apps

"This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt," the company's engineering team wrote in a blog post Monday night

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for nearly six-hour outage

The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

Facebook apologises for outage, says services 'back up and running'

All of Facebook's services, including WhatsApp and Instagram, were down for users globally beginning Monday night.

Address this: Facebook's 6-hour outage likely caused by simple tech problem

Not only did Facebook's primary platforms go down, but so too did some of its internal applications, including the company's own email system

Zuckerberg loses $7 bn in hours as Facebook crash takes down firm's stock

Facebook CEO's worth down to $120.9 billion, dropping him below Bill Gates to No. 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp partly reconnecting after six-hour outage

Facebook's engineering team apologised as the apps started to come back online

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram face global outage: Check details here

"WhatsApp", and "#facebookdown", "#whatsappdown" and "#instagramdown" were trending on Twitter on Monday evening in India

Facebook put profit before public good 'over and over again': Whistleblower

Frances Haugen identified as the woman who anonymously filed complaints with US law enforcement that Facebook's own research shows how it magnifies hate and misinformation.

Q&A: Facebook India MD Ajit Mohan on how to reach the next 800 mn Indians

Facebook, along with WhatsApp and Instagram, now has a user base of about 400 million in India. Now how does it plan to tap the next 800 million? Facebook India MD Ajit Mohan reveals his gameplan

TMS, Ep 12: Shareholder activism, Ajit Mohan on Facebook India plans, ETFs

Why is India Inc seeing a surge in shareholder activism? What's Facebook India MD Ajit Mohan's gameplan to tap next 800 mn users? What will be the biggest market drivers this week? All answers here

Facebook plans to boost investment in Indian innovative start-ups

'We will have exciting things to share over the next few months (on Jio Mart-WhatsApp collaboration)', said Ajit Mohan

Facebook braces employees for whistle-blower accusations over elections

The whistle-blower, who already shared a trove of internal documents with the Wall Street Journal, will appear in an interview on "60 Minutes" Sunday evening

FB denies whistleblower's claims it contributed to Capitol riot: Report

Facebook executive Nick Clegg, in a defiant internal memo, said that a former employee will accuse the company of contributing to the US Capitol riot, the New York Times reported on Saturday.