https://techmonitor.ai/policy/big-tech/facebook-outage-whatsapp-instagram-ftc

Facebook suffered a major outage on Monday, with billions of users around the world unable to access the social network, as well as other platforms it owns including Instagram and WhatsApp, for just under six hours. The incident, which highlighted the extent to which many businesses and individuals rely on the company’s messaging services, coincided with a legal debate in the US about whether Facebook should be broken up, and could bolster the case for doing so.

Servers at the tech giant went down at around 6pm UK time on Monday, and started coming back online just before midnight. As well as Facebook users, the problem also reportedly affected the company’s staff, who were unable to access meeting rooms at its Silicon Valley headquarters as the door locking system went offline