https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/04/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-outage-what-to-do

With WhatsApp and Instagram MIA, now’s your chance to experience the internet without Zuck looking over your shoulder

We’ve hoped. We’ve prayed. We’ve constructed various Rube Goldberg-esque fantasies that begin with Mark Zuckerberg extracting a virgin $350 gray T-shirt from his closet and end with a bottle of room-temperature Fiji water falling on a frayed wire and shorting out Menlo Park.