"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 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. It was a global failure as users across the world couldn’t access Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram for hours. Sorry about that!" Twitter Support tweeted. Here’s an explainer on the potential root cause of it: As hyperbolic as it may sound but parts of the digital world came to an absolute standstill for many hours as the world’s biggest social media platforms went down. 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. Facebook, whose shares fell nearly five percent over the outage, has stressed there is 'no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime'. 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. Between Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, 'billions of users have been impacted by the services being entirely offline', the Downdetector tracking service said.
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