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Facebook goes down

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Facebook goes down

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Casey Newton
Oct 5, 2021
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Facebook goes down

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Photo of someone crossing out the Facebook logo on an iPhone. (Thought Catalog / Unsplash)
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Facebook went down. It took Instagram and WhatsApp along with it. Perhaps you heard.

Starting around 9AM PT, and lasting until around 2:30PM, the company’s services were completely inaccessible around the world. The challenge of rebooting a global communications network meant that connectivity issues would persist well beyond…

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