Digital construct needs rethinking


Last week’s global social media outage is a lesson on how monopolistic practices impacts everyone.

MOST Malaysians weren’t even aware that their Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts were down from midnight last Monday. When they woke up on Tuesday morning, the social media apps under the Facebook behemoth were largely restored. For more than seven hours, the services were unavailable.

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