Facebook faced crises on two fronts, battling an outage of its services and facing down legislative oversight over accusations that it was damaging to users' mental health. — REUTERS
Facebook battled dueling crises on Monday as it faced a large-scale outage of its dominant social network for seven hours, and fought against a whistleblower's damning revelations.
Many long-held fears and criticisms about the platform seem to have been backed up by Facebook's own research, which ex-worker Frances Haugen has turned over to authorities and the Wall Street Journal.
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