Facebook fights global outage and whistleblower revelations


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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