It is only Tuesday, but this has already been one of the most eventful weeks of the year for Facebook. Hours after whistleblower Frances Haugen appeared on 60 Minutes to divulge evidence of Facebook's penchant for choosing "profit over safety," Facebook went offline. In fact, for much of Monday, there was an outage affecting all of Facebook's properties. That includes Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. For hours, users couldn't access their accounts on any of Facebook's sites or apps. Now, a day later, Facebook has finally explained the October 4th outage.
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