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    ‘It was scary at first’: social media users on the Facebook outage

    Oct 05, 2021 2 minutes

    Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram experienced an outage that left users around the world unable to access the social media platforms for nearly six hours on Monday and Tuesday.

    The outage was one of the worst Facebook has experienced, with the company blaming faulty configuration changes on its routers for the extended disruption.

    Three people speak about how the outage affected them – with social media users describing it as both

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