Tech News: Why Facebook Went Offline

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Tech News: Why Facebook Went Offline

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Oct 5, 2021

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Facebook and all its services disappeared on Monday, October 4th. What caused the outage? Also, the US Senate interviews a Facebook whistleblower, a former Tesla employee wins a lawsuit against the company and Amazon pushes out a very expensive robot.
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Oct 5, 2021

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