A top US Democrat is demanding Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg or Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testify before the Senate to explain how the company plans to protect kids in light of new reports
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Instagram said it is testing a feature to notify users of outages or technical issues directly on the photo-sharing app, days after two outages disrupted the social media giant's services
The photo-sharing platform will introduce "take a break" feature and will also "nudge" teenagers away from bad content
The company confirmed its social media platform, Instagram, Messenger and Workplace were impacted by the latest outage.
Facebook Inc confirmed that some users were having trouble accessing its apps and services, days after the social media giant suffered a six-hour outage
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Facebook blamed network configuration glitches for immobilizing a suite of apps from Messenger to Instagram and driving some of its 2.7 billion daily users to the competition
"Facebook's products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy," the whistleblower said
The stock slide sent Zuckerberg's worth down to $120.9 bn, dropping him below Bill Gates to No. 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index
Millions of new users joined the Edward Snowden-endorsed Signal on Monday, it said on Twitter
"This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt," the company's engineering team wrote in a blog post Monday night
The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.
All of Facebook's services, including WhatsApp and Instagram, were down for users globally beginning Monday night.
Facebook's engineering team apologised as the apps started to come back online
"WhatsApp", and "#facebookdown", "#whatsappdown" and "#instagramdown" were trending on Twitter on Monday evening in India
Frances Haugen identified as the woman who anonymously filed complaints with US law enforcement that Facebook's own research shows how it magnifies hate and misinformation.
The whistle-blower, who already shared a trove of internal documents with the Wall Street Journal, will appear in an interview on "60 Minutes" Sunday evening
Facebook will now let users start cross-app group chats between Messenger and Instagram, the company has announced.