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Millions of users flock to Signal and Telegram after Facebook outage

Millions of new users joined the Edward Snowden-endorsed Signal on Monday, it said on Twitter

Here's what Facebook says triggered the massive outage on its apps

"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

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for nearly six-hour outage

The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

Facebook apologises for outage, says services 'back up and running'

All of Facebook's services, including WhatsApp and Instagram, were down for users globally beginning Monday night.

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp partly reconnecting after six-hour outage

Facebook's engineering team apologised as the apps started to come back online

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram face global outage: Check details here

"WhatsApp", and "#facebookdown", "#whatsappdown" and "#instagramdown" were trending on Twitter on Monday evening in India

Facebook put profit before public good 'over and over again': Whistleblower

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.

Facebook braces employees for whistle-blower accusations over elections

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 to let you make group chats across Instagram, Messenger

Facebook will now let users start cross-app group chats between Messenger and Instagram, the company has announced.

Facebook confronts Senators furious about Instagram's risks

"Facebook has shown us once again that it's incapable of holding itself accountable," said Blumenthal, the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee's consumer protection panel.

Facebook launches largest creator education, enablement programme in India

The programme includes an e-learning course, aimed at encouraging, educating and enabling creators even more on the platform

Facebook to highlight own positive research on Instagram and teens

Facebook has been under fire for the past week after a report said internal documents showed that the social media company was aware that Instagram harmed the mental health of young users

TikTok surpasses 1 billion monthly active users; US, Europe biggest market

Social media giant Facebook in comparison in the second quarter had 3.51 billion monthly users across its family of apps, up from 3.45 billion in the first quarter

Facebook puts Instagram Kids on hold amid criticism of planned app

Instagram has hit pause on a new app it is creating for kids, the photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc said on Monday, in a move that comes amid growing opposition for the project

Instagram pauses Instagram Kids, eyes changes to access and content

The announcement follows a withering series by the Wall Street Journal, which reported that Facebook was aware that the use of Instagram by some teenage girls led to mental health issues and anxiety

Instagram is bad for teens and Facebook knew it despite claiming otherwise

Facebook's policy of pursuing profits regardless of documented harm has sparked comparisons to Big Tobacco, which knew in the 1950s that its products were carcinogenic but publicly denied it

Instagram asking users' birth date to enforce child safety measures

In a bid to make the platform safer for its younger audience, the Facebook-owned Instagram is asking users to supply their date of birth

How Instagram influencer helped rescue dozens from Afghanistan

Dozens of desperate Afghans who had been trying to flee the Taliban before Tuesday's deadline for the US withdrawal from Kabul made it to safety with help from an unexpected place

Vivek Choudhary Launching VK MUSIC with a Bang.

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Instagram may ditch swipe up gesture to access links on Aug 30: Report

Facebook-owned Instagram is ditching the "swipe-up" link in Instagram Stories starting on August 30