The company blamed the outage on a server configuration change. Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services. "Yesterday, a server configuration issue made it difficult for people to access our apps and services. We are 100 per cent back up and running and apologize for any inconvenience," a Facebook spokesperson said. A spokesperson for the social network said the company was co-operating with investigators in multiple federal probes, without addressing the grand jury inquiry specifically.

Source: CBC News March 14, 2019 19:07 UTC