The social media giant is yet to issue a statement on the matter. PHOTO: FILEFacebook blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. — Facebook (@Facebook) October 4, 2021The failures of internal communication tools and other resources that depend on that same network in order to work compounded the error, the employees said. The Facebook outage is the largest ever tracked by web monitoring group Downdetector. Facebook's services, including consumer apps such as Instagram, workplace tools it sells to businesses and internal programs, went dark noon Eastern time (1600 GMT).

Source: The Express Tribune October 04, 2021 16:25 UTC