Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at least partially reconnected to the global internet, nearly six hours into an outage that paralysed the social media platform.
Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time (1600 GMT), in what website monitoring group Downdetector said was the largest such failure it had ever seen.
Around 5:45 pm ET, some Facebook users began to regain partial access to the three apps.
The outage was the second blow to the social media giant in as many days after a whistleblower on Sunday accused the company of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on
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