Topline After more than five hours of being offline, Facebook said one of the worst outages in the company’s history is drawing to a close, a blackout that also downed the tech giant’s other major social media platforms, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. Tens of thousands of Facebook users faced outages on the company’s platforms on Monday. Getty Images Key Facts Facebook said in a statement that the company’s apps were coming back online Monday evening, although CTO Mike Schroepfer said it “may take some time” for services to go back to 100% functionality. In public statements, the company and officials were apologetic about the outage and the effect it had on Facebook’s millions of users. It’s still unclear what exactly caused the outage, but experts believe it’s tied to problems with the company’s internet infrastructure that allows internet users to interact with Facebook products. Tangent Facebook shares plunged 5% amid a broader tech sell-off, pushing the stock nearly 15% below an all-time high set just last month…. Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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Facebook Blackout Is One Of The Platform’s Worst
