Frances Haugen says in congressional testimony Facebook puts ‘astronomical profits before people’Facebook puts “astronomical profits before people”, harms children and is destabilising democracies, a whistleblower has claimed in testimony to the US Con…
Facebook outage highlights global over-reliance on its services
Shutdown heavily impacts ability to communicate and do business for many of platform’s 2.8 billion usersFrom bereft Brazilians to relaxed Russians and internet-savvy Indians, Facebook’s outage highlighted the dependence much of the world has developed …
Telegram says it added 70M users during day of Facebook and WhatsApp outage
Facebook’s hours-long outage on Monday may have hurt the company, its founder, shareholders, and many businesses that rely on the social juggernaut’s services. But for its instant messaging rivals, it was a very good day. Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov said on Tuesday that his instant messaging app added a staggering 70 million […]
‘Moral bankruptcy’: whistleblower offers scathing assessment of Facebook
Frances Haugen’s animated remarks were a striking contrast to Mark Zuckerberg’s robotic testimony before CongressIt might, as one senator put it, be remembered as “the big tobacco jaw-dropping moment of truth”.The truth-teller was former Facebook data …
Facebook misled investors about shrinking user base, ex-employee alleges
Complaint to SEC: Facebook mishandling of duplicate accounts was “extensive fraud.”
‘It was scary at first’: social media users on the Facebook outage
Three people tell how they were affected by the temporary loss of the site, and WhatsApp and InstagramThe global outage just adds to Facebook’s many recent woesFacebook, WhatsApp and Instagram experienced an outage that left users around the world unab…
Co-streaming rolls out to all creators on Facebook Gaming
Co-streaming is rolling out to all users on Facebook’s game-streaming platform Facebook Gaming. The feature will allow users to team up and stream with one another, while enabling viewers to navigate between co-streams and choose which perspective they’d like to see the action from. The feature had previously only been available to streamers in the […]
Mark Cuban-backed live entertainment app Fireside launches to creators
Amid a deluge of new creator platforms, a startup called Fireside is launching today with what it believes will be a compelling proposition for professional creators in need of a more robust set of tools for content creation, distribution, measurement, and monetization. The service, which offers a platform for live and interactive shows, had been […]
Facebook’s outage likely cost the company over $60 million
Configuration change cascaded down the data centers, bringing systems to a halt.
Tell us: how were you affected by the Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram outage?
We would like to hear your experiences of when you were unable to access your social media accountsOn Monday and Tuesday, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram experienced an outage that caused the social media platforms to go down globally for nearly six h…