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 hate speech and misinformation. The company says their engineering teams discovered that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between their data centres caused issues that interrupted this communication. The website monitoring group 'Downdetector' said it was the largest such failure it had ever seen.Īccording to the latest report, Facebook says faulty configuration changes on its routers were the root cause of the outage.

We appreciate your patience as we come back online,' they added. 'We know billions of people and businesses around the world depend on our products and services to stay connected. 'To everyone who was affected by the outages on our platforms today, we’re sorry,' said a spokesperson from Facebook in a statement to the ARN News Centre. Mobile apps owned by Facebook, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were also down. UAE residents are once again able to access Facebook’s services after a near six-hour outage yesterday.

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