Facebook is coming back online after hours-long outage

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Facebook services seem to be slowly coming back online after one of the biggest outages in recent memory. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger’s apps appear to be working again, though the websites are loading more slowly than usual.

Facebook didn’t immediately comment or elaborate on the cause of the outage. In an earlier tweet, the company’s
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Chief Technology Officer, Michael Schroepfer, cited “networking issues.”

*Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible

— Mike Schroepfer (@schrep)
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The outage lasted more than six hours, taking down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus. It also wreaked havoc on the company internally, with employees reportedly unable to access emails, Workplace and other tools. The New York Times
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that employees were also physically locked out of offices as workers’ badges stopped working.

It also shaved
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off of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal net worth as Facebook’s stock tanked, Bloomberg reported. Elsewhere, the company is still reeling from the fallout of a whistleblower who has accused the company of prioritizing
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The whistleblower was The Wall Street Journal’s primary source for several articles that details how Instagram is harmful to teens and the company’s controversial
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program that allows high profile users to break its rules.

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