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Facebook blames global outage on 'faulty configuration change'

Oct 5, 2021 07:08
By News Northern Sound
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Facebook blames global outage on 'faulty configuration change'

The social media site, along with WhatsApp and Instagram were down for nearly six hours last night.

Facebook is blaming a 'faulty configuration change' for its biggest ever outage.

The social media site, along with WhatsApp and Instagram were down for nearly six hours last night.

It has apologised to the company's 3.5 billion users who depend on their platforms.

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Technology Correspondent, Jess Kelly, says there's little detail about what exactly happened:

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