.@Facebook experienced a nearly six-hour outage, the largest outage tracked by Downdetector, yesterday placing blame on a ‘faulty configuration change’ reut.rs/3owxpp3 
The outage was the second blow to the social media giant in as many days after a whistleblower accused the company of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation reut.rs/3FjBV08
Frances Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team, testified in a congressional hearing.
‘For more than five hours Facebook wasn't used to deepen divides, destabilize democracies and make young girls and women feel bad about their bodies.’
‘For more than five hours Facebook wasn't used to deepen divides, destabilize democracies and make young girls and women feel bad about their bodies.’
.@SenBlumenthal said ’The damage to self-interest and self-worth inflicted by Facebook today will haunt a generation.’
.@MarshaBlackburn said that Facebook turned a blind eye to children below the age of 13 on its sites reut.rs/3iChOAi
Lawmakers are calling for Facebook CEO #MarkZuckerberg to testify before the committee, and for the Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Trade Commission to investigate the company reut.rs/2YmP1ss
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