The world's largest social media platform has been embroiled in a firestorm brought about by Haugen, with US lawmakers and The Wall Street Journal detailing how Facebook knew its products, including Instagram, were harming young girls, especially around body image. Facebook service has been restored after an outage lasting almost six hours hit the companys services on Monday. The outage comes a day after a whistleblower went on US television to reveal her identity after she leaked a trove of documents to authorities alleging the social media giant knew its products were fueling hate and harming children's mental health.įrances Haugen, a 37-year-old data scientist from Iowa, has worked for companies including Google and Pinterest - but said in an interview with CBS news show '60 Minutes' that Facebook was 'substantially worse' than anything she had seen before. Oculus, which is owned by Facebook, is also down and some Oculus VR devices and games are impacted as a result.

Meanwhile, the company's market value has soared from USD 375 billion at the end of 2018 to nearly $1 trillion now. Around six hours after Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down, service started coming back online, though coverage was still spotty. Hello literally everyone- Twitter October 4, 2021įacebook's annual revenue has more than doubled from USD 56 billion in 2018 to a projected USD 119 billion this year, based on the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet.

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