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How did Facebook stop talking to their users?

Sky, 06 Oct 2021
A massive global outage plunged the social media giant and its sister services into chaos for nearly six hours.

Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram was inaccessible to their nearly 2 billion daily users.

Sky's Science and Technology editor, Tom Clarke, untangles the web to reveal what happened.

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