Facebook Falls after Whistleblower on 60 minutes also Down on all platforms!

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• Why Facebook Stock Crashed This Morning

By now you're surely familiar with The Wall Street Journal's "The Facebook Files" project, in which Journal reporters gained access to -- and exposed -- a treasure trove of internal Facebook documents. These documents detail everything from the company's controversial XCheck program (which "whitelists" VIP Facebook users to post anything they want on the platform), to problems with Instagram and how it harms the mental health of teenage girls, to how human traffickers and armed groups conduct nefarious business openly on the social network.

Since those stories started dropping last month, shares of the social networking powerhouse have lost more than 12% of their value -- well over $100 billion in market capitalization. This morning, the latest shoe dropped when the Journal revealed the identity of its source, Frances Haugen, a former Facebook insider turned whistleblower who spent nearly two years working for Facebook on the company's Civic Integrity Team, which was tasked with figuring out how to stop the "spread [of] political falsehoods, [the stoking of] violence and [the abuse of Facebook] by malicious governments."

The Journal reported on her efforts along these lines, and on Facebook's failure to accomplish any of the above, culminating in the disbanding of the Civic Integrity Team in December 2020.

Now what

Now comes the political fallout. Last Thursday, Facebook global head of safety Antigone Davis was hauled (virtually) before Congress to address Senators' concerns over the allegations raised by Haugen. The hearing focused specifically upon issues raised in only one of the "Facebook Files" reports, however -- the health of teenage girls using Instagram -- but at last report, the Journal had published a total of eight such articles on various topics.
Investors at this point have to anticipate that there will be hearings on all of them, and that Facebook shares could remain under pressure for weeks or months to come.

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Facebook whistleblower revealed on '60 Minutes,' says the company prioritized profit over public good

• Facebook Falls After Whistleblower Speaks Out Against Harms

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• isitdownrightnow.com/facebook.com.html

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• Facebook Grilled by Senators Over Its Effect on Children

[Ratszinger]

Facebook and Instagram are both down at this writing. Just crashed earlier and hasn't been up since.

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• Red Alert: The Global Collapse Has Now Begun

[Mare]

WhatsApp and messenger down too!

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• Facebook Seeking Government Action For Information Control:

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• What '60 Minutes' WON'T Tell You About Facebook's 'Whistleblower' (Choppy Transmission):

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• What '60 Minutes' WON'T Tell You About Facebook's 'Whistleblower'(Better Live Stream):

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zsgq-mLyz18

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• Facebook "Whistleblower" Says They Should Censor MORE!? | Louder With Crowder:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kRjSjjyfN1U

If she were a TRUE “Whistle Blower”, she would have gone to Project Veritas

cheers,
John

• See also thread: Internet Censorship: So it began...

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• 'Deeply Repugnant': Richard Blumenthal Speaks About Facebook And Instagram's Impact On Teen Girls:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=droFae2DHDQ

• Blackburn Roasts Facebook Exec: 'I Wish The Message You Were Giving Us Was Equally Attractive':

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UxpNAlhOyNs

• Senators Grill Facebook Exec On Potential Mental Health Harms From FB, Instagram:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mymGBIYkmmc

• Ted Cruz Rips Into Facebook Executive At Senate Hearing:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CUiJmo7_OKI

• Mike Lee Presses Facebook Executive On Advertising Adult Content To Children:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aWWCti78xyc

FB does NOT monitor ages or bad behavior - only political biases or control.

cheers,
John

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• Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp Go Down
• Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit by Global Outage

Facebook-owned properties — including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger — were hit by sweeping outages Monday.

The issues started around 11:45 a.m. ET, according to DownDetector, and were hitting users globally.

By 12:30 p.m. ET, the outages appeared to subside, according to DownDetector, though tens of thousands of users were still reporting problems.
Shortly after noon, Facebook’s site returned a message that read, “This site can’t be reached.”

Andy Stone, a Facebook spokesman, acknowledged the outage on Twitter, saying, “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”

Twitter users responded by mocking the company, saying that “the world would be better if you just left it all switched off” and that “we’re actually enjoying the lack of disinformation and misinformation.”

Facebook reportedly said in an internal memo to employees that it appeared “to be a DNS issue that is impacting both internal and external access to our tools and apps,” according to Dylan Byers, a senior correspondent for Puck News.

A DNS, or Domain Name System, connects domain names to the right IP addresses so that people can access popular websites. Earlier this year, an outage at a major DNS operator took out huge swaths of the internet briefly.

Major websites can also go offline if content delivery networks, or CDNs, crash, which is what happened in June, when a Fastly crash took out major websites including Amazon, Google and The New York Times.

This time around, other sites might be impacted, but the Facebook-owned sites appear to be bearing the brunt of the issues, according to DownDetector.

Cell phone carriers T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T also reported some major outages — though far less sweeping — around the same time as Facebook, according to DownDetector.

“Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. Bear with us, we’re on it!” Instagram tweeted.



The issues started around 11:45 a.m. ET, according to DownDetector, and were hitting users globally.

“We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!” WhatsApp added.

Oculus, the Facebook-owned virtual reality gaming platform, was having issues, too.
“We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience,” Oculus tweeted.

Twitter users quickly made “#instagramdown” and “#facebookdown” trending on the platform in response to the outages.

Shares of Facebook were down more than 5 percent on what was already a tough day for the Big Tech stock.

Social media users took to Twitter to complain about the outages and how they tried to restart their internet connection when they could no longer access the Facebook-owned platforms.

“Me after I restarted my internet router for 5 times and then finding out WhatsApp and co servers are down,” user @_farhankarim wrote, along with an image of a clown.
User @SazMCFC joked that Twitter is “saving the world as WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook crash,” along with an image from the Netflix hit series “Squid Game.”
User @Rocky_Ankomah7 tweeted an image of a repair technician grappling with wires and captioned it, “Mark Zuckerberg trying to fix WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.”
The outage comes a day after a Facebook whistleblower who leaked a trove of damning internal documents to The Wall Street Journal came forward and identified herself as Frances Haugen, a former product manager at Facebook.

Haugen, 37, said she came forward after seeing Facebook consistently choosing “to optimize for its own interests, like making more money.”

She also linked what she characterized as Facebook’s inaction in squashing misinformation and the Jan. 6 US Capitol riot, suggesting that Facebook is at least partially responsible for the fatal event.

“One of the consequences of how Facebook is picking out that content today is it is optimizing for content that gets engagement, or reaction,” said Haugen.
“But its own research is showing that content that is hateful, that is divisive, that is polarizing, it’s easier to inspire people to anger than it is to other emotions,” said Haugen.

“Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they’ll click on less ads, they’ll make less money,” the woman charged.

Haugen is set to testify before Congress this week. She has already filed reams of anonymous complaints against the company with federal authorities.

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[Eric J (Viking)]

Just trying to post this thread on Bill's Facebook page...still down or won’t allow me.. !

Viking

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https://twitter.com/clif_high/status...063657998?s=20

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[Billy]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q_cscXKz_tg

[thepainterdoug]

No accident at all. Its ramping up

thanks john for the posts

[Open Minded Dude]

Hope they STAY down (stock price and websites) FOREVER.

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I wonder how many sites & apps people use via Fb login plug ... so it is not only "Facebook and all Facebook Products" ... but also thousands of sites & apps that need a Fb plugin to work!

For example: I could not login to chess.com while ago when I lost my original Fb account.

cheers,
John

[Ernie Nemeth]

Hey, I hope this doesn't mean Zuckerburg gets off with all the harm he has done to the world, what with election meddling, terrorist supporting, and being censorship central, fake and false news headquarters.

[Sérénité]

The world would be a much nicer place without any social media. Long may it last 👍🏼