It is important to note here that Facebook is already facing an anti-trust suit filed by the Federal Trade Commission seeking to force the social media giant to restructure or sell off assets including Instagram and WhatsApp over concerns that "Facebook holds monopoly power in the provision of personal social networking in the United States and has held such power continuously since at least 2011". Haugen is set to testify in front of the Senate committee on Tuesday, October 5, where she will elaborate on the documents and talk about why she believes the government needs to clamp down on Facebook. She also sent the documents to lawmakers and filed for whistleblower protection with the Securities and Exchange Commission. After leaving her job at Facebook in May Haugen leaked a trove of internal Facebook documents to the Wall Street Journal, which led to the publication of a series of damning reports last month.
The Social media giant added that it is “working to understand more about what happened today so we can continue to make our infrastructure more resilient.”įollowing the outage, Facebook shares fell 4.89% to $326.23 per share at the close of trading on Monday." Facebook, over and over again, chose to optimize for its own interests, like making more money, " Haugen claimed. We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.” It said that the “underlying cause of this outage also impacted many of the internal tools and systems we use in our day-to-day operations, complicating our attempts to quickly diagnose and resolve the problem.”įacebook said that it believes “the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change. “This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.” The company said that its engineering teams learned that “configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. In a statement Facebook apologized to the billions of people using its services for the inconvenience caused. Services were restored Monday night after its entire network were down for several hours. Facebook has explained the reason behind its platforms outage on Monday.
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