Facebook shares drop nearly 5% after major site outage and whistleblower interview - CNBC
Shortly before noon ET, Facebook's main app experienced an outage, as did its Instagram and WhatsApp services. They remained offline as of market close.in a tweet
. "We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience." The outage marks the worst for Facebook since 2008, when a bug knocked the company's services offline for about a day, affecting about 80 million users. The company now boasts 3 billion users.In an interview with "60 Minutes," Frances Haugento be the whistleblower who provided key internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal has used the information in a series of recent reports titled "The Facebook Files.
Haugen is a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation division who left the company in May and made copies of numerous internal files before departing the company. Haugen accused Facebook of prioritizing its "own profits over public safety — putting people's lives at risk."
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