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Facebook Inc.
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experienced widespread outages on Monday that included disruptions for its platforms Instagram and WhatsApp.
Experts say the issue appeared to be a problem with Facebook’s domain-name system, or DNS. This issue has made it look like the Facebook.com domain is up for sale.
Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter
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poked fun at the outage on Monday, wondering “how much” it would cost to buy the Facebook.com domain.
The outage, which appears to still be an issue as of Monday afternoon, comes during a tough couple of weeks for Facebook.
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The Wall Street Journal published a series of stories on Facebook called “The Facebook Files” that detailed occurrences when the social media giant admitted its photo-sharing platform Instagram negatively impacts teen girls’ mental health, allowed a few high-profile users to circumvent some of the platform’s rules and made changes to its algorithm that made Facebook “angrier.”
The company has since called these allegations mischaracterizations.
Shortly after the reporting was published, Facebook’s former security chief says he believes that “young teens shouldn’t be on social media.”
A former Facebook data scientist turned whistleblower has also recently called out the company for putting profits before safety, and claiming the company has been misleading investors about how it handles hate speech and misinformation on its platform. The former employee, Frances Haugen, is testifying before Congress on Tuesday.
Shares of Facebook Inc. dropped 4.89% on Monday, outpacing a 1.3% loss on the S&P 500 index
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and a 2.14% loss on the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index
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