Facebook goes down worldwide after allegations of pushing misinformation

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were all offline today in a worldwide outage that came just hours after an insider went public with accusations Facebook puts profits ahead of safety and deliberately pushes misinformation and divisiveness on users' news feeds.

#FacebookDown #InstagramDown #WhatsapDown

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