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> The mass outage comes just hours after CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a much-anticipated interview with Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who recently leaked a number of internal Facebook investigations showing the company knew its products were causing mass harm, and that it prioritized profits over taking bolder steps to curtail abuse on its platform — including disinformation and hate speech.

I'm hoping that this is just a coincidence




I'm always try to side with Occam, but let me speculate here: This may be a sign of resistance from within? A hacker group so good, they were hired by FB only to carry out a huge, clandestine hack that results in FB being down for hours, if not days?




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