Nick Clegg, the company's vice president of policy and public affairs, wrote to Facebook employees in a memo Friday that 'social media has had a big impact on society in recent years, and Facebook is often a place where much of this debate plays out.' Facebook has tried to play down the research. The Journal's stories, called 'The Facebook Files,' painted a picture of a company focused on growth and its own interests over the public good. Haugen also anonymously filed complaints with federal law enforcement alleging that Facebook's own research shows how it magnifies hate and misinformation, leads to increased polarization and that Instagram, specifically, can harm teenage girls' mental health. Haugen went public on '60 Minutes' on Sunday. A bad week gets worse for Facebookįacebook is going through a separate major crisis after whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, provided The Wall Street Journal with internal documents that exposed the company's awareness of harms caused by of its products and decisions.

If Facebook's DNS records have disappeared, no one could find it.

DNS translates an address like '' to an IP address like 123.45.67.890. The Domain Name System is an integral element of how traffic on the internet is routed. Madory said it looks like the DNS routes that Facebook makes available to the networking world have been withdrawn. The company did not say what might be causing the outage, and while it can be normal for websites and apps to suffer outages, one on a global scale is rare.ĭoug Madory, director of internet analysis for Kentik Inc., said it appears that the routes Facebook advertises online that tell the entire internet how to reach its properties are not available. The last time the three Facebook-owned networks went down was on Maand on that occasion it took a couple of hours for the sites to regain proper functionality.įacebook's internal systems used by employees also went down.

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