The apps also run on a shared infrastructure.

The three apps which are all owned by Facebook stopped working around 5pm (SA time). The world's largest social media platform has been embroiled in a firestorm brought about by Haugen, with US lawmakers and The Wall Street Journal detailing how Facebook knew its products, including Instagram, were harming young girls, especially around body image. Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are down.

The outage comes a day after a whistleblower went on US television to reveal her identity after she leaked a trove of documents to authorities alleging the social media giant knew its products were fueling hate and harming children's mental health.įrances Haugen, a 37-year-old data scientist from Iowa, has worked for companies including Google and Pinterest - but said in an interview with CBS news show '60 Minutes' that Facebook was 'substantially worse' than anything she had seen before. Kimberley said a WhatsApp group was created by the team members so we could keep in touch and assist each other with any problems that arose, she said adding that the name of the group.

Meanwhile, the company's market value has soared from USD 375 billion at the end of 2018 to nearly $1 trillion now. Hello literally everyone- Twitter October 4, 2021įacebook's annual revenue has more than doubled from USD 56 billion in 2018 to a projected USD 119 billion this year, based on the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet.

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