Facebook, Instagram Appear To Partly Reconnect After Nearly Six-hour Outage

Facebook and Instagram appeared to be partially reconnected to the global internet on Monday afternoon, nearly six hours into a global outage.

Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time. Close to 5:45 pm ET, some Facebook users began to regain partial access to the social media app.

The outage was the second blow to the social media giant in as many days after a whistleblower on Sunday accused the company of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation.

Shares of Facebook, which has nearly 2 billion daily active users, opened lower after the whistleblower report and slipped further to trade down 5.3% in afternoon trading on Monday. They were on track for their worst day in nearly a year, amid a broader selloff in technology stocks.

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