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Tuesday 05 October 2021 7:12 am  |  Updated:  Friday 29 October 2021 4:15 pm

The day 3.5bn people lost access: Facebook blames global outage on ‘configuration change’

By: Michiel Willems

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Facebook cited faulty configuration changes on its routers as the root cause of the nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company’s 3.5bn users from accessing its social media and messaging services. Watch the full report.

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