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Facebook outage: How did it happen?
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October 5, 2021
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October 5, 2021
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4:13Now PlayingA massive global outage plunged the social media giant and its sister services into chaos for nearly six hours.
Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram was inaccessible to their nearly two billion daily users.
Sky's Science and Tech Editor Tom Clarke untangles the web to reveal what happened.
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