Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Back, After Longest Outage Ever.<br />Faceboook's platforms are back after a global 7-hour outage.<br />According to DownDetector, users began reporting outages on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and Oculus around 11 a.m. ET on Monday. .<br />The platforms were back online around 6 p.m. ET. .<br />To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry, @Facebook, via 'The New York Times'.<br />We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us, @Facebook, via 'The New York Times'.<br />The massive outage came a day after <br />'60 Minutes' aired an interview with former-Facebook-<br />employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen.<br />While #facebookdown and memes poking <br />fun of the apps began to trend, .<br />... companies around the world that rely on the apps to conduct business posted concerns about their loss of business.<br />The outage appeared to extend beyond the company owned apps, .<br />... as Facebook employees <br />reported that company <br />issued smartphones and security <br />badges were not working properly.<br />An internal Facebook memo quoted in <br />'The New York Times' seemed to offer a succinct summation of the outage.<br />[This outage is] a HIGH risk to the People, MODERATE risk to Assets and a HIGH risk to the Reputation of Facebook, Facebook Internal Memo, via <br />'The New York Times'.<br />Nearly half of the world's population — approximately 3.5 billion people — <br />have a Facebook account
