'We're here today because Facebook has shown us once again that it is incapable of holding itself accountable,' Blumenthal said in his opening remarks last week. July 10 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META. The Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security convened the hearing in the wake of a Wall Street Journal investigation citing Facebook's own internal research, allegedly leaked by a whistleblower, that found Instagram adversely impacted mental health issues in teens, especially girls. Sorry for the inconvenience.'įacebook's safety head was questioned by lawmakers last Thursday over what the company knew about the potential for Instagram to be harmful to young users' mental health. 'We are aware that there is an ongoing issue impacting our service. Amanda Silberling 2 years Global users are experiencing outages on Facebook, including all social networks the company owns, which include. 'Major disruptions: Platform Status,' it read. Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down. On Monday afternoon, the Facebook status page came back online with a message for users. With Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all hit by a massive global outage, everyone flooded. Sorry about that!' Twitter Support tweeted. A mini social media apocalypse unfolded Monday morning, and people were freaking out.

Some of you may have had an issue seeing replies and DMs as a result. We prepare for these moments, but today things didn't go exactly as planned.

'Sometimes more people than usual use Twitter. Twitter users later on Monday reported some issues with the app due to an increase in users, but Twitter's support page said the matter was fixed.

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