Facebook blames "faulty configuration change" for nearly six-hour outage


FILE PHOTO The Facebook logo is displayed on a mobile phone in this picture illustration taken December 2 2019. REUTERSJohanna GeronIllustrationFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: The Facebook logo is displayed on a mobile phone in this picture illustration taken December 2, 2019. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Illustration/File Photo

(Reuters) -Facebook Inc blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.

The company in a late Monday blog post https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/04/networking-traffic/outage did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

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