OUTAGE DURING WHISTLE-BLOWER’S HEARING HAS OMINOUS PORTENDS
K Raveendran
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2021-10-06 11:21
It is quite ominous that the Facebook outage, which denied over a billion users of their favourite social media platform, coincided with a hearing attended by insider whistle blower Frances Haugen before the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transport Subcommittee. What transpired at the hearing remains largely unreported. That Frances was armed with thousands of secret internal documents, which she has apparently shared with US Securities and Exchange Commission, members of the Congress and some newspapers, is highly disconcerting to founder Zuckerberg, who saw his fortunes shaved by not less than $6 billion as the company share price dropped nearly five percent in the space of a few hours that had seen the platform go down. This was in addition to tens of millions of dollars in advertisement revenue that the platform lost during the outage.