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When Facebook Goes Down, Don't Blame Hackers

EPISODE · Mar 14, 2019 · 6 MIN

When Facebook Goes Down, Don't Blame Hackers

from Security, Spoken · host WIRED

It happened again. Facebook went down in several pockets around the world for several hours Wednesday, as did Facebook-owned Instagram and WhatsApp. The outage inspired the usual existential jokes—and rush to news sites, to fill the void—but also gave rise to conspiracy theories that hackers were the cause. As is almost always the case, those theories are wrong. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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