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Rocked by longest Facebook outage and whistleblower revelations, Mark Zuckerberg loses $7 bn in hours

The stock slide on Monday sent Zuckerberg's worth down to $121.6 billion, dropping him below Bill Gates to number 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

BGP Update, DNS Disruption: Explaining what caused global Facebook, WhatsApp outage

Before understanding what these technical terms like DNS or BGP stand for and means, we tried to break down the problem into simpler words. Let’s start with the basics:

Facebook pinpoints router configuration changes for major global outage across platforms

Alterations to routers that facilitate network traffic between data centres led to a global outage of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram outage: Mark Zuckerberg issues apology

Downdetector, which monitors reports of outages across the internet, said the Facebook service outage is the largest it has ever seen with over 10.6 million problem reports from all over the globe

WhatsApp suffers a global outage, users report issues with sending and receiving messages

Many of the over 1.5 billion WhatsApp users, both on Android and iOS, were unable to log into the app.

WhatsApp users get fake messages asking them to pay to continue using the app

The fake WhatsApp message urged to forward the message or else their account will be deleted within 48 hours.

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram faced global outage, glitches now resolved

Earlier, people were not able to send and receive images, videos and other files over WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook.

WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram Down: Technical glitch causes file downloads to malfunction

Facebook, the company which owns both WhatsApp and Instagram has acknowledged the server issue.

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp operational again after outages worldwide

Despite complaints from across the world, Facebook did not specify the cause or scope of the outages.

What do you do when Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp go down? You make jokes on Twitter

While the internet waits for Facebook and Instagram to return, Twitter is their new best friend.