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The team sent to Facebook’s data centers needed physical access to the servers to bring the site back up but were reportedly locked out, as their cards and access were also down.

Data engineers reportedly used an angle grinder on server cage access panels to get inside, according to sources.

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💡The Facebook engineering center said the teams had learned that configuration changes on backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between data centers were causing issues that interrupted communications.

The network traffic disruption had a cascading effect on the way data centers communicate, bringing services to a halt.

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The US Senate is expected to open up the floor to Frances Haugen, a former product manager at Facebook. The whistleblower has claimed the following:

🔸Facebook put its immense profits before people

🔸FB is operating in the dark, and is accountable to no one

🔸The regulators of the social network can see some problems, but not what is causing them

🔸Facebook wants people to choose between connecting with others online and personal privacy

🔸It has the resources to "destroy her"

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#LIVE | Facebook whistleblower testifies before US Senate day after global blackout https://sputniknews.com/20211005/facebook-whistleblower-testifies-before-us-senate-day-after-global-blackout-1089681594.html

⚡ Sen. Roger Wicker says the hearing is part of the large project of "demystifying" Big Tech

⚡ "I am here today because I believe that Facebook's products harm children, stoke division, weaken our democracy and much more", Haugen says

⚡ "I know that for more than five hours Facebook wasn't used to deepen divides...." Frances Haugen on the global big tech blackout

⚡ Frances Haugen testifies that "no one outside of Facebook knows what happens inside Facebook."

"The company's leadership keeps vital information from the public, the US government, its shareholders, and governments around the world".

"As long as Facebook is operating in the shadows, hiding its research from public scrutiny, it is unaccountable. Until the incentives change, Facebook will not change. Left alone, Facebook will continue to make choices that go against the common good."

⚡ Haugen hits out at her ex-boss Mark Zuckerberg, saying that he has immense power within the company and ultimately, the most responsibility, for the harms Facebook has caused.

"There are no similarly powerful companies that are as unilaterally controlled. In the end, the buck stops with Mark. There's no one currently holding Mark [Zuckerberg] accountable but himself."

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