Outrage as Mark Zuckerberg announces that Facebook will shutdown for 7 days

There has been growing outrage as a picture of Mark Zuckerberg announcing that Facebook will shut down for 7 days was trending online.

Although this rumour has not been officially debunked by Facebook, it can neither be confirmed as the post can not be found on the official handle of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. This suggests that the picture may have been manipulated.

You will recall that when Facebook suffered an outage of about seven hours on Monday, a lot of businesses suffered along with it. The platform and its Instagram and WhatsApp siblings play key roles in commerce, with some companies relying on Facebook’s network instead of their own websites.

Just within the 7 hours, a report by ThePunch revealed that Telegram became the 5th most downloaded app from 56th. Mark Zuckerberg also lost $7 billion and went down to No. 5 on the world’s rich people list on Bloomberg’s billionaire index.

Zuckerberg speaking on the development disclosed that he wasn’t bothered about the money lost or the people who migrated to other social media platforms; he was rather concerned about people who depend on his services to connect with loved ones, conduct business and engage communities.

The Silicon Valley techpreneur described the seven-hour outage as “the worst outage we’ve had in years” let alone, seven days. This further suggests that the rumour is nothing but false, created by individuals with the intention to spread fear or mislead the public. Hence, should be disregarded.

According to Facebook, the outage of its services wasn’t a hack, but rather a self-inflicted problem due to a misconfiguration.

An update to Facebook’s routers that coordinate network traffic went wrong, sending a wave of disruptions rippling through its systems. As a result, all things Facebook were effectively shut down, worldwide.

Meanwhile, Facebook’s stock plunged as the site suffered one of its worst outages of the past decade with services across its entire suite of products going offline while the tech company struggled to even bring its own internal services back online.

No doubt, the Facebook stock has been on a tear in 2021, reaching a $1 trillion market cap in early July, though the share price has stalled in recent months with the market cap currently resting just south of $920 billion.

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Meanwhile, a recent report revealed that WhatsApp will no longer work on over 50 phone models by November; check if your phone is affected.