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Facebook has an Explanation for its Massive Monday Outage

October 05, 2021
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Associate Professor Ethan Benjamin Katz-Bassett comments on Facebook's recent massive outage.

Read the full article on Popular Science.

Image: Taylor Vick / Unsplash

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