Facebook “fell” a day after the shocking revelations about Instagram and teenagers

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp “fell” : In less than 24 hours from the revelations made by the former employee of the company, Francis Hogen, the popular platforms collapsed.

As of Monday afternoon (04.10), users’ attempts to connect to Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have been crowned with utter failure. Popular social networking platforms have “fallen”, with users being. In panic and Twitter having its honor as everyone has turned there for interaction and information.

Many have linked the incident to revelations made a day earlier by former Facebook employee Francis Hogen. The 37-year-old worked as a product manager in the company’s anti-misinformation team and in an interview with CBS she revealed, among other things, that the company knew that Instagram could cause damage to the mental health of teenagers.

Hogen has worked for 15 years at companies such as Google and Pinterest, while Facebook approached her in 2019. She agreed to accept the position only if she was to work against misinformation, because she had lost a friend to her online conspiracy theories as she revealed. the same. “I’ve seen a lot of social media and Facebook was worse than anything I’ve seen before,” he said.

In an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” show, Hogen said she left Facebook this year as she was outraged by the company’s practices. However, as he said, before leaving he copied a number of important internal notes and documents. These documents were given to the Wall Street Journal , which has been publishing the material in sections for the past three weeks.

According to what was revealed, there were politicians and celebrities who were treated differently from Facebook. Another report mentions a $ 5 billion payment from Facebook to the US Federal Trade Commission to resolve the Cambridge Analytica data scandal and was designed to protect the platform’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, from any personal responsibility.

However, great concern also arose from the data revealed on Instagram. An internal Facebook study revealed that it is likely to affect the mental health of adolescents. The company has reportedly withheld findings that Instagram is “a toxic place for many young people.” According to the Wall Street Journal, in this survey, 32% of teens surveyed said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse.

Hogen has been summoned to testify before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, and last week a Facebook executive told Senators that the leaks failed to highlight the platform’s positive impact on young people. The company’s vice president of global affairs, in statements to CNN, said that the accusation against Facebook is ridiculous, that it is responsible for the riots in the Capitol. “I think it gives people a false sense to assume that there has to be a technological or technical explanation for the issues of political polarization in the United States,” said Nick Clegg, among others.

In any case, 24 hours before Hogen’s long-awaited Senate deposition in the Senate, all of Facebook’s proprietary platforms have collapsed. The first result of the “crash” that the company has been operating for several hours, was the fall of the share in Wall Street . At the same time, billions of users are looking for when social media will be available again , with Facebook simply informing via Twitter to receive the problem reports and apologizing for any inconvenience …