If you tried logging into Facebook this morning and got an error message, here’s why. The beleaguered social networking giant suffered a rare widespread outage, with users around the U.S. and beyond reporting they couldn’t access the service.
According to news accounts, the outage impacted most of the U.S. and almost all of the east coast. And while many users as of mid-day are starting to be able to access their accounts again, it does represent another misfire in what’s been a tough 2018 so far for the company.
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Facebook goes down in a widespread outage across the U.S. (it’s back up now) originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 13:43:15 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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