Billions of Facebook users affected as internet giant experiences long outage

Internet behemoth Facebook experienced a massive outage Monday, taking Instagram, Messenger and What'sApp offline with it. The outage lasted from mid-morning until just before 5 p.m. MT, when the services started to come back online. The outage highlights a problem with concentrated ownership of social media platforms, says one computing professor. "There appears to be these different services," says Randy Connolly, who teaches at Mount Royal University. "But they're all the same big giant thing