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Telegram experienced a record increase in user registration and activity amid the massive Facebook outage

Netizens and social media users in Odisha expressed their resentment over the development even though the three social media platforms reconnected to the global internet early on Tuesday morning.

Last evening, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down for a few hours across many parts of the world. The rare global outage of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp which lasted for six hours cost the owner Mark Zuckerberg a whopping $6 billion.

The outage appeared to affect Facebook's internal websites as well, famed developer Jane Wong noted in a tweet.

Many other users have also reported that other Facebook-owned services like Instagram, Messenger and its own social media platform are all experiencing this issue. Users worldwide have taken to their Twitter handles to share their views on this issue. 

In a blog post, Facebook Vice President and Head of Research, Pratiti Raychoudhury dismissed the WSJ's assessment of internal research as not accurate and denied the claims that Instagram was toxic for teenage girls.

Rajiv Aggarwal, a former IAS officer is now appointed as the Head of Public Policy to lead the policy development initiatives for the social media engagements in India.

The tech giant is using a programme that whitelists millions of VIP users from the company's standard content moderation practices.

Odisha Police have arrested a woman on charges of duping numerous people by creating various fake social media accounts on Facebook and WhatsApp.

Twitter Community will have its own moderators who are able to set rules and invite or remove people.

After facing criticism, Facebook has finally released a report about its most-viewed posts for the first quarter of 2021 that might have reflected poorly on the social networking giant for its handling of Covid misinformation on its platform.

Fewer than 13 per cent of content views were on posts with links, and the top-viewed news domains account for only 0.31 per cent of all content views in News Feed.

Facebook has been criticised by the Taliban for blocking freedom of speech in Afghanistan as a result of the crackdown by the US firm

Facebook announced that it has banned the Taliban and all content supporting the insurgents from its platforms as it considers the group to be a terrorist organisation.

End-to-end encryption is already widely used by apps like WhatsApp to keep personal conversations safe from hackers and criminals.