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How to know for sure if Facebook (or any social community) is down

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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. In the past couple of months, Facebook, Instagram, and other social networks have faced a lot of outages. But how can you make sure that if the site’s actually down …

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Author: Thenextweb

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  4. "Facebook launched its bug bounty program in 2011. Now, the company is bringing an intriguing update to it with a loyalty program calledHacker Plus, which will reward security researchers to keep finding bugs in the social networks platform". (October 9, 2020)
  5. "Back in August, Facebook announced it would begin banning posts related to the QAnon conspiracy movement that supported acts of violence. Since then, the company has removed over 1,500 Pages and Groups for QAnoncontaining discussions of potential violence and over 6,500 Pages and Groups tied to more than 300 Militarized Social Movements". (October 6, 2020)
  6. "Facebook finally adds Holocaust denial and distortion to its list of banned topics, two years after Zuckerberg infamously said it wouldn't". (October 13, 2020)
  7. "When TikTok was banned in India last June, Instagram jumped on the short video bandwagon very quickly and launched Reels. The company rolled out the feature globally in August 2020. Now, its parent company Facebook is integrating Reels in the blue app". (March 9, 2021)
  8. "Yann LeCun, Facebooks world-renowned AI guru, had some problems with an article written about his company yesterday. So he did what any of us would do, he went on social media to air his grievances. Only, he didnt take the fight to Facebook as youd expect". (March 12, 2021)
  9. "Facebook has been trying to get a foothold in the news space for many years. Last year, the company launched a dedicated section on its sitecalled Facebook News for users in the US. It also wants to expand this program to other countries such as Brazil, Germany, and India". (December 16, 2020)
  10. "Facebook hasopen-sourced the first AI model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without first translating them to English". (October 20, 2020)
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