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Facebook’s site ‘down for maintenance’ in widespread outage

Facebook also said that the crash was not due to a DDoS attack in which hackers overwhelm a websites servers with fake traffic and cause it to crash.

The problems were happening across the globe, with large parts of the US and Europe affected, according to outage tracking website Down Detector.

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