Oct 7, 2021

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The Facebook Outage Shows Why It Should Be Broken Up

Just one reason among many for antitrust legislation

The outage on Facebook’s servers was unexpected and lengthy. But it was also an eye-opener to just how much we rely on one company for providing the services we use every day on the internet.

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