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WhatsApp, another app owned by Meta, showed a similar spike in reports, and the reports appeared to extend to Facebook Messenger as well. USA TODAY reporters also experienced these outages, with ...
The new policy will not allow WhatsApp to see or send messages, which are still end-to-end encrypted, but it will allow Facebook to see data such as what phone and operating system a user has, the user's time zone, IP address, profile picture, status, phone number, app usage, and all of the contacts which are stored in WhatsApp. [92]
In this case a number of the Facebook personal profile pages represented causes, rather than real people. Facebook "offered to help convert the profiles to pages that are designed to represent companies, groups or causes." [95] The spokesperson went on to say that "the Met Police did not ask Facebook to take down this content." [95]
Instagram and WhatsApp are now back online after a mass global outage affected several Meta-owned apps on Wednesday. Facebook has yet to confirm whether all its issues have been resolved.
WhatsApp, created in 2009, is a platform that allows users to communicate via text and voice message, video chatting, and document sharing for free. WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in 2014, but the brand continues to be promote as a secure and reliable form of communication.
By 15:50 UTC, Facebook's domains had expired from the caches in all major public resolvers. A little before 21:00 UTC, Facebook resumed announcing BGP updates, with Facebook's domain name becoming resolvable again at 21:05 UTC. [14] On October 5, Facebook's engineering team posted a blog post explaining the cause of the outage.
Facebook has been criticized for having lax enforcement of third-party copyrights for videos uploaded to the service. In 2015, some Facebook pages were accused of plagiarizing videos from YouTube users and re-posting them as their own content using Facebook's video platform, and in some cases, achieving higher levels of engagement and views than the original YouTube posts.
In 2012, users sued Facebook for using their pictures and information on a Facebook advertisement. [309] Facebook gathers user information by keeping track of pages users have "Liked" and through the interactions users have with their connections. [310] They then create value from the gathered data by selling it. [310]