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He said he is concerned about Facebook research that shows the harmful effects of Instagram on teenage girls. Asked if he thinks anything is going to actually change because of the whistleblowers revelations, Markey said he does. Markey also said the Jan. Skip to content. In-depth news coverage of the Greater Boston Area.

Our redesigned local news and weather app is live! Download it for iOS or Android — and sign up for alerts. The outage, which prevented users from refreshing their feeds or sending messages, was caused by "configuration changes on the backbone routers," Janardhan said, without specifying exactly what the changes were.

The changes caused "issues" that interrupted the flow of traffic between routers in Facebook's data centers around the world, he added. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp stopped working shortly before noon ET, when the websites and apps for Facebook's services were responding with server errors.

Just after 7 p. He added, "Sorry for the disruption today — I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about. The outage marked the longest stretch of downtime for Facebook since , when a bug knocked the site offline for about a day, affecting about 80 million users. It has also been looking for ways to reduce harassment on its other platforms. Earlier this summer, Instagram began testing a new Limits feature that lets users temporarily pause interactions if they feel harassed or targeted.

Facebook updates policies to protect against mass harassment, attacks on public figures The new policies will also apply to people who involuntarily became public figures. Dashia Starr. Facebook's updated policies will protect people from coordinated harassment efforts. Delivered on weekdays.