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United States: Was the global outage of Instagram and Facebook orchestrated by Meta?
On Tuesday March 5, during Super Tuesday in the United States, Meta’s social networks were affected by a global outage. Pro-Trump supporters claim it was orchestrated to block any negative comments about Joe Biden. True or false ?
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On Tuesday March 5, during Super Tuesday in the United States, Meta’s social networks were affected by a global outage. Pro-Trump supporters claim it was orchestrated to block any negative comments about Joe Biden. True or false ?
During Super Tuesday, the culmination of the American primaries, a major outage affected the Meta group’s social networks on Tuesday March 5. Millions of Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts were inaccessible for several hours. Some Internet users, often pro-Trump, believe that the outage is due to the election.
Discrediting the election results
Fake. For the moment, the Meta group deplores a simple breakdown. “A technical problem made it difficult to access some of our services, we resolved the problem as quickly as possible”, commented Meta’s communications manager. But the social media outage worries cybersecurity experts. If a new outage occurs at the time of the presidential election, it could fuel conspiracy movements, which could discredit the results of the election.
