For Facebook, A Week Of Upheaval Unlike Any Other

Published: Oct. 7, 2021, 9 p.m.

b'One day after a worldwide outage on multiple of its platforms, Facebook was accused by a whistleblower of hiding concerns about its products from the public and its shareholders. Both crises reveal the same thing: just how powerful Facebook is on a global scale.

Ayman El Tarabishy of George Washington University explains what Monday\'s outage meant to small businesses around the world.

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